Climate researchers: We have to adapt to the new weather extreme!

Climate researchers: We have to adapt to the new weather extreme!

Bremerhaven, Deutschland - The climate researcher Thomas Jung, Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, warns that global warming will continue to progress with measures taken to combat climate change. As ndr , the increasing temperatures are both for the increase in extreme weather surveys, such as heavy rain, Responsible as well as for their influence by the jet stream, which is strong winds in the atmosphere at a height of 10 to 12 kilometers.

Jung explains that the increased extreme weather events are caused by thermodynamic processes. This means that low pressure areas transport warm, moist air from the south to the north. Warmer air can store more water vapor, which leads to higher precipitation. According to the Clausius Clapeyon relationship, there is the possibility for each degree of warming that about 7% more precipitation can fall. Jung also points out that the weather event caused by flooding for Christmas 2023/24 is understandable by this thermodynamic effect.

adaptation to new climatic conditions

Jung notes that in a world warmer, which was warmer by 1.2 to 1.3 degrees, the precipitation increased compared to 150 years ago. In order to reduce the damage from this extreme weather, he suggests two measures: adaptation to the changed climatic conditions and the reduction of greenhouse gases. For example, adaptation measures could include how cities can handle floods. In addition, Jung encourages the positive aspects of adaptation, such as the creation of greener cities.

In addition, the ipcc that was the warmest year since the beginning of the weather records in Germany, which was the urgency of adaptation measures and the understanding of the climatic processes. underline.

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien