Guest post by David Middleton
Biden announces plan to combat extreme heat caused by climate change
Ben Adler·Senior Climate Editor
Mon, September 20, 2021[…]
Yahoo! News
What about the extreme heat that we already had before Al Gore invented Gorebal Warming? Is Biden OK with that extreme heat?
Back to Ben’s article…
The Biden administration on Monday morning announced an interagency plan to deal with the effects of frequent extreme heat waves caused by global warming.
Yahoo! News
Really?
What else ya got Ben?
Extreme heat is now the leading weather-related killer in the United States, and it is becoming more common and severe.
Yahoo! News
Unless “cold” isn’t weather-related, it appears that “heat” generally trails cold in the body count column…
After getting everything wrong, Ben lays out the Biden administration’s plan to fight heat…
Limiting workplace exposure. The Department of Labor will develop regulations and processes…
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Helping families cool off. The Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidance giving states, tribes and territories the flexibility to use funds already designated for assisting low-income households with heating bills and instead direct those funds for air conditioning.
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Advising local efforts to fight the “urban heat island effect.” The streets and buildings of cities tend to worsen extreme heat, which has a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino neighborhoods.
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Calling all experts. The National Integrated Heat Health Information System, an interagency group put together by the White House…
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So…
- Regulate common sense.
- Turn on the air conditioner.
- What? I thought the UHI was a skeptic thingy.
- Hire more bureaucrats with PhD’s in useless subjects.
Regarding, air conditioning… Yeah, we already knew that one.
“The answer is blowing in the…” window
Abstract
Heat is the primary weather-related cause of death in the United States. Increasing heat and humidity, at least partially related to anthropogenic climate change, suggest that a long-term increase in heat-related mortality could occur. We calculated the annual excess mortality on days when apparent temperatures–an index that combines air temperature and humidity–exceeded a threshold value for 28 major metropolitan areas in the United States from 1964 through 1998. Heat-related mortality rates declined significantly over time in 19 of the 28 cities. For the 28-city average, there were 41.0 +/- 4.8 (mean +/- SE) excess heat-related deaths per year (per standard million) in the 1960s and 1970s, 17.3 +/- 2.7 in the 1980s, and 10.5 +/- 2.0 in the 1990s. In the 1960s and 1970s, almost all study cities exhibited mortality significantly above normal on days with high apparent temperatures. During the 1980s, many cities, particularly those in the typically hot and humid southern United States, experienced no excess mortality. In the 1990s, this effect spread northward across interior cities. This systematic desensitization of the metropolitan populace to high heat and humidity over time can be attributed to a suite of technologic, infrastructural, and biophysical adaptations, including increased availability of air conditioning.
Davis, Knappenberger, Michaels, and Novicoff, 2003
Reference
Davis, R. E. , Knappenberger, P. C. , Michaels, P. J. , & Novicoff, W. M. (2003). Changing heat‐related mortality in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(14), 1712–1718. 10.1289/ehp.6336 [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
[This article has been edited post publication by Charles to make somewhat less political]
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The reality is that, based on the paleoclimate record and the work done with models, the climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. Despite the hype, there is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support tie conclusion that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. Hence all efforts to reduce CO2 emissions will have no effect on climate. Personally what Biden should do is place himself in total climate lockdown in the basement of his home in Delaware. It will have no effect on global climate but politically it is what Biden should do.
Biden, the guy who made a speech at the “UN” ?
https://youtu.be/O5AYvvtwYe8?t=61
That was painful to watch.
No doubt, world leaders are looking at Biden aghast, and wondering how such an unqualified person could be running the United States.
The leaders of the enemies of the United States are not looking aghast at Biden, they are smiling from ear to ear. They’re feeling their oats now.
It’s not good when murderous dictators feel they are on a roll. They almost always overstep their bounds when unrestrained.
Now, one of the few restraints they have had in the past, the United States, is being led by an appeaser of dictators. So we have a double-whammy in the United States: We have a man leading us who is a natural appeaser in his own mind, and he is compromised financially by the world’s dictators, so he is incapable of reigning in the ambtions of these dictators, on two fronts.
The world got a lot more dangerous when Joe Biden took office. Simply because Joe Biden is out of his league in the job he holds, and because he is compromised by the financial deals the Biden Crime Family has made with our enemies in the past.
Joe Biden is the worst president ever and he’s only been in office nine months.
I did it again, didn’t I, Mark. I know the difference.
The very same national embarrassment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58657887
“A climate summit of world leaders in 40 days’ time will be the “turning point for humanity”, PM Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations.
He warned that global temperature rises were already inevitable, but called on his fellow leaders to commit to major changes to curb further warming.
Four areas needed tackling – “coal, cars, cash and trees”, he said.
Countries must take responsibility for “the destruction we are inflicting, not just upon our planet but ourselves”.
“It’s time for humanity to grow up,” he added ahead of the UK hosting the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
The prime minister also said it was time to listen to the warnings of scientists. “Look at Covid if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right.””
I can’t help but read “A climate summit of world leaders in 40 days’ time will be the “turning point for
humanitystudidity”And all that with winter just around the corner!
And yet Seattle and the NW saw a record heatwave this year, with some hundreds of deaths…?
Might he be addressing a real problem?
(5 other heatwaves in USA this summer)
Why don’t you mention the cold waves ?
There were a lot, NH & SH, even simultaneously.
Because this is an article about Biden’s response to heatwaves.
Paired with Izaak the Idiot, the two of you can suck all the IQ points out of a room.
Which kill far less people than cold spells do warmer is better for people
Krishna: Why don’t you mention the cold waves ?
There were a lot, NH & SH, even simultaneously.
Griff: “Because this is an article about Biden’s response to heatwaves.”
How much do you make as a “Cherry Picker”?
There have been heatwaves in summer for as long as there have been summers.
The US is a big place, there are thousands of “places” in the US. The fact that 5 or 6 of those places saw heat waves is not unusual.
BTW, there are 10’s of thousands of cities in the US. Most of those cities have temperature records going back only a hundred years or so. So the fact that a few of those cities broke records this summer is once again, not unusual in the slightest.
I seem to recall griff screaming and yelling about how the record cold in Texas and other states this past winter was just weather. On the other hand, every heat wave is proof of global warming.
“(5 other heatwaves in USA this summer”
There was the heatwave in the northwest that can legitimately be called a heatwave. It was a fluke of nature, where many variables have to come together at the same time. It doesn’t happen very often, and there is no connection with CO2.
Then there was your normal heatwave in Arizona earlier in the year. That lasted a couple fo days and then it’s gone and the rain moved in.
That’s two heatwaves. Where are the other four heatwaves you are referring to? I asked you this before when you made the same claim but you failed to reply. I wonder why.
So what caused these heatwaves, griff?
CO2 maybe?
If so, please give links to proof.
No, didn’t think you could.
No, Griff definitely can’t. There are no such links.
Ever heard of “TheWayBackMachine”?
Ever heard of the 1930’s?
PS How many cold springs in the USA this year?
The 17 year cicadas emergence was a few weeks later than projected where I live. They depend on ground temperature. Ground temperature here didn’t rise enough until later than usual.
Didn’t I see somewhere that heat deaths in 1901 reached 9600?
Question: “ Where is the mental health test for Joe Biden – the same test that Mr Trump was required to undergo”
Where where where. C.mon, don’t be shy, speak up. Where?
I’ll tell ya, spoil your fun.
Mr Biden is not having his cognitive skills checked out because he is regarded by The Vast Majority as = Normal
Mr Trump faced the indignity because he was = Different
Okaaaaaay, but how? Why?
What made Mr Trump soooo different. Why did he (patently) frighten people to such an extent they ‘wanted rid’
I’ve told you all here plenty times. I’ve told you ‘Do your own research, do some science, run and experiment, record the results and then, maybe, document them.
The Experiment:
Take yourself on a Low-carb diet & perfectly free of alcohol. For at least 12 months.
It is a very subtle experiment, the results sneak up on you without your realising until, classically, a long-lost friend meets you.
And their very first words to you, exclaimed from across the parking-lot or wherever and in absolute certainty/clarity will be:
“My, don’t you look well. How you keeping. You look 10 years younger than when I last saw you – what gives”
It is then that you realise you are living in a Land Of Zombies – mentally as well as physically.
It is then that the penny drops – about everything
It is then that you ‘learn to dance‘ and even more so, go out and do it
Can anyone picture Joe Biden ‘dancing’
“What made Mr Trump soooo different. Why did he (patently) frighten people to such an extent they ‘wanted rid’”
Trump told everyone the unvarnished truth. The Left can’t handle the truth being told because it makes them look bad, so they attack anyone and everyone who tells the truth about them. Trump just told the truth about them a little better than most, and he was president, so he was target number one for the Left. And he still is target number one. He’ll probably be running for president again in 2024, and no doubt will be speaking a lot more truth about the Left as he does so.
I think Trump’s next political rally is next month. Last month, at his last political rally, he had a crowd of about 50,000 attending. In the rain.
ISTR the next one will be in Georgia soon, maybe even this weekend.
I just heard a little while ago that Trump’s rally will be tomorrow (Saturday) in Georgia. I know Newsmax tv will carry the rally, and if you don’t get Newsmax tv, you can get the free app and stream it from there.
I imagine Trump will have something to say about the Arizona vote audit.
The dead lady who used to live at the end of my block voted for him…80,000,000 times.
That’s our leader. God help us.
With apologies to Alfonso Bedoya, actor in the great 1948 film classic, “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”.
Just for fun, lets evaluate step 1 combined for a statistically/physically significant time period w.r.t. AGW. I.e., the post aerosol era, post 1980 period, when the real impact of [CO2] and [CH4] forcings were in play.
Increase – ~ 0.60%/year
Standard error of that increase – ~ 0.23%/year
Chance of the trend in fact being flat or down – 1 in 233.
Certainly lots of spray in the data, but these are the relevant parameters. And just to remind you, it’s not statistically defensible to diss the data by showing us it’s meaningless R^2. This has already been (validly) debunked here, by both other commenters and other posters. The proof is available statistically, but all you need to do is to detrend this data to see how the parameter then changes. If it was a useful parameter, it wouldn’t. OTOH, the standard error of the trend – the trend itself being set to zero with detrending – remains constant…..
Thanks for the entree, Mr. M. This is both fun and easy:
Post 1980 min temp extremes index trend (Step 2 Combined)
Increase – ~ 0.99%/year
Standard error of that increase – ~ 0.28%/year
Chance of the trend in fact being flat or down – 1 in 5355.
Post 1980 PDSI (Palmer Drought Severity Index) trend (Step 3 Combined)
Increase – ~ 0.18%/year
Standard error of that increase – ~ 0.11%/year
Chance of the trend in fact being flat or down – 1 in 22.
Post 1980 extremes in 1 day precipitation
Increase – ~ 0.13%/year
Standard error of that increase – ~ 0.05%/year
Chance of the trend in fact being flat or down – 1 in 208.
Post 1980 extremes in wet days
Increase – ~ 0.19%/year
Standard error of that increase – ~ 0.11%/year
Chance of the trend in fact being flat or down – 1 in 29.
Yes, other parameters are up, but less so, and with more relative standard error.
Globally, data is less good. And to be fair, the CONUS has the most variable weather in the world. But that is why the IPCC is pledging to improve global extreme weather data gathering and reporting over the next 5 years…..
Another idiot—is there a bullpen (American baseball term) holding the idiots in one spot?
Who is On Deck?
What’s on second.
Where’s third?
A little Americana for you….
I got a good laugh out of that one! Thanks.
About the level of data based response I expected…..
Someone should tell this guy that all those free AC units will add to the UHI effect…
Sky News AU—White House reporters launch formal complaint after Biden refuses to take questions yet again:
I think those White House reporters are starting to get a little upset with the way the Biden administration is treating them. They have been asking a few pointed questions lately. We probably shouldn’t expect them to come down too hard on Biden, though. It’s just a lover’s spat.
Biden was installed by a MSM coup d’etat that poisoned the electorate with fake climate change, a fake scam-demic (C-19 is culling sick old people in nursing homes.) and fake racism propaganda.
He wins, you lose….
EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants – ABC News (go.com)
Assuming authority over a fictional problem. And we have to pay for it. And suffer through nonsensical department names.
I read somewhere a while ago that 80% of those below the official poverty line in the US had air conditioners.
I have a window unit AC for 5 years now. This year I purchased a portable AC unit which uses an eight inch exhaust line fixed to a window or outlet to pump warm air outside. It also has a dehumidifier capability. The cooling ability is immediate from this unit. It is superior to my window unit. It cost almost 300 bucks, but it was well worth it.
“already designated for assisting low-income households with heating bills and instead direct those funds for air conditioning. “
That sounds dangerous.
Well, we’ve had the War On Poverty, the War On Drugs, and the War On Islamic Terrorism.. my money is on the heat.
Have you ever noticed how when we declare a “War on…” whatever, the whatever NEVER goes away?
It’s because we end up creating entire bureaucracies devoted to the issue, and the nature of a bureaucracies is to perpetuate itself. There’s no actual incentive to FIX the problem.
It took me a very long time to realize this but now it is obvious. The entire global warming nonsense is actually a very protracted comedy skit with no end. My ribs hurt bad from rolling on the floor laughing. Biden may be the icing on the cake. No one could write this, he’s such a natural at comedy whether he’s semi-conscious or just doing his zombie impersonation.
“Biden announces plan to combat extreme heat caused by climate change” I thought the climate change was caused by extra heat, not the other way around, but this reporter has made it clear now – CO2 causes climate change then climate change causes heat
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext#supplementaryMaterial
The study of temperature-related deaths published in The Lancet found that 7.29% of the total deaths are because of the cold, that’s about 4.4 million deaths per year of the 60 million world deaths per year. The heat caused 0.42 percent of the total deaths that’s about 250,000 deaths. In the US about 200,000 deaths are caused by the cold compared to about 13,000 caused by the heat.
To help Biden beat the heat we are selling our popular fart stoppers for 50% off – while supplies last. So hurry, order by Friday midnight! Limit one per costumer. Offer void where prohibited by law.
Biden declares war on thinking–his especially.