AP: Researcher says American West is becoming warmer faster on average tha

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WESTERN_WARMING?SITE=CAFRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Oct 13, 5:08 PM EDT

Researcher says American West is becoming warmer faster on average than the rest of the world

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- The American West is becoming warmer faster on average than the rest of the world, a climate researcher says.

"The West is warming dramatically," said Jonathan Overpeck, director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona. "Things are just going to get hotter. You can bet the farm on it."

The West is 2 to 3 degrees warmer than its average annual temperature, calculated using more than 100 years of records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Many studies peg the rise in the earth's average temperature since 1880 at 1 degree, making it the warmest it has been in the last 400 years.

At a conference Thursday, Overpeck said data from some 30 computer-modeling studies shows that by mid-century annual average temperatures in the West will be up 4 or 5 degrees. By the end of the century, the West could be 7 to 8 degrees warmer, he said.

"Things are cooking in the West, and they'll continue to cook even more," Overpeck said.

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[villager]

1. "bet the farm" indeed, since there won't be any

after a few more years/degrees...

And when the San Joaquin valley goes... well, they're the "red zone" in California, so all that "science" doesn't really count, does it?

[Ian David]

2. Heatwaves= most catastrophic natural disaster in terms of casualties

We're gonna bake Dumbfuckistan first!

Of course, that just means the rest of us will starve.

[datadiva]

3. I live here in the San Joaquin Valley

and I can attest to the fact that it is hotter. It has a different feel to it also. I spent most of the summer indoors because of it. Two of my hedges died this summer. My Pistache tree didn't have red fruit this year, they just turned brownish black and skipped the red stage. Really strange.

[Megahurtz]

4. It's going to be a cold winter out West.

After all, Farmer's Almanac says so:

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/forthepress/uspressrelease.html

[jwirr]

5. That may be because the wind is blowing the cold storm to MN.

We are freezing and it is only Oct. 13!

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. Check the map

http://www.climatehotmap.org/namerica.html

[kestrel91316]

7. ..

:cry: