The end of an Olympic era?
In 70 years, most cities in the Northern Hemisphere will be unfit to host the summer Olympics due to rising temperatures associated with climate change, according to a medical journal's findings published this week.
“Our study using climate change projection shows that there will be very few cities at the end of the century that will be able to hold the summer Olympics as we know them today,” said John Balmes, a professor of public safety at the University of California, Berkeley, who co-authored the paper.
The estimate is based on “wet-bulb globe temperature” estimates of the climate in each city in 2085, a complex measure of heat effects when temperature, humidity and wind are all taken into account. “Wet bulb” temperatures over 77 degrees are considered dangerous for humans.
“At 98 degrees and 100 percent humidity, you can walk slowly outdoors, but if you try to run, you can actually die. It’s a matter of just the basic physics of it,” [UC Berkeley School of Public Health researcher Kirk Smith] continued.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Republican House Members Love DC:
It seems like Republican House members have decided that they'll have a better chance at reelection if they don't remind voters back home of their existence. We've seen it during this August recess while they flocked to the floor to play at being Congressmembers over drilling instead of hanging out in their districts having to deal with real constituents and real issues.
Now they've announced that they want to stay in DC all fall if that's what it will take to get a drilling bill through.
House Republicans said Monday they would refuse to consider any energy bill that came straight to the floor from the Democratic leadership’s offices, rather than working its way through committee markups — a process that can take weeks or months.
Granted, there's safety in numbers, and they like each other better than anybody else--particularly their constituents -- like them. But this would suggest they really are afraid of voters.
It also suggests that any need to find "compromise" with them on the part of House Democratic leadership is bullshit.
On today's “encore presentation” Kagro in the Morning show, it’s the 8/19/15 show: Greg Dworkin,Armando, Joan McCarter discuss headlines & hyperbole. Trump moves from "impossible" to "not entirely impossible." Obamacare replacement "plans." That ol’ unconstitutional Constitution.
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