2100年的降雨將落在哪裡?[幻燈片]

偏遠太平洋島嶼的實地考察揭示答案

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環繞地球赤道以北的熱帶雨帶影響著全球的降雨模式。透過從熱帶島嶼的池塘和湖床中提取沉積物巖芯,科學家可以確定自公元 800 年以來雨帶的位置以及未來可能移動的位置。按照目前的全球變暖速度,到 2100 年,雨帶可能會向北移動 5 度,使厄瓜多、哥倫比亞和美國西南部乾旱。

從如此偏遠的地區獲取資料通常需要現場的獨創性。華盛頓大學西雅圖海洋學院的海洋學副教授朱利安·P·薩克斯和普林斯頓大學地球科學專業的康納·L·米爾沃爾德分享了近期考察的照片。

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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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