Posted on 06/23/2016 2:25:56 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Thousands of heat deaths predicted as New York City heats up, scientists say By Sebastien Malo
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 3,000 New Yorkers could die each year from intense heat due to climate change beginning about 60 years from now, researchers said on Thursday.
The number of hot days is expected to triple by the year 2080 and beyond, causing death by heat exhaustion, dehydration or heart and respiratory conditions, said the main author of a study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
With so many hot days, when the temperature is at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius), an estimated 3,331 people in New York City could die each year, the study found.
Elisaveta Petkova, the lead author, made a comparison to a heat wave in Europe in 2003 that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.
"If New York happens to experience something like this, which is more likely due to climate change, (with) more extreme heat events, the consequences can be devastating," she said.
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—by golly, with precision such as that , why don’t they tell us how many are going to die next year—??
This is series. They definitely should stop using fossil fuels in NYC....no natural gas, no oil, no gasoline, no coal-generated electricity. Solar and wind for power and bicycles for transportation. Show us how, Yankees.
Above 90 degrees and New Yorkers die? Pussies.
Go North young man! To Canada!
>>beginning about 60 years from now
I’ll be 114 then, so I probably don’t GAF right now....or then.
60 years from now! LOL! They can’t predict the weather with a 50% accuracy from one day to the next, yet they want us to believe they can predict 60 years into the future. Again, LOL!
there. fixed it.
Really. I thought we were back on the freeze out plan again. d;^)
Oh, I definitely believe this. We are talking about 2076, so we will have the Atlantic 2 feet higher, that will black-out much of NYC and without A/C it will return to ‘normal’ like it was in the early 1900s. Without being too crass, if gramma was hot before she passed, you can bet they add her to the stats.
This is betting on something you won’t live to see but you want ‘research funds’ NOW!
So if you want to live SEND US MONEY
Satisfaction guaranteed, or double your money... no just kidding.
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of azzhat liberals in a nicer cesspool.
It’s a start...
NYC has ALWAYS been very hot, in the summer; yet few people died from the heat, in times gone by.
is that bad?
does New York matter any more?
Well, they have 60 years to move away. It’s nice to have a little bit of notice like that.
I thought NYC was supposed to be under water about 6 months ago... according to Al Gore, the Global Warming guru.
one of the main characteristics of conspiracy theories is, they get gas about 50 years after the event. Witnesses are dead, memories are weak. The above claim is a reversal of a conspiracy theory, supposing something will happen 2 generations from now. Witnesses aren't even born yet and most readers alive now will be dead or close to it 60 years from now. But I guess some people will believe it.
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