“Not only is this a glimpse of what our future will look like, but it's actually going to look a lot worse than this,” the professor told CNN.
The current summer heatwaves are due to climate change, a University of Pennsylvania professor told CNN.
Presidential Distinguished Professor Michael Mann said this week has been very hot due to current climate change. But we can prevent future problems “by not using fossil fuels.”
“Not only is this a glimpse of what our future will look like, but it's actually going to look a lot worse than this,” Mann told CNN host Brianna Keaylor in an interview on Monday.
“If we continue to heat the planet, we will see more widespread, hotter and longer-lasting heat waves in the future,” Mann said. “So as we continue to pump carbon pollution into the atmosphere and warm the planet, all of this gets worse. That's bad news.”
He said later in the interview that in addition to “getting rid of fossil fuels,” there is a “direct and immediate impact” on reducing carbon emissions.
But warnings about heat waves need historical context, meteorologists and climatologists said.
CNN's Brianna Keilar interviewed UPenn's Chief Climate Officer Dr. Michael Mann yesterday to discuss how this week's “brutal” and “unprecedented” heat wave is being fueled by global warming and is shaping our future.
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— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 18, 2024
Chris Martz wrote in “Someone needs to tell people this is what SUMMER looks like. There is nothing unprecedented or unusual about this heat wave. “It’s not a summer standard, nor is it a June standard.”
Martz then provides data from major cities highlighted by CNN to show how they have historically fared with hotter days over the same period.
“Daily records are not predicted for that location,” Martz wrote. “this week [heat wave] “It cannot be compared to the events of 1936, 1944, 1953, and June 1988.”
The PhD student previously explained how fears about climate change have been exaggerated.
“The weather we observe today is no different than it was 30, 50, or 100 years ago. “The coupled nonlinear ocean-atmosphere system is much more complex than many scientists realize,” he wrote. This post was posted on X on June 8th.
“The more I research, the less worried I become. Of course, we affect our surroundings, and this includes climate,” Martz wrote.
“But the idea that we are in a ‘climate crisis’ is not a scientifically supportable statement,” he said. “The human condition has never been better than it is today, and that is largely due to fossil fuels.”
“Life without reliable, affordable energy such as oil and natural gas is cold, dark, and short.”
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