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Houston: hot or not? It looks like the scientists are betting on hot:

Assuming little is done to slow the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Houston in 2100 would be a less comfortable place to live, one computer model suggests.

Instead of two or three weeks of 95-plus degree days a year, Houston could expect about 50 days that warm each summer, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Purdue University and lead author of a paper outlining one simulation in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rainfall would also increase somewhat in Diffenbaugh's simulation, but here's the kicker: Houston would receive more of its wet stuff during "extreme rain events," and would actually have about 30 fewer rainy days per year. That likely means more flooding and droughts.

"I have a hard time imagining what it would feel like to live in a Texas with that climate," Diffenbaugh said. "I can't imagine it would be that pleasant."

Unpleasant weather, of course, doesn't mean much to the true believers if the Rapture sucks them all out of their manmade Texan hell.

Meanwhile, the price of a Hummer just went up by a few trillion dollars.

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