Why can’t we just move water to solve a drought? “If you warm things up a little bit, there’s more energy in the atmosphere, more record highs, heavier precipitation, and droughts are going to be worse because things are drying out a bit more quickly.” “We do know as there is an increase in the average temperature, that means there is a disproportionate increase in extremes,” said Sean Sublette. The models only look at average annual temperature, and don’t capture the highs and lows – but those wild swings will be there too. In these graphs, you can see the range of possibilities for two different scenarios: one where major cuts to global emissions are made, and one where we continue down roughly the same path as we are now. cities (See a few of the projections below, and more at the bottom of this story.) The average annual temperature projection for Austin, with and without major cuts, according to Climate Central.
The scientists also made local projections for 200 U.S. An increase of 2 degrees Celsius is about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit a 6-degree Celsius increase – the darkest shade of purple on the map – is about 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit.) (Note the temperature changes on the map are shown in degrees Celsius. cities will look like with sea level rise, according to scientific projections