Prepare yourself for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn -- PBS

[erronis]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/prepare-yourself-for-several-years-of-killer-heat-top-weather-forecasters-warn

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast.

There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office.

“Higher global mean temperatures may sound abstract, but it translates in real life to a higher chance of extreme weather: stronger hurricanes, stronger precipitation, droughts,” said Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald, who wasn’t part of the calculations but said they made sense. “So higher global mean temperatures translates to more lives lost.”

With every tenth of a degree the world warms from human-caused climate change “we will experience higher frequency and more extreme events (particularly heat waves but also droughts, floods, fires and human-reinforced hurricanes/typhoons),” emailed Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. He was not part of the research.

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[markodochartaigh]

1. And lethal wet bulb temperatures

will go from killing a few outdoor workers and high school football players each year to killing far more poor and elderly.

[dutch777]

2. Only surprise in this is that we still have weather forecasters. Seems a lot like that taboo.... science.

[BoRaGard]

3. "No problem. We're in charge now." - Krasnov (R-Felon) and G.O.P., Inc.

"We are stomping out all the information on this kind of stuff,
so you need not trouble your pretty little prole heads about climate chaos.
You will never hear of it again. Heh heh." - G.O.P. inc.

[erronis]

4. And if you do get concerned, take that to the next "election" - whatever that is anymore.