DETROIT – We asked Local 4 meteorologist Paul Gross, an expert on climate change, if this weekend’s unseasonably warm temperatures are related to global warming.
Here’s his response:
Here’s the deal with this: The warming climate has skewed things, so that heat records are becoming significantly more common than cold records. I actually discussed this in my climate change webcast. There’s a slide that shows the shifting bell curve over the past 67 years toward much more common heat records and a diminishing amount of cold records. The significant thing about Saturday’s record high is that we obliterated the old record by SEVEN degrees. That’s pretty significant. And Sunday’s high broke a record set way back in 1884 -- 133 years ago.
Watch Gross’s climate change webcast here.