"NASA Study: Eastern U.S. to Get Hotter"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Future eastern United States summers look much hotter than originally predicted with daily highs about 10 degrees warmer than in recent years by the mid-2080s, a new NASA study says.

Previous and widely used global warming computer estimates predict too many rainy days, the study says. Because drier weather is hotter, they underestimate how warm it will be east of the Mississippi River, said atmospheric scientists Barry Lynn and Leonard Druyan of Columbia University and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

"Unless we take some strong action to curtail carbon dioxide emissions, it's going to get a lot hotter," said Lynn, now a scientist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "It's going to be a lot more dangerous for people who are not in the best of health."

The study got mixed reviews from other climate scientists, in part because the eastern United States has recently been wetter and cooler than forecast.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070511/D8P237CG0.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "You aren't going to believe that science crap, are you?" - Republicons

"Ain't no such thing. I double checked it with Rush Oxycontin Limbaugh, so just shut up with all those facts."

- republicons

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Nice seal

:)

[RebelOne]

2. Well, I doubt that any of us will be around in the mid-2080s.

At least, I won't. So this is the least of my worries.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I have kids and they may have kids, so I am

giving it some thought.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Isn't that the mentality that got us here in the first place?

"Let's trash the earth now, because who cares what kind of world our children and grandchildren will have to live in." It's typical of the short-sighted Republican thinking that is responsible for so much of the environmental degradation that has gone on since Reagan.

Sorry, but I think we can do better than that. :shrug:

[bunkerbuster1]

8. I hope my kid will still be around then.

Unless she's shipped off to fight and die in the next Christian Jihad a future President hatches.

Just sayin'.

[woodsprite]

5. That's due to our proximity to Hell - DC and Jeb-country. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. lol

good one!

[Laughing Mirror]

7. Royal palms down Pennsylvania Avenue and around the Capitol

Thus completing the picture. It really will look like a Banana Republic then.

[Jim Warren]

9. Where, what, 65% of the pop lives?

East of the Mississippi. Hmmm, so where will that migration lead?

And if the East gets hotter by 10 degrees what's gonna happen to the so-called sun belt?

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. I think the southwest will be virtually abandoned, esp if they can

no longer run A/C.