Our third call of the evening is coming from El Paso, Texas! We are talking to two meteorologists who cover a big chunk of west Texas. Tim Brice and Jason L. attended college for four years to become meteorologists. They are based in the middle of the Chihuahuan desert. They have complex computers to display any type of weather you can think of. Their job consists of releasing warnings about the oncoming weather and teaching spotters. We kicked off the Q and A by asking, "How is climate change different than global warming?" Tim Brice replied by saying that while he is not a climatologist, which specializes more in global warming, they are essentially the same thing. More and more evidence is being uncovered to support the fact that climate change/global warming is mainly caused by man and putting bad things into the atmosphere. Good ideas are developing to scale back on the pollution produced and released into the atmosphere, so hopefully these will cause the temperatures to scale back. The next question asked was will happen if global warming continues? Mr. Brice replied by saying that 2 different things could happen, the first being that the icebergs continue to melt, causing the water levels to rise. The other thing that could happen is that more water could be evaporated into the air, causing more clouds to form and move throughout the world, which could cause the temperatures to drop again, which is called negative feedback.
