Death Valley 127 Degrees, Phoenix 118 Degrees, Temps In 110's, Alaska In The 90's.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Nothing unusual here. Global warming is a hoax cooked up by scientists. When will denial stop? When it is over 135?

[bike man]

1. Ah, summer. nt

[malaise]

2. Just wait for peak hurricane season

The size of these storms alone should wake up people.

[kentauros]

19. And more derechoes in the Central and Eastern states.

And with that, more tornadoes.

I'm not looking forward to this hurricane season. I think I'll make a note to myself to see about making one of those emergency kits. I've never done it in the past other than freeze dozens of water bottles in the lead up to one.

[Kolesar]

3. post count eom

[n2doc]

4. Denial will stop when rich people start dying from climate change n/t

[stevenleser]

13. Not sure that will even do it. Repugs dont care about dead rich people, only live ones that can give

them money.

[malaise]

21. Not death - a contagious disease following a big storm - that would scare the shit of them

Losing their beach front properties and their fancy yachts would be way more painful to them than death.

[B Calm]

5. I made the mistake one year

when my dad was still alive, I flew to Tucson to see him in August. I don't know why anybody would want to live in the desert. Whewww was it ever hot out there!!

[hobbit709]

7. Try Austin in Aug. Same temps, 10 times the humidity.

[Javaman]

10. Mmmm, can't wait.

lol not really.

did you see the temp at Camp Mabry on Tuesday? 105.

ick.

It's going to be a long hot summer and not a drop of rain. As the song goes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. did not know Austin was that humid.

I remember spending a few days in Houston in the summer, it was much more humid than where I live in SW Ala.

[Rstrstx]

34. LOL, no it doesn't get up to 127 in Austin

Feels like it sometimes though, and I have seen readings of 117 on the car thermometer after it's been parked on unshaded asphalt

[Doctor_J]

6. Thunderstorms in MI every day, with 90 degree temps

Climate change is just a figment of Al Gore's imagination!

[subterranean]

8. Those temperatures are not unprecedented in those regions.

One heat wave is not evidence of global warming any more than a cold snap is evidence against it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. What does this say to you?

[malaise]

22. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Those who won't hear will feel.

[subterranean]

25. I wasn't denying global warming.

Nine of the 10 hottest years on record, globally, have occurred in the last 11 years. It's pretty clear that the world is getting warmer. What I meant was that single, regionally isolated weather events can't be used to prove or disprove global climate change. It's the accumulation of events and climate trends, as shown in the graph you posted, that provide the strongest evidence, not a heat wave in June.

[kestrel91316]

29. This isn't a "single event" - it is part of a major trend, for anyone who has been

paying the slightest attention over the past few decades........

[backscatter712]

23. But it's not just one heat wave.

These heat waves are more intense, and more frequent. As dixiegrrrrl pointed out, almost all of the past ten years have had record-breaking high and average temperatures.

Also, one effect of climate change is weather-weirding or weather-whiplash, which means more extreme weather events such as heat waves, storms, even blizzards. More heat energy in the atmosphere means that more of that heat energy will be turned into kinetic energy, aka wind, thus the weather gets more violent and unpredictable.

[Rstrstx]

24. You are right

Examples like the chart here are valid arguments for climate change, one day of 118 in Phoenix isn't. People confuse weather with climate all the time and it should be avoided, the right uses this argument every time the temperature drops a little somewhere or a flake of snow falls in, say, Arizona. This spring, for example, was cooler than normal in the eastern US due to a stubborn Greenland blocking pattern that set up but that doesn't discredit the theory of AGW

[kestrel91316]

30. Weather + time = climate. Contrary to what the RW wants us to believe.

They are very closely and inextricably linked.

[kentuck]

9. At what temperature would it be uninhabitable?

and unable for humans to breathe? I would think we are getting very close?

[backscatter712]

14. A relevant article:

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100504HuberLimits.html

The article talks about "wet-bulb" temperature - the temperature read from a thermometer covered with wet cotton - when that temperature exceeds 95 degrees, people start dropping like flies.

So the answer is about 95 degrees, but also with extremely high humidity. In other words, when it's not only hot, but so humid that when you sweat, it doesn't evaporate, you can't cool down, so you keel over.

And yes, if global climate change gets really bad, there will be large areas around the globe that will start experiencing this lethal combination of temperature and humidity, which will render them uninhabitable.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Plus....over very hot daytime temps mean night time temps too hot

and people cannot cool down at night, esp. in cities which have asphalt/concrete heat sinks.
That really adds to the death rate.

[leftynyc]

18. Well, I was once in Jericho

which I was told was the oldest inhabited city in the world - it was also the hottest place I had ever been (around 120F) and I went to Arizona State.

[kestrel91316]

31. Well I know when it gets over 115F and stays there for more than a day or two, my AC can't

keep up anymore, and if we had a power failure at that point my cats and I would die.

[Javaman]

11. I was once in Death Valley when it was 127 degrees...

but that was in late August.

nope, no climate change here. move along citizen.

[JCMach1]

12. Lived in the UAE for 9 years... quit whining, Death Valley is a dry heat

try that with 50-90% humidity...

[backscatter712]

20. See the article I posted above.

It was talking about wet-bulb temperatures - the equivalent temperature felt by a person soaked in liquid standing in a stiff breeze, or a thermometer wrapped in wet cotton.

There have been times in Saudi Arabia, right next door in the UAE, when the wet-bulb temperatures have topped 95 degrees - super-hot and super-humid winds blowing hot moisture in from the Persian Gulf.

Absolutely miserable, and potentially lethal.

[JCMach1]

37. I am talking 110+ with that humidity...

Insanely hot...

[virgogal]

26. And only 64 in the Boston area----and we had a very cool spring.

[AndyA]

27. No, no, no, no, no--you've got it all wrong!

It's not global warming--it's Obama's weather machine in the Oval Office. It's in his desk drawer. With it, he controls the weather all around the globe!!11! I'm serios!!1! Glenn Beck knows all about it...

[AFJROTCcadetEcho]

28. Al Gore

AL Gore was right!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

32. Pahrump, Nevada: 106 today, 110 tomorrow, 111 Saturday, will peak @ 113 on Monday.

So glad I moved here.

[Le Taz Hot]

33. We're looking at

102, 108, 109, 109, 109 and 108 for the next 6 days. And I have to work in that. Well, at least until Saturday where it will be 73 degrees. I'll be working Sunday in the 108 degree-heat. Arggghhh!!!1

[davidpdx]

35. Here in Korea the weather has been more extreme on both ends

Much colder in the winter and much warmer (and drier) during the summer. Monsoon season usually start about now and we haven't had much rain. Last year you could barely tell it was Monsoon season. We had one good size storm that went straight up between China and Korea and hit close to Seoul last year, though it actually ironically went on shore in North Korea. The first year I was here in Seoul it rained so hard I thought I was going to have to buy a raft. That was only 7 years ago. Very scary....

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Anchorage just broke the record

for most days in June above 70 degrees.