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Heatwave
Heatwave
The intense heat resulted from a phenomenon called a heat dome, in which an area of high pressure acts like a lid on a pot and keeps heat trapped over a specific region.Research on the heatwave found that its intensity would have been impossible without the greenhouse gasses.
Megadrought
Megadrought
A megadrought has been gripping the World since 2000. While the region would have likely experienced drought regardless of human influence, scientists say climate change is making it worse than it’s ever been. Drought can create dangerous feedback loops. As the air warms, it sucks more moisture out of rivers, lakes, plants, and even the soil, which can in turn make the ground even hotter and drier.
Wildfires
Wildfires
When extreme heat and drought coincide, zapping the soil’s moisture and creating fields of dry vegetation, it only takes a small spark to ignite a deadly blaze. As climate change worsens heat and drought, it creates the conditions for larger and more frequent fires.
Floods
Floods
More intense rainstorms result from warming temperatures for every 1°C rise, the atmosphere can hold 7 percent more moisture. With more water at their disposal, storms have the potential to dump enough rain to cause flooding.
Hurricane Ida
Hurricanes
Hurricanes
Extreme rain is one major way climate change is making hurricanes worse. The Hurricane Ida that exemplified another dangerous trait of climate change-charged hurricanes: rapid intensification. Ida far surpassed that rate causing more destruction. Researchers anticipate that future intense, rainy, sluggish storms will cause more destruction and as sea levels continue rising, deadly storm surges brought by hurricanes will worsen, too.
Scientific Insight
The flood in the Marches
The flood in the Marches
On the 15th September 2022, in the region of Marche, more precisely in the provinces of Ancona, Pesaro and Urbino, a violent flood has hit, more similar to a tropical monsoon than a normal Mediterranean rainfall. The most important element was the anomalous temperature of the Mediterranean waters, caused by the intense and frequent heat waves that we have experienced throughout the summer, and a few days before the disaster, by the extension of a warm subtropical air mass towards our territory.
SOURCES: ilrestodelcarlino.it, tg24.sky.it, iconaclima.it, wired.it
Lab report
Lab report
Our goal was to reproduce in the science lab what happens inside the atmosphere of our planet with global warming, therefore with the increase of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide CO2.
The fact that the temperature of the test flask, that is, the flask containing in addition to glucose and water distilled, the yeast is always higher than the temperature of the control flask, that is, the flask containing only glucose and distilled water, is explained by the fact that the yeast produces the leavening, then a fermentation. With fermentation we have a release of dioxide of carbon CO2, which on planet Earth corresponds to the increase in greenhouse gasses.
With this experiment so we have achieved our goal, which is to reproduce within the small laboratory system what happens in the atmosphere of our planet with the global warming. In our system the difference of 1/3°C does not affect, but on the world scale this apparently small difference affects all ecosystems by altering their characteristics.
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