Study: Temperatures go off the charts around 2047

WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica, will probably be off-the-charts hot — permanently. Other places will soon follow. Singapore in 2028. Mexico City in 2031. Cairo in 2036. Phoenix and Honolulu in 2043.

A new study on global warming pinpoints the probable dates for when cities and ecosystems around the world will regularly experience hotter environments the likes of which they have never seen before.

And for dozens of cities, mostly in the tropics, those dates are a generation or less away.

"This paper is both innovative and sobering," said Oregon State University professor Jane Lubchenco, former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who was not involved in the study.

To arrive at their projections, the researchers used weather observations, computer models and other data to calculate the point at which every year from then on will be warmer than the hottest year ever recorded over the last 150 years.

"Well, enjoy the cold, losers."

I'll agree with you on that. In my area on the Rockies, temps went low enough last winter, that propane in large tanks nearly stopped producing enough pressure to run small furnaces (lowest low about -39 F, strings of nights in the minus thirties). Some of the few residents are trying to flee for the south now and have "for sale" signs up. Sometimes within the next six years, we might be seeing temps well below -44 F (below temps that allow propane to produce pressure regardless of tank size).

Folks sometimes see the views here in summer and move into the locale. Then they get the winter surprise. It can be and has been a killer.

Winter before last, we had spraying ice that piled up deeply (feels like sand instead of snow) and prevented coming or going for most residents for several weeks. It piled up to about three feet deep again within a half hour after clearing on some roads (wind gusts to around 100 mph). Expecting another wet winter now with much ice spraying from the nearby peaks.

I'm designing modifications for a vehicle now (some steel plate fab to do) and regard it all as a set of interesting projects for an adventure. Will also be modifying home utilities for yet more extreme cold during the next few years at least.

Those who don't have experience in working with metals, electrical work, thermal tech. and other technologies with their own hands should focus on southern locations. Relief from the unusually extreme winters may not come for at least another 11 years or so, and services will continue to decline with the increasing debt problems in northern/mountain areas (foreclosures, a barrage of new regulations and property abandonments due to tax hikes continuing thick in the middle of nowhere on the Rockies). Ranching is also quickly shutting down because of new laws, rising taxes, legalistic feuds, increasingly brutally cold weather, wind, etc.

This morning it was 65 degrees, but by 2pm the temperatures had risen to 85 degrees. If this warming “trend” continues, it’ll be 100 degrees by midnight. As the temperatures continue to warm, it’ll be 10002324023 degrees by Oct 10, 2047!

Your application is in the mail.

Climology, the new religion.

cold cash for cold meat, tomorrow? got it. ;-]

Ted was one of the ‘save the oceans’ yacht club for awhile, panetta too.. not sure what he will crawl back into now that he has morphed into a Hagel.

some celebs are a lot less noticeable in the psas these days.

I guess they like getting a paycheck more than saving the mountain pika.

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