Hot future shock: Heat wave temperatures to soar

Very impressive. Now to really impress me tell me the high and low temperatures of those cities for at the end of two weeks.

Short term predictions are difficult, but still long term predictions from past results or from computer simulations are dubious at best.

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.

Oops, sorry, actually it was 115 degrees (screwed up on the C to F conversion).

The Tech Singularity will happen before 2050.

Unlikely. More likely a technology dark age due to us running out of oil, and the resulting Malthusian catastrophe.

buy air conditioning.

Still using Fahrenheit !!!!

Its time to join the 21 Century. Disgusting for a physics website.

that America mate, they still usin' inches and yards and miles.

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.

what if the author is correct seanpu?, people claiming that the ice caps could melt were dismissed as alarmists, there is a good chance that the icecaps could melt this year!

And if the ice caps melt?
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

Very impressive. Now to really impress me tell me the high and low temperatures of those cities for at the end of two weeks.

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.

This is all global warming bs scare tactics.


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.

Um, I grew up in New England. When the temperature goes up, so does evaporation from all sources of water around there. What planet is this guy from: "His numbers are blistering because of the drying-out effect of a warming world." Arid climates are a function of geography, not the other way around.

Oh, and did I mention that the past 3 ski seasons in Colorado have been the best in a decade? This season's runoff has given us one of the best white water seasons in years. I like this global warming thing.

Sterl did not do an experiment, he did a computer model run. Computer models are not the climate, just like the map is not the territory.

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.

I'm still waiting for the impending global ice age these all-knowing scientists warned us all about back in the 1970's. I believe they are all just klowns looking for a headline in order to justify a paycheck for doing nothing more than gazing into a magical crystal ball.

Maybe the global cooling predictions were correct and we are on track to a new ice age but.... the global warming due to Co2 emmissions has over balanced that in the opposite direction.

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 what's the bad news?

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.

Here in Montreal I've noticed more extreme weather over the past 5 yrs or so. This winter dropped record amounts of snow on us, and the thunderstorms are more frequent.
I don't know but perhaps all that water is in the upper atmosphere now, fueling global warming, in a vicious circle.