Austin – Time is close to spending summer vacations. For some people, this means visiting a national park.
More and more people use their time to visit our country’s national parks. Numbers of National Park Service (NPS) show a record 331.9 million visits in 2024. This is an increase of 6.36 million visits (2 %) from 2023 and more than the previous record of 330.9 specific visits in 2016.
The week for people to visit our nation’s gardens is the National Park week, which starts on Saturday, April 19. The garden entry fee will be waived. Part of the free week’s reason is to allow people to celebrate and explore sites that make up the national park system. Fortunately, April is not hot for entertainment visits as they are during the month of July.
It is possible that some or many of these visits came during the temperature of the spring and summer seasons in late spring and summer. With this, in mind, the climate -to -climate scholars mention that these parks are to preserve and preserve entertainment, may heat twice at the national speed of the United States.
In 2024 entertainment visits in July, the second most hotter month in most of the United States.
Using NPS data, climate scientists note that these gardens are likely to witness five times in very hot days in 25 years compared to the numbers from 1979 to 2012.
Climate temperature is high due to greenhouse gases that warming in our national gardens also means dangerous heat that causes risks and pressure on the ecosystem, garden infrastructure, and perhaps the same importance as visitors’ health, and the risk of forest fires.
The stress is then placed on the garden managers to know how to adapt their operations with the changing climate. They are likely to gather with climate experts to find out the adjustments they need for safety reasons. Can this include reducing the garden hours?
Of course, the other stress is how the heat affects those who visit. NPS details say that visits increase in the warmer months, but decrease when the average temperature of the month is above 80 degrees Fahrenheit. tasty.
The central climate analysis resulted in some other conclusions. In the next 25 years, the 25 parks used in this research are likely to face between six and 22 hot days a year of time in 1979 to 2012.
The biggest increase in the Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Where there were four days average heat between 1979 and 2012, expectations are 26 days of severe heat by 2050.
Six out of 25 have severe heat thresholds more than 100 degrees. They are the arches (Utah), Badlands (South Dakota), Canyonlands (Utah), Grand Canyon (Arizona), hot ships (Arkansas) and Joshua Tree (California). This means that there will be more days with the three -digit heat.
Adaptation to the current and future climate change provides short -term solutions. It is the need to quickly reduce heat besiege that provides the most influential way to slow the heating rate.
In the final analysis, this increase in warming can indicate that the garden system will be different for future visitors from what we have today.