Climate change gave significant boost to Milton's destructive rain, winds, scientists say

apnews.com

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Climate change gave significant boost to Milton's destructive rain, winds, scientists say

apnews.com

silence7@slrpnk.netM to

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Scientists say human-caused climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Milton’s rainfall by 20 to 30% and strengthened its winds by about 10%.

You must log in or # to comment.

Chat

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net

climate@slrpnk.net

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

329 users / day
1.39K users / week
2.65K users / month
8.36K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
7.53K subscribers
6.8K Posts
23.1K Comments
Modlog

mods:
silence7@slrpnk.net