I blame you for driving a fossil fueled vehicle, living in a big house, and not eating bugs for this
How climate change made Raleigh’s record-breaking heat far more likely
Solar-powered fans kept Sonya Lloyd shaded at Raleigh’s Chavis Park splash pad Tuesday, but the air still felt like 111 degrees.
“This one is a scorcher,” the 60-year-old grandmother said, clutching a quart of water and keeping watch over her pregnant daughter.
“We’re not trying to have a heat stroke,” she said.
The brutal afternoon marked a Climate Shift Index (CSI) level 5 for the Triangle, the maximum rating issued by research group Climate Central. A CSI-5 means human-caused warming made today’s temperature at least five times more likely than in a world without carbon pollution.
OK, not they’re just making shit up. Climate Shift Index? Piss off
A sprawling “heat dome” that baked the Midwest over the weekend slid east, parking a bubble of high pressure over the Carolinas and trapping humid air near the surface. Similar domes have broken June records from Boston to Raleigh this week, part of a national pattern of record-setting warmth.
But the backdrop is a climate that’s already warmer. Summers in Raleigh-Durham are 4.4 degrees hotter than in the 1970s, with about 39 more above-average summer days each year, according to Climate Central.
That hotter starting point “is driving earlier, hotter summers and making dangerous heat extremes more frequent and more intense,” said Shel Winkley, a meteorologist on Climate Central’s climate-and-health team.
Urban “hot spots” in downtown Raleigh bake as much as 19 degrees warmer than shaded suburbs because pavement and rooftops trap daytime heat.
Liz McLaughlin just describe the Urban Heat Island effect.
Historically, Raleigh gets 5-6 100 degree days, not including heat index. Over the past 10 years we may get 1, and, since the weather stations are improperly cited, that is suspect. Oh, and the record high for Raleigh on June 25th? 100 in 1952. How was it 102 in 1887 for the 20th of June? Or 100 in 1895 on the 3rd? There was no airport to artificially inflate the temperature. You didn’t have all the massive infrastructure, roads, buildings, etc back then in Raleigh. If it is so bad, why aren’t the Warmists giving up their own fossil fueled vehicles? It’s Raleigh, all those wackos on the road and growing have to be at least 50% Democrats.
The very fact that the world is being paved with asphalt and concrete along with the rainforests being cut and burned at historic pace is much more of a reason for heat waves and climate change than is 450ppm of co2.
IF we had anything that could replace fossil fuels I would be on the bandwagon cheering it on. There is not. We built a multi billion dollar repository in the Nevada hills to store radioactive rods from NUKE plants to appease Harry Reid only to be told by NEVADA after the money was done spent in the state to go fuk yourselves America. Thank you for the money.
States rights.
But other than Nuclear or breaking a 100 treaties and building hydro electric damns everywhere and starting wars all across the globe over water rights…….Nothing can replace oil and natural gas.
If we truly want to fix what ails the world. Stop pouring asphalt and concrete and stop cutting the rain forests that are NOT BEING REPLANTED but rather cleared to make way for more??
You guessed it. Concrete and asphalt.
Super pluming of our planet is what is causing radical shifts in our climate. Not co2.
Mr D&G blames concrete and asphalt companies for global warming!! Well, that and fewer trees.
Less than 1% of the Earth’s surface is urban.
As of 2019, the UN estimates that forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world’s land surface, by area, Africa 17%, SE Asia/Pacific Rim 19%, Europe/Russia 27%, South and Central America 25%, North America 12%. The UN estimates about 13 million hectares are lost each year and 5 million hectares formed for a net loss of about 8 million hectares per year (~ 0.2%/year).
The Brazilian rain forests are cleared for logging, mining and agriculture.
https://www.treehugger.com/maps-of-the-worlds-forests-1343036
What? A city in the South had a few very hot days, in the summer? Shocking, I say, shocking!
As it happens, I have my own weather station, and I’m OCD enough to keep an eye on it. And what I’ve noticed is that while yes, it got into the nineties at the farm, it was still a few degrees less than the forecasts.
Of course, the forecasts are made by experts living in the cities, and the weather reports are being made by broadcasters in the city, and the Lexington temperatures, which are what get reported, are taken at the concreted over airport.
What we don’t have out here in the sticks is the urban heat island effect, we don’t have as much concrete or asphalt, and we do have more grass and trees and other plants.
How much of
global warmingclimate change comes not from actual change but same site temperature monitors being more and more surrounded by concrete and asphalt? The Lexington temperature has been ‘officially’ recorded at Bluegrass Field for as many decades as I’ve known — and we first moved to Kentucky in 1962 — and the airport has been expanding continually all along. It’s still west of the city off of Versailles — pronounced ‘ver-sales‘ — Road, outside of the urbanized area itself, in the midst of some of the horse farms, but the city itself and the urban heat island it creates have been expanding, from 62,810 people in the 1960 census, to 204,165 in 1980, to 322,570 in 2020, and an estimated 329,437 in 2024. All of those extra people needed someplace to live, needed the extra housing, and the extra businesses in which to work.Lexington’s population is now 5.24 times what it was in 1960.
How dare they report the temperature where most of the people live!!
Of course, urban areas comprise little of the Earth and most of the “cultish” temperature readings are taken away from the cities. Even the ocean temperatures are increasing – with no cities there (other than the undersea alien construction).
Not even skeptic scientists like Tony Watts, Richard A. Muller and Roy Spencer believe that global warming is an artifact of the urban heat island effect.
Science should advise policy rather than vice-versa.
Let me ask Mr Teach and his minions… Is the Earth actually warming or not? If it is warming do you believe it’s because of the urban heat island effect?
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Excessive heat and humidity-also known by it’s street name “summer”