New Climate Model Predicts Hot Planet
This is a year of freak weather and is telling us that we are fugging up our planet with all the variety of gases caused by man made objects.
The most comprehensive climate model to date of the continental United States predicts more extreme temperatures throughout the country and more extreme precipitation along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi.
Similarly, the continental United States will experience an overall warming trend: Temperatures now experienced during the coldest two weeks of the year will be a past memory, and winter’s length will diminish as well, according to the model.
The model, Diffenbaugh said, assumes that greenhouse gases will attain a concentration more than twice their current levels, but he said he is confident that the model’s performance gives as accurate a picture of the future as we can hope for at the moment.
“We checked our model’s performance by analyzing the period from 1961 to 1985 for which, of course, we do not need a prediction,” Diffenbaugh said. “The model performed admirably, which tells us we’ve got a good understanding of how to represent the physical world in terms of computer code. It’s certainly not perfect, but we’ll need a computer at least 100 times as powerful as the cluster we used to really improve the accuracy. We would like to have access to such computing power in the future.”
This comes the day before the STRONGEST HURRICANE ON RECORD formed in the Atlantic basin.
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