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India Records Its Hottest Day Ever As Temperature Hits 51C (123.8F) (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A city in northern India has shattered the national heat record, registering a searing 51C -- the highest since records began -- amid a nationwide heatwave. The new record was set in Phalodi, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, and is the equivalent of 123.8F. It tops a previous record of 50.6C set in 1956."Yesterday (Thursday) was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the country... 51C in Phalodi," said BP Yadav, a director of India's meteorological department, on Friday.
There is no denying it the science is settled
If we kill 3/4 of the humans, problem solved.
Like a cow on fire.
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nuclear winter will do that + cool us down for some time.
Despite the obvious evidence that this record high is due to man made global warming, the deniers will be out in force. It's a shame that there are so many people here who reject science.
If this trend continues, and it looks like it will, we will see "environmental refugees" increase. It will become more difficult to support life in certain parts of this planet, places that have had human civilization for quite a long time.
Sure, technology could alleviate many of the problems of living in a place with extreme heat, but that requires money and political will.
We have already seen the warnings about areas of the Middle East becoming uninhabitable later this century.
Where will these people go?
Who will support them?
How will governments deal with the crisis?
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
You know it's a bad sign when the weather report for the day is "sous-vide".
Actually...as reported in the link....the temperature is 120oF. 51C is only 2 digits of significance.....If its 51.0, then your get 124oF. Same thing with body temperature....it was only ever recorded as 37oC, so average body temp is 99oF, not 98.6. This is Slashdot after all.
Um, "shattered"? Really? By my calculations, the old record was 123.08 degrees Fahrenheit. The new record , as the OP stated, is 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit. I know this type of record often deals with miniscule differences in measurement, but "shattered" still seems a bit much.
The rising sea levels will soon put a soothing cool around their ankles, nothing to worry about.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
51C ?? In India ?????
Omg ! Try to imagine the smell !@
Barf.
I'm waiting for temperatures in some places in Texas and Arizona to reach 150 deg F and some climate change deniers change their tune.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
It's just weather.
Now the PHB's won't have to even bother with H1B paperwork...the new hires can just claim climate-change refugee status.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
They are known to run very hot and I'm sure 1,276,267,000 of them are having an effect on the climate. /In fact I once knocked a bottle of water near my computer and it evaporated before it reached the electronics. //I also used my athlon with a desk fan pointed towards wet clothes to quickly dry them in the summer.
Most of America had one of the coldest winters on record for the winter of 2013-14. A whole season. Low temperature records were dropping left-and-right all across the continent. Temps in Wisconsin went below -30 more than 30 days. Lake Superior nearly froze completely over in early 2014, and again in early 2015. That's never happened in two consecutive years on record. It happened four times in the first fifteen years of the current century. It only happened four times in the last forty years of the last century. Bring any of that up, and the standard reply is, "Well, you know, you can't use a single season -- or even several years -- as any sort of indicator of the climate." Yes... YOU can't. But THEY can use a single day in a single city to make their point.
OS I do, because 40,000 WORKSTATIONS
Heck, we hit 132F in the Phoenix area back sometime around 1985 or so (not the officially recorded temp but measured at my house). I'm honestly kinda surprised India hasn't hit higher than 51C before now in all honesty.
TFA does not say when records began. Recorded weather history in all cases is relatively short, and such should not be used as an indicator of any kind of trend.
"Highest in recorded history" is a nice, sensational headline, but is misleading at best and sociologically reckless at worst.
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if they all die.
its got nothing on Death Valley, CA
So what? I live in VA and the high's in the summer are around 120 with a "feels like" temp of around 130+. Maybe this year I'll actually record the high temps. since everywhere seems to have different temp. readings. Maybe they average out the entire day or something?
As the Earth's orbit approaches another summer solstice expect the environmental wackos to come out of the woodwork with their anecdotes.
Will remember that next winter when people are talking about global warming.
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Would've figured it was higher due to being closer to the equator. The high for a U.S. city (i.e. not Death Valley) is 128 F (53 C). Several cities matched or exceeded 121 F during that heat wave. Yeah, India tends to have more humidity than Arizona, but a quick check of the weather in Phalodi says today's humidity is 11%, indicating it's also a desert-like environment.
Google tells me that the highest recorded temperature on Earth is 58C, recorded in the Libyan desert in 1922, but that was later disqualified, leaving the record at 56.7 (134F) in Death Vally in 1913.
The problem is climate change. Both extreme cold and extreme heat are consistent with this change.
And all of this "record-breaking" is still under 1 degree Celsius — or well within the margin of error of most thermometers (especially those of the 19th century). Phlease...
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I guess I'm a Climate Change "Denier". But what I'm denying is that taxes and more government is going to solve anything. Which is ultimately what any "solution" is all about.
If you don't believe that taxes and government intervention are going to solve climate problems, that's not "denier." You are a denier if you believe that taxes and government intervention are bad, and therefore you attack the climate science (not the politics, the science) because it's a soft target.
The science is correct, or incorrect, regardless of your views on the desirability of particular solutions.
What I have seen, however, is that people who advocate a libertarian philosophy tend to attack the science because if the science actually were correct, they don't have any solutions to offer. Since they don't have any solutions, they deny the problem.
How exactally does this relate to news for nerdz???
While I have no issues with other cultures, etc.. I think and feel this shoudl be in Nature, the Indian Times, or maybe in the Guiness book of werld rekordz..
NOT here..
i know its a slow news day, but please, look aat tomshardware or anandtech or hackaday..
this loolks rightofrf CNN..
the trend is sure to continue because we're coming out of an ice age.
Nope. The ice age ended ten thousand years ago, and the hottest years of the post-ice-age holocene was eight thousand years ago. So, no, we're not warming due to coming out a glaciation, because that warming already finished eight thousand years ago.
the stability of the global climate in the last 200 years or so is an exception, not the rule.
Nope. The current warming is exceptional: warmer than it's been over the last 2000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What's more important, though, is that the cause is well understood. We know why the climate is warming, because we have very good measurements of other possible causes, such as solar variation, and they aren't large enough to create the temperatures we see. So, the worry isn't about the small amount of warming we've already seen-- the worry is that we are still emitting carbon dioxide, and the physics of carbon dioxide hasn't changed.
Actually the Syria situation was initiated by an unprecedented multi-year drought. This depopulated hundreds of rural villages, which destabilized the regime. The Assads have been ruthlessly crushing Islamist uprisings for generations, but this time the cities were flooded with hungry, angry, unemployed young men. The spark for ISIS was always there, but climate refugees gave it the fuel it needed to become unquenchable.
No.
The protests in Syria, the rebellion, the rise of ISIS and everything else facing the Syrian people had NOTHING to do with 'climate'.
Let's start off with the reason for people to be angry and desperate, and that is squarely the brutal repression of the Assad family dictatorship.
Next up, what went wrong with the standard operating procedure of the Assad family of simply killing everyone involved with and related to the protests? For starters, Assad initially met the peaceful protesters with half-measures and merely used snipers to kill off some of the protesters. It would seem he estimated that would drive them off and be the end of it. He miscalculated.
Now, normally that was a mistake he could've corrected by coming in late and still killing all the protesters and their friends and relatives. The trouble for him was that Saddam no longer ruled Iraq and the Iraq/Syria border was now freely navigable instead of a quick trip from one concentration camp to another. Additionally, let's not forget the enormous wealth of resources Saudi Arabia was spending on beefing up the insurgency in Syria because they don't much like Iran's allies. With Saudi funded insurgents pouring in from the Iraq border Assad missed his window to just kill everyone and lost control of things.
Granted, the weather was a bit dry too. I think it is on the side of malicious though to twist every tragedy to boost your own personal agenda. So if you don't mind, stop it.
Stop using thousands of dead Syrians as props to promote the climate alarmism you desire.
Stop abdicating the collective guilt of the monsters in Assad's regime and the ISIS insurgents.
Please just stop.
If it's colder than usual, it's "weather". If it's warmer than usual, it's "climate change" an we MUST DO SOMETHING!!!
Peace is easy to achieve, just surrender. Liberty is much harder get/keep.
I call upon the Pakistanis with wonderful sense of patriotism to rise to the occasion and beat the record set by India. I am sure Pakistan will post 52 degree record soon.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
In Hyderabad Yesterday Temperature Is Around 50c .
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Heatwaves, caused by the solar output are predictable to an extent and happen regardless of human input. Can the people who refer to me as a climate change denialist, stop telling me that they can prevent the climate from changing? By all means, slow down the 'change' so we have an even larger population when the shit hits the fan. Honestly, until these consensual scientists start doing real science in regards to the actual heat driver around here instead of voting, then maybe actual problems of resource distribution can be solved.
Unfortunately the record is invalid because at teh time everyone there was pretending to be from Birmingham.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
FYI. It's been calculated that at our current rate of growth, the oceans will all evaporate in less than 500 years. Obviously something has to give eventually.
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not as hot as Hell.
So it might be inaccurate. What's wrong with the theory, though? Remember, if you can't identify what part of the theory is wrong, then you're spending an awful lot of time arguing against something you agree with.
Does CO2 not absorb IR? Does it not accumulate in the atmosphere? Have you discovered another way for the planet to lose heat? How about massive undetected orbital changes?
AGW is a scientific theory because we haven't been able to falsify it yet. We need only a single contradictory fact. We've been studying the issue intently for the last half century, and the central idea is more than a century old. There were a couple times when it was thought to be conclusively disproven, actually, but the competing theories were contradicted by other evidence. There are a number of possible facts which would disprove AGW. I'm not even going to ask you to substantiate your alternate theory, just suggest what else you think is going on. Why isn't Earth warming?
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