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Show DAILY HERALD Thursday, February 12, 2009 Global Brenda Ekwurzel I'm a climate scientist. .So it's a little frustrating when a snowstorm or a cold snap prompts people to ask me where global warming went. I tell them it's still here - and it's still something we need to address. And I tell them that weather Ls not climate. They are two different, but related, fields of science. Meteorologists study the weather. They look at what's happening in one part of planet's plan-et's atmosphere and make pre Valentine's Day February 14 w-y ( .' v - - y- lordslroin Macy's Costco S - lf, mmW' .m l& tl II M if' li m .I'm I s m- it M Warming hardly means dictions about what will happen over the next few days. Climate scientists study the climate. They look at what's happening to the atmosphere, the ocean, the land, and even the Earth's orbit around the sun, to explain the distant past, make sease of the present, and project into the future. Global warming does not mean the end of winter. It makes winters warmer and shorter, just as it makes summers sum-mers hotter and longer. Climate scientists call this "season creep." Global warming doesn't mean the end of snow, either. Higher global temperatures s .I- 'h,JTi If y BB,M'",!,M',i-'flB'1"''1"" UNIVERSITY nr" iA M Stores. cause more evaporation, which puts more moisture into the air. That leads to more intense precipitation pre-cipitation for many areas, in the form of April showers as well as January blizzards. Remarkably, the 10 hottest years since the Iate-1800s have all occurred since 1997, and global average temperatures have been rising for decades. The only way climate scientists scien-tists can account for such high temperatures is to take contributions contri-butions from human activities into account, particularly extra carbon dioxide from burning coal and oil and destroying forests. for-ests. There is about 35 percent ' , . ' ,7 LUI.IJ.! Belter Stores . S(-':A;''4'k more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at-mosphere today than there was 200 years ago. Too much carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere is a major problem. This is how it works: When the sun warms the Earth, the planet radiates heat. Carbon dioxide traps some of that heat and reflects it back down to the surface. This heat-trapping process is similar to sleeping with a blanket. Blankets Blan-kets reflect heat radiating from our bodies back onto us. Extra carbon dioxide heats the planet, just as a thicker blanket would make us warmer. If our climate continues to 4 3 a ' f '.-J lit - A, ' ' ' i J - 4 v - M If, ' : ' A shopumversitymall.eon - (801 2Z4434 end of winter warm at the current or even faster rate, we will experience more droughts and flooding as well as dramatic precipitation pattern changes, all of which could severely damage food and water resources. Our future climate will depend on how much more carbon dioxide human activity emits into the atmosphere. 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