Posted on 06/19/2021 4:22:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PHOENIX - Extreme temperatures like the ones blistering the American West this week aren’t just annoying, they’re deadly.
The record-breaking temperatures this week are a weather emergency, scientists and health care experts say, with heat responsible for more deaths in the U.S. than all other natural disasters combined. With more frequent and intense heat waves likely because of climate change and the worst drought in modern history, they say communities must better protect the vulnerable, like homeless people and those who live in ethnically and racially diverse low-income neighborhoods.
Scientists say the number of heat deaths in the U.S. West and the world over were only expected to rise.
As average temperatures rise worldwide, heat is becoming more extreme, said Gerald Meehl, senior scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
“As the average climate warms up from increasing human-produced greenhouse gases, we are seeing more intense, more frequent and longer lasting heat waves,” Meehl said.
A study last month estimated the number of heat deaths each year that can be attributed to human-caused global warming. It included about 200 U.S. cities and found more than 1,100 deaths a year from climate change-caused heat, many of them in the East and Midwest, where many people don’t have air conditioning or are not acclimated to hot weather.
Joellen Russell, climate science professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said the Southwest is an early example of what will hit the rest of the nation later when it comes to the dangers of heat extremes caused by global warming.
“I think we’d better hurry up,” she said. “Our kids are counting on us.”
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How many years do we have left? /Sarc.
What a biased load of bullchit! Who knew it get’s hot in the southwest! I’m in west Texas and we’re having a fairly mild and wet year so far, our pastures are greener than I’ve seen them in years. This following one of the coldest winter’s I’ve experienced in 70+ years. Record breaking extended cold and over two foot of snow in the process.
The weatherman said it will be over in a couple days. In the meantime...clean the forests rather than watching them burn. We know how to put in breaks, how to reforest in a sound way. Open the lumbering industry up again. If the friggin’ Owls don’t move out of town...and they will...so be it.
Minorities and the 58 gender varieties affected the most.
People in the US died of hyperthermia decades ago, as recent European immigrants, they were not used to the heat here. I am talking about people from Northern and Western Europe, who emigrated to places like Pittsburgh, which is a Northern city.
Would Al Gore have done less damage if he had won in 2000, instead of pushing global warming?
Didn’t Europe have a cooler than average summer last year? Weather patterns have cycles and fluctuations. Can’t do zilch about solar effects nor global wind patterns. So paying a global climate change tax is going to solve climate issues? Rubbish.
Al was selling carbon credits.
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I just pulled out my old book ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK by Bourke, about Gen Crook’s dealings with the Apaches in AZ in the 1870s.
In it, Bourke claims the temp in Tuscon often was 120 degrees in the summer, and in the summer of 1870, it never went below 98 at nights.
So much for “Man made’ glo-Bull Warming causing high temps.
Isn’t it about nine now? The Climate Changers were saying it was eleven during Trump’s presidency.
There’s hot and there’s this. I’ve been in Tucson since ‘75. We don’t get an entire week over 112, frequently hitting 115. That ain’t normal. And that is deadly.
Our official record high ever is 117. Sorry, Gen Crook’s book is bunk.
Deserts will be Deserts
***1,100 deaths***
In the olden days before AC, heat stroke it was listed as “Apoplexy”. but think of the type of clothing people wore back then!
I still remember those hot humid summers before AC. No way I would go back!
In 1962, as teens, we, with other migrant laborers were picking green beans in 98 degree temps with 70% humidity. Thought we were gonna die. My brother passed out in the fields it was so hot.
Today I look back and realize all those migrant laborers were poor White Families trying to make enough to keep food on the table. No blacks in this area and no Hispanics here at that time.
I wonder why they did not demand their WHITE PRIVILEGE and get easier work, but there was none. It was work or starve, before welfare.
We didn’t have “official records” for the Southwest in 1870. Arizona wasn’t even a state.
I am reading about the Coronado Expedition to Gran Quivara in 1541.
They brought along lots of Indian laborers from southern Mexico. In the AZ and NM winter many suffered as they were not used to cold weather experienced there. The local Indians had no problems.
I still remember the story of the old prospector who died in Tuscon and went to Hell.
After a few weeks, he begged the devil to allow him to return to Tuscon to get his blankets as Hell was too cold for him after living in Tuscon.
I’ll stick with Bourke’s book on temps.
Old West books are well known to be filled with BS. They gotta make themselves look more awesome. How many injuns attacked, how many people they killed, the size of that mountain lion, and the temps. You go ahead and stick with a lie. Meanwhile the highest recorded temp is 117 set June 26th 1990.
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