The Heat Wave Scenario That Keeps Climate Scientists Up at Night
#heatwave #heatdome #climatechange #globalwarming #climatescience
"But the hotter it gets, the more vulnerable the grid becomes, even as demand for electricity spikes because customers are running their air-conditioning full throttle. Transmission lines sag, transformers explode, power plants fail.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/opinion/heat-technology-climate.html
2023 broke heat records all over the world.
NOAA predicts 2024 could be warmest year ever.
That will mean that the last 10 years are the warmest on record.
@peeppeepcircus The thing is... 2023 wasn't <b>just</b> the hottest on record! The jump from 2022 to 2023 was as big a jump as 10 years of warming progress. So warming is accelerating, and scientists were not expecting that big of a jump. This is terrifying, because we are now walking the knife's edge of hell-on-Earth. Look at the gap between 2022 and all other years in the last century! #ClimateChange
