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From: "Robert G Lewis"
"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:464427f1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> But make sure the Americans build a solid border fence which you can use
> to keep em back.....
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Hot_Future.html
>
> "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."
>
>
> "Instead of daily summer highs in the 1990s that averaged in the low to
> mid 80s Fahrenheit, the eastern United States is in for daily summer
> highs regularly in the low to mid 90s, the study found. The study only
> looked at the eastern United States because that was the focus of the
> funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lynn said.
>
> And that's just the eastern United States as a whole. For individual
> cities, the future looks even hotter.
>
> In the 2080s, the average summer high will probably be 102 degrees in
> Jacksonville, 100 degrees in Memphis, 96 degrees in Atlanta, and 91
> degrees in Chicago and Washington, according to the study published in
> the peer-reviewed journal Climate.
>
> But every now and then a summer will be drier than normal and that means
> even hotter days, Lynn said. So when Lynn's computer models spit out
> simulated results for July 2085 the forecasted temperatures sizzled past
> uncomfortable into painful. The study showed a map where the average
> high in the southeast neared 115 and pushed 100 in the northeast. Even
> Canada flirted with the low to mid 90s."
>
> "Weaver said looking at the map of a hotter eastern United States he can
> think of one thing: "I like living in Canada.""
>
>
>
>
> Looks like the main habitable belt might move north.....I wonder if
> Canada should put up a statue saying something about giving her the poor
> huddled masses etc.
>
>
>
> Adam
Border fence .
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