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This year’s summer of climate extremes hits wealthier places
The Associated Press ^ | August 4, 2021 | By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS

Posted on 08/04/2021 6:06:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021′s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past.

Wealthy countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany and Belgium are joining poorer and more vulnerable nations on a growing list of extreme weather events that scientists say have some connection to human-caused climate change.

Killer floods hit China, but hundreds of people also drowned in parts of Germany and Belgium not used to being inundated. Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. had what climate scientist Zeke Hausfarter called “scary” heat that soared well past triple digits in Fahrenheit and into the high 40s in Celsius, shattering records and accompanied by unusual wildfires. Now southern Europe is seeing unprecedented heat and fire.

Though it is too early to say the summer of 2021 will again break records for climate disasters, “We’re certainly starting to see climate change push extreme events into new territories where they haven’t been seen before,” Hausfarter said.

Climate scientists say there is little doubt climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas is driving extreme events.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 08/04/2021 6:06:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From the Associated Depressed


2 posted on 08/04/2021 6:08:24 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Milder than normal here in AZ


3 posted on 08/04/2021 6:09:08 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
AP = Always Propaganda
4 posted on 08/04/2021 6:10:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This has been the nicest summer energy in Virginia. So mild and nice. I love it.


5 posted on 08/04/2021 6:12:54 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This year’s summer of “SUMMER WEATHER” hits wealthier places. 🌞💧🍃. Trust me when I tell summers in Tampa wasn’t cooled much by opening the jalosie (space) more in the early ‘50s. ZERO AC. Quit whining.


6 posted on 08/04/2021 6:13:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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(sp), NOT(space).


7 posted on 08/04/2021 6:14:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He would blush to write crap like this:

“As the world staggers through another summer “


8 posted on 08/04/2021 6:14:40 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Up here in the northeast, I’ve worn my coat to work everyday for the last week. We’ve had rain and minor flooding but our drought has been fixed. It’s going to be a cold, snowy winter according to the plants and the bugs.


9 posted on 08/04/2021 6:18:32 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past.”

If the warming is global, how can any place be spared? This is another idiotic piece of inept propaganda.


10 posted on 08/04/2021 6:28:50 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Anybody got a good Farmer’s Almanac?


11 posted on 08/04/2021 7:12:31 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine )
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We have had the absolutely coolest summer and the most lovely rain in Arizona this summer than I’ve ever seen. It has been glorious. Even this week, the middle of summer, the heat will be 8 to 10 degrees cooler than normal. It is blessed glorious!


12 posted on 08/04/2021 7:27:51 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s called weather and it always fluctuates from year to year. Some of us old codgers remember record cold and snowy winters and hotter than normal summers as well as warmer winters and cooler summers. These weather fluctuations are normal and not climatic change.


13 posted on 08/04/2021 7:53:31 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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“places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past.”

HaHaHaHaHaHa that is some funny sh*t right there.


14 posted on 08/04/2021 7:58:29 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather

You mean the same extreme weather we've experienced for 2 thousand years?

15 posted on 08/04/2021 8:02:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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You mean places like where dim politicians have their second or third mansions?


16 posted on 08/04/2021 8:05:30 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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Best summer ever in Texas! We have yet to make it to 100 and it rains about once a week.


17 posted on 08/04/2021 8:18:18 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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I think it may have been Joe Bastardi who reported that the “surprise” floods in Germany had been forecast by German meteorologists TWO WEEKS before the rain that caused them fell from the sky.


18 posted on 08/04/2021 8:18:56 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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“Wealthy white majorities hardest hit.”


19 posted on 08/04/2021 9:01:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

END GLOBAL SUMMER NOW


20 posted on 08/04/2021 9:02:16 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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