Escondido Real Estate

Earth Day Begins In Your Escondido Homes

What can I do to stop global warming? These are very good environmental questions for Escondido residents and owners of Escondido homes.  As your real estate agent, I care very much about supporting the parks, attractions, and marine life that surround Escondido homes and golf courses and makes them so special! If you are shopping for Escondido homes, you may want to look for homes with green technology or smart living.

 

 

Global climate change is finally real. Scientists have believed the atmospheric, oceanographic, and ecological data for at least a decade. And businesses and elected officials followed in the past year. And now each of us wonders about how our lifestyles, jobs, and special places will be affected.

We're beginning to think about how climate change will affect our ecology and economy - locally, nationally and globally. How will our climate change? What does it mean for San Diego's ecology and economy? What should we expect from our business and community leaders? What can and should we do, as individuals? How will that matter?

How will our climate change in San Diego?

• Warmer temperatures. There is clear evidence that the earth's average temperature has been slowly increasing for some time. Weather records show that annual average temperatures in California are already warmer than just a decade or two ago. Extreme high and low temperatures are likely to be more common, as San Diego experienced in July 2006 and January 2007.

• More drought years. San Diego has a Mediterranean climate characterized by winter rains, summer droughts and a pattern of large fluctuations from year to year. Most scientists predict that climate change will cause droughts to occur more often and to last longer in Southern California and in other areas with limited rainfall. But others predict more rainfall due to increased frequency of El Niño weather events. In fact, more severe droughts are predicted for the entire western U.S., which is likely to produce longer fire seasons and larger wildfire events.

• More storms and extreme weather. Various global climate models predict that hurricanes, storms, and other extreme weather events are likely to increase, but their complexity makes it hard to say exactly how. Santa Ana winds are arguably the most destructive weather events in San Diego, and climate models are not exact enough to predict how they will change.

• Higher ocean levels. Global warming will tend to melt polar ice masses, which will slowly raise ocean levels everywhere. Including San Diego.

 

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