Long-Range Forecast: Heatwave in Summer of 2030 Could Kill 11,000
RUSH: This was USA Today yesterday. In telling you this, I want to ask you to remember something that you know for a fact. You know that weather forecasts beyond a couple or three days are dicey. How many of you have something planned for Saturday? So you go to a website that does 10-day forecasts, and you look 10 days out, what is the weather gonna be on the big day you've got coming up Saturday, and ten days out it tells you it's gonna be sunny and 80. You don't believe it, you want to, but you check every day.
You don't go to the bank on it. You check every day. With nine days left you check it, eight days left you check it. And how many times when you check it, it changes? How many times has a ten-day forecast told you 80 and sunny and it ends up cloudy and 65 or rainy and 75, nothing like 10 days out. It happens all the time, 'cause they don't know. They can't predict accurately that far out. Sometimes they get close. This is not a hit on them, by the way. I'm just reciting reality.
There's too many things about weather and climate that can't be known, that are unpredictable, that make it, at best, an educated, wild-guess circumstance, unless you're talking about 24 hours. In 24 hours they can get close. Beyond that, you check. How many of you check every 12 hours to make sure the forecast is the same it was the last time you looked at it when you got something going on? (interruption) You don't? I do. If I've got a golf trip somewhere, and the weather, depending on time of year, could be dire, I check the forecast every day to make sure if it's gonna be good or bad. I want to make sure it's gonna be okay. A lot of people too.
Okay, anyway, having established that, headline USA Today yesterday: "Summer of 2030 Heat Wave Could Kill 11,000, White House Says." The White House yesterday predicted a heat wave 14 years from now in the summer that will kill 11,000 people.
"Extreme temperatures linked to climate change," of course, "could cause an additional 11,000 heat-related deaths in the United States in the summer of 2030, according to a report," not a forecast, "released Monday by the Obama administration." So global warming is already gonna kill X-numbers of people in 2030, but now we add 11,000 to it yesterday because the White House has said the heat wave 14 years from now is gonna be outrageous.
"That's just the most obvious of many health effects of climate change outlined in the report, part of a year-old effort by the White House to highlight the immediate effects of rising global temperatures." Immediate, 14 years. "Ragweed pollen season is now as many as 27 days longer than it was in 1995, leading to more asthma episodes in children, and wildfires and increasing ozone levels could also lead to respiratory problems. Incidents of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases --" What do you mean? I thought Bill Gates and his wife fixed all that?
That's another thing, Bill and Melinda "malaria" Gates, haven't they wiped that out with their nets and stuff. And what about Tesla and Elon Musk and all the electric cars? Why is all this gonna happen with all the progress we're making?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/04/summer-2030-heat-wave-could-kill-11000-white-house-says/82611292/
RUSH: This was USA Today yesterday. In telling you this, I want to ask you to remember something that you know for a fact. You know that weather forecasts beyond a couple or three days are dicey. How many of you have something planned for Saturday? So you go to a website that does 10-day forecasts, and you look 10 days out, what is the weather gonna be on the big day you've got coming up Saturday, and ten days out it tells you it's gonna be sunny and 80. You don't believe it, you want to, but you check every day.
You don't go to the bank on it. You check every day. With nine days left you check it, eight days left you check it. And how many times when you check it, it changes? How many times has a ten-day forecast told you 80 and sunny and it ends up cloudy and 65 or rainy and 75, nothing like 10 days out. It happens all the time, 'cause they don't know. They can't predict accurately that far out. Sometimes they get close. This is not a hit on them, by the way. I'm just reciting reality.
There's too many things about weather and climate that can't be known, that are unpredictable, that make it, at best, an educated, wild-guess circumstance, unless you're talking about 24 hours. In 24 hours they can get close. Beyond that, you check. How many of you check every 12 hours to make sure the forecast is the same it was the last time you looked at it when you got something going on? (interruption) You don't? I do. If I've got a golf trip somewhere, and the weather, depending on time of year, could be dire, I check the forecast every day to make sure if it's gonna be good or bad. I want to make sure it's gonna be okay. A lot of people too.
Okay, anyway, having established that, headline USA Today yesterday: "Summer of 2030 Heat Wave Could Kill 11,000, White House Says." The White House yesterday predicted a heat wave 14 years from now in the summer that will kill 11,000 people.
"Extreme temperatures linked to climate change," of course, "could cause an additional 11,000 heat-related deaths in the United States in the summer of 2030, according to a report," not a forecast, "released Monday by the Obama administration." So global warming is already gonna kill X-numbers of people in 2030, but now we add 11,000 to it yesterday because the White House has said the heat wave 14 years from now is gonna be outrageous.
"That's just the most obvious of many health effects of climate change outlined in the report, part of a year-old effort by the White House to highlight the immediate effects of rising global temperatures." Immediate, 14 years. "Ragweed pollen season is now as many as 27 days longer than it was in 1995, leading to more asthma episodes in children, and wildfires and increasing ozone levels could also lead to respiratory problems. Incidents of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases --" What do you mean? I thought Bill Gates and his wife fixed all that?
That's another thing, Bill and Melinda "malaria" Gates, haven't they wiped that out with their nets and stuff. And what about Tesla and Elon Musk and all the electric cars? Why is all this gonna happen with all the progress we're making?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/04/summer-2030-heat-wave-could-kill-11000-white-house-says/82611292/