Posted on 05/09/2020 11:48:57 AM PDT by PROCON
A combination of heat and humidity so extreme that it’s unendurable isn’t just a problem for the future — those conditions are already here, a new study finds. Off-the-chart readings that were previously thought to be nearly nonexistent on the planet today have popped up around the globe, and unyielding temperatures are becoming more common.
Extreme conditions reaching roughly 115 degrees Fahrenheit on the heat-index scale — a measurement of both heat and humidity that’s often referred to as what the temperature “feels like” — doubled between 1979 and 2017, the study found. Humidity and heat are a particularly deadly combination, since humidity messes with the body’s ability to cool itself off by sweating. The findings imply that harsh conditions that scientists foresaw as an impending result of climate change are becoming reality sooner than expected.
“We may be closer to a real tipping point on this than we think,” Radley Horton, co-author of the new study published today in the journal Science Advances, said in a statement. His previous research had projected that the world wouldn’t experience heat and humidity beyond human tolerance for decades.
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Here in NY, we are going to have both record lowest-low and lowest-high today.
Then move.
It’s snowing here!
It’s snowing here!
Sometimes you’re 10,000 luv bugs, sometimes you da windshield.
If I could sing, I’d sing like Marty Robbins... It’s such a pure sound.
first time i ever visited Las Vegas, the digital thermometer read 115-degrees...that was 1986- i’m still here.
This seems pretty funny to me, living in Phoenix where we hit our record high temp of 122 degrees 26 years ago now... My house does not even have an air conditioner, just a swamp cooler! That said we had our first extreme heat warning a couple weeks ago now and have been over 100 degrees now a few days this year already. Also funny, my wife is in Pittsburgh right now and they woke up to snow on the ground this morning.
I’m a Ford guy too. What do you race?
Oh Noes! It’s 80 in Seattle and Sunday will be 82! We’re all gonna die!!!!
It’s 60 here in Georgia; got down into the 30’s last night. We’ve actually had more than our usual 5 days of “Spring.”
As Sam Kinison used to scream at his audiences about world hunger; “Your living in an F-ing desert move!”
I’m retiring in Key West... Bring it...
In the old days it took the news ten days to reach the frontier, give or take, but the newspapers that traversed the continent were passed around and cherished for their content. Now news travels almost instantaneously and is available from multiple sources. The problem is that so much of it is untrue that we still live in an informational wilderness. Vetting out the wheat from the chaff is almost impossible, and permits the ignorant to pick and choose to confirm whatever idiocy they subscribe to.
This just in.
Everyone dies.
You may now resume hysterical panicking,
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