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posted by martyb on Saturday April 08 2017, @02:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the heel-the-feat-or-else-feel-the-heat dept.

Given the rising number of extreme weather events, . In an investigation recently published in Nature Climate Change, scientists looked into how quickly benefits of climate mitigation strategies—meaning dropping CO2 emissions—reduce the risk of heat waves.

The researchers answered these questions using climate-model simulations. These models can be run with different levels of emissions, some assuming a very aggressive mitigation scenario with lowered emissions, others assuming emissions that are unchecked, producing significant increases in emissions over time. By comparing model runs with different levels of emissions, the researchers were able to develop an understanding of the time required for effects of mitigation plans to be noticeable.

In particular, the team focused on extreme events that occurred on average once every 10 years when emissions continue to rise unchecked. They then introduced different levels of emissions mitigation until the probability of such an event is half as likely, occurring only once every 20 years. Using this method, the scientists determined that for many regions, it takes less than 20 years of emissions reductions to drop the probability of extreme hot weather by more than 50 percent after mitigation has begun.

Climate change is god's will, isn't it?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @04:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @04:22PM (#490880)

    Now my plan is to make America hot first, and then the world!

    I'd suggest starting with Europe or South America. It will be quite a bit more difficult to accomplish in the US, with the obesity rates being what they are.