Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer

washingtonpost.com ^ | 7/26/2018 | Joel Achenbach and Angela Fritz

[rktman]

In the town of Sodankyla, Finland, the thermometer on July 17 registered a record-breaking 90 degrees, a remarkable figure given that Sodankyla is 59 miles north of the Arctic Circle, in a region known for winter snowmobiling and an abundance of reindeer.

This is a hot, strange and dangerous summer across the planet.

Greece is in mourning after scorching heat and high winds fueled wildfires that have killed more than 80 people. Japan recorded its highest temperature in history, 106 degrees, in a heat wave that killed 65 people in a week and hospitalized 22,000, shortly after catastrophic flooding killed 200.

Ouargla, Algeria, hit 124 degrees on July 5, a likely record for the continent of Africa. And the 109-degree reading in Quriyat, Oman, on June 28 amazed meteorologists because that wasn’t the day’s high temperature. That was the low . It was the hottest low temperature ever recorded on Earth.

[Rebelbase]

Notice they have to go all the way to Finland to find a weather aberration instead of talking about how wonderfully modest the temps are in central Canada down to Kansas.

And how come “extreme” weather today is a sign of climate change when there have been “extremes” that were worse in the past?

[VeniVidiVici]

Yeah, because saying the “hottest in the past 100 years” just doesn’t have the same cache as saying the “hottest in recorded history”.

[VeniVidiVici]

Honestly, it's probably a mixture of both.

Bullshit. Ever heard of an explanation for the ice ages? Why would the Earth suddenly revert to such a period? The only explanation is the Sun or the Earth's rotation around the galaxy.

So why now are we blaming "global warming" on Man? Give me a solid explanation for the cooling periods and I may believe you on the warming ones.

[rktman]

Just think, the last century was only 18 years ago. WTH? And I was born before mid century. Again, WTH?!