See, if only you had decided to eat some lettuce and broccoli you grew yourself at the tiny apartment with no electricity, this wouldn’t be a problem
The signal of human-caused climate change has emerged in everyday weather, study finds
For the first time, scientists have detected the “fingerprint†of human-induced climate change on daily weather patterns at the global scale. If verified by subsequent work, the findings, published Thursday in Nature Climate Change, would upend the long-established narrative that daily weather is distinct from long-term climate change.
The study’s results also imply that research aimed at assessing the human role in contributing to extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods may be underestimating the contribution.
The new study, which was in part motivated by President Trump’s tweets about how a cold day in one particular location disproves global warming, uses statistical techniques and climate model simulations to evaluate how daily temperatures and humidity vary around the world. Scientists compared the spatial patterns of these variables with what physical science shows is expected because of climate change.
OK, so, this was utterly political in nature. Just like the rest of the climate change scam.
The study concludes that the spatial patterns of global temperature and humidity are, in fact, distinguishable from natural variability, and have a human component to them. Going further, the study concludes that the long-term climate trend in global average temperature can be predicted if you know a single day’s weather information worldwide.
According to study co-author Reto Knutti of ETH Zurich, the research alters what we can say about how weather and climate change are connected. “We’ve always said when you look at weather that’s not the same as climate,†he said. “That’s still true locally, if you are in one particular place and you only know the weather right now, right here, there isn’t much you can say.â€
However, on a global scale, that is no longer true, Knutti said. “Global mean temperature on a single day is already quite a bit shifted. You can see this human fingerprint in any single moment.
So, when it’s hot, it’s your fault. Cold? Your fault. Snow, ice, rain, no rain, a beautiful day to have a picnic, all your fault.
