Posted on 09/14/2004 9:39:05 PM PDT by farmfriend
Global warming hitting home
Inland cities will adjust more easily, but deaths will rise, study says
By Edie Lau -- Bee Science Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, September 14, 2004
People accustomed to scorching summer days in Sacramento, Fresno and other inland cities will endure the heat of global warming better than those who live on the coast, a projection on the health effects of climate change in California suggests.
But being used to hot weather can go only so far. Scenarios released Monday by an environmental advocacy group show that heat-related deaths in Sacramento could double, triple or worse by the end of the century due to more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting heat waves.
"We can acclimatize, but we won't acclimatize 100 percent," said Laurence Kalkstein, a bioclimatologist at the University of Delaware Center for Climatic Research, who produced health projections for five California cities.
The report by Kalkstein and three other scientists, titled "Rising Heat and Risks to Human Health," was published by the Union of Concerned Scientists as an appendix to a study on global warming's potential effects in California. That study appeared last month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Meanwhile, here in central IL, I wore a sweatshirt one morning in early August to ward off the chill. I have lived here 13 of the last 14 years, and this was by far the coolest summer I've seen. Old timers in their 70's told me it was the coolest they remember.
I can see my obituary now. "143 year old man dies from global warming."
The Packard Foundation is the nemesis of the Monterey Bay.
Love your tag line.
Exactly...Who cares??!!
Thank you. Thank you very much.
By the end of the century most but not all reading this articale will be dead of natural causes unrelated to fluctuations in weather according to one expert I have interviewed!
BTTT!!!!!!
What happened to our supposed earthquake that was going to hit this summer? of course they cannot perdict our tragedys of Mother Nature.....California with fires and earthquakes still make out great when you look at what all other states endure due to weather conditions....
Same here in North Dakota and Eastern Montana. I walked out of the logging shack on the wellsite at 5 AM in july and saw my breath! Morning temps in the 30's and 40's. (Not the mountains, folks, but prairie.)
IMHO, the cities create some of their weather with the heat island effect of all that asphalt.
The experts living off grant money and tax funds tell us that's, because global warming results in cooling. That is if you are noticing cooling, otherwise if it's hot, then it's still global warming.
I guess I continue to question how we can place much faith in predictions done by software / scientists / computers about global temperatures over the next 100 years when they can't tell us where a hurricane will hit in the next 100 hours.
Barf!
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