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."
I've noticed it's been a problem lately. It's hard not to do double posts.
Less than that. I'm gonna begin experimenting with Vortex Tubes for residential cooling.
Will it really be the Republicans, or more of the same RINO scatology?
If everyday this winter were one degree warmer than average, we'd still be freezing our butts off. And it would still snow. You can't tell a one degree difference with your skin.
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Like the wiseguys on tv who in the middle of a cold winter say something like, we're warming up...it's -10...an hour ago, it was -15. Sorry, but when it gets that cold, even a five degree rise in temperature doesn't feel all that warm.
I call them scientwists. They twist the science in the direction of political needs and funding.
They can't get it through their stupid ("educated") skulls that we are on the mercy of SUN and energy we are getting from it, subject to sunspot and long term cycles, which they can do squat to affect. We are heading for sunspot minimum and we can expect couple more years of extreme weather, hotter, drier summers, colder, wetter winters. Check your snowblower, wax yer skies and enjoy!
Oh Woe! Someone may have to experience TWO MONTHS of hot weather! (snicker snicker from the Gulf Coast of Texas)
I see conservatives winning. There are still plenty of RINOs in our way, but we cannot lose patience.
Politics are forever. You cannot change things overnight. Period.
Summer days in the 120's and winter nights in the -50's?
Soooooo, are they now admitting that the previous models that were used to scare people and change society were junk?
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