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by egdod 7y ago
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- 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.