Going to Extremes: Climate Change and the Increasing Risk of Weather Disasters【電子書籍】[ Progressive Management ]

＜p＞This report by the minority staff of the House Committee on Natural Resources lays out the case for believing that recent weather extremes, such as storms, disasters, heat waves, and drought, are being caused by global warming and climate change. The report states:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Scientists have been investigating the link between extreme weather events and man-made global warming for years. They now generally agree that global warming pollution plays a role, along with natural factors such as El Nino or La Nina, in shifting the odds toward extreme events. In fact, NOAA recently concluded, after looking through 50 years of weather data, that droughts like the record 2011 Texas drought was made "roughly 20 times more likely" because of global warming. Indeed, observations have shown that certain extremesーhigh heat, heavy precipitation and floods, duration and intensity of droughts and extremes related to higher sea levelsーhave increased over the last half of the century.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Global warmin．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る