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.
Its not the heat. Its 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.
Thats one of the findings in a report published today called Risky Business, commissioned by some of Americas 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.