we talked one county late the previous night while we were coordinating water rescue resources for them and they indicated they believe they had processed well over 500 water rescues at that point in time in just one county. did you ever expect this? we did. we modelled this storm or we were looking at the modelling of this storm before it made landfall and adjusting our plans and refining our plans in preparation for this. you know, we have seen flooding in pennsylvania before and we know the devastating effects of flooding. we have a lot of water rescue resources across the state that are prepared for this. and we have seen this previously with very vigorous precipitation events that essentially delivered a lot of rain over a very short period of time. lingering threat this morning. what are you looking forward to over the next 24 hours? so, we continue to be able to monitor the rivers that are in flood stage right now.
cold extremes, including cold waves have become less frequent and less severe, with high confidence that human-induced climate change is the main driver of these changes. some recent hot extremes observed over the past decade would have been extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system. a.3.5. human influence has likely increased the chance of compound extreme events since the 1950s. this includes increases in the frequency of concurrent heat waves and droughts on the global scale. high confidence, fire weather in some regions of all inhabited confidence, medium confidence, and compound flooding in some locations. b.2.4, it is very likely that heavy precipitation events will intensify, and become more frequent in most regions with additional global warming. b.2.5, additional warming is
could turn into sort of like a mad max landscape, post apocalyptic wasteland of deserts. why do you say that? well, you know, scientists have been predicting for the last 50 years that if we keep dumping carbon into the atmosphere we re going to get more extreme heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, sea level rise, ocean syndication and then all of the knock on effects from that. people say we ll adapt but there s so many things we have to adapt to. you have to adapt to smoke, you have to adapt to extreme storms like hurricanes. and it s not going to be easy and it s going to cost a huge amount of money, and that money is going to come from our pockets. and so we re going to end up in this world with this degraded environment and a world in which we are a lot poorer in because we re spending all of our money trying to stay alive, rebuilding infrastructure, running our air conditioners. we re not going to have money to do the other things. it s hoovering money out of our
connected or are there different causes for these different causes for these different extreme weather patterns? different extreme weather atterns? , , ., patterns? there is definitely a relationship patterns? there is definitely a relationship across patterns? there is definitely a relationship across all - patterns? there is definitely a relationship across all of - relationship across all of these even if they don t seem related. it is that extreme weather. because the planet is warming you have longer spring and summer seasons and united states which means snowfall doesn t melt as fast, sorry, it melts but it doesn t actually relieve the droughts that are going on because there is less snow and also generally because there is less precipitation coming to parts of the planet that would experience it more regularly because those precipitation events are becoming more extreme and staying and random pockets of the planet and that is why we are experiencing in the south west of the
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