Hotter, Deadlier U.S. Summers Due To Climate Change

Climate change will have a "substantial" impact on human health in the coming decades, making wildfires and hurricanes more likely, cooking up more smog, and making summer heat waves longer, hotter and deadlier, according to a new report today from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The report details how rising temperatures could slowly but significantly shift the rhythms of nature that Americans are used to -- with disruptive, sometimes even deadly, consequences. In the West, it found, changing weather patterns could thin the snowpacks that feed rivers, with repercussions for both hydroelectric dams and water supplies.

And, in Washington and other Eastern cities, it found that a warmer climate will likely mean summers that start earlier, last longer and produce more periods of sustained heat.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[Woggles]

Millions will join the exodus to Flin Flon and Yellowknife. You heard it here first,

[MrStill]

Global warming talk always picks up around July.

[philipwitak]

it is clearly obvious that the skeptics/freaks are out in full force on this issue.

must be all the heat that's driving them batty.

[ohiomark]

The oceans are not in agreement with Al Gore and his apostles. They are cooling.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aU.evtnk6DPo&refer=worldwide

I know you DimLibs aren't calling it "global warming" anymore because that scam has already been debunked. You have moved on to "climate change". That way no matter what happens to the climate, Al Gore can cover his rather large backside and still sell his carbon credits to the dummies who will buy them.

The climate has been changing since the beginning of time and nothing we do will change that.

Get over yourselves Libs, you can't change or control the climate..........just adapt to it like every other species.

[MGhamma]

ohiomark, DID YOU ACTUALLY READ THE ARTICLE you linked to? Once again, your supposed proof that MMGW is a hoax proves just the opposite. You truly are an enigma.

[WASanford]

If the oceans really are cooling in the Earth's temperate zones, that is a very bad sign. It means the thermohaline circulation is slowing down.* That could have very serious consequences for those of us living north of the tropics. Those currents take the cold water from their north extremes and sweep them down past the equator and back up the west coasts of the United States and Europe warming the climate in those northern states. That"s why the climate is so much warmer in Oregon and Washington than it is in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and England is more temperate than Nova Scotia. The current is powered by the density of the ocean"s saline content. The water descends more rapidly as it cools because of its extra mass.

Cooler ocean waters are a sign of global warming. They reflect the melting glaciers releasing fresh water into the oceans. Overall the ocean waters are warmer in the temperate zones but with the faltering thermohaline circulation warming from the tropics is lessened.


*Go to http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/thc/ for more information on this topic.
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[KaAp]

Apparently you did not read the entire article which spoke about trends and averages and eventually global warming (which is actually a misnomer since the appropriate term is global climate change) will win out ... This is not a scam and has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican, liberal, or conservative on the contrary it has to do with reality, and science ... and the article you cite concurs with the universally accepted scientific position that global climate change is real ...
Yes species adapt but species cannot adapt to changes that completely disrupt their ecosystems ... and we can change the climate --- that is what THIS is all about!!!!!
I realize that it is a difficult situation to grasp and it seems at times incomprehensible ... and so it is much easier to act out and blame Al Gore or Democrats or liberals or whomever ... rather than blaming and reacting ... it would be much wiser to spend your time looking for information that has little to do with ideological position and more to do with science ... Of course I recognize that there are those who might think that gravity has to do with a liberal bias to bring you down ... or there are those who believe the earth is flat and what to put up a fence to keep out aliens and on and on ... accept the reality and find ways to help deal with the crisis

[paulbikes]

Don't be an arse, im extremely liberal and i know global warming is crap and that the climate is constantly changing and we can do anything about it.

That said im still an outspoken advocate of sustainability and a long term plan of eliminating fossil fuels. We really dont have a choice, we either steer towards sustainability or we will fall harder.

I agree that all this sensationalist media is annoying, but this is the state of fear. this week global warming, next week gang violence, add a dash of missing white woman syndrome...

[TimmySlagle]

"...making ... hurricanes more likely"

There is no scientific evidence of any connection between Global Warming and Hurricanes, yet the Alarmists continually repeat this lie.

I will never understand, how can people can claim to be on the side of "Science" and say something so opposed to the consensus.

It only highlights for me the real truth about Global Warming. It isn't really about science. It's about scaring us into World Socialism.

[MGhamma]

Links please, timmy. Unless of course you're not willing to embarass yourself like ohiomarkymark did earlier.

[TimmySlagle]

Well usually, the burden of proof falls on the accuser, because it is nearly impossible to prove a negative.

In other words, it is impossible to prove that Global Warming WON'T cause hurricanes, it is up to the Alarmists to prove it will.

So it is actually YOU that needs to show some evidence. Regardless, I'll start here:

One of the most influential scientists behind the theory that global warming has intensified recent hurricane activity says he will reconsider his stand.

The hurricane expert, Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, unveiled a novel technique for predicting future hurricane activity this week. The new work suggests that, even in a dramatically warming world, hurricane frequency and intensity may not substantially rise during the next two centuries.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/5693436.html

[paulbikes]

If by scaring us into socialism you mean maintaining control and pushing towards 1984 then i fully agree with you.

[axt113]

We already have that, its called bailouts

[Furby]

Timmy, you're probably staying cool as we speak by soaking your feet in the river from your second floor window right?

[Furby]

Hey Timmy, glad to see you took the time to read this one. So what's the weather like in your neck of the woods, or are you cooling your feet in the river from your second floor window?

[OddManOut]

It's all about the averages and not sudden and temporary spikes.

[Tator]

This year is on track to be cooler than any in the last 20 years and the moonbats still believe in the Religion....

[KaAp]

Yes that is why Arizona had over 8 days straight of over 100 degree heat far too early in the season. That is why California and Nevada had over 100 degree days in spots that normally do not get that hot. That is why in Florida as well the temperature is way above average ... alas I recognize that this does not make a consistent pattern ...
Patterns are averages ... and the temperature over time on average has increased ... the scientific debate is over ... you want to debate ideology fine ... everyone can have an opinion however there is only one fact on global climate change and it is not liberal conservative fascist or progressive ... get it? Probably not ... I do not think you understand the science or both to read scientific journals that are juried or attend scientific conferences ...

[Tator]

DON"T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT. Just a few days ago, the University of Alabama, Huntsville came out with their global assessment and they reported the 22nd warmest in the 30 years of records in their data base (in other words the 9th coldest). In fact, their global mean was actually below the average (base period 1979-1998 ) with a value of -0.11C (-0.19F). This is a full 1.1F degrees colder than the NOAA guesstimate. The other NASA satellite source, RSS had June as the 13th coldest out of the last 30 years.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/latest-noaa-press-release-in-total-disagreement-with-nasa-satellite/

[KaAp]

Did you read the NOAA's report or do you lack the critical skills to recognize that a blogspot is not research nor should it be cited as factual ... ? Why don't you read it and read juried journal articles on the topic since apparently you have some nascent interest in the topic ... However, if you do not understand or cannot interpret the data or the language please ask a scientist to do so for you ...
Do you understand the notion of global climate change which means extremes in both cold and heat? You are not only a troll ... but you are spreading dangerous misinformation

[JohnFromCensornati]

And the tator tots and dittoheads still believe in their talking points.

[thundermummy]

Let em be John. Some people just can't help being dumb.

[UnbiasView]

Ha, what kind of fake weather chart is that?

It hasn't been anywhere close to 99 in Minnesota for a long time and has been rather cold this summer.

[ohiomark]

I was in Minneapolis on vacation with my family in July 1976 (ya know, in the middle of the global cooling scare) and it was 99 degrees every day we were there. I remember playing golf with my cousins and we had to run through the spinklers to keep cool on the golf course.

[KaAp]

1976 for me was a very good year ... I had just finished my undergraduate degree and was starting graduate school. My parents bought me a new car. My parents decided color tv was not just a fad but my grandmother still believed the moon landing was produced in a television studio. In July I was in Colombia the coast was hot, Bogota rained a great deal.
Since 1976 a great deal has changed. If, someone was to use a textbook from 1976 certainly we would consider it anachronistic ...
Science has changed a great deal since 1976 --- the microprocessor and ever more complicated programs and projections have created a greater and more in depth understanding of our planet. However
ONE THING HAS NOT CHANGED AND THAT IS FACTS ... VERSUS OPINION AND HYPERBOLE ...
IF YOU LOOK IN THE ISI DATA BASE (THE WEB OF SCIENCE) FOR THE PERIOD NOT A SINGLE SCHOLARLY JURIED ARTICLE APPEARED ON GLOBAL COOLING .... THERE WAS ONE GUY WHO WROTE A DEBUNKED ARTICLE THAT WAS PICKED UP BY THE POPULAR PRESS ... There were however two scientists who suggested that perhaps over millennia global cooling could occur.
To compare that sort of paltry discredited misreported information to the scientific consensus that exists worldwide surrounding global climate change is at worst dangerously naive and at worst intellectually dishonest.
1976 was a good year but there was never a global cooling scare there was a time magazine article (and time has little scientific merit).

[JohnFromCensornati]

It was really hot here today.

[ohiomark]

It's July, it's always hot in July in the northern hemisphere. Did you just move here from New Zealand?