5-10 IAN Climate Change

 According to a study coming out of Yale University entitled “Extreme weather, climate and preparedness in the American mind” A majority of Americans say that unusual weather events have occurred in the past twelve months in both their local area (56%) and elsewhere in the U.S. (62%). Overall, 82 percent of Americans report that they personally experienced one or more types of extreme weather or natural disaster in the past year. These include extreme high winds (60%), extreme rainstorms (49%), extreme heat waves (42%), drought (34%), extreme cold temperatures (29%), extreme snowstorms (26%), tornadoes (21%), floods (19%), hurricanes (16%) or wildfires (15%). This study was sent to me by Richard Pauli, an expert in what he calls  climate destabilization. “Climate change is  the more preferred term in communicating the issues. However I have had lots of discussions about this and a few people like to say global climate destabilization. This is because we have a climate that is all of a sudden unstable. We do not have as much predictability and things that do happen are stronger than they would be normally. You are absolutely right, you could say climate change, I often say global warming but destabilization is technically more accurate.