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Study: Temperatures go off the charts around 2047
SFGate.com ^
| 10/9/13
| Seth Borenstein - AP
Posted on 10/09/2013 1:54:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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.
And eventually the whole world in 2047.
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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2047; charts; study; temperatures
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To: NormsRevenge
O.M.G. the earth is flat and if you get to close to the edge over you go. No! No! it's the little green men again that are up to no good. This is the reason you don't start your day with a fatty (1/4 lb.er) You will see stranger things and believe all kinds of B.S.
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:47:37 PM PDT
by
lostboy61
(Only a little side trip,not the whole show)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:54:36 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: NormsRevenge
Whatever. Only thing going off the charts is bullcrap!
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:02:40 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: Southack
"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.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:07:28 PM PDT
by
familyop
To: Hugin
Isn't this the same bunch that predicted in the 80’s that the oceans would be dead by the year 2000?
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:45:36 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: a fool in paradise
This morning it was 65 degrees, but by 2pm the temperatures had risen to 85 degrees. If this warming trend continues, itll be 100 degrees by midnight. As the temperatures continue to warm, itll be 10002324023 degrees by Oct 10, 2047! Your application is in the mail.
Climology, the new religion.
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posted on
10/09/2013 7:57:31 PM PDT
by
daniel1212
(Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
To: daniel1212
Today it was 75 degrees and last December it was 60 degrees so that’s must be global warming.
To: NormsRevenge
I will pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.
And tomorrow never arrives, it's always tomorrow.
Was it 20 years ago or 30 years, that Ted Danson gave the Earth 10 years before destruction.
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posted on
10/10/2013 4:03:16 AM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
To: Jabba the Nutt
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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