Climate Communication Website

This website focuses on the connections between extreme weather and climate change on our ever-changing planet. The reviewers and researchers at the National Center for atmospheric research, Kevin Trenberth, Jerry Meehl, Jeff Masters, and Richard Somerville want people to understand the effect that global warming is having on our climate. In a wide swing between extreme temperatures there has been more reoccurring precipitation and drought. These changes are being provoked by anthropogenic causes.

Over the past decade, 75 counties set all-time record highs but only 15 countries set all-time record lows. In 2010, 19 countries set new all-time record high temperatures, but not a single country set a new all-time record low (among those countries keeping these 
statistics).

Focusing on the 2003 European heatwave that killed tens of thousands of people, in the image above, the researchers have analyzed the increasing odds for an occurrence such as that.An event like the 2003 heatwave becomes much more likely after factoring in the observed warming of 2°F over Europe and increased weather variability.5 In addition, comparing computer models of climate with and without human contribution shows that human influence has roughly quadrupled the odds of a European summer as hot as or hotter than the summer of 2003.

The website focuses on extreme weather happenings such as increased temperatures, drought, floods, circulation changes, seasonal storms, etc. with a purpose to "publicize and illuminate the latest climate research in plain language, making the science more accessible to the public and policy makers."