{"id":11753,"date":"2023-09-20T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11753"},"modified":"2023-09-20T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:35:02","slug":"climate-disasters-will-happen-everywhere-anytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11753","title":{"rendered":"Climate disasters will happen everywhere, anytime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;This summer has seen a rising number of \u201ccompound events,\u201d disasters occurring simultaneously or hitting one after another, according to climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In some cases, one event might accelerate another. A heat wave, drought, and wildfire can conceivably all hit the same area, for example, and even raise the risks of flooding if a storm finally comes, because the ground is too parched to absorb the influx of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there may be worse to come. Disaster season \u2014 or at least, what we\u2019ve historically thought of as disaster season \u2014 is hardly over yet. Summer and fall are typically prime times for extremes, but this year we also have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23738846\/el-nino-2023-weather-heat-wave-climate-change-disaster-flood-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>, the natural cycle when Pacific waters reach higher-than-average&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23738846\/el-nino-2023-weather-heat-wave-climate-change-disaster-flood-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temperatures<\/a>, which is just starting to ramp up. This is why meteorologists expect an extraordinary fall to follow the unprecedented summer, likely filled with active&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/noaa-forecasters-increase-atlantic-hurricane-season-prediction-to-above-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hurricanes<\/a>&nbsp;and warmer weather through the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With El Ni\u00f1o amplifying the effects of climate change, what we can expect from seasons is rapidly changing. Instead of a singular type of disaster any given region must prepare for, but places all over the world can expect multiple events at once. That means our traditional idea of disaster season no longer holds. What we now have is an extended practically year-round calendar of disasters, which often all hit at once.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23870591\/fall-climate-el-nino-hurricane-wildfires\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23870591\/fall-climate-el-nino-hurricane-wildfires<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This summer has seen a rising number of \u201ccompound events,\u201d disasters occurring simultaneously or hitting one after another, according to climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In some cases, one event might accelerate another. A heat wave, drought, and wildfire can conceivably all hit the same area, for example, and even raise the risks of flooding if a storm finally comes, because the ground is too parched to absorb the influx of water.<br \/>\nAnd there may be worse to come. Disaster season \u2014 or at least, what we\u2019ve historically thought of as disaster season \u2014 is hardly over yet. Summer and fall are typically prime times for extremes, but this year we also have El Ni\u00f1o, the natural cycle when Pacific waters reach higher-than-average temperatures, which is just starting to ramp up. This is why meteorologists expect an extraordinary fall to follow the unprecedented summer, likely filled with active hurricanes and warmer weather through the winter.<\/p>\n<p>With El Ni\u00f1o amplifying the effects of climate change, what we can expect from seasons is rapidly changing. Instead of a singular type of disaster any given region must prepare for, but places all over the world can expect multiple events at once. That means our traditional idea of disaster season no longer holds. What we now have is an extended practically year-round calendar of disasters, which often all hit at once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/23870591\/fall-climate-el-nino-hurricane-wildfires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,1749,104],"class_list":["post-11753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-disaster","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11755,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753\/revisions\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}