WIth global warming, is a yearlong heatwave possible, especially in most of the United States?

Question

Not that I want it of course, for I am a cold weather person. Just asking.

Answer 1

Not in the short term it's not. The effects of global warming upon the weather are subtle and progressive, from one year to the next there's little change.

It's true that there have been more heatwaves and this year much of Europe was struck by devastating heatwaves, this comes just four years after the previous ones that killed tens of thousands of people.

What we have been seeing on a global scale for many decades now is a gradual increase in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, this trend will continue but it will be a long, long time before it reaches a stage where there are year long heatwaves, hundreds and thousands of years. Hopefully long before that situation arises we'll have addressed the probelm of climate change and things will have returned to their natural levels.

Answer 2

Not in the short term or long term. The effects of global warming, though grossly exaggerated by those with an agenda, are very minimal and certainly less than 4 degrees. If you live in South Dakota where I grew up, that means that a typical winter day will be zero instead of 4 below zero. That is worse case scenario. Most objective estimates are more like 1 degree in a century so that 4 below day would be more like 3 below.

Answer 3

If you mean hotter than 100 degrees F for 365 days in a row, no, that is not possible. Not ever. There is not enough coal and oil in the world to make enough CO2 to cause that much global warming even if we burned it all today.