Scientists Warn
Record-Breaking, US Heatwave
and Drought, Aren't Good Signs.
Yahoo News reports that the current U.S. heatwave has broken hundreds of temperature records. .
It has exacerbated an
already historic drought.
It has also primed the
American landscape for
a season of extreme wildfires. .
Yahoo News reached out to scientists
across the west to comment on the current
heatwave and what may be to come.
This current drought is potentially on track to become the worst that we’ve seen in at least 1,200 years, Kathleen Johnson, Associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, via Yahoo News.
And the reason is linked
directly to human caused
climate change, Kathleen Johnson, Associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, via Yahoo News.
Right now is a really important time
for scientists to communicate with
the public that climate change
is here, and climate action matters, Katharine Hayhoe, Climate scientist and chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, via Yahoo News.
These compounding extreme
weather events are really bad, but
they’re going to keep happening, Simon Wang, Professor of climate dynamics at Utah State University, via Yahoo News.
Maybe if there’s some good to
come out of it, it’s that people
are becoming more aware, Simon Wang, Professor of climate dynamics at Utah State University, via Yahoo News.
The sooner the general public
starts to become aware of this
issue, the sooner, hopefully,
they’ll push for changes
to address the crisis, Simon Wang, Professor of climate dynamics at Utah State University, via Yahoo News