We are now living on a planet with a record number of record-breaking climate events. Climate scientists say we should be prepared to see records shattered so frequently that the statistics and the superlatives might melt together in the public mind.
Scientists know that all these records — even fractions of a degree rise and fall — describe the realities facing people and plants and animals around the globe.
To a child, one might say that was the warmest July you have ever seen. “But there is another way to think about it,” he said. “It is possible to flip the story around and to say, ‘Well, this is probably one of the coolest summers you’ll ever see in your life.’”But 20 or 30 years in the future, he said, it is possible that 2023 “won’t be remembered as a very hot year.”
, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, said publicizing extreme temperatures and weather disasters is “important for conveying how quickly the earth is changing.”He said, “I have no idea how to balance those competing factors.” Still, Russell Vose, an expert in climate analysis at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said a string of record-breaking heat in the American southwest might be more attention-grabbing for the public than another international assessment by scientists — even if frequent, prolonged, intense heat waves are exactly what those assessments have been predicting for years.“Like anything else in the news cycle, attention to these sorts of things will wax and wane.
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