steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Good luck if you are expecting scientific rigor from reporters.
yup, I also think that people mix up cost and climate change.Gotta love conservatives. They look out the window, see that it's raining today wherever they happen to be, and conclude that global warming is a lie. It's like if the residents of a nursery school decided to start a corporation.
NWS said:Historically for PDX, this stretch would not place the record for
most days 90 and above in jeopardy. With last Sunday counting as the
first, that would make for 7 consecutive days with highs 90 and
above which ties for fifth longest. The record sits at 10 days from
late July, 2009 with 9 in 2018 and 8 in the years 1967 and 2015.
You could have a wet bulb mercury thermometer. It doesn't sound like a good idea, though.Not at all.In other words, the NWS or, more likely, some "science editor" (Yahoo's?) FLUNKED.
Again, these are effective temps. If it is zero outside and there is a 15 mph wind, there is an effective air temperature that represents to our skin (-32 degrees F). It isn't actually -32 degree outside, it is 0 degrees with 15 mph winds, which to your body is like -32 degrees.
Same thing going the other way with high temps and humidity.
Think of it like a vector instead of merely being scalar.
You're missing my point. Yahoo's science editor did NOT write "The effective temperature was 110." He wrote "the mercury hit 110." I understand this is intended as "colorful idiom" but . . . from a SCIENCE editor?? There really are mercury thermometers and they do NOT respond to humidity.
NitpickYeah, human beings (unlike thermometers) can't actually detect temperature.It doesn't impact the thermometer. It impacts the body, much like the "wind chill". It is an effective temperature.Yahoo seems to think it was hot yesterday: Have they gone over to the other side? For those of us tired of Islamo-Maoist-Illuminati-AOC lies, can Truth Social — or their spokesman here — fill us in on the TRUE™ temperatures?
The leftist-alleged heat is affecting the center and the west . . .
. . . but also the Northeast:the NWS said that 85 million Americans were under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories on Sunday. In the U.S., heat kills more people annually than any other type of weather event.
“Stifling heat is also on tap from central Kansas and Oklahoma to the Middle Mississippi Valley, where a large swath of heat advisories and a few excessive heat warnings are in place,” said the NWS.
Temperatures could soar to 111 degrees in parts of Oklahoma, including Tulsa, and thermometers could hit the hundreds in Las Vegas, and multiple cities in Texas.
Southern and Western states have been hit particularly hard with flash droughts. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, more than 63.2% of the country is currently “abnormally dry,” affecting cattle and crop produce.
“Numerous record highs are forecast to be tied and/or broken today in the Northeast,” the National Weather Service said in a bulletin Sunday of the heat wave that is expected to last through Tuesday. Taking humidity into account, the bulletin said that the mercury could hit 105 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nitpick: I think I understand the notion that humid heat feels hotter than dry heat. But does this humidity actually affect the mercury "hittings"?
We can, however, detect our rate of heat loss. Too much heat loss feels 'cold'; Too little feels 'hot'. Both trigger physiological changes that act to prevent heat loss from moving outside the survivable range, or adapt the
rate of heat production (by becoming lethargic or shivering); And outside that range, the feeling of 'hot' or 'cold' can cease - hypothermia victims describe the feeling of being cold going away as they succumb to it.
When was the last time this happened?
It’s baffling that you think climate should not change.That climate is changing based on both observation and modeling is inescapable.
"If it is zero outside and you have exposed skin in the wind, you're an idiot."Again, these are effective temps. If it is zero outside and there is a 15 mph wind, there is an effective air temperature that represents to our skin (-32 degrees F). It isn't actually -32 degree outside, it is 0 degrees with 15 mph winds, which to your body is like -32 degrees.
Sticky fingers? Wear a condom.It’s baffling that you think climate should not change.That climate is changing based on both observation and modeling is inescapable.
A rapture like cult.
The publication of Bill McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely. The crucial point, he argues, is that there is now no chance of us avoiding a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown. We have passed the point of no return and can expect a future in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures and where our oceans are destined to become warm and acidic.
It really is an end of times religion;
The publication of Bill McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely. The crucial point, he argues, is that there is now no chance of us avoiding a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown. We have passed the point of no return and can expect a future in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures and where our oceans are destined to become warm and acidic.
Teh Gruaniad
Too late to repent, we are dooooooooooomed !!!!!11!!1111!!!
A rapture like cult.
The reason we care is that:It’s baffling that you think climate should not change.That climate is changing based on both observation and modeling is inescapable.
A rapture like cult.
In that case we can stop all this nonsense about fighting climate change by putting in bike lanes.I agree that it is too late.
We will stay in the reactive mode. In the long term we will conform to nature either with foresight or by natural forces.
It has certainly happened before. Mayn civilizatin grew, had an economy and a high standrd of living, and suffered a sudden collape. It tok a while,
it was stared by climate change and drought affecting agriculture and nutrition. They compensated for a while but eventuayl order broke down violently from the archeology.