Climate scientist Roxana Bojariu explains the effects of global warming that are already visible and what will happen if humanity does not take rapid action.
Roxana Bojariu is the coordinator of the climatology department at the Romanian Meteorological Administration and stated on Digi24 that climate change will lead to an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.
Here are the most important statements:
- Global warming is not uniform in space or time, and the increase in the global average temperature is a symptom. In fact, the entire climate system is changing, all weather systems in the atmosphere are being fed with an increased amount of heat, and on the other hand, the ocean is also involved in these transports with its currents carrying an increased amount of heat.
- We are dealing with an increased intensity of precipitation in most parts of the world, in dry areas. This means larger amounts of precipitation in the short term, facilitating rapid floods.
- We see how glaciers around the world, continental glaciers, are melting at an extraordinarily high rate. A calculation has been made, 95% of continental glaciers are melting to a greater or lesser extent. In Antarctica, especially in the western region, we have ice melting, leading to changes in the global ocean.
- We have these extreme phenomena, heatwaves are becoming more frequent, more prolonged, which are also linked to a favoring of vegetation fires. We see them and will see them in the coming years, becoming stronger as the concentration of greenhouse gases increases.
- So, to some extent, it depends on us how severe the phenomena we are already feeling as disasters will be. The problem is to slow down this race and adapt at the same time to what we have produced.
- Hurricanes are much more intense because the surface temperature of the ocean in the tropical zone has increased significantly, fueling the rise in ocean surface temperature.
- So, we are practically talking about all weather systems in the atmosphere and all types of ocean circulations that are being fueled with an increased amount of energy, and obviously, the manifestations related to them are much more severe in this context, meaning there will be more frequent and intense extreme events.
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