Heat Waves in Europe Will Increase, Study Finds
By DAVID JOLLY DEC. 8, 2014
PARIS — In June 2003, a high-pressure weather system took hold over Western Europe and hovered there for weeks, bringing warm tropical air to the region and making that summer the hottest since at least 1540, the year King Henry VIII discarded his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
Temperatures were about 2.3 degrees Celsius, or 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit, above average that summer, contributing to perhaps 70,000 additional deaths and hitting the elderly particularly hard. The heat was a factor in the outbreak of forest fires and in lower than usual crop yields. It caused Alpine glaciers to shrink at a rate double that seen in the previous record summer, five years earlier.
Now, three scientists from the Met Office, the British weather agency, have concluded that human-caused global warming is going to make European summer heat waves “commonplace” by the 2040s.
Heat Waves in Europe Will Increase, Study Finds – NYTimes.com
Complete bullshit. The hot summer of 2003 was a one-off event and not a trend. These crooks lie about everything.
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Steven:
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2014/12/09/lima-climate-talks-set-for-record-carbon-footprint
If I remember correctly the death rate from the 2003 heat wave was 2300, this compares to an age concern figure of excess winter deaths of 23,000 and an Irish paper suggesting 37,000 each year.
Whilst every early death is regrettable, the Met Office only care about the few summer deaths and totally ignore the winter ones. I feel they are fraudulently exaggerating summer deaths and downplaying winter deaths for apparently no other reason than to get more funding to their useless computers which have consistently failed to forecast climate.
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I was at the beach in Christchurch a few days before the heatwave, and it was very cold. I wish I had been there the following week for some nice weather.
If I understand correctly, the problem with the 2003 heat wave was that so many people had gone to the beaches or vacation homes for the holidays, leaving their elderly parents in houses without proper ventilation. The problem was not restricted to private homes, but also nursing homes had deaths because they were short staffed due to the holidays.
We can be quite sure that these mistakes will not be made again.
Fear mongering.
Whenever someone tries to persuade me by attempting to manipulate emotions, I don’t trust them.
I don’t think I am unique but at the same time can’t figure why people fall for that crap….?
A severe heatwave, one summer, is a trend…but 3 yrs of growing Arctic ice is ‘too soon to call it recovery’.
Two-faced scumbags.
By “Western Europe” they actually mean “France.”
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/08/23E216E300000578-0-image-a-17_1418056028091.jpg
When I see somebody, anybody, make the case for AGW without resorting to exaggeration, intellectual dishonesty and outright lies, I might actually start buying into it. So far, no show.
The summer of 2003 was very warm in France. I live there. Temperatures rose to 32°C 90F at the beginning of june, to 35°C by the end of june and to 41°C in july. The max temp did not fall below 35°C and was consistenly above 35°C until the end of august. The record temp of 42°C was only marginally surpassed during the summer.
The deaths that occured were mostly in major towns like Paris and Bordeaux because the french all went on holiday leaving their ederly alone. Most of those ederly did not understand the need to drink water when the days, and most importantly, the nights are very warm.
I live about 90Kms from Bordeaux and we used to go out in the car during the evening to cool down with the a/c. It was about 28°C at midnight. The car a/c was set to 32°c during the day and 25°C at night otherwise it felt like you were getting out of a fridge into an oven.
We have had 40°C days pretty much every since except this last year 2014. No 35°C days and few 32°C days and that is unusual.
I remember heat waves in Europe in 1967. By 1974, everyone was freezing to death. Then it got warm again in the 1990’s…and now we are sliding back into the ‘freezing to death’ mode again.
No…because the ‘trend’ is HOTTER! (right… :D)
Not on topic, but “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in SanFrancisco.” (Mark Twain)
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To Lie or not to lie is the question and the wining is LIE its always the best way to prove your point!