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> Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame? No. No more than a cold day in winter means that climate change isn’t real.
by egdod 7y ago
> Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame?
No. No more than a cold day in winter means that climate change isn’t real.
- adrianN 7y agoThe frequency of unusually hot days is going up dramatically because of climate change.
- egdod 7y ago[citation needed]
- adrianN 7y agoLiterally 30s of googling: https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_17/ https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_17/
- aaronbrethorst 7y ago“So you know, a warming of 1 degree Celsius, which is what we’ve seen thus far, can lead to a 10-fold increase in the frequency of 100 degree days in New York City for example,” said Dr. Mann. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, since the 1960s the average number of heat waves — defined as two or more consecutive days where daily lows exceeded historical July and August temperatures — in 50 major American cities has tripled. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/climate/heatwave-climate-change.html?auth=login-email&login=email https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/climate/heatwave-climate-...
- justsubmit 7y agoYou pasted a quote of Michael Mann, aka the hockey stick guy, a known scientific fraud. Doing things like that is why people don't believe alarmists and the NYT anymore.
- Symmetry 7y agoIf you think the entire discipline of climatology is a fraud that's fine but mainstream climatology says that the hockey stick graph was accurate.
- akvadrako 7y agoThis quote by itself doesn't mean much because the definition of heat wave is arbitrary. It could just be a mathematical consequence of moving the mean 1 degree.
- akvadrako 7y agoSo the more informative phrasing is that the same number of heatwaves will happen, but they’ll be one degree warmer.
- ainiriand 7y agoNo, and yes. Heatwaves like the one experienced in Spain have been extraordinarily long. We experience heat waves all summers and they usually last 2-3 days. This one lasted 1 week. And last year we had 2 heat waves 5 days each. I am talking about ~40 degrees every day. At night barely 28. You can compare historical data here (es) http://www.aemet.es/es/idi/clima/registros_climaticos http://www.aemet.es/es/idi/clima/registros_climaticos You can look at the median yearly temperature and see how it is steadily increasing http://www.aemet.es/imagenes_gcd/idi/clima/registros_climaticos/Clima_registrosclimaticos_fig5.jpg http://www.aemet.es/imagenes_gcd/idi/clima/registros_climati...
- TheAsprngHacker 7y agoI think that the parent commenter was being sarcastic to ridicule people who think that there being one cold winter day means that global warming isn't real.
- qazpot 7y ago> I am talking about ~40 degrees every day. At night barely 28. Where I come from that's not called a heat wave that's called summer.
- brewdad 7y agoAnd your buildings have been adapted for that environment. If Paris was relocated to North America it would lie a bit north of halfway between Seattle and Vancouver (Right about Bellingham, WA). Those cities would suffer quite a bit as well with long sustained temps that high.