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Climate change could make Philadelphia more like Orlando

POSTED: Friday, August 21, 2009, 8:48 AM

Climate Central, a nonprofit educational organization based in Princeton, reports that climate change could make temperatures in Philadelphia more like those in Orlando by 2050. The average number of days with temperatures over 90 degrees in August will increase from 6 to 20 in Philadelphia by 2050, according to Climate Central, about the same number as Orlando experiences now.

"A basic statistical analysis of climate change projections by Climate Central suggests that across the American cities analyzed, the average number of days in August with temperatures over 95 degrees could nearly triple by 2050 and the average number of days over 100 degrees could nearly double," the group reports on its website.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:36 PM, 08/21/2009

Wow...this is bad... but people are so uneducated that they have no idea what this would do to the Delaware Valley. Do you think a Maple tree could survive in FLA? Our sewers would not be able to handle the rain. Peoples basements would flood on a monthly basis. on and on and on.

— beetleboya

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:14 PM, 08/21/2009

Sarah Palin claims to understand "real" Americans...yet lives in a state that is seperated from the rest of the continental US by thousands of miles and CANADA; she'd never been to Chicago or NYC, or Philly, or L.A. before her VP run. yet she is going to tell me that people need to own guns? try minding your own family before you stick your right wing nose in mine. Carl Rove ruined this country.

— MichaelZoe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:18 PM, 08/21/2009

lutton, i bet you listen to George Will also when he tells you about "free market" health care? coming from a guy who doesn't work and pays for his insurance in cash from his six figure TV job? Or McCain, who has been on government healthcare in the military or Congress HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE? or Newt, ditto see above on both examples. i'm starting a movement to pass a law revoking the first ammendant for anyone who voted for Bush the 2nd time in 2004. you're freedoms have now been forfeited.

— MichaelZoe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:19 PM, 08/21/2009

lutton, i bet you listen to George Will also when he tells you about "free market" health care? coming from a guy who doesn't work and pays for his insurance in cash from his six figure TV job? Or McCain, who has been on government healthcare in the military or Congress HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE? or Newt, ditto see above on both examples. i'm starting a movement to pass a law revoking the first amendment for anyone who voted for Bush the 2nd time in 2004. your freedoms have now been forfeited.

— MichaelZoe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:16 AM, 08/22/2009

The idea that there is 'zero scientific evidence for global warming' is nothing more than totally and unequivocally ludicrous. These are the same people that think there is no evidence for evolution and probably think the world is flat. These people are simply uninformed on the subject, as it is not even a debate. Only this certain group (generally a segment of extremely conservative Americans) are still holding on to this idea, for what reason, I can't imagine). Anyway all I can say, in words of Rep. Barney Frank "Having a conversation with you, is like having a conversation with a dining room table, I have no interest in doing it".

— cjschulke

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:52 PM, 08/23/2009

Not soon enough we then tell PGW to go to hell because vthey always raise their rate in December, people have no other way to keep warm, come on let vwarm up now

— George Hanna