[MCN] Flood makes headlines for now. Next up, summer heat ... and fire???

[Lance Olsen]

“Building on Sun et al. (2014), Mueller et al. (2016) systematically examined the  occurrence of record hot summers since 1950 in many land regions. They found that human influence has made record high summer temperature at least 10 times as likely and projected that the historically hottest summers would become the norm for more than half of the world’s population within 20 years.”

Chao Li et al. Recent very hot summers in northern hemispheric land areas measured by wet bulb globe temperature will be the norm within 20 years.  

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Earth’s Future 
Open access:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000639/full>
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Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955
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