Heat waves like the one that punished the central United States in July 2012 may be more common and longer - lasting by the time today's children are raising their own families, according to results from a high -
resolution climate model experiment conducted by scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
And I do think there are a number of questions about interpretation of observations, and the details of the
climate model experiment (the very large exponentially increasing freshwater fluxes, the low -
resolution of the ocean which obscures the potentially important role of wind - driven ocean gyres, etc.).