Posted on Jul 25, 2023
U.S., European heat waves 'virtually impossible' without climate change, new study finds
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The life-threatening heat waves that have baked U.S. cities and inflamed European wildfires in recent weeks would be "virtually impossible" without the influence of human-caused climate change, a team of international researchers said Tuesday. Global warming, they said, also made China's recent record-setting heat wave 50 times more likely.
Soaring temperatures are punishing the Northern Hemisphere this summer. In the U.S., more than 2,000 high temperature records have been broken in the past 30 days, according to federal data. In Southern Europe, an observatory in Palermo, Sicily, which has kept temperature records on the Mediterranean coast since 1791, hit 117 degrees Fahrenheit, Monday, shattering its previous recorded high. And in China, a small northwest town recently recorded the hottest temperature in the country's history.
July is likely to be the hottest month on Earth since records have been kept.
The life-threatening heat waves that have baked U.S. cities and inflamed European wildfires in recent weeks would be "virtually impossible" without the influence of human-caused climate change, a team of international researchers said Tuesday. Global warming, they said, also made China's recent record-setting heat wave 50 times more likely.
Soaring temperatures are punishing the Northern Hemisphere this summer. In the U.S., more than 2,000 high temperature records have been broken in the past 30 days, according to federal data. In Southern Europe, an observatory in Palermo, Sicily, which has kept temperature records on the Mediterranean coast since 1791, hit 117 degrees Fahrenheit, Monday, shattering its previous recorded high. And in China, a small northwest town recently recorded the hottest temperature in the country's history.
July is likely to be the hottest month on Earth since records have been kept.
U.S., European heat waves 'virtually impossible' without climate change, new study finds
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel "July is likely to be the hottest month on Earth since records have been kept." -- yep, concur...SINCE
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Yes, it gets hot in the northern hemisphere in July and August. Every year there are a pretty much even number of below average and above average temps. Weather patterns vary, and luckily we have a rotational planet that allows the pattern to continuously vary.
The introduction in the story has the common theme: "The life-threatening heat waves that have baked U.S. cities and inflamed European wildfires in recent weeks would be "virtually impossible" without the influence of human-caused climate change, a team of international researchers said Tuesday. Global warming, they said, also made China's recent record-setting heat wave 50 times more likely.
If they actually use consistent scientific data over a period longer than say the last 150 years, since that is a blink in the planets history, they would see that we are actually cooler than the average over say the last couple hundred thousand years. Their panic over heat happens every year since they started this campaign. 30 years ago it was acid rain, so what's the next global catastrophe that the fantastic prognosticators of the left have up their sleeves to keep the fear going?
The introduction in the story has the common theme: "The life-threatening heat waves that have baked U.S. cities and inflamed European wildfires in recent weeks would be "virtually impossible" without the influence of human-caused climate change, a team of international researchers said Tuesday. Global warming, they said, also made China's recent record-setting heat wave 50 times more likely.
If they actually use consistent scientific data over a period longer than say the last 150 years, since that is a blink in the planets history, they would see that we are actually cooler than the average over say the last couple hundred thousand years. Their panic over heat happens every year since they started this campaign. 30 years ago it was acid rain, so what's the next global catastrophe that the fantastic prognosticators of the left have up their sleeves to keep the fear going?
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We are on 39 or 40 consecutive days of temps of 100⁰ or more. A balmy 111⁰ last Wednesday. This number of consecutive days of temps of 100⁰ or more has not happened before. The climate has changed. The number of honey bees I see in my garden has dropped to zero. Bug strikes on my windshield have dropped to near zero and I pass 2 diary farms on my weekly trips to New Mexico. The drought gets worse every week. The Rio Grande stands a good chance of drying up in my part of Texas.
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We are on 39 or 40 consecutive days of temps of 100⁰ or more. A balmy 111⁰ last Wednesday. This number of consecutive days of temps of 100⁰ or more has not happened before. The climate has changed. The number of honey bees I see in my garden has dropped to zero. Bug strikes on my windshield have dropped to near zero and I pass 2 diary farms on my weekly trips to New Mexico. The drought gets worse every week. The Rio Grande stands a good chance of drying up in my part of Texas.
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Thanks for the clarification. I always go to noon-climate change non-scientists to understand something as complex, yet simple as climate change. Forget all the data that shows temperature increases that highly correlate to amounts of carbon emitter into the atmosphere. Or, let’s throw out the data that shows we are experiencing the most rapid change in temperatures other than mass extinction events. Let’s all ignore something that scares us. Let’s all keep doing what we are doing even though changes like going green benefit the economy and the environment. Oil spills, smog, water and air contamination, poisoning, and geographical rape are not my desired present or future. I really can’t understand the people that are pro all of that.
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