Climate Calamity in Florida! Are Sarasota and Manatee Counties on a Perilous Climate Change Path?

By Roy Wysnewski

Climate Calamity in Florida is an essay about climate change impact risk assessment -- specifically about the impact risk status in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Based on a 2018 risk assessment project conducted by a west-coast non-profit risk advisory firm Four Twenty Seven, a local risk assessment scale is developed covering the period 1911 (when average temperature was first recorded at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport) and 2023. Population growth, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and average temperature are the key factors that affect the risk assessment scale levels (values). These important factors are discussed in detail.
Concluding the essay, this important question is answered: Based on the present trend of population growth, atmospheric temperature, and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, to what extent are Sarasota and Manatee counties in climate peril, and destined for a "high-risk" calamitous climate future?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roy Wysnewski
• Release date: Jul 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215905098

Roy Wysnewski

I am a retired Nondestructive Testing Engineer/Manager living for the past twenty-five years with my wife Judy in Sarasota, Florida.At one point in my life, as a junior in college, I considered entering the field of meteorology. When that didn't materialize, I made a personal vow to become an amateur meteorologist and monitor the weather when I retired --- and that's what I did beginning in 1999.Unique lifetime weather experiences together with a very satisfactory eighteen years monitoring the local weather while volunteering as a Weather Spotter for the National Weather Service led me to write 'Whether To, Or Weather - Not To'.

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