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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
The record cancelation of flights out of Phoenix, Arizona in the summer of 2017 due to unusually high air temperature is the reason I picked my doctoral research topic on the impacts of climate change on aviation. Now, Phoenix set another unfortunate record: 100 straight days of 100°F (~38°C) or greater heat, beating the previous streak by 3.5 weeks. The death toll will likely be in the hundreds this year (it was 645 last year for the whole Maricopa county). But of course, this does not include the death of local fauna and flora, which is silent until we find our food chains disrupted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/
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Izzy💫🎩
@izzykid
By your research, what d’you or can you say is the cause of the high temperature?
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions since the advent of the industrial age
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Izzy💫🎩
@izzykid
Leading to depletion of the ozone layer🤔
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Ozone layer depletion is unrelated - that’s caused by CFC/HCFC gases and sulfur emissions. It’s not causal to global warming
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Nico🦊
@nicom
Ozon layer mainly protects us from intense UV radiation from the sun. We only receive a small portion of them and we still get skin cancer, so imagine without this natural sunscreen?
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Nico🦊
@nicom
The ozone layer is something else and it's actually not so bad compared to before CFC gas bans, it recovered well from human action as soon as we decided to actually act. Here it's greenhouse effect in action. Heat stays in the atmosphere because of some gas like CO2 or methane, massively emitted by human activity (there's some natural emission, but nothing compared to industrial ones), and doesn't radiate back to space. Global heat then increases and even a few degrees leads to extreme metheorlogical phenomenons, whether hot or cold, dry or rainy, but always and more and more extreme. See it like an acrobat who loses balance and makes bigger and wider movement to keep it until it's not even enough and they fall.
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