[MCN] Winters are warming faster than summers, shrinking the difference between tham

[Lance Olsen]

Winters have warmed faster than summers in the United ...

Our World in Data
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May 30, 2024 — In the United States, winters have warmed faster than any other season. This is followed by spring, with summer and fall showing the slowest ...Read more <https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/winters-have-warmed-faster-than-summers-in-the-united-states#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%20winters,fall%20showing%20the%20slowest%20rates.>
Fastest-Warming Seasons

Climate Central
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Winters are warming the fastest in most of the 245 U.S. locations analyzed by Climate Central — but all four seasons are warming, introducing changes that ...

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John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973

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An Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate adds some timely detail to the earlier story.

“A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying ‘Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …’ and they end it by saying, ‘we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.’”

https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/



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