Climate Change: The Move to Action (AOSS 480 // NRE 480)
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Climate Change: The Move to Action(AOSS 480 // NRE 480)
Kevin Reed2133 Space Research Building (North Campus)
[email protected]://www-personal.umich.edu/~kareed/
Winter 2012February 21, 2012
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Class News
• Ctools site: AOSS_SNRE_480_001_W12• 2008 and 2010 Class On Line:
– http://climateknowledge.org/classes/index.php/Climate_Change:_The_Move_to_Action
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Today
• What Are Extreme Events?
• Are They Changing?
• Will Extremes Differ With ‘Climate Change’?
• Communication
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Extreme Weather Events
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What is an Extreme?
• Categorizing an event as “extreme” is a somewhat arbitrary procedure.– What is extreme at one
space and time may be typical at another.
– Extremes are at the tails of the distribution. How is “tail” defined?
– Does extreme mean “rare” or simply high impact?
• Generalized Extreme Value Theory
US CCSP Report 3.3 - 2008
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• Extremes are a natural component of a stable climate.
• However, there are costs!
What is an Extreme?
US CCSP Report 3.3 - 2008
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Trends
Temperature Precipitation
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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Trends – Tornadoes?
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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Trends – Snow?
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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Trends – Tropical Cyclones?
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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Trends – Tropical Cyclones?
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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Trends - Issues
• Data reliability– Technology, Coverage
• Natural Variability
• Regional Distributions
• Is there an anthropogenic signature?
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Trends
• 2011 was a record-breaking year for Climate Extremes
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2011 Extremes
• 14 Events of >$1 Billion in Damage
• Effective Communication?
NOAA News
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2011 Extremes
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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2011 Extremes - Ranks
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
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U.S. Climate Extreme Index
NCDC/NOAA – State of the Climate
CEI
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Communication
• This is one agency’s (NOAA) at communicating extreme events and trends to the public?
• Is one of the figures particularly effective?
• As a whole?
• Other sources:– NOAA – Extreme Weather 2011– Natural Resources Defense Council– Wunderground – Expert Blogs
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How Might Extremes Change?
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How Might Extremes Change?
• Changes may be more complex!
IPCC SREX
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Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate
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Projected Precipitation Changes
US CCSP Report 3.3 - 2008
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Possible Changes in Hurricanes
Emanuel (2007) Holland and Webster (2007)
Can be basin specific!
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Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate
• In general, similar to IPCC AR4 and IPCC SREX results.
• Specific to North America.
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Importance?
• For U.S.
• Cost are increasing for many reasons:– Population growth
– Where people live
– Changes in extremes (as shown)
– Vulnerability (building codes)
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IPCC Special Report on Extremes
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Are These Reports Effective?
• There are differences in the presentation of information.
• Is one more effective than another?
• What are the strengths?
• Room for improvement?
• How is it different when compared to IPCC AR4?
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Example: Hurricanes
• Strong storms, but less globally.
Zhao et al. (2009)
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Example: Hurricanes
• This is important because:
Meyer et al. (1997)
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Example: Hurricanes
• Also… adaptation…
US CCSP Report 3.3 - 2008
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Example: Heat Waves
• Barriopedro et al., Russian Heat Wave, Science, 2011
• Dole et al., Russian Heat Wave, GRL, 2011
• Rahmstorf, Increase of Extreme Events, PNAS, 2011
• Shearer and Rood, Earthzine, 2011
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Example: Heat Waves
Dole et al. 2011
They see no signal of the role anthropogenic
sources
• 2010 Russian Heat Wave
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Example: Heat Waves
• Potential for Future Russian Heat Waves
Dole et al. 2011
Scientific Debates
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Example: Heat Waves
Barriopedro et al. 2011
• European Heat Waves (1500-2100)
2 500-year events in last decade!
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Example: Heat Waves
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More Communication
• These case studies demonstrate that there is an attempt to ‘simplify’, or communicate the science to the public, in the reports that we have read in class.
• NCAR – AtmosNews– http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/attribution/steroids-baseball-climate-change
– Deliberate attempt to increase communication with public.
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• “It’s not the right question to ask if this storm or that storm is due to global warming, or is it natural variability. Nowadays, there’s always an element of both.” Kevin Trenberth – NCAR
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Shearer and Rood (2011)
• Scientist are part of the conversation… should help frame better questions.
• Two different realities, natural and the anthropogenically changed… this does not exist.
• “The result is that scientific debates that were historically carried out in the slow deliberations of peer-reviewed journals are now on public display and can be misrepresented.”