Posted on 10/04/2006 11:51:09 AM PDT by GQuagmire
Summers in Boston will feel like July and August in South Carolina by the end of the century if global warming is allowed to continue unchecked, according to a new scientific report released this morning.
A team of 14 scientists and the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists have produced the most detailed look at what the Northeast will feel like in an ever-warming world. They spent two years examining two scenarios: If the world switches to more renewable power that will slow global warming, and if it does not.
Even if fossil fuels are largely abandoned, Boston will go from about 10 days a year over 90 degrees Fahrenheit now to about 25 days by mid-century because of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. If the use of fossil fuels, like gasoline, remains unchanged, the temperature could top 90 degrees more than 60 days a year by the end of the century, the scientists said.
The study also predicted less snow, more extreme storms and frequent droughts -– key events that could harm tourism, agriculture and the region's economy.
"The very notion of the Northeast as we know it is at stake," said Cameron Wake, an author of the report and an associate professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Climate Change Research Center. "The near-term emissions choices we make in the Northeast and throughout the world will help determine the climate and quality of life our children and grandchildren experience."
Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 11:56 AM
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"The study also predicted less snow, more extreme storms and frequent droughts -– key events that could harm tourism, agriculture and the region's economy."
the region economy in new england will be destroyed all right, but not because of the weather.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Ping!
Actually,this summer in Boston was been not too bad at all.
Air conditioner was on seven days tops.
And temperatures in Southern cities like Atlanta will be higher than when General Sherman dropped by.
Considering that I had to wait half way through June to get a decent round of golf in. Let me say I am extremely disappointed that I will be dead by the time this warm weather arrives!
LOL. I wonder if they took into account the recent year (I believe it was 2003 or 2004) when we almost didn't have any summer at all in the Northeast. Here in New York, where it's usually much warmer than in Boston, the temperature reached 80 degrees only about a dozen times that summer.
Here you can play a decent round of golf 10 months a year. It would be 11 or 12 if I lived in any part of TX other than the panhandle.
Sometimes you just have to be firm with it.
Tell me what it will be like on Sunday August 15 and we'll talk...
Boston is producing all these problems by keeping their furnaces running during the cold winter months. Shut off their fuel oil, their natural gas and no wood stoves, the only electricity they get would come from the wind generators off Teddy Kennedy's beach home .The problem would be solved.
But I thought global warming was supposed to put an end to the Gulf Stream circulation and bring colder temps to the British Isles. Doesn't the Stream also moderate New England temperatures?
Maybe not, if we just want to stampede the herd.
If it lets me get rid of my snowblower, when it comes to global-warming, I say, "BRING IT ON"!
Oh, boy, what a crock. These people are afraid of change. There is nothing they won't do (especially with other peoples money) to try and stop the inevitable. But the fact is that everything changes; nothing stays the same. Even when you set something aside as pristine, untouched wilderness, for example, it also changes; because ceaseless change is a given on this planet.
It would be so much easier to stop fighting it.
Summers in Boston ALREADY are similar to summers in South Carolina. The Southern summer is longer, but no hotter at its peak. Both regions max out at about 100 degrees.
"Allowed", by whom? God maybe?
The Sun warms the globe every day. If it stopped, we would all freeze in short order. The amount of "global warming" varies from day to day, year to year, century to century, millenium to millenium, megayear to megayear, and gigayear to gigayear.
The weather and climate is always changing, all over the Earth. Get used to it.
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