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Published online 27 May 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.518
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Hot times ahead for the Wild West
American west threatened by more heatwaves than past models have predicted.
Extreme temperatures are expected to become more common in the western United States by 2040 if greenhouse gases continue to rise, researchers say.
Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and his colleagues simulated climate change for the United States in decade-long periods from 2000 to 2039 using a climate model that divided the land into areas just 25 kilometres square.
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Researchers may well say this, but they also seem to have forgotten to say that there are no climate models with any demonstrable skill at regional level. What can one say on a family forum such as this about scientists who spend scarce public funds on a study which can never produce any useful results?