Talk:1995 Chicago heat wave

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Was this article written by Eric Klinenberg? This reads like an advertisment for his book!

Problems with this article

This article only cites one source. The "Politics of Disaster" section just gratuitously points to one source, without any real data, and should be deleted. Dschultz 17:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

climate change

It's hard to "blame" any single event on climate change, but I found this article talking about how heat waves will probably get worse in the Chicago area.

More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century

Gerald A. Meehl* and Claudia Tebaldi

A global coupled climate model shows that there is a distinct geographic pattern to future changes in heat waves. Model results for areas of Europe and North America, associated with the severe heat waves in Chicago in 1995 and Paris in 2003, show that future heat waves in these areas will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the second half of the 21st century. Observations and the model show that present-day heat waves over Europe and North America coincide with a specific atmospheric circulation pattern that is intensified by ongoing increases in greenhouse gases, indicating that it will produce more severe heat waves in those regions in the future.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5686/994

Can we add something about climate change to this article? How should it be worded if we do? futurebird 14:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

sources

There is only one book that is exclusively about the chicago heat wave, It's a really good book and was well receive in both academic and popular non-fiction circles. I have added a number of journal articles that support the claims in the book and I have not found ANYTHING that disputes it. At present I think this article is well sourced enough, and I don't know why we need the tag. If there are specific part of the article that still could use a source please use the "citation needed" inline tag to indicate where they are. futurebird 14:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/348/7/666

opps I did find some evidence of controversy... futurebird 15:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

thanks for your efforts in improving the article. that's all i was really looking for - the article as previously formulated simply took the POV of the author of the book and rubber-stamped it. which naturally fails NPOV. Anastrophe 15:10, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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• http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm
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--JeffGBot (talk) 03:02, 8 June 2011 (UTC)