The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 06, 2017, 01:22:03 pm
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Global-warming trends already hitting New York
EXPERTS: More heat waves and floods, impact on ski areas, farms expected
By JOE MAHONEY CNHI State Reporter Dec 2, 2017 Updated Dec 2, 2017
ALBANY — From Niagara Falls to the eastern tip of the Long Island peninsula, from Lake Champlain to the Allegany State Park, New Yorkers are experiencing the impacts of global climate change.
Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca are projecting that summers in New York will become increasingly uncomfortable as the number of days with scorching temperatures increases.
This trend, they predict, is likely to produce an increase in heat-related illnesses and could tax the power grid as people cope with heat waves by using more air-conditioning.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/global-warming-trends-already-hitting-new-york/article_6d741f86-5ba0-50ca-b5ea-a1bd63aac53c.html (http://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/global-warming-trends-already-hitting-new-york/article_6d741f86-5ba0-50ca-b5ea-a1bd63aac53c.html)
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Russia, Russia, Russia!
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It will be The Midnight Sun (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734660/?ref_=ttmi_tt) all over again.
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Judith Enck, who served as regional U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator overseeing New York and those territories during the Obama administration, said many families who lost their homes in those storms are considering moves to New York.
Considering that the state has lost massive amounts of population because it is a sewer, wouldn't this influx of people be a good thing?
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"Researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca are projecting that summers in New York will become increasingly uncomfortable as the number of days with scorching temperatures increases."
I'm about 110 miles south of Albany.
This past summer was one of the mildest I can recall.
Very few days at 90 and none that I recall above 94 or so.
Most of "the hot days" were in the mid-80's.
In fact, as late as June, the heat came on a couple of nights -- and I don't keep the thermostat that high.
If this is "the trend" global warming brings, keep it coming.
Either that, or somebody be lyin' to us!
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They're talking low 40's Sunday night. It's barely even December. Any more global warming and I'm going to have to move farther south.