Hot future shock: Heat wave temperatures to soar
July 2, 2008 By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer(AP) -- During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the mercury spiked at 106 and about 600 people died.
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What about the relative humidity? I've been out in 120 degree weather and it was great! Of course I was in the Australian outback and humidity was probably around 5%. However, 90 degrees in a tropical area with 99% humidity and I could barely move.
Still using Fahrenheit !!!!
Its time to join the 21 Century. Disgusting for a physics website.
the author will be dead by the time any of his predictions will be falsified. he's only look out for his directorship, and the climate at the moment is "spread doom a fear among the masses". Good job well done for now.
Yes there will be coastal flooding but this will not wipe out all life. life will adapt as it has for millions of years. Global Heat waves are nothing new
Quickly Mike: what's the weather going to be on Aug 18th and 19th? Now, what's the weather going to be like generally through December? That's the difference between weather predictions and climate predictions. Don't conflate the two.
answer this. Why is it that the record high for most days of the year CONTINUES to be as much as 100 years ago for my home town?
If global warming were true, this simply should not be the case. The record high should be tied or broken almost every day of the year, for every successive year, for every location, if the earth really is heating up globally. Additionally, the record low should rarely, if ever, be tied or broken ever again for any location.
Sterl did not do science, he engaged in climate politics, using a computer model. Good for Sterl's career, but further witness of the dumbing down of science peer review and funding in the area of climate. Physorg gives climate computer games far too much credit by reporting them as science.
If that were true then the we are lucky the world is not already 5 degrees warmer than it actually is.
So here we are on the edge of an ice age held at bay be global warming. But since warming is so bad would cooling therefore have meant a wonderful world without extremes like storms and droughts and floods that are supposedly all going to happen because of warming?
I think we need to do computer modelling of what would happen should the world be cooling by 5 degrees and compare that to a world warming by 5 degrees and see which would be worse. Just for the exercise and to keep things real.
And can anyone tell me why all the ice seems to be melting yet the sea level hasn't risen? I mean the north pole could vanish this year, glaciers around teh world are tiny compare to what they were 10years ago but the sea level is still the same as it was when I was a kid. Strange.
I don't know but perhaps all that water is in the upper atmosphere now, fueling global warming, in a vicious circle.