There was a time in recent history when extreme Summer temperatures were only as common as extreme Winter temperatures. Anyone who’s even been remotely paying attention to the weather lately is well aware that the climate is changing. In the United States, Texas has experienced the worse year-long drought in the Lone Star state’s history, suffering from the hottest summer recorded in the US. Not only have these extreme temperatures left Texas short on water supplies, they have also damaged billions of dollars worth of crops (which also raises food prices) and left a large portion of the state burnt due to wildfires.
It is currently estimated that Texas has suffered $5.2 billion in agricultural losses due to drought caused by extreme temperatures. Cash crops such as cotton, wheat and corn have been especially hard hit; not to mention the struggle ranchers face in feeding their cattle. With no end currently in sight, it’s predicted that if the drought continues for much longer, Winter wheat crops will be lost, causing the drought to be even more expensive.
But Texas is not alone in it’s suffering from extreme heat. In fact, in a large portion of the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains, unusually high temperatures have been breaking records throughout the summer.
The prognosis is not good. Temperatures considered unusually high today will be the norm in the future. Extremely hot summers will eventually become the new norm, due largely to manmade global warming.
Scientists fear that in a short amount of time, the planet will reach the two degree Celsius warned threshold — increased by heat-trapping gases blanketing the atmosphere. In the past 60 years alone, the planet’s temperature has risen 0.8 degrees Celsius above the planet’s temperature prior to the Industrial Era. This could mean catastrophic changes to the planet (And I think we’re already seeing some of that, but just a taster..).
The garage door is quickly closing on our window of opportunity to act. Scientists estimate that within the next decade or so, extremely hot temperatures will occur every Summer in regions that only occasionally experience extreme temperatures. Warming of the planet is occurring globally, affecting many regions of the globe, such as Africa, the Southeastern and central parts of Asia, the Amazon, and Indonesia. The U.S. is on the brink of experiencing the same fate as the rest of the world.
Climate scientists hypothesize that over the next few decades, the combination of changing weather patterns and warmer temperatures will cause the extremes to change quickly. In fact, it is guessed that by the middle of the next century, huge sections of the globe will have heated up so fast, the coolest summer will still be hotter than the hottest temperatures occurring over the past 50 years.
Record breaking temperatures are quickly becoming the new norm, as well as the wild weather patterns that come with that, and the heat extremes are only projected to get worse. Temperatures are expected to keep rising, not only in the West, but in the Midwest and Southeast as well. Temperature extremes are certain to change entire seasons, which will, no doubt, have huge effects on agriculture, availability of water and susceptibility to wildfires.
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The sun and moon is controlling the weather PERIOD. The earth is in outerspace among all sorts of energies and forces that are beyond our control. Man made global warming is a UN hoax. does anyone remember the global warming and cooling periods throughout history The ice age. etc. YOUR being CON’d.
Sexy:
just a little bit of digging will show you that it’s not the sun causing this global warming (and certainly not the moon):
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming-advanced.htm
and while the climate does change, this is *exceptional* change with tremendous consequences clearly caused by humans:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-century.htm
who agrees with this? check out this list:
These Groups Say The Danger Of Manmade Global Warming Is A . . .
FACT
U.S. Agency for International Development
United States Department of Agriculture
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
National Institute of Standards and Technology
United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Energy
National Institutes of Health
United States Department of State
United States Department of Transportation
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
International Arctic Science Committee
Arctic Council
African Academy of Sciences
Australian Academy of Sciences
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias
Cameroon Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Canada
Caribbean Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Académie des Sciences, France
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina of Germany
Indonesian Academy of Sciences
Royal Irish Academy
Accademia nazionale delle scienze of Italy
Indian National Science Academy
Science Council of Japan
Kenya National Academy of Sciences
Madagascar’s National Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences
Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias
Nigerian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of New Zealand
Polish Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
l’Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal
Academy of Science of South Africa
Sudan Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Tanzania Academy of Sciences
Turkish Academy of Sciences
Uganda National Academy of Sciences
The Royal Society of the United Kingdom
National Academy of Sciences, United States
Zambia Academy of Sciences
Zimbabwe Academy of Science
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians
American Astronomical Society
American Chemical Society
American College of Preventive Medicine
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics
American Medical Association
American Meteorological Society
American Physical Society
American Public Health Association
American Quaternary Association
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Society of Agronomy
American Society for Microbiology
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Statistical Association
Association of Ecosystem Research Centers
Botanical Society of America
Crop Science Society of America
Ecological Society of America
Federation of American Scientists
Geological Society of America
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Organization of Biological Field Stations
Society of American Foresters
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society of Systematic Biologists
Soil Science Society of America
Australian Coral Reef Society
Australian Medical Association
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Engineers Australia
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
Geological Society of Australia
British Antarctic Survey
Institute of Biology, UK
Royal Meteorological Society, UK
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
European Federation of Geologists
European Geosciences Union
European Physical Society
European Science Foundation
International Association for Great Lakes Research
International Union for Quaternary Research
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
World Federation of Public Health Associations
World Health Organization
World Meteorological Organization
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I’m glad I’m not the only person who has noted the plethora of natural weather related disasters that have happened over the last few years. This is surely as a result of global warming and should be addressed immediately. However, in news reports there is rarely any mention of this
thanks. i know, it’s amazing how much news agencies ignore the obvious these days.