New York Times (July 19)
2011/ 07/ 20 by jd in Global News
“It’s time to face the fact that the weather isn’t what it used to be.” Things are getting hotter and moister. Welcome to the new normal. Every decade, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recalculates normal climate data for over 7,000 U.S. locations based on 30-year averages. The latest numbers “show that the climate of the last 10 years was about 1.5 degrees warmer than the climate of the 1970s.” The seemingly small difference is massive. This trend means that summers like the “European heat wave that killed more than 30,000 people during the summer of 2003…. will likely happen every other year by 2040.”
Tags: Europe, Global warming, New normal, NOAA, Temperature, U.S.
