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Bill Nye Says Extreme Heat Waves Signal a "New Normal" in Climate
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Science educator Bill Nye discussed the recent heat wave gripping parts of the U.S. on ABC’s “This Week,” describing it as the start of a “new normal.” Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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Science educator Bill Nye discussed the recent heat wave gripping parts of the U.S. on ABC's
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This Week, describing it as the new normal.
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It's the beginning of the new normal with respect. So the latest research is that there's not a
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turning point or a tipping point or a knee in the curve. It's just going to get hotter and hotter
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and worse and worse and more and more extreme. A heat dome caused by a high-pressure system in
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the upper atmosphere has driven temperatures into the high 90s and beyond across large parts of the
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U.S. Nye also mentioned the impact of El Niño's transition into La Niña, which despite cooling
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the Pacific, paradoxically leads to more hurricanes due to reduced vertical shear in the Atlantic.
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So this is a taste of the normal of the future unless we, humankind, get to work and address it.
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He highlighted that the heat trapped in the atmosphere is now affecting the oceans,
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leading to more extreme weather events. So this is everything going the wrong way at once.
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