"But Global Warming is a HOAX!!!"

[shemp]

Extreme heat in Southwest could send temps toward 120 in Phoenix

Phoenix, Arizona could hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 Celsius) by Thursday. This has happened only three times since 1929.

Temperatures already well into the triple digits across the Southwest are forecast to rise even higher as a heat dome intensifies over the region. An excessive heat warning is in effect for the Phoenix area.

A new surge of heat in the southwestern United States will push temperatures to higher levels than experienced so far this summer and perhaps within a few degrees of all-time record levels in some locations. The extreme heat will pose dangers even for long-term residents who are used to extremely hot summers. And as the brush continues to dry out in the sweltering heat, the risk of wildfires will grow.

AccuWeather meteorologists are particularly concerned about the intensity and duration of the heat in the coming days and weeks. They also note that temperatures will remain quite high during the nighttime hours.

The southwestern U.S. is routinely a hot place in the summertime, but the upcoming heat in store for the middle of July will be extreme. Conditions may become life-threatening.

Phoenix has only reached the 120-degree-Fahrenheit mark three times since records have been kept dating back to 1929. The last time temperatures topped that mark was on July 28, 1995, when a high of 121 was recorded. The all-time record high of 122 was set on June 26, 1990.

Phoenix is highly likely to reach the upper 110s for multiple days next week and could sneak to or just past the 120-degree mark provided no thunderstorms erupt to cool and moisten the local environment. When a downpour occurs, some of the sun's energy is used up evaporating moisture instead of heating the ground and the air.

Currently Thursday appears to be most likely to break the 120 degree threshold in Phoenix. A high of 119 F is forecast for the city, which would break the current record for the date of 114 F that was set in 2020.

But just click your heels three times and repeat "There's no global warming. There's no global warming."

 

[lobosrul5]

But you haven't proved beyond all shadow of a doubt to my satisfaction that AGW is real. So, imma keep driving my F350 as my daily commuter... Checkmate libtard!

 

[dann]

Has Ted Cruz left for Greenland yet?

 

[Myriad]

"But it's a dry heat!" Anyone?

 

[Blue Mountain]

Extreme heat in Southwest could send temps toward 120 in Phoenix

Phoenix, Arizona could hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 Celsius) by Thursday. This has happened only three times since 1929.

And this will make it the fourth time since 1929. This is an event that has occurred before, before AGW became news. In my opinion, it's silly to argue this unusual but not unprecedented event is evidence of global warming.

Now if the temperature hits 50°C, or they regularly start getting 120°F days (say, one or two every summer,) that is evidence for global warming.

While I haven't done the research, I suspect that the number of record-setting hot days all over North America (and probably the world) has increased over the last 50 years, while the number of record-setting cold days has gone down. I also suspect that if one did a ten year rolling average of the daily high and the daily low for any given day of the year, more days would show an increase in both the high and low values than would days that show a decrease.

 

[theprestige]

I seem to recall the IPCC published a whole-ass report predicting this, and detailing the degree of emissions reduction - of cessation of economic activity - that would be necessary to avoid it.

Of course the haters rejected the IPCC's proposed solution.

And so did everyone else.

Now everyone else is blaming the haters for exactly the outcome they all signed up for.

For which they all signed up.

Anyway, it's not the people who think globally warming is a hoax who are the problem.

 

[Hercules56]

The dessert is supposed to be hot!!!

 

[lobosrul5]

The dessert is supposed to be hot!!!

Even ice cream?

 

[Steve]

The dessert is supposed to be hot!!!

Even Antarctica?

Even ice cream?

Baked Alaska! (I know, the ice cream is still cold).

 

[p0lka]

Can't wait to grow tropical fruits in sunny telford.

 

[Orphia Nay]

But just click your heels three times and repeat "There's no global warming. There's no global warming."

Do people really still say that?

I thought they had shifted slightly towards, "there's global warming, but no anthropogenic global warming, it's just cyclical".

 

[shemp]

Do people really still say that?

I thought they had shifted slightly towards, "there's global warming, but no anthropogenic global warming, it's just cyclical".

They will still be saying that when New Orleans, Miami and New York go under the waves.

 

[shemp]

And this will make it the fourth time since 1929. This is an event that has occurred before, before AGW became news. In my opinion, it's silly to argue this unusual but not unprecedented event is evidence of global warming.

Now if the temperature hits 50°C, or they regularly start getting 120°F days (say, one or two every summer,) that is evidence for global warming.

While I haven't done the research, I suspect that the number of record-setting hot days all over North America (and probably the world) has increased over the last 50 years, while the number of record-setting cold days has gone down. I also suspect that if one did a ten year rolling average of the daily high and the daily low for any given day of the year, more days would show an increase in both the high and low values than would days that show a decrease.

I think this is all the evidence I need.

We’re experiencing Earth’s hottest weather in 120,000 years, and it’s just getting started

 

[shemp]

You know what? I really don't give a **** anymore about it. I'll be dead before the **** really hits the fan. But I really have tried to do whatever I can to mitigate global warming, but it's nothing in the face of entrenched interest groups who are sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" and are sailing the good ship Earth full speed head first straight into the rocks while they keep making money hand over fist while others die around them!

The last rich survivors in their redoubts at the poles or deep underground will still be counting their money when they drop dead.

 

[Hercules56]

Consumerism and a healthy planet are simply incompatible.

 

[IsThisTheLife]

Do people here actually not realise that "Global Warming" refers to average global temperatures?

And that the postulated rise is a fraction of a degree per decade (depending on who collates/massages the numbers)?

If Phoenix, Arizona is unusually hot then somewhere else it's unusually cold.

Comical.

 

[IsThisTheLife]

Only fools buy the idea that there is such a thing as "the greenhouse effect", let alone that CO2 is a "greenhouse gas".

 

[Norman Alexander]

Do people here actually not realise that "Global Warming" refers to average global temperatures?

And that the postulated rise is a fraction of a degree per decade (depending on who collates/massages the numbers)?

If Phoenix, Arizona is unusually hot then somewhere else it's unusually cold. Comical.

You have described your own statement successfully.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Only fools buy the idea that there is such a thing as "the greenhouse effect", let alone that CO2 is a "greenhouse gas".

What's your proof it isn't?

 

[Trebuchet]

I think this is all the evidence I need.

We’re experiencing Earth’s hottest weather in 120,000 years, and it’s just getting started

[qimg]http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/76064a9ea8977dc2.jpg[/qimg]

Or this XKCD.

What's your proof it isn't?

Fox News, Breitbart, etc. Meanwhile the same poster cited "average global temperature". We've just had like four successive days of the highest average global temperatures ever recorded. But hey, it might have snowed in Minnesota last winter so it's a hoax.