Extreme Weather Myths

In the past couple years, it is obvious that the weather is becoming increasingly more and more extreme. This year, the south was drowned in heat, most states hitting the triple digits. On a worldly scale, there were floods in Pakistan and Australia, record heat waves in Moscow, and the heaviest snowfall in more than a century in South Korea. July’s global average land surface temperature was the 4^th warmest on record. So what is driving this weather extreme phenomenon? Some people chose to blame it as a “hundred year” weather event, but the same thing occurred in 2005, and more and more frequently. With hundreds of factors weighing in on the climate change, what can we do to fix it? At least 85 nations have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit their growth by switching to renewable energy. But we can do much more to reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to the problem in the first place. I definitely agree that something needs to be done about this issue. I think more research should be invested in this problem.

http://insights.wri.org/news/2011/07/five-myths-about-extreme-weather