What will the future under climate change look like? Will it be raging storms, fires and floods? Well, sure, but to a lesser degree than we often think. Instead … as University of Washington scientist and weather expert Cliff Mass told us via email:
Ecology: A warmer Puget Sound looks less like a paradise for fishing and wildlife viewing, and more like a haven for jelly fish.
“Based on climate modeling we have an excellent idea of what the world will be like. Less cold waves, more heat waves. Some storms will decline (like our windstorms) but others (the strongest hurricanes) will get stronger. Less overall hurricanes though.
Wetter places will tend to get wetter (SEATTLE!), while drier places (S. CA) will tend to get drier. There has been so much simplistic stuff in the media (ALL STORMS WILL BECOME MORE EXTREME!) that are simply untrue.”
So what will a hot world look like, especially here in the Puget Sound region? Well, check out this video built around a news conference put on by Washington’s Department of Ecology July 30 in Seattle for your answer:
And, go to Ecology’s blog ECOconnect for an excellent writeup of the information around the news conference and the hot hot hot state of Puget Sound. Here’s a taste of that story:
Everyone in Washington is feeling the heat this summer, and Puget Sound is no exception. It’s been hot and dry, with all kinds of weather records being set. These unusually hot temperatures don’t end at the water’s edge. We’re also seeing the record-breaking warm water temperatures from “the Blob” of North Pacific Ocean water that made its way through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and into Puget Sound late last year.
“The Blob entered Puget Sound on a massive scale in the fall of 2014 and rapidly changed conditions for temperature and also oxygen,” said Dr. Christopher Krembs, Ecology senior oceanographer. “We’re measuring water temperatures 4° F higher than normal from our past 25 years of record keeping. We’re seeing the warm water everywhere, from Olympia to Bellingham.”
Monitoring suggests that these warm conditions are having many negative consequences on the Puget Sound marine environment. This year we’ve seen increasing harmful algae blooms, increasing and early shellfish closures, lower dissolved oxygen levels, and unfavorable conditions for salmon and other cold-loving marine species.
Go here for the rest of the story.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
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What will the future under climate change look like? Will it be raging storms, fires and floods? Well, sure, but to a lesser degree than we often think. Instead … as University of Washington scientist and weather expert Cliff Mass told us via email:
Ecology: A warmer Puget Sound looks less like a paradise for fishing and wildlife viewing, and more like a haven for jelly fish.
“Based on climate modeling we have an excellent idea of what the world will be like. Less cold waves, more heat waves. Some storms will decline (like our windstorms) but others (the strongest hurricanes) will get stronger. Less overall hurricanes though.
Wetter places will tend to get wetter (SEATTLE!), while drier places (S. CA) will tend to get drier. There has been so much simplistic stuff in the media (ALL STORMS WILL BECOME MORE EXTREME!) that are simply untrue.”
So what will a hot world look like, especially here in the Puget Sound region? Well, check out this video built around a news conference put on by Washington’s Department of Ecology July 30 in Seattle for your answer:
And, go to Ecology’s blog ECOconnect for an excellent writeup of the information around the news conference and the hot hot hot state of Puget Sound. Here’s a taste of that story:
Everyone in Washington is feeling the heat this summer, and Puget Sound is no exception. It’s been hot and dry, with all kinds of weather records being set. These unusually hot temperatures don’t end at the water’s edge. We’re also seeing the record-breaking warm water temperatures from “the Blob” of North Pacific Ocean water that made its way through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and into Puget Sound late last year.
“The Blob entered Puget Sound on a massive scale in the fall of 2014 and rapidly changed conditions for temperature and also oxygen,” said Dr. Christopher Krembs, Ecology senior oceanographer. “We’re measuring water temperatures 4° F higher than normal from our past 25 years of record keeping. We’re seeing the warm water everywhere, from Olympia to Bellingham.”
Monitoring suggests that these warm conditions are having many negative consequences on the Puget Sound marine environment. This year we’ve seen increasing harmful algae blooms, increasing and early shellfish closures, lower dissolved oxygen levels, and unfavorable conditions for salmon and other cold-loving marine species.
Go here for the rest of the story.
Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8334 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com. Follow Jake on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jake_News. Also, swing by and *LIKE* his page on Facebook.
If Google Plus is your thing, check out our science coverage here.
from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1UnSJFt
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