Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part X 13

[dik]

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[dik]

Florida, Texas, and California may be some of the most vulnerable...

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[TugboatEng]

Florida, Texas, and Arizona... Retirees are not moving to California.

 

[dik]

Thanks, Tug... didn't know that...

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[GregLocock]

Let's nip the hurricane season scare mongering in the bud

Peak of the Atlantic hurricane season occurs between mid-August and mid-October. Christopher Landsea is Chief of the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch at the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center. In May 2022 he informed us there is no upward trend in hurricanes and calmly states “we cannot yet say with confidence whether there is any detectable human influence on past Atlantic hurricane activity, and this is particularly the case for any greenhouse gas-induced changes.”

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[enginesrus]

dik
Please explain how the pace of your climate crisis has gone into overdrive starting in 2021?
Even Inslee is talking about it happening sooner.
2 things come to mind, massive solar activity and planet alignments(gravitational forces), and geoengineering combined.
The astronomical information was known for what 100's of years ago. In other words these times well planed for.

 

[dik]

I don't...

If you take a look at the bar charts above... the heating up starts about year 2000 (actually about 1980), and picks up from there... Almost none of the temperatures are below the last 30 year average. (30 years is a good number and likely representative of the weather most people are familiar with.) It's just picking up of late and we'll have to see where that takes us. The extreme right of the bar chart appears to be pretty red... and increasing in height. These are really 'bad' signs. It will be interesting to see what the next few years will post... how much 'redder and how much higher...

If you take a gander at the Global effect... it gets even more interesting... more intense and more uniform in increase.

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[dik]

No one seems to ask, "Can it get any worse?" Maybe people don't want to know?

"Global warming from burning fossil fuels also made the heatwave affecting parts of China 50 times more likely.

Climate change meant the heatwave in southern Europe was 2.5C hotter, the study finds.

Almost all societies remain unprepared for deadly extreme heat, experts warn.

The study's authors say its findings highlight the importance of the world adapting to higher temperatures because they are no longer "rare".

"Heat is among the deadliest types of disaster," says Julie Arrighi from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and also one of the authors.

Countries must build heat-resistant homes, create "cool centres" for people to find shelter, and find ways to cool cities including planting more trees, she says.

In July, temperature records were broken in parts of China, the southern US and Spain. Millions of people spent days under red alerts for extreme heat.

Experts say extreme heat can be a very serious threat to life, especially among the elderly. According to one study, more than 61,000 people were estimated to have died from heat-related causes during last year's heatwaves in Europe."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66289489

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[SnTMan]

No one seems to ask, "Can it get any worse?"

Really. That is all anybody says.

You are quoting little else.

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand

 

[GregLocock]

""Heat is among the deadliest types of disaster," says Julie Arrighi from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre"
Cold being the deadlier one.

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[TugboatEng]

Experts say extreme heat can be a very serious threat to life, especially among the elderly.

I knew this was coming. Didn't you see my comment about the popularity of hotter climates with the elderly?

 

[SnTMan]

As long as they can afford to run their air conditioners they'll be fine.

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand

 

[dik]

Sure did... wait until it heats up... and watch them 'drop like flies'...

SNT... "The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand" We'll see how that works out...

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[TugboatEng]

recent studies have shown that extreme heat could cost the United States $100 billion annually from the productivity loss alone. If left unchecked, it could sap away one-sixth of global economic activity by the year 2100.

Do you research your data at all? The CDC says winter slips and falls account for $50 billion in medical costs alone in USA... That does not include lost productivity.

https://www.sfmic.com/safety/avoid-winter-slips-and-falls/

 

[GregLocock]

More people die of cold in India than from heat.

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[TugboatEng]

I guess medical costs earn money when a slow work day loses it so medical costs are preferable.

 

[dik]

SNT...

My error.. the question should be, "How much worse is it going to get?"

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[dik]

With climate change, that trend may not continue...

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[TugboatEng]

What about my question?

 

[dik]

About moving to hot spots? Addled? The hot spots may get a lot hotter, and put them at risk they didn't have before.

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[dik]

Things running AMOC...

"A vital system of ocean currents could collapse within a few decades if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, scientists are warning – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.”

A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream is a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.

Scientists uninvolved with this study told CNN the exact tipping point for the critical system is uncertain, and that measurements of the currents have so far showed little trend or change. But they agreed these results are alarming and provide new evidence that the tipping point could occur sooner than previously thought.

The AMOC is a complex tangle of currents that works like a giant global conveyor belt. It transports warm water from the tropics toward the North Atlantic, where the water cools, becomes saltier and sinks deep into the ocean, before spreading southwards.

Visitors wear sun hats and carry umbrellas as they leave the Forbidden City on a hot day in Beijing, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The entire planet sweltered for the two unofficial hottest days in human recordkeeping Monday and Tuesday, according to University of Maine scientists at the Climate Reanalyzer project. The unofficial heat records come after months of unusually hot conditions due to climate change and a strong El Nino event. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Global heat in 'uncharted territory' as scientists warn 2023 could be the hottest year on record
It plays a crucial role in the climate system, helping regulate global weather patterns. Its collapse would have enormous implications, including much more extreme winters and sea level rises affecting parts of Europe and the US, and a shifting of the monsoon in the tropics."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/worl...-current-collapse-climate-scn-intl/index.html

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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