Posted on 08/09/2018 10:36:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This summer of fire and swelter looks a lot like the future that scientists have been warning about in the era of climate change, and it’s revealing in real time how unprepared much of the world remains for life on a hotter planet.
The disruptions to everyday life have been far-reaching and devastating. In California, firefighters are racing to control what has become the largest fire in state history. Harvests of staple grains like wheat and corn are expected to dip this year, in some cases sharply, in countries as different as Sweden and El Salvador. In Europe, nuclear power plants have had to shut down because the river water that cools the reactors was too warm. Heat waves on four continents have brought electricity grids crashing.
Globally, this is shaping up to be fourth-hottest year on record. The only years hotter were the three previous ones. That string of records is part of an accelerating climb in temperatures since the start of the industrial age that scientists say is clear evidence of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
What does all that add up to?
For Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles, it vindicates the scientific community’s mathematical models. It doesn’t exactly bring comfort, though.
“We are living in world that is not just warmer than it used to be. We haven’t reached a new normal,” Dr. Swain cautioned. “This isn’t a plateau.”
It doesn’t have to be this way. Scientists point out that with significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and changes to the way we live — things like reducing food waste, for example — warming can still be brought under control.
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Same summer as always in AZ.
I’ve seen it much worse.
Prep now for a nonexistent problem. Don’t be left behind. Hurry!
Ah, we’ve had hotter summers before. I remember a couple of summers ago the Central Valley had temperatures of over 100 °F. for nearly three weeks.
They think we’re goldfish and will believe them when they tell us hot weather is climate but cold weather is just weather.
But the people have to be brought under control first, naturally.
I see it's summertime - Climate Change is now Global Warming again for a while. When they're using it to explain every blizzard that hits the East Coast, it'll be Climate Change again.
I’ve had a bumper crop of hay this year...
Just sayin’.
So the New York Times no longer hires Americans?
Crisis after crisis after crisis ...
Hysteria after hysteria after hysteria ...
Each of which requires expanding the government and increasing government control of the individual to "solve" ... a long history of failure be damned.
It's just weather—some years drought, some years heat, some years wet, some years cool.
Good thing there is no such thing happening if we’re not ready for it. This summer seems distinctly average to me.
Indeed. Same here in the Northeast. Not particularly warm this year, or last.
Have never, ever had a day over 100 Deg. in this part of upstate NY. This year not even close (high of 93 Deg. F, several weeks ago, I believe). Its soon mid-August, so temperature down-swing will start soon.
If 2018 is that bad, it wont make any difference because I’m sure that none of us made it through 1934.
That’s California.
Always been like that.
Southern Cal has been hot thus summer after fairly mild summers the past few years.
Northern Cal in the Bay Area had been mild for summer.
Same in the central plains. Today is the first day in nearly a week I’m running the A/C. It’s August.
That’s pretty good if you ask me.
Not only have we not broken 100* in DE, this year, we are almost over saturated due to rainfall.
I recall 105+ for two weeks straight in the early 1990’s and being under water restrictions for the entire summer.
Actually the farmers are loving it!
The Corn and Soybeans in the area look spectacular.
I’m south of Tucson. We’ve had one very hot week. One that was definitely warm. The rest normal. Cool today. Based on 15 years of living here, I’d say...we had one hot week. Everything else was typical. A few years back, we had a winter that got cold enough long enough to kill a number of 30-50 year old trees. So it was an uncommonly cold snap that winter, and a week of uncommonly hot temps this summer.
IOW...weather.
“This summer of fire and swelter looks a lot like...”
...bad logging policies in California.
The weather man said the Tri cities, Washington area may tie the record today that was set in 1898.
If you factor in that the official weather station is located at the airport surrounded by asphalt versus 1898, on the front porch of the Post office I would assume, then were most likely a little cooler in reality.
I live about 40 miles west of there and across the street from our little municipal airport which has an AWOS system. Its recorded temps are always cooler than the weather prediction.
It is no coincidence that while they are banning heretics on social media, the big hitter commies in the MSM are pushing this scam hard.
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