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HOW HOT WILL PLANET EARTH GET BY 2050?

From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):


        DAY   USA   WORLD   Brazil     India  South Africa

June     9    1093     4732         1185       246       82
July    22     1205     7128         1293      1120     572
Aug    12     1504     6556        1242        835     130
Sept     9     1208      6222       1136       1168       82
Oct     21     1225      6849         571        703       85
Nov    25      2304    12025        620        518     118
Dec    30      3880    14748       1224       299     465
Jan     14       4142     15512        1151         189     712              
Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107     398
          25       2414    10578         1582        119     144
Mar     2        1989    9490         1726        110     194
          31         1115   12301          3950       458      58
April   6         906   11787           4211         631      37
May    4         853   13667          3025      3786     59 
           5         743    14567          2791       3982     46 
         11          743     13444         2275       4200     71    

Summary:  Much of the world is slowly improving.  Except for India.

The BBC showed a graphic which should be alarming to most.  These are the expected temperature increases for those cities from now (article written in 2019) to 2050:


You need to multiply by 1.8 to convert to Fahrenheit degrees.  Thus, in 2050 Seattle will be 11 F higher in the month of August.  However, the average high today is only 75 F, so 86 F might still be tolerable with air conditioning.  While Phoenix today ranges from a low or 81 F to a high of 105 F in August, the increase won't be as high as 11 F, but still, a lot worse than today, which is already oppressive.  And it's worse in July in Las Vegas.  Their all time high of 113 will surely be exceeded.  Another way to look at this is how Dallas-Fort Worth will suffer into the future.

Mecca, Saudi Arabia already has the highest average annual city temperature of 33 C, or 91 F.  Bangkok averages 35 C (95 F) from March to May with humidity in the 90's.  I've been there many times, and frankly don't remember being uncomfortable.  But I pretty much stayed in air conditioned comfort.  
Death Valley averages 117 F in the summer.  At one time there was contention as to whether the 1913 temperature there of 56.7 F or in Libya that same year was the highest.  They have both been decertified, so Furnace Creek in Death Valley's 55.4 C (129.9 F), taken on 16 August 2020, is now the official all time high for the world.   I too have visited that site, and the temperature was not quite that, but certainly intolerable.


The ten warmest years were all from 2005, at #10.  The three hottest were #1 2016, #2 2020 and #3 2019.

  • The current estimate is that the planet will warm by 2 C (3.6 F) by 2050.
  • Current discussions are about having the world pledging to limit rising by 1.5 C (2.7 F) by 2050.
  • Current commitments are not sufficient to prevent a 2 C rise by 2050.
  • Further, Planet Earth would then further increase in temperature from 2.9 C (5.2 F)  to 3.4 C (6.1 F) by 2100.
  • To keep below an increase of 1.5 C, carbon emissions need to be cut 45% by 2030, and reach net zero by 2050.

The worst countries:


Drop in Arctic ice:


You can begin by what you eat.  Perhaps I am a glutton.

Click here to see additional graphics.

More important than just showing temperature is the effect this will have on Humanity.  But that will come in a future posting.  Just one more though, sea level rise:


The
New York Times has a link where you type in your city, then the year you were born.  You then can see how much the temperature has increased since your birth.  Click on that now, for they could cut-off this service in the future.  Their data only goes to 1960, but that is far back enough to compare with 2020.

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