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NYTimes Discovers Summer Desert Is Hot, Blames Climate Change

by STEPHEN KRUISER
August 28, 2019, 3:23 PM
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Phoenix SunscapePerhaps the goal of climate hysteria-mongers isn’t really to save the planet at all, but to drown it in so much nonsense that rational people grow weary of fighting the New World Order they are attempting to impose upon us.

Monday’s edition of The New York Times ran an article titled “Heat Deaths Jump in Southwest United States, Puzzling Officials.”

The jump involved a spike in deaths over a four-year period in Arizona and Nevada, most of which occurred in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

While the increase was statistically significant — 105 in 2014 versus 374 in 2017 — we’re talking about fewer than 70 people a year in two cities with combined populations of over 5 million

In a desert.

In summertime.

Throw in the 40 million tourists that Las Vegas plays host to annually and the problem, while worth looking at, doesn’t seem quite as alarming.

Where the Times goes with this is what caught my eye:

The long-term health effects of rising temperatures and heatwaves are expected to be one of the most dangerous consequences of climate change, causing “tens of thousands of additional premature deaths per year across the United States by the end of this century,” according to the federal government’s Global Change Research Program. The effect could be even more severe in other parts of the world, potentially making parts of North Africa and the Middle East “uninhabitable.”

Still, the fact that deaths have already increased so rapidly in Nevada and Arizona is surprising, according to David Hondula, a professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. He said heat deaths have generally been declining in the United States, thanks to changes like better health care, more air-conditioning and improved weather forecasting.

I was born — and now live again — in the Sonoran Desert, which is where Phoenix is. It’s hot here. Always has been. I live in one of the cooler parts of this desert (Tucson) and it’s going to be 106 here today. At the end of August.

Because it’s a desert.

It has always been hot here. I once asked my grandfather what they did here during the summer in the days before air conditioning. His terse reply, “Not much.”

The article does explore more plausible explanations, like an increase in the number of homeless or elderly people in the two cities.

While the Las Vegas homeless population has decreased, the number of tourists isn’t factored into the possibilities in the article.

Tourists, by the way, are notoriously stupid when visiting the desert:

A group of nearly four dozen fitness coordinators from Kansas became overwhelmed while hiking in the Superstitions yesterday, and two needed to be airlifted: https://t.co/eCfT4f5JpE #abc15 pic.twitter.com/Hav7afNVhi

— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) August 24, 2019

Also left out of consideration is the fact that Phoenix is the fastest growing city in the United States, and Las Vegas is in the Top 15.

Again, the increase is definitely worth exploring, and I’m not diminishing the fact that people are dying. The heat in the desert is very, very dangerous.

I was outside for 15 minutes one day last week when it was 109 and got lightheaded, and I handle the heat very well.

My problem with this entire article is that it leads with the climate change stuff and sticks with it, even while admitting authorities aren’t sure exactly why the increase happened.

Even if it is on average a couple of degrees warmer in the desert now than it was in the early part of the century, there is air-conditioning everywhere, as the article mentioned.

The difference between 104 degrees and 106 degrees is probably not suddenly making people die. It’s all dangerous after 100 degrees, even when the humidity is low. The desert sun is not to be trifled with no matter how much humidity is in the air.

The article concludes with something painfully predictable from the climate crowd — a plea for the government to do more.

The government can’t make outdoor summer temperatures any cooler in Phoenix.

Because it’s a desert.

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Comments 8

  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    Hey liberals did you know right now in New Zealand and Australia its winter? Yes in the Southern Hemisphear its reversed seasons and they still get snow in their mountain’s

    Reply
  2. Лазо says:
    6 years ago

    Won’t the tens of thousands of “Climate refugees” (AKA “Snowbirds”) from the northern states and from Canada & Alaska who come to Las Vegas and Phoenix in the winter to escape the cold and are still alive help balance out these paltry few hundred deaths cause by the heat of the summer? All we seem to hear from the NYT is the flip-side of things to support a common, misplaced agenda.

    Reply
  3. JayPee says:
    6 years ago

    Who reads the NYT ?

    Who is so stupid that they would want to read the NYT ?

    Why does the NYT ( and CNN for that matter )
    continue to exist ?

    BECAUSE far leftist extremists demand that it exist.

    They would have no voice without

    the extremist left corrupt mainstream media.

    Without the MSM pigs
    They would have no voice.

    Reply
  4. TemplarOz says:
    6 years ago

    The New York Times needs to come clean and compare the number of ‘cold weather’ deaths to those of ‘hot weather’ deaths. It probably won’t because it would destroy their dangerous global warming narrative.

    Reply
  5. Sonnyhill says:
    6 years ago

    Gotta ask. If warmer is bad, why is Phoenix the fastest growing city in America? Why is Texas drawing people from San Francisco? Temperature is not the primary consideration, prosperity is. All those “climate change refugees” from Central America are achieved fleeing crooks like Bernie and AOC

    Reply
  6. Kevin says:
    6 years ago

    So called experts can’t explain why something is happening so let’s blame it on man made climate change. Not surprising at all.

    Reply
  7. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    The New York Pravda(Times)someone needs to remind them that Deserts are always hot in the Summer but their just a liberal propeganda rag front page lies this is the same liberal rag that covered up for Stalin and Castro and its stu[od Arctic Circle comics still shows Penguins and Polar Bears living in the same place while in truth they live poles apart but the NYT’s is pretty much a leftists rag

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  8. Steve says:
    6 years ago

    So the NYT is surprised that it is hot in the desert in the summer? They’d probably also be surprised that bears do their toileting in the woods or that the Pope is Catholic (well, with today’s pope that could be a justifiable question!)

    If the Times wants to see a big jump in deaths in the desert in the summer then it should continue to push for a de-carbonizing their electricity generation by using wind and solar–power would be so expensive that many won’t be able to afford running their A/C units.

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