<kdthrge@yahoo.com> wrote
Sit back, put on a high fidelity CD, and enjoy the hysteria of
panicing about the unseen catastrophe. If you can't quite get your
hysteria groove on, just string all the catastrophes you see on the
news together into a climatic event of the apocalypse of the end
times, and then you can start running in circles and demanding that
regular people that only use fuel for survival, should be the ones to
curtail their normal life, while you enjoy your 'climate controlled'
environment in high fidelity on your private lear jet, or in your
massive air space of your mansion in S. California where you don't
need air conditioning or heating, but run it continually anyway.
AUGUST 2003 HEAT WAVE IN WESTERN
EUROPE: AN ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVE
I. Rasool (1), M. Baldi (2), R.A. Pielke Sr. (3), K. Wolter (4), T.N. Chase
(5), J.
Otterman (6)
(1) Consultant, Paris, France, (2) IBIMET-CNR, Via dei Taurini, 19, 00185
Rome ?U Italy, (3)
Dpt of Atmos Sc., CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1371, (4) NOAA-CIRES Climate
Diagnostics
Center R/CDC1 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80303-3328, (5) CIRES - Campus Box
216, Univ
of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, (6) Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Research, Code
900.8,
NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, 20771 (Contact: , fax:+39 06
49937685)
The summer 2003 heat wave in Western Europe was deadly. Over 30,000 people
perished
in Western Europe, more than in any European weather-related disaster in
more
than 50 years. In France alone the deaths due to the heat wave were close to
15000.
Initial estimates of economic losses (at least US$ 13 Billion ) place the
European heat
wave on top of all natural disasters of 2003. Most of this was due to
agricultural (crop)
losses and damages due to forest fires, in particular in Portugal.
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