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<blockquote data-quote="KPRC2" data-source="post: 43361" data-attributes="member: 148">I pick the brains of Climate Central a lot in this blog and want to introduce a new tool they debuted yesterday! The Climate Shift Index (CSI, but not the TV show!) is designed to illustrate the influence of human-induced global warming in today’s real-time environment....the shift we’ve seen in temperatures. How much of these sweltering temperatures we’re experiencing right now can be directly contributed to our own global warming? You can see the graphic below illustrates the idea of today’s world vs what we’d have without the increased warming:<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/P8PTNGzJMlybl7dJRIdycu-c7g0=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/SUGKNMVCQJCR5OO2F34B5SPAUY.gif" alt="courtesy Climate Central" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Here’s how it works and I’ll use yesterday’s High Temperatures (Bush/IAH topped out at 98°--normal is 93°):<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/xRnXSvDUIhDE542gXizJdIsP-xo=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/RXLYSEZD3FAZ3L6MCRKTRT3G4E.JPG" alt="courtesy Climate Central" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />You can see across our part of Texas we were running in the 90-100° range. These numbers were 5-10° above normal (the Temperature Anomaly):<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/v5VBrfC3FFU3sTnIvBtFzNdhlUM=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/ZQJLEIF6MZE5ZIBX2O6UENK7HI.JPG" alt="How much above normal are our highs?" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Climate Central uses their Climate Shift Index to categorize what role climate change plays in producing these Above Normal temperatures and, on their CSI scale, we were a 3:<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/QZahdzEUIMEGj-h43YtFVfudGAE=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/ITIHKCADKVBDDC7LON7L6FZZNI.JPG" alt="You can see this is a +3 on a scale of 1-5." class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Looking at the CSI chart below explains just what that 3 means:<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/RXkBNLQLGQY1aiPxlx6GJj0IsEg=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/CBUELFJNYZCNVH2LXBYXRR4I6Q.jpg" alt="A 3 is a Very Strong CSI Level" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Simply put, Climate Change made yesterday’s High Temperature extremes 3 times more likely than had we NOT had so much climate change over the years. According to Climate Central the Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels indicate how much climate change has altered the frequency of daily temperatures at a particular location. The scale works both ways in terms of climate change inducing higher temperatures and, in some cases, lower temperatures and you can go to the CSI page to choose whatever parameters you like--high or low temperatures and for what day. And this is in real-time, so the beauty of it is that this isn’t a chart showing what changes have happened or might happen in the future, this index shows us daily what is happening to our planet.<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/95FHY9BsDHqUXVOFYjlorXzmL6I=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/R4UXWKASGVCDXJBCRHFSUYK2XI.JPG" alt="You can choose your own parameters" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />You can explore this new tool right <a href="https://bit.ly/3tPdWBG" target="_blank">here</a>.<h3>The Real Reason Behind All This Heat?</h3>My candles! Birthdays are like opinions--everyone has one but the most important is your own! Today is mine and there are a lot of candles on that cake. I see on Social Media where people having birthdays ask for a donation to their favorite charity. Here’s what you can give me for my birthday today: do something GREEN for Mother Earth. Recycle that extra can, bike or walk or carpool, conserve our water a bit, ditch the plastic straw. Here are some <a href="https://www.click2houston.com/topic/Go_Green/" target="_blank">other ideas</a> on Going Green we posted on Click2Houston.<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/oeVI-1ovCvvGcykdkEtgv_QVVb8=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/AAFPHO5RYBDDJEOXDIWGWPQRRY.jpg" alt="Thanks to CBRE property management for the CRAVE cupcakes!" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Have a safe, cool, green cupcake of a day!Frank<a href="https://www.click2houston.com/weather/2022/06/22/what-if-there-was-no-global-warming/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="KPRC2, post: 43361, member: 148"] I pick the brains of Climate Central a lot in this blog and want to introduce a new tool they debuted yesterday! The Climate Shift Index (CSI, but not the TV show!) is designed to illustrate the influence of human-induced global warming in today’s real-time environment....the shift we’ve seen in temperatures. How much of these sweltering temperatures we’re experiencing right now can be directly contributed to our own global warming? You can see the graphic below illustrates the idea of today’s world vs what we’d have without the increased warming: [IMG alt="courtesy Climate Central"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/P8PTNGzJMlybl7dJRIdycu-c7g0=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/SUGKNMVCQJCR5OO2F34B5SPAUY.gif[/IMG] Here’s how it works and I’ll use yesterday’s High Temperatures (Bush/IAH topped out at 98°--normal is 93°): [IMG alt="courtesy Climate Central"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/xRnXSvDUIhDE542gXizJdIsP-xo=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/RXLYSEZD3FAZ3L6MCRKTRT3G4E.JPG[/IMG] You can see across our part of Texas we were running in the 90-100° range. These numbers were 5-10° above normal (the Temperature Anomaly): [IMG alt="How much above normal are our highs?"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/v5VBrfC3FFU3sTnIvBtFzNdhlUM=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/ZQJLEIF6MZE5ZIBX2O6UENK7HI.JPG[/IMG] Climate Central uses their Climate Shift Index to categorize what role climate change plays in producing these Above Normal temperatures and, on their CSI scale, we were a 3: [IMG alt="You can see this is a +3 on a scale of 1-5."]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/QZahdzEUIMEGj-h43YtFVfudGAE=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/ITIHKCADKVBDDC7LON7L6FZZNI.JPG[/IMG] Looking at the CSI chart below explains just what that 3 means: [IMG alt="A 3 is a Very Strong CSI Level"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/RXkBNLQLGQY1aiPxlx6GJj0IsEg=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/CBUELFJNYZCNVH2LXBYXRR4I6Q.jpg[/IMG] Simply put, Climate Change made yesterday’s High Temperature extremes 3 times more likely than had we NOT had so much climate change over the years. According to Climate Central the [I][B]Climate Shift Index[/B][/I][B] [/B][I][B](CSI)[/B][/I][B] levels indicate how much climate change has altered the frequency of daily temperatures at a particular location. [/B] The scale works both ways in terms of climate change inducing higher temperatures and, in some cases, lower temperatures and you can go to the CSI page to choose whatever parameters you like--high or low temperatures and for what day. And this is in real-time, so the beauty of it is that this isn’t a chart showing what changes have happened or might happen in the future, this index shows us daily what is happening to our planet. [IMG alt="You can choose your own parameters"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/95FHY9BsDHqUXVOFYjlorXzmL6I=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/R4UXWKASGVCDXJBCRHFSUYK2XI.JPG[/IMG] You can explore this new tool right [URL='https://bit.ly/3tPdWBG']here[/URL]. [HEADING=2]The Real Reason Behind All This Heat?[/HEADING] My candles! Birthdays are like opinions--everyone has one but the most important is your own! Today is mine and there are a lot of candles on that cake. I see on Social Media where people having birthdays ask for a donation to their favorite charity. Here’s what you can give me for my birthday today: do something GREEN for Mother Earth. Recycle that extra can, bike or walk or carpool, conserve our water a bit, ditch the plastic straw. Here are some [URL='https://www.click2houston.com/topic/Go_Green/']other ideas[/URL] on Going Green we posted on Click2Houston. [IMG alt="Thanks to CBRE property management for the CRAVE cupcakes!"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/oeVI-1ovCvvGcykdkEtgv_QVVb8=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/AAFPHO5RYBDDJEOXDIWGWPQRRY.jpg[/IMG] Have a safe, cool, green cupcake of a day! Frank [url="https://www.click2houston.com/weather/2022/06/22/what-if-there-was-no-global-warming/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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