Posted on 10/18/2005 6:08:43 AM PDT by boris
US Faces 'Extreme' Temperature Changes: Study
Washington (AFP) Oct 17, 2005
The continental United States will face more extreme temperatures during the next century and worse rainfall along its Gulf Coast which has been ravaged by hurricanes this year, according to a climate study released Monday.
The study, published on the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, warned that greenhouse gases will likely swell to twice their current levels by the century's end.
"Imagine the weather during the hottest two weeks of the year," lead researcher Noah Diffenbaugh said, referring to northeast United States.
"The area could experience temperatures in that range lasting for periods of up to two months by century's end," he said.
Researchers claimed the study, run on supercomputers at Purdue University in Indiana state, is the most comprehensive climate model to date.
It predicts the southwest United States could endure as much as a 500 percent increase in hot events, leaving less water for the growing population, that the Gulf Coast region would receive more rainfall in shorter time spans and that summers in the northeast would be shorter and hotter.
Overall, the United States would experience a warming trend, the study predicts.
"The changes our model predicts are large enough to substantially disrupt our economy and infrastructure," said Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University.
In addition to greenhouse gasses, the model considered factors such as ocean currents, cloud formations and vegetation.
The model considered circumstances not fully included in previous models, such as snow which reflects energy from the sun back into space, and mountain peaks, which can stand in the way of travelling weather fronts.
Scientists also checked the model's efficacy by analyzing the period 1961 to 1985. "The model performed admirably," Diffenbaugh said, adding it's "the most detailed projection of climate change that we have for the US."
In 90 years we'll have better air condtioners...
Its been a nice Fall in Ohio......
When these guys can predict a hurricane track accurately over 5 days, then I may be interested in what they have to say about 95 years from now.
You stole my thunder. ;-)
I was going to post, yea, we call it Fall.
Overall, the United States would experience a warming trend, the study predicts.
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That's fine by me. We had an extended summer up until about a week or so ago -- quite unusual to have 80 degrees in October around here. And I loved it. Even now, it's not too bad -- temps in the 60's.
I love to upset my global warming/greenhouse effect friends by telling them, if this is global warming, I'll take it. Don't mind it at all. Boy does that get their blood boiling.
Sorry, I don't buy all these alleged scientific theories.
LOL! So true.
Oh and by the way...if this does turn out to be true and we are headed for disaster....
It's Bush's fault. :)
That should put a multimillion year old earth in perspective. /sarcasm
The blog of a unrefereed journal. How impressive.
I think their models have silicone implants.
2 Months of string Bikinis? Most Excellent.
I can make a model that would predict every election from 1961 to 1985 and have it perform 'admirably', but it still could predict 2006 worth a squat. I can't believe all these clowns calling themselves 'scientists' these days. This ain't science.
The earth is getting warmer because the sun is warmer than its been in about 1000 years.... The very idea that we as people could somehow kill the earth is rediculous. Even if we detnoated every nuclear weapon we had, LIFE and the eart would survive.
Well, the globalists have done a super job of emptying out the upper Midwest over the past 50 years. We have a surplus of underused infrastructure, no hurricanes, and no earthquakes.
In addition, we have lots of fresh water.
I contend that national security dictates that this country should move more of its critical economic activity to its interior.
Insurance company exposure management should also encourage folks to move away from the coast.
Even thought I don't buy this greenhouse gas crap I have to ask, what does this have to do with the US?? China is the worlds number one polluter as most of our manufacturing has moved to their shores. They are switching from bicycles to cars and have no "EPA" department to worry about.
The earth goes into long term cycles of hot+dry, hot+wet, cold+dry, cold+wet, over and over and over. These cycles are 500 years to 10 years and often there are cycles with cycles. Man's little 'farts' of greenhouse gasses into the hurricane of natures cycles have no effect.
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I agree. We had a local meterologist, now retired, who was asked once about all this global warming/greenhouse nonsense. He said it was just that -- nonsense. Our weather goes through cycles. You should have heard the noise from the enviro-weenies about that. Frankly, I'd trust this guy, who had been a meterologist for a good 50 years or more(and a durn good one), than these young twits who look at a thunderstorm in lower Slobovia and predict a major weather disaster 7,000 years from now.
AFP = Agence France-Presse
They may have an agenda against the U.S.
Stopped reading right there.
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