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Here are your headlines in weather for today: New study: Earth will warm more rapidly; Wildfires prompt Colorado evacuation; Violent storms for Plains and Midwest; Tropical storm 10 forms in the Atlantic; Criminals driving Amazon deforestation; 1.1 million NYC students to skip school in climate protest.
A new climate model is predicting that by 2100, average temperatures on Earth could rise by 6.5 to 7.0 Celsius above pre-industrial levels unless action is taken to reduce carbon emissions. The new forecast is two degrees higher than a previous 2014 assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change’s (IPCC) found.
If true, the new calculations would also suggest that the Paris Climate Agreement goals will be harder to reach, the scientists said. In 1980, the global temperature was recorded at roughly 0.2 degrees Celsius, hit a high of 1.0 degrees Celsius in 2016, and was recorded at 0.83 degrees Celsius in 2018. Prior to 1939, temperatures were below 0.0 degrees Celsius.
But since 1977, temperatures have remained above 0.0 degrees Celsius and have continued to climb.
Several wildfires are burning in Colorado near Bailey in Fort Collins. The fires have knocked out power and forced evacuations. Homeowners near Livermore, Colorado voluntarily left their homes, while subdivisions in Bailey, Colorado were ordered to evacuate.
There is a third fire burning in the mountains south of Salida, that is been allowed to burn to thin out dead trees that have been destroyed by beetles.
A new tropical depression named tropical depression 10 has formed in the Atlantic and could become the ninth named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. If so, the storm would be named Imelda. While the track is uncertain at this time, there is a possibility it could move toward both the Bahamas and Bermuda as it evolves.
By Friday, warm, moist air flowing northward into the northern plains and upper Midwest will bring a vigorous storm system that will prompt strong-to-severe thunderstorms.
Adding to the intensity will be high temperatures across the northern US that are more on par with August, which will meet with a cold front resembling temperatures more typical of the Rockies in October.
These temperature collisions will combine to create a widespread thunderstorm threat extending from Friday afternoon into Friday night. Expect locally severe storms, bringing strong wind gusts, hail and travel disruptions.
The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is being driven largely by criminal networks, a new report by Human Rights Watch has found.
According to the research, which will be presented to the UN climate action Summit this week, the report titled “Rainforest Mafias” concluded that criminal networks threaten and attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people who attempt to stop them.
The report called out Brazil’s failures in law enforcement that are allowing “these criminal networks” who “will attack anyone who stands in their way” to maintain “this level of violence, lawlessness, and impunity for the crimes committed” and alleges “it will be impossible for Brazil to reign in deforestation.”
More than 1.1 million public school students are skipping classes this Friday to participate in a global youth climate strike protest of climate change. The city of New York has decided no penalties will be levied on the students.
The protest intends to cause disruption and garner attention from global political leaders who are in New York City for the United Nations climate action Summit and the General assembly meeting that will follow it.
