Weather, or Not category archive
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and threats from climate-change deniers drove this TV meteorologist to leave has job. Here’s a bit frome the story in the Des Moines Register:
Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke 0
Many of the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states have been under air quality warnings because of smoke from wildfires in Quebec. Yesterday, we could smell the smoke and see the haze, though we are hundreds of miles south of the Canadian border (today, the air is clearer, but the warnings are still in effect). This is unprecedented in my experience, and I’ve lived in this general area my entire life.
Yet, as Michael in Norfolk points out, Republicans continue to pretend that climate change isn’t.
The Climates, They are a-Changing 0
When I was a young ‘un, growing up these parts (actually about 40 miles north of where I type this), tornadoes were unheard of.
They were something that happened in Kansas.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott runs the numbers–and calls out the misdirection plays. A snipped snippet:
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For a while, a favorite strategy of the pro-industrial climate-change-denial crowd was to point at every cold snap as if it was incontrovertible proof of the “global-warming hoax,” as they called it. This is as idiotic as, say, showing footage of people milling around peacefully during lulls in the violence of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and citing it as proof that there was no riot. Yet they got away with that skewed logic for a long time.
I fear for my grandchildren.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Today, I was running errands in my convertible. With the top down.
In February.
That is not–or at least didn’t used to be–normal in these parts.
Also, we haven’t had snow in at least four or five years.
When I was growing up about 40 miles north of where I type this, we usually had two or three snows a winter. True, they were seldom more than three or four inches (the biggest I remember was eight inches), but they were real white fluffy stuff falling from the sky in freezing weather.
Climate change is real and it’s now.
I fear we are well past the tipping point, and I fear for my grandchildren.
Addendum, the next morning:
Oh, yeah, and today we has to turn on the AC.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
I ran an errand today and put my convertible’s top down because the temperature was in the low 70s Fahrenheit. I was wearing a short-sleeved shirt because it was not long-sleeved weather.
In February.
This is not the weather that I knew when I grew up 40 miles north of where I sit.
I fear for my grandchildren.
I fear that they will be faced with relentless peril because we refuse to admit that the peril exists.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
The high today was over 70 Fahrenheits. The high tomorrow is predicted to be higher.
In February.
I grew up in these parts. This is not normal.
I fear for my grandchildren.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
A life-long aficionado of skiing, primarily in the mountains of Colorado, Andreas Kluth looks at the prospect of snowless slopes and fears that his grandchildren may not get to share his joy at strapping boards on their feet and falling off a mountain.
On the bright side, they may get to enjoy the beachfront and swim in the coming inland sea.
The Ciimates They Are a-Changing 0
It got so hot and muggy in the condo tonight that I had to turn on the AC.
In January.
I fear for my grandchildren.
The Climates They Are a-Changing* . . . 0
. . . and Republican Senators don’t want anyone to talk about it.
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*Just for example, I went cycling today in a tee-shirt and gym shorts in November for Pete’s sake. And we’ve been running that AC all week. In November. This is beyond being a fluke.
I fear for my grandchildren.
The Climates They Are A-Changing 0
It’s the end of October and I turned on the AC because of the humidity. When I was a young ‘un, I’d have been wearing my winter coat by now.
We are well past the climate change tipping point and there’s no going back, however many electric cars persons may buy.
The asteroid is coming, and it is us.
Afterthought:
The trees haven’t even lost their leaves yet.
Cars of the Future 0
We ignore climate change at our peril, but, frankly, I fear we are well past the tipping point. I do not see humankind capable of the global cooperation that is required to combat it. To be blunt, I fear that climate change will become our own self-inflicted asteroid which we will prove incapable of averting.
The Crypto Con 0
From El Reg:
Details at the link.
Via Le Show, where Harry Shearer suggests that homo is definitely not sapiens.
