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In reply to the discussion: Study: Temperatures go off the charts around 2047 [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)47. Well, I read this carefully, and that was the additional impression I got.
From what the article writer was saying, they were making it sound like that the highest recorded summer temps would indeed be the new summer averages, ON TOP of everything else. So perhaps this may have been more of a screwup on the part of Seth Borenstein, then, if that is indeed the case. In any case, 3*C certainly wouldn't be enough to shift cities like L.A. and San Diego into entirely new climate regimes, or make temps "off the charts", and the tropics certainly aren't going to be nearly as affected as the poles, temp wise.
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The Mississippi River basin and its tributaries will become a desert on the scale of the Sahara.
baldguy
Oct 2013
#13
I read the other day about how the VA coast is already seeing a higher water level.
toby jo
Oct 2013
#10
It's not nitpicking, your last sentence was correct, and this study isn't so narrow as to cite
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#20
"If the predictions in this study turn out to be in error," And they certainly will, no doubt......
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#42
Well, I read this carefully, and that was the additional impression I got.
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#47
Are you a climate scientist? Do you have background in the field? Thanks! nt
Mojorabbit
Oct 2013
#48
No, but all you need to do is look at the actual data and projections from the IPCC and others......
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#50
I think you missed one thing, though: This study is an extreme outlier.....and a poorly done one....
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#39
Yes. Along with deaths associated in a kind of class warfare -- haves vs have-nots
Auggie
Oct 2013
#30
yes. basically anarchy and breakdown of all as everyone struggles to survive n/t
Locrian
Oct 2013
#34
guess we'll be seeing another Great Migration starting in about 7-9 years
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2013
#33
I'm sorry, but this study isn't exactly "innovative". It smells really off, actually.
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#38