It’s always amazed me how extreme the weather is on Mt Washington in New Hampshire. I learned about it in Julian May’s Galactic Milieu novels, wherein the mountain and the weather play parts in the plot.
This PBS Terra episode discusses it after covering the driest, wettest, hottest, and windiest places on Earth.
L'occasion de rappeler que, dans les faits, dans l'histoire de France récente, ce ne sont pas « les zextrêmes » qui se rejoignent, mais bien les droites…
(Et qu'au passage, mettre LFI à l'extrême-gauche, c'est une bonne grosse blague.)
Time to rethink current #weather models? The record-shattering 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest (peaking at 49.6°C in Lytton, BC) raised the question, whether heat #extremes intensify faster than projected, and whether current generations of global models are unable to even reproduce such events. #climatechangehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40112-4
Even though storms and other #extremes of the #climate are happening, if they are at a distance, we just as soon pretend it doesn’t affect us, because we don’t want to do the things that are needed to deal with this threat,” said Paul Slovic, a professor at the University of Oregon who specializes in the psychology of risk and decision making.” #ClimateCrisis