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118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com)
"It's so hot, even parts of the Arctic are on fire," reports Vox, citing wildfires in Sweden, while Greece "has declared a state of emergency as raging forest fires have killed at least 81 people and injured more than 190."
But heat-related disasters are happening around the world. In Japan 86 people have been killed by heatstroke, while another 23,000 people have been hospitalized -- about half of them over the age of 65 -- in a heat wave forecast to continue for another two weeks. "Japan hit 106 degrees on Monday, its hottest temperature ever," reports the Associated Press, adding that "So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat records have been set or tied across the globe." An anonymous reader quotes their report. "We now have very strong evidence that global warming has already put a thumb on the scales, upping the odds of extremes like severe heat and heavy rainfall," Stanford University climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said. "We find that global warming has increased the odds of record-setting hot events over more than 80 percent of the planet, and has increased the odds of record-setting wet events at around half of the planet..."
"The world is becoming warmer and so heat waves like this are becoming more common," said Friederike Otto, deputy director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
"Death Valley, California, has set three consecutive daily record-high temperatures of 127 degrees," reports the Washington Post, adding that "Sometimes, like right now in the Western U.S., it's too hot for airplanes to fly" because of heat-related changes in air density at high-altitude airports. In Europe, nuclear power plants in Finland, Sweden, and German were forced to cut electricity production because high temperatures heated the seawater needed to cool reactors.
In northern California 38,000 people fled their homes as an 80,900-acre wildfire spread through the Shasta-Trinity area. Reuters reports the wildfire was caused "by hot, dry weather and high winds" -- and that it's one of 89 large wildfires currently burning in 14 U.S. states.
But heat-related disasters are happening around the world. In Japan 86 people have been killed by heatstroke, while another 23,000 people have been hospitalized -- about half of them over the age of 65 -- in a heat wave forecast to continue for another two weeks. "Japan hit 106 degrees on Monday, its hottest temperature ever," reports the Associated Press, adding that "So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat records have been set or tied across the globe." An anonymous reader quotes their report. "We now have very strong evidence that global warming has already put a thumb on the scales, upping the odds of extremes like severe heat and heavy rainfall," Stanford University climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said. "We find that global warming has increased the odds of record-setting hot events over more than 80 percent of the planet, and has increased the odds of record-setting wet events at around half of the planet..."
"The world is becoming warmer and so heat waves like this are becoming more common," said Friederike Otto, deputy director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
"Death Valley, California, has set three consecutive daily record-high temperatures of 127 degrees," reports the Washington Post, adding that "Sometimes, like right now in the Western U.S., it's too hot for airplanes to fly" because of heat-related changes in air density at high-altitude airports. In Europe, nuclear power plants in Finland, Sweden, and German were forced to cut electricity production because high temperatures heated the seawater needed to cool reactors.
In northern California 38,000 people fled their homes as an 80,900-acre wildfire spread through the Shasta-Trinity area. Reuters reports the wildfire was caused "by hot, dry weather and high winds" -- and that it's one of 89 large wildfires currently burning in 14 U.S. states.
'"Japan hit 106 degrees on Monday, its hottest temperature ever," reports the Associated Press' I can think of two days in August 1945 that temperatures were significantly higher.
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Where we have the largest fire in Sweden three fires started at ~the same time.
In Arboga they think 15 fires was started by someone within two days.
In Åhus a bunch of fires seem to be started by someone in a short time too.
Here in the closest forest where I live in Örebro there's two black patches along the walking path likely because someone started a fire.
And so on.
It's claimed 30-40% of the difference is because of the weather which leave 60-70% to human behavior but this year a lot is burning.
But we also got a lot of rapes and assaults and shootings the previous years and car fires and such and for instance with group rapes 90+% of those people have immigrant background.
So.. the issue isn't so much climate change as it's the invasion by non-Swedes too here and politicians prioritizing the genocide of the Swedish people and the Muslim and African invasion rather than things like military, fire service, police, health-care, elder card and so on.
Yeah, dry things burn better but in almost all the cases it's humans which start the fire one way or the other and right now a lot of people are starting fires voluntarily in Sweden.
It's more of an immigration problem than a climate problem. Of course the few immigrants will make a larger environmental footprint too as their economical status get upgraded and they get to live here instead rather than where they are from.
Sorry, but the hoax is NOT "Global Warming" it is the agenda behind it.
According to you, we should have melted Ice Caps and lots of land under water. Additionally, back in the 70's it was Global Cooling too. Do you know how many times eggs have been added and removed to the do not eat/do eat list? It's Science... we keep updating out understandings of things, but with people like you, it is treated like it is some "Holy Crusade".
By the way... how it it working out for you by calling everyone "fucking stupid" if they don't eat the same garbage you do about this? You can even look at several polls that show very few people are really that concerned about "global warming".
Correlation does not equal Causation, and people are actually allowed to draw a different conclusion than you when looking at the same data.
I don't disbelieve in Climate Change, I don't specifically disbelieve in the "anthroprogenic" parts either. What I do not believe is trusting you or the rest of the agenda setting sciences "how much" we are to blame because not a single fucking prediction you have had has come true yet. When you prediction models stop being all over the place, I will begin to trust that "THAT PERSON" might finally know what is going on and listen to them! Certainly NOT someone like YOU!
Which is what? My graduate level physics of the weather professor has proven temperatures are dropping so I don't trust journalists that don't have training in math or meteorology. With dropping temperatures, we all should be afraid of another little ice age.
I'll bookmark your post for this winter when new lows are set.
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It's nowhere near critical yet. Because we still use AGW as an excuse to implement wealth transfer. When it starts to become critical, we'll start building nuclear plants without all the wackos' stalling tactics. Such acts will be considered treasonous and will be be dealt with accordingly.
Have gnu, will travel.
Why would anyone talking about an important topic like global climate change use an ancient temperature scale that is only used by a minority of retarded people?
Sorry, but this is not the stock market where you can make the disclaimer of "past performance is no guarantee of future results". More than enough of those predictions have failed quite spectacularly to make all of the other yet to be reach future predictions highly suspect.
In Science we need past performance to be accurate to be "reasonably certain" of those future predictions... why? Because if we are correct about the "known's" then we are also going to be correct or at least pretty close about the "predictions". And since the predictions that have past, have not only be wrong, but VERY wrong... I am willing to stake the future of the planet on them STILL being wrong as long as those solutions are tied to shady political wealth redistribution plans. It will only make the rich, richer in ways we probably cannot even understand yet.
When they do make correct predictions about the major points THEN you can get me to pay more attention to THAT person and what they have to say about this. Until then, I am going to think that these doomsday predictions will be every bit as accurate as 100% of all the past doomsday predictions that have been made.
You want to be alarmist, go ahead, but be warned that you will only damage your position when you become wrong and the next "sky is falling" claim after that will only be that much harder to be believed. As a proponent of climate change you will make more believers if you can get the Al Gore's to also stop hypocritically riding around in Jets, living in super huge mansions, and generally being everything their base claims to hate about the rich. Yes, I have heard some of them even create low foot print mansions and I applaud that, but I also do not see them running around trying to make renewable energy easily available on the market through legislation or subsidy... why? Because the power providing utility companies make too many donations to their campaigns. We have more than enough tech out there to start putting solar on top of "existing" buildings and roofs to make a very big impact on our energy consumption and to create a fairly distributed energy network so a disaster cannot easily take out millions of people energy in one go like Irma did in the Caribbean. Where is the drive for that? Where is the political motivation for it? About as empty as the heads making these insane predictions... that is where!
Heck, I am all for chasing renewable energy, just in case you guys are right... but I am not okay with forcing legislative action to tell people that carbon, a basic and essential component of life is now a toxin... it is not and never will be. We are carbon based life forms after all.
That fact that it's getting warmer doesn't mean people are causing it.
When you stand on the beach, do you believe YOU are causing the tide to come in?
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