Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave

Dirak writes "The temperatures of the summer of 2003 were almost undoubtedly the highest in Europe for over 500 years. New research shows how human influence, mainly fossil fuel burning, can be blamed for increasing the risk of such a heatwave and by the middle of this century every other summer could be even hotter than 2003."

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Is my tan complaining...?

[Jugalator]

No.

Since dark basements give no tan that can complain.
Hey, I'm a geek, what did you think I'd write. :-)

Re:Worst for 500 Years

[nx]

I agree with parts of what the parent said, and this post is only in part intended as a reply to that post. I do, however, think that it is important to point out that global warming does affect some people greatly, and those people are not European. I don't think that the "people do die" argument is valid here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2204756.st m
http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20030729/449_7030.asp
http://greennature.com/article1608.html
http://www.climatehotmap.org/africa.html