Finally, after paragraphs of fear-mongering, she gets to the point in her titular headline:

Now, about those airport delays. Heat extremes and heat waves will keep getting more intense, longer and more frequent. By 2032, the chance of five summer days in Dallas being at or above 110 o F. will be 5 percent, for instance, up from 2 percent today, and will be 25 percent in 50 years.

She goes on to write about warm air versus cooler air and airplane lift, making a complete mess of the scientific underpinnings of flight. Sort of like saying that table salt is made from Chlorine and Sodium and, therefore, salt will kill you. As you can see in the above quote, she states the percents and temperature variations with the authority of my local weatherman (who is usually wrong about the 3-day forecast at least half the time).

She then quotes a report by the NRC that “If runways are not sufficiently long for large aircraft to build up enough speed to generate lift, aircraft weight must be reduced or some flights cancelled altogether. Thus, increases in extreme heat are likely to result in payload restrictions, flight cancellations, and service disruptions at affected airports.”

Anyone who travels extensively, or at holidays, already knows there's no such thing as a guaranteed on-time flight not only because of bad weather, but also because of too many airplanes, too few FCC controllers, and too few runways.

Ms. Begley offers no documentation of her alarmist blog rant, but we can safely assume she doesn’t know the difference between journalism and outlandish fear-mongering either.

Alan Caruba edited this article.

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