I like to picture him as an Old Testament prophet rather than a newscaster!
This one’ll do! And I think I remember all the lyrics and not just the chorus.
But on the topic of the thread, I mainly feel frustrated. I’ve known this was happening since that song was written, and they’re just NOW acknowledging it on the news?
Nathaniel Rich’s book, Losing Earth: A Recent History, points out that virtually everything we understand about climate change, etc., was known by 1979. And that climate change denial swung into action at the same time. Certainly I remember being on environmental marches in high school, as early as 1971, spun off from protests against the US underground nuclear weapon test at Amchitka.
So what do I think of the heat this summer? I weep.
It’s Arizona! It’s three digits 24 hours a day mostly from July-October, every year, for as long as I’ve lived here. Even when we hit 122, it was no more than “does it seem warmer to you today?”
I’m not bragging - it just is what it is. I wished I lived somewhere cooler. Whaddyagonnado?
Domed cities?
Like in Logan’s Run?
Here in Montreal it’s been very ordinary. A few days in the low 90s is all. The seven day forecast predicts highs between 75 and 86. We’ve had a fair bit of rain, the worst being 8 days ago when we had a horrendous T-storm and even a couple small tornadoes were spotted. That I’ve never heard of here before.
The forecast for Chicago, for the latter half of next week, has temperatures in the high 90s, and dewpoints in the mid 70s (tropical rainforest level humidity). Looks like it’ll be our turn to “enjoy” the heat.
I like to compare things to the historical data over at The Weather Underground. The temps here in northern Ohio all seem historically normal; even 50 years ago you could often get highs around 90. More often it’s been in the mid to high 70’s here, as it has been for time immemorial.
But the big difference is the humidity, not the heat. I have a handheld humidometer, and it hasn’t been below a 53.5 dew point since I arrived here a month ago, while the official weather sites will typically have it 5 or so degrees higher. The historical data tho clearly shows DPs dropping into the 40’s or sometimes even 30’s (1993).
Note that most of the expected consequences of AGW over mid-latitude land are not higher daily highs.
It’s higher daily lows. Nights get warmer, while days stay about the same. And humidity increases or a drought sets in with little in between. To some degree meteorological summer gets longer and meteorological winter gets shorter. If you’re going to see a material change in daily highs, it’ll mostly be in the shoulder seasons where e.g. May is now more like June used to be or April is now more like May was.
It’s always hot and humid in Arkansas. 100 degree days are nothing unusual.
I’m enjoying the hot weather. I hate being cold. It’s annoying when I need a jacket to walk outside.
We’re predicted to be in the mid to high 80s all next week.
And, dew point directly affects those; the nighttime temperature (i.e., the daily low) can’t really drop any lower than the dew point.
On a clear summertime night, if your dew point is in the 40s, then the overnight low will probably get down to close to that number, which makes for a lovely, crisp summer night. But, if your dew point is parked in the high 50s (or even the 60s), you never get that sort of cool night.
After an exceptionally warm early spring, the summer so far in southern Ontario has actually been a bit cooler than average. Also a bit drier than average, with only occasional rain showers – though some of them quite intense. From what I’m reading, though, record high temperatures are being set around the world.
This is my favorite climate change & tropical storm / hurricane blog. All experts, all facts, zero hype. Can recommend.
A number of people have been recommending that I buy a house in Texas. I don’t think I ever will. Not only because the era of cheap housing in Texas is past, but also because this place may be well-nigh-uninhabitable 20 years from now due to the heat.
Canada and northern regions are where the housing boom/craze will be.
The Colorado mountains are normal, if a bit wetter than usual.
We are going to want to move when we retire. We are too remote. The odds of getting an ambulance to our house in winter is a flip of the coin.
But we don’t know where in the heck to go.
Heck, just move to the county seat of the county you live in. Minimum cultural change, no loss of local area knowledge, but huge increment in convenience and emergency services availability.
I’ve now moved twice in my life less than 3 miles. Just enough to solve one problem without creating 23 new ones. Can recommend.
I’m in Chicago and, as mentioned before, it’s been strangely mellow this summer. Matches the winter we had. This is the mildest winter-summer combo I could remember. I don’t like it, as I enjoy change and, despite hating hot and humid weather, summer feels wrong without a spell in the 90s and even lower 100s around here.
We just got back from a week at the shore. The weather could not have been better. Low 80s during the day. Rain over night a couple of days. The water was great.