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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Global warming study pinpoints dates when cities will be off-the-charts hot (in The Toronto Star)

"A new study on global warming pinpoints the probable dates for when cities and ecosystems around the world will regularly experience hotter environments the likes of which they have never seen before.

"And for dozens of cities, mostly in the tropics, those dates are a generation or less away. ...

"[Study author Camilo] Mora [a biological geographer at the University of Hawaii] forecasts that the unprecedented heat starts in 2020 with Manokwa, Indonesia. Then Kingston, Jamaica. Within the next two decades, 59 cities will be living in what is essentially a new climate, including Singapore, Havana, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City.

"By 2043, 147 cities — more than half of those studied — will have shifted to a hotter temperature regime that is beyond historical records."


Global warming study pinpoints dates when cities will be off-the-charts hot.