Well the reason it's so hot within the midwest is because of a large area of high pressure centered over Texas that has been centered there for the past 3-4 months. What a high pressure does is increase pressure within the air column throughout the Atmosphere...It does this through as the air "convergences" at 200-300 millibar level or 30,000-50,000 feet within the Atmosphere and divergences clockwise within the northern Hemisphere at the surface(surface pressure). What this does is cause the air to sink or decrease within its moisture(latent heat) and causes the lapse rate to warm as the air flows from the Atmosphere to the surface. This decreases cloud cover and so you have 1# sunny weather 2# hotter weather with little clouds.
This area of high pressure has sat there for months forcing the jet stream to the northern United states and southern Canada, while the west coast has been within cold weather within a dip within the jet stream. The opposite occurs with low pressure with the air convergences at the surface and removes the air as it rises and forms the clouds from a decrease within the lapse rate and condenses as it goes from a evaporation to condensation. That is a stage change.
Your area is hot for a reason and westwall and my area is cool for a reason. All to do with weather.
Random chance? God’s will, maybe? Don’t know, but it is HOTTER than H-E double hockey sticks here . IT IS warmer than the summers of my childhood, the gentle rains, all that, gone . Gone. The plains are baking. NOW. And there are far more people NOW than forty years ago, and far less rains. More housing developments, less prairie, less meadows and far more condos, more realtors selling land, more people. The world has reached some 7 billion people. That is insane. And to pretend that THAT hasn’t got something to do with our predicament? Denial.
And twenty years from now it will be back to what you remembered. There you go with that denial bullshit again. The only people denying anything is you. Yes the world has 7 billion people on it. Guess what it can support 20 billion with comparitive ease. 23 billion with some work. 40 billion with some serious effort. Malthus was wrong because he ignored a simple thing called technology.
100 years ago a drought like we are experiencing now would have killed thousands. Now the only people who die do so because their governments either allow it to happen or want it to happen. 40 years ago we were all told that the carrying capacity of the planet would be reached by 1980.
Paul Ehrlich has been so spectacularly wrong about everything he's ever opened his mouth about that only the truly religious fanatics still listen to him. Well them and the socialists who think we should be killing off people at the rate of 300,000 or so a day like Jaques Costeau once advocated.
You see, the only people who talk like you do are the scientifically illiterate who believe they know what is best for everyone. People like James Cameron who lives in his palatial mansion but thinks you should live in a hovel because you aren't one of the "elite". They all sound the same don't they?
Here's a wake up call for you. The population of the world has been levelling off and it will most likely stabalise at around 9-10 billion. That's assuming we do nothing. If we actually try and end poverty in the world (and it can be done, just don't use the UN to atempt it) the population will drop. Wealthy people don't need bunches of kids to help work the farm. They have machines do that work for them.
You want to look at the problems of this world? Look in the mirror. You've been spoonfed a bunch of horseshit and you are so un interested in checking it out that you went to sleep.
You are a big part of the problem. Wake up. Educate yourself and start helping to fix the problems of this world. Think globally act locally to make your local area better. After enough people have done that the world will be a better place.
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