<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/nasa-study-reveals-compounding-climate-risks-at-two-degrees-of-warming/" target="_blank">NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees of Warming - NASA</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Abby Tabor</div><div><br></div><div>Excerpt from article first below, important links to other sources lower down:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:1.1rem;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif">A NASA study predicts that, if global temperatures keep rising and reach 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, people worldwide could face multiple impacts of climate change simultaneously, with serious consequences.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:1.1rem;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:16px;padding:0px;font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif;line-height:1.65em;margin:0px auto 1em;max-width:712px;color:rgb(27,27,27)">If global temperatures keep rising and reach 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, people worldwide could face multiple impacts of climate change simultaneously. This is according to a NASA-led <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF003330" rel="noopener" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-style:dashed;text-decoration-color:rgb(88,88,88);font-family:inter;color:rgb(27,27,27)" target="_blank">study</a> that analyzed the projected impacts of such warming to understand how different climate effects might combine. A 2-degree rise in global temperatures is <a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2865/a-degree-of-concern-why-global-temperatures-matter/" rel="noopener" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-style:dashed;text-decoration-color:rgb(88,88,88);font-family:inter;color:rgb(27,27,27)" target="_blank">considered a critical threshold</a> above which dangerous and cascading effects of human-generated climate change will occur.<br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:16px;padding:0px;font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif;line-height:1.65em;margin:0px auto 1em;max-width:712px;color:rgb(27,27,27)"></p><div id="m_-2065663512386649693gmail-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:2rem;max-width:712px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;max-width:840px"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto"></div></div></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:16px;padding:0px;font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif;line-height:1.65em;margin:0px auto 1em;max-width:712px;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The researchers found that more than a quarter of the world’s population could experience an additional month of severe heat stress each year compared to the middle of the 20th century (1950-1979). High temperatures and drought could combine dangerously in places like the Amazon, increasing the risk of wildfire. In the American West, extreme fire weather will likely be more intense and last longer.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:16px;padding:0px;font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif;line-height:1.65em;margin:0px auto 1em;max-width:712px;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;max-width:712px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:"Public Sans Web",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2878/a-degree-of-concern-why-global-temperatures-matter/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-style:dashed;text-decoration-color:rgb(88,88,88);font-family:inter;color:rgb(27,27,27)" target="_blank">A Degree of Concern: Why Global Temperatures Matter</a>, a two-part series. </li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.75rem">“<a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003330" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-style:dashed;text-decoration-color:rgb(88,88,88);font-family:inter;color:rgb(27,27,27)" target="_blank">What does global land climate look like at 2 degrees warming?</a>”, published in the journal Earth’s Future.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.75rem">Data description paper for the NEX-GDDP dataset: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01393-4" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-style:dashed;text-decoration-color:rgb(88,88,88);font-family:inter;color:rgb(27,27,27)" target="_blank">NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections, CMIP6</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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