27 days ago
Sandhills Express
That news is one thing on my mind as I begin a journey to understand what role climate change is playing in unreliable winter weather. Scientists are reluctant to blame any single weather event on climate change but Heidi Roop, Ph.D, a climatologist at the University of Minnesota, says the larger patterns are what she looks at and all of them tell us winter weather is getting warmer and less reliable in the era of climate change. “What we are experiencing, as whole, in aggregate, is what we expect from climate change,” she says. In response to the threats that Minnesota faces from climate change, the state legislature passed a new law that addresses a root cause of climate change, carbon dioxide emissions. From the lakes of Minnesota to the mountains of California, and almost everywhere in between, winter weather is getting warmer and less reliable because of climate change.
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