Extremes become the norm – is this ‘GLOBAL WEIRDING’?

Is global weirding to blame for our extremely cold winters? Credit: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response

Is ‘global weirding’ a better explanation than climate change for our extreme weather?

Colder winters, drier summers – and even the opposites – are occurring more frequently and growing in intensity. Trends suggest that this long term change is due to greenhouse gases steadily building up in the atmosphere, but is it just this that is causing extremes in our weather to become more normal?

Some people are beginning to blame ‘global weirding’ for our extreme weather. I’d never heard the term until BBC’s Horizon dedicated a whole programme to it, but the term was coined by Rocky Mountain Institute co-founder Hunter Lovins and popularised by New York Times op-ed columnist Tom Friedman in 2010.  It primarily concerns climate extremes, says Auroop Ganguly, an expert in climate change and severe weather conditions from Northeastern University. READ MORE >>

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