U.S. feeling the effects of climate change - literally

In globe’s warmed climate today, U.S. states are setting new records for extreme warmth with regularity while record cold is almost impossible to come by.

The huge disparity between record warmth and cold across the United States is the screaming message portrayed in a slide showing state climate records. It was posted to social media Wednesday by Deke Arndt, chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Arndt’s slide shows all state records set for warmth, cold and precipitation extremes since 2010. The amount of red, representing record warmth, is stunning and an irrefutable indicator of climate warming in the United States.

Read The Washington Post story - “With climate change, U.S. states routinely achieving new levels of extreme warmth.”

Climate change brings inexplicable and confusing weather

Climate change brings with it weather conditions which to most people are inexplicable, confusing and so far beyond our experience that we struggle to make sense of them.

Climate change, or global warming, is about a base warming of the planet and that brings multiple disruptions to earth’s weather system and subsequently unsettles centuries of human experience about what is normal.

The benign weather system that has allowed humanity to tighten its grip on earth is vanishing and we are now seeing events that are beyond traditional experience to explain.

Mashable talks about these contradictory happenings in its story: “Despite frigid conditions in the East, U.S. seeing more record warmth this winter”.

It says: “The U.S. is experiencing one of the most unusual winters in years, with a pronounced and enduring bubble of warm, high pressure over the West, and blast after blast of frigid Arctic air and heavy snow in the eastern two-thirds of the country.”