The text reads, \u201cA new study published in PLOS Climate and led by UC3M and UNIZAR reveals that global warming in the U.S. depends on the region\u2026 and on politics!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt is like trying to understand a country\u2019s economic inequality by looking only at GDP per capita: you miss what is happening to the richest and the poorest. It is not the same for the highest temperatures to rise sharply as for the lowest ones to do so, because the consequences can be different,\u201d explained economist Jesus Gonzalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Spanish researchers used the PRISM temperature database for the period 1950 to 2021, which combines more than 26,000 daily observations per state, from which the full range of local temperatures can be obtained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To compare warming across regions, they developed the concept of \u201cwarming dominance,\u201d a tool that analyzes the full distribution of temperatures \u2014 not just the average \u2014 revealing hidden patterns of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consistent with previous research, the results show that only 27 states have experienced an increase in average temperatures, but 41 states show an increase in some part of their temperature range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the West, in states such as California, Oregon and Nevada, warming is mainly driven by high temperatures rising faster than low ones. By contrast, in the Dakotas and Minnesota, minimum temperatures are rising faster than maximum temperatures, \u201cas if the difference between winter and summer were being smoothed out,\u201d Gadea said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This reveals strong regional inequalities in how climate change is experienced across the United States, a result that can be extrapolated to other regions of the world. This new way of measuring climate change is not just a theoretical exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDetecting whether a region is warming because its summers are becoming more infernal or because its winters are disappearing is crucial for designing effective adaptation policies,\u201d the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regional differences in the U.S. are likely to have varying impacts on factors such as agriculture and public health, as well as on public perception and engagement with climate action. The research points to a correlation between areas experiencing stronger warming and political orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
States with stronger \u201cwarming dominance\u201d \u2014 mainly along the Northeast and West coasts \u2014 largely coincide with Democratic voting patterns, while areas where warming is statistically less evident \u2014 the South and parts of the interior \u2014 tend to be Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Friday, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) released a study showing that climate warming patterns vary across 48 U.S. states. RELATED: Heat Waves… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[8],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"authors":[{"term_id":8,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"yolaunicaquehay","display_name":"RRebeldeAdminWP","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6145d63ff95c9a0f0e53b7149804b1faf86748d6cc15f466103269a288ea377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}