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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern FutureCakes were cut, dances were danced, and good times were had by all. I shouldnБЂ™t have been so surprised. While there will always be some weird weather happening somewhere, my wedding experiences were consistent with everything we know about the statistics of climate change. I had described such phenomena many times (though as probabilities, not specific occurrences) to thousands of students in my lectures at UCLA. From my research and travels to the NORCs, plenty of people had told me about bizarre rains in the depths of winter. After a while IБЂ™d even become bored with itБЂ”one can only listen to so many bizarre-weather stories before it just isnБЂ™t new information anymore. In the previous chapter, we explored how the statistical norms of flood and drought frequency are changing, and how they might become more intense in the future. Now it is time to discuss rising air temperatures in the NorthБЂ”even in the dead of winter and at very high latitudes. Indeed, this phenomenon is a central interest throughout the rest of this book ...» |
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