Holy Heat Batman

With another half a foot of snow falling yesterday and the temperature falling even more the last thing we’re thinking about is heat. Those warm summer days watching the swan boats float around, lemonade, ice cream, t-shirts and sandals are far from the mind. Science is great, the technologies we’ve seen in the last few years are amazing, timing, though, remains of the essence. One would think there could be a better time of year to tell people about the latest craze in global warming. ClimatePrediction.net was written up this month in the journal Nature. They’ve found, using almost 100,000 of personal computers worldwide, that the Earth is heating up at a rate twice what had previously been predicted. From their models they are now predicting a nearly 11 °Celsius (for us in the States that’s about 50 ° Fahrenheit). Today when temperatures in Boston are near 10 °F that’d kick us up to a pleasant 60 °F. A welcome change in the middle of a bitter cold snap. To put this in perspective: burnt toast in July. When we get those nasty days of grueling humidity and heat with thermometer readings at 90° F or more that would mean after global warming takes it’s toll according to this model we would be facing temperatures of 140 °F. Bostonist can’t imagine what that would mean for the world, but the ocean off the Cape might be warm enough to swim before August. There is really more bad than good that will come of this…take action and quit using AquaNet on your hair (it really doesn’t help your look anyway), oh, and get rid of your car.