{"id":2515,"date":"2018-05-07T06:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:50:40","slug":"2515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/07\/2515\/","title":{"rendered":"Is extreme weather caused by climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2508\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2508\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-14-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Is extreme weather caused by climate change?\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-14-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-14-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-14-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05072018-14.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is extreme weather caused by climate change?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among climate scientists there is a consensus that raising the temperature will increase both the severity and frequency of extreme weather events. It&#8217;s a matter of physics: increased energy adds more air circulation and water vapor to the climate, both of which fuel weather events. It&#8217;s very hard to say, however, that any particular storm is &#8220;caused&#8221; by global warming. For an introductory answer to this question, see Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future, by Adam Sobel (MIT meteorology PhD): O&#8217;Neill Library QC945 .S624 2014.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among climate scientists there is a consensus that raising the temperature will increase both the severity and frequency of extreme weather events. It&#8217;s a matter of physics: increased energy adds more air circulation and water vapor to the climate, both of which fuel weather events. It&#8217;s very hard to say, however, that any particular storm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/07\/2515\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is extreme weather caused by climate change?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}