Posted on 05/23/2012 8:29:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
By the end of the century, the Twin Cities area could see eight times as many deaths annually due to extreme heat as it does now, according to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
The projected increase -- from about 14 per year to 121 by century's end -- would be among the steepest experienced by 40 major metro areas. The authors said that is partly because extremely oppressive heat waves would be more of a shock to northern residents' systems.
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Al Franken will fix this because he knows everything.
I lived most of my younger childhood, upto 9 grade, in North Dakota......which is tied for the 5th hotest recorded temperature in the US at 121 degrees F.
I can still handle cold, however, my wife, breed and born in Duluth, and having lived her whole life in Minnesota, became a complete freeze baby after her first summer in Florida.
She’s very thankful my work took her to Florida.
BTW, 27 states set their record during the 20’s and 30’s.
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