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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 08:07 AM Jun 2014

Climate Forecast: A Heat More Deadly Than the U.S. Has Ever Seen

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-24/what-to-expect-when-your-planet-is-expecting-risky-business-in-climate.html


People sleep in the shade in Manhattan's High Line Park on June 25, 2013 in New York City.

It’s not the heat. It’s the humidity. And the U.S. is on a path to regularly experience a deadly combination of the two the likes of which have only been recorded once on planet Earth.

That’s one of the findings in a report published today called “Risky Business,” commissioned by some of America’s top business leaders to put price tags on climate threats. For example, by the end of the century, between $238 billion and $507 billion of existing coastal property in the U.S. will likely be subsumed by rising seas, and crop yields in some breadbasket states may decline as much 70 percent.

But perhaps the biggest way Americans will physically experience global warming is, well, the warming. By 2050, the average American is likely to see between two and more than three times as many 95 degree days as we're used to. By the end of this century, Americans will experience, on average, as many as 96 days of such extreme heat each year.

The report breaks down “extremely hot” days by region to show what a child born in the past 20 years can expect to see over a lifetime.
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Climate Forecast: A Heat More Deadly Than the U.S. Has Ever Seen (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2014 OP
People are going to die when the power goes out. hunter Jun 2014 #1

hunter

(38,264 posts)
1. People are going to die when the power goes out.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:18 AM
Jun 2014

Some people will buy generators, and they'll die when the fuel runs out.

Solar dehumidification and cooling? Maybe.

I think it's likely we'll begin to experience refugee problems, within the United States, even at the Canadian border; people with no water from the west, people suffering too much heat and humidity elsewhere.

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