Climate denial is expensive... The devastating economic toll of severe heat waves.

CBS News: The devastating economic toll of severe heat waves.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-economic-impact/

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HowardP · 80-89, M

"CLIMATE DENIAL" is probably the most stupid concept ever to be adopted by people without a critical thought in their head. You cannot deny climate. Climate exists. North Pole, Equator, South Pole, and all points in between. From -60C to +31C on average. Climate has existed since atmosphere first formed over 4 billion years ago, and every day since then, it has changed. There is no such thing as an average or ideal climate. Todays climate is far from ideal. Look at the Sahara Dessert. !5,000 years ago it was GREEN, while New York was under a kilometre of ice. There is no one with an IQ above that of wet earth that denies the reality of climate or that climate changes. And there is not a scintilla of evidence that on a decadal scale that heatwaves are any more prevalent now than in the dustbowl days of the 30s.

GrinNude · 61-69, C

@HowardP You can ignore anthropomorphic climate change. But you can't ignore the consequences.

GrinNude · 61-69, C

@HowardP Unfortunately, heat-waves are becoming more prevalent.

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Heat waves are just one of the types of extreme weather climate change becoming more frequent

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-climate-change-getting-more-frequent/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag7e#site-header:15

ElwoodBlues · M

@HowardP

there is not a scintilla of evidence that on a decadal scale that heatwaves are any more prevalent now than in the dustbowl days of the 30s.

Actually, there IS good evidence that heat waves are more common.

Across the globe, hot days are getting hotter and more frequent, while we’re experiencing fewer cold days. Over the past decade, daily record high temperatures have occurred twice as often as record lows across the continental United States, up from a near 1:1 ratio in the 1950s. Heat waves are becoming more common, and intense heat waves are more frequent in the U.S. West, although in some parts of the country the 1930s still holds the record for number of heat waves (primarily related to the Dust Bowl, which was exacerbated by the conversion of prairie to farmland).

And since we're talking about GLOBAL warming, let's bring in the rest of the world: