Weather, or Not category archive
The Climates They Are a-Changin’ 0
Bonnie McFarlane begs to differ. A highlight:
Read it.
Climate Change Is Bunk 0
Therefore the outside temperature at midnight is not 88 Fahrenheits and my two outside thermometers and the weather link on my sidebar over there —-> are lying to me.
Damned scientists.
Howsomever did they manage to suborn my thermometers?
Little Ricky, Genius at Work 0
Not to mention that Pope Francis trained as a scientist, though he apparently does not have the equivalent of a U. S. Master’s Degree.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
I once went rafting in Lake Powell, which is now Pond Powell.
She Who It That Must Not Be Named
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Watch this Florida state official avoid using the words, “climate change,” which Governor Rick Scott absolutely positively swears on a stack of campaign contributions that he has not forbidden state officials to use.
Via Jacksonville.com, which has commentary.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
It’s all downhill from here.
On Sunday, Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort announced its decision to close – at least temporarily – becoming the fifth of the Tahoe region’s 14 area resorts to shut early this season due to lack of snow, according to a listing compiled by OnTheSnow.com.
At least one outfit is getting out while the getting’s good.
CNL Lifestyle Properties owns 16 resorts including Sunday River and Sugarloaf in Maine, Bretton Woods, Loon Mountain and Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire, Okemo Mountain in Vermont, Crested Butte in Colorado, Brighton in Utah, and Northstar-at-Tahoe and Sierra-at-Tahoe in California.
(Personally, I’ve never had a desire to strap boards to my feet and fall off a mountain.)
Whip Saw 0
The temperature today is almost 60 Fahrenheits higher than the temperature seven days ago.
This is not right.
“If You Don’t Say It, It Ain’t So” 0
From the Republican Department of If-You-Don’t-Talk-about-It-It-Will-Go-Away:
“We were told not to use the terms ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or ‘sustainability,’ ” said Christopher Byrd, an attorney with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of General Counsel in Tallahassee from 2008 to 2013. “That message was communicated to me and my colleagues by our superiors.”
Management denies that there was a “policy,” which is I suspect is bureaucratese for “no one was stupid enough to put this in writing.”
“Nor Any Drop To Drink” 0
The California experiment–making the desert bloom, as the saying went, by shipping in water from everywhere else–lurches closer to failure.
Three of the largest Bay Area water agencies — the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the East Bay Municipal Utility District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which runs the Hetch Hetchy system — all are considering water rate hikes of up to 30 percent this year.
The agencies — which serve 5.8 million people, or about 80 percent of the Bay Area’s population — say they need to increase rates because they are selling a lot less water as customers conserve because of the drought.*
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*Catch 22. It’s the best catch there is.
Everything That Is Wrong with “The Weather Channel” in One Sentence 0
Steven M., in a long post about a different topic:
The Case of the Disappearing Snow Shovels 0
Whenever there is a bit of snow, you see stories of panicky persons buying all the snow shovels.
What happened to the snow shovels they bought during their last panic?
Aside:
The region is suffering under four or so whole inches. That’s almost 10 or 11 centimeters. Oh, the humanity!
Driven to Destruction 0
It appears that residents of neither Pennsylvania nor Massachusetts are able to drive in the snow.
Afterthought:
Some years ago, I was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on a training gig. When I arrived, the temperature was lower than the windspeed. (The customer had been sending me pictures of his snowbound parking lot for a week, so as to enhance my anticipation of the trip.)
As he drove me to my hotel after the training class, we were engulfed in snow. Visibility was minimal.
I asked, “Tod, is this a white out?”
“No,” he said, “because you can just barely see that,” as he pointed to a shadowy shape that was likely a tree ten feet from the road. At that point, a pick-up careened past us and slid into the ditch.
“Tod,” I said, “it appears that South Dakotans do not know how to drive in the snow.”
He replied, “Frank, no one knows how to drive in the snow.”
I ended up spending an extra night in Sioux Falls because the airport closed the next day. The airline ticket agent was a transplanted Philadelphian. She comped my extra night in a hotel because I was polite to her (she did not have to, as a snow storm is considered an “Act of God” for reaccommodations purposes). (I have found that nasty does not win friends, but does most certainly influence people.)
She told me that the one thing she missed most about Philly was Butterscotch Crimpets. When I got home, I mailed her a box of Tastycakes.
I used to say, that, once you Tastycake, you will never Hostess again.
Now, you can never Hostess again.
The Politics of Parking 0
With his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, the Boston Globe’s Luke O’Neill tries to figure out the politics of parking-place savers (those folks who, after digging out a parking place on a public street, then stake a claim to it with a piece of furniture. Along the way, he manages to cite both Locke and Hobbes.
Here’s a bit from his introduction.
The counter-argument is no less easily applied to a political point of view: The roads, they say, belong to all. One cannot own what belongs to the people, and the act of shoveling out a space contributes to the greater good, providing more parking for others to enjoy. It is, in effect, a tax one pays for the use of the public space, which is just.
And yet, the more and more people I ask, the analogy breaks down, with many self-identifying progressives saying they are in favor of space-saving.
It doesn’t make sense.
It’s an interesting and wry take on a contentious issue.
Dry-Gulched 0
I used to fly into Burbank frequently.
On the last bit of the leg from Phoenix, the air lane follows the aqueduct that California used to steal water from the Colorado River. The plane would cross a mountain range and I would see a swath of green lawns, almost every one with a swimming pool in the backyard, all made possible by the Colorado River (which no longer reaches the sea).
I always found the view vaguely disgusting.