Heather Heying
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8,006 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Heather Heying’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Overall, he writes, our project indicates that extremes and summer heat related metrics for the CONUS, again that's the Conteminus United States, as defined in the four questions above, do not ensure increasing trends.
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but rather modest negative trends, and thus appear to be substantially affected by other forcings, such as natural variability in addition to greenhouse gases, GHGs is greenhouse gases.
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He says the number of cold extreme events has declined in the past thirty years too.
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And this is likely in part related to the development of infrastructure around the stations, which disturbs the nocturnal boundary layer, inhibiting the formation of the cold shadow layer in which team is observed.
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We've heard that before, right?
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That the weather stations themselves may be reading warmer because there's urban heat effects, that sort of thing.
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This, though.
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Additionally, this result, again, the result that he is finding with his data set where he's looking at extremes, not means.
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Of cold extreme events declining in the past thirty years, he says this result may be an early sign of atmospheric warming of the coldest air masses by the added greenhouse gases, though this hypothesis has not been confirmed as a direct result of greenhouse gases.
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He's acknowledging.
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That we may that some of what we are seeing, some of what he's seeing in his description of the data by showing extremes, that looks like something that we can therefore breathe easier about, may actually be an early warning sign that there is heating that is happening that we haven't yet otherwise been able to see.
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That is how it's done.
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That is the inference that we should be expecting and hoping for from all of our climate science scientists.
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I don't even think it's self skepticism.
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He's just saying we see this, like we we see this, and that looks fine, but actually that may itself be an early warning sign of something bad.
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Well, and we have this sort of brute force scientism now, uh, that says if we say it often enough and get enough media outlets to repeat it, it becomes the theory.
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And that of course is not how theories evolve.
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That is not that is not how they were born.
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Uh they yeah, in fact theories aren't born.
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Uh theories are the maturity of uh development of an idea uh that has to have gone through a lot of of trials.
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