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Post subject: Re: How hot is it?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:20 am
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It's 103°/39° now with a predicated high of 110°/43°.

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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:08 pm
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How’s Climate Change Working For You?

I know what it’s like to have water up to the car handles while driving, and I’ve gone boating down the avenue driving a Honda in a dark stormy night. I’ve hunkered down for a seen tornado in Grand Forks, North Dakota and rocked with coastal earthquakes under me. I’ve seen BC forest fires first hand and up close and tackled a hurricane offshore on the Atlantic. Add a 3 day snow filled buried city and the fun wears off pretty fast.

It really is a great day today - surprisingly, and then again not surprisingly. Warnings and the sky looked pretty rough last night, and I woke up to dry grass and sun. It seems the storm vacated the area as quickly as it came. That’s common here with the loopy jet stream, large and small lakes, and violent weather around us from west in Saskatchewan, south in the Dakotas, and north from the Arctic. It can bring or push the storm away as quickly as it comes.

While some can claim climate change, like our struggling polar bears in the North, this is normal for us. Nothing’s changed. It’s just as reliable as the weather forecast. :roll:
It’s not hard to claim climate change in areas that are relatively small compared to our large Canadian divided land mass. In small states, countries, and whatnot weather may be shared or concentrated. Our provincial weather has a large area to choose from and that can span over several states’ (and countries’) sizes. Vancouver Island, for example, is three times larger than Hawaii, larger than Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, twice the size of Connecticut, 1.5 times larger than Israel and 3 x the size of Jamaica. The state of Rhode Island is .1 x as big, and Vancouver Island is only 3% of the province of BC. for perspective and comparison. That gives a lot of weather possibilities both in size and geography. Some lakes (as those shared stateside) with constant climate change compare to the area of some states and countries. Now divvy that up into smaller parcels of argument. Compare this, and it’s pretty easy to misconstrue that change off and on is always climate change as argued. Doesn’t mean it isn’t, but it does show that weather, especially over time, can move about and establish itself easily.

It would be simple and foolish to expect that one area would get all the rain or fires, for example, while others with all the warning signs are not susceptible or subject to change. That scenario is often inevitable and ripe for the pickings to be included in argument erroneously for convenience or purpose. For whatever reason, frustration is played out with little or no reference to living in a hostile surrounding. Maybe, less susceptible but not secure. Those living with regular weather related or geographical abuse such as earthquakes and tidal waves are less surprised than newcomers to these changes. In fact, any decrease in activity is considered, justifiably so, a welcomed surprise.

Changing and yet not changing environment certainly proves to be the case for 2/3rds of the world called oceans. Hurricanes and hurricane like weather has moved inland and north. Perhaps. Ask Newfoundland and the maritimes that gets hurricanes from all sides, and have hurricanes left the Caribbean?

The dirty 30s down the continent is one example, of land mass change, including human interference, and today we have something of a repeat.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rBhbkvtm0

So, what do we know. Places like Tahiti and the far north and California have seen a major change; but, is it to be unexpected? One might consider how fragile those areas are, and how they got there in the first place. Examples are everywhere. Take the Great Lakes for example or this one:

The Grand Canyon and how changing weather played a part:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_RLRT9930

Things change and will continue to do so, How and why and how to approach it is, at best, anybody’s guess. Ask the military. Weather is also a weapon that can be manipulated with limited success. Is this the answer?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8HwK2tDL4Y

I’ll refrain from answers; but, I know this. There is black snow.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVKSpxJnW4
and the Sahara gets snow and has for some time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r4DYrc_jG ... rt_radio=1

Oh, let’s not leave Florida’s icebergs out of climate change. It appears that some information doesn’t make the mass media. Well, ya don’t say?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/13/ ... o-florida/

We should not be quick to say that climate change didn’t exist or was not responsible in days past.

There are and always have been and will be areas of concern with Mother Earth. She is complicated and has a mind of her own. One cannot tell her what to do; although, a helping hand can reach out. Don’t be surprised if she doesn’t go along and worse, she might show her rage in one’s thinking that she can be changed. Yellowstone (now there’s a catalyst for climate change) might be her reply, and no movement, except her own, will change that. :wink:
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Note: Everything in moderation works for me, and drastic measures require long term and not short term research and solutions. I think we need to think outside the box (instead of getting boxed in by politics, industry, and special interests) like curbing accelerated activity in the Arctic Ocean. Just remember many of our solutions require the same resources in solving the problems, and personal sacrifices and historically poor judgment will come with the decisions. If not today - tomorrow. YMMV.

Now there’s a heated argument. :lol:
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Post subject: Re: How hot is it?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:53 pm
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the temp has been staying in the low 90's upper 80's. summer in the city.

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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:03 pm
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105 heat index today, tomorrow supposed to be 112.

I once swam my 86 Chevy Cavalier to work in Houston at an underpass. The speedo was near 95mph, the car was moving about 3knots. I was lucky I didn't hit bottom or it could have ended differently than it did. I was in my mid 20's as an excuse and had a semi-important job w/ (VIP) security at BP.


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Post subject: Re: How hot is it?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:22 pm
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. . . I once swam my 86 Chevy Cavalier to work in Houston at an underpass.
That’s one way to put it. Boy! Can I relate in this city of train underpasses, Glad you made it through okay, These underpasses can be risky especially when flooded and the lighting fails. :wink:
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 11:22 am
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How’s Climate Change Working For You?

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Thank you, FSB, for your excellent, thought-provoking post, videos and article about climate change. I believe that we affect climate change and I also believe that Earth is going do to what it does naturally, regardless of us.

Some of the best efforts of science to control weather have failed and I don't think we should be doing some things that we are doing. Chemtrails come to mind. They have been dismissed as a conspiracy theory by most media yet I have seen and photographed them right above my house. They are far different from normal jet engine contrails. But, once something is labeled as a conspiracy theory, most people think you are a wack job if you believe in them.

From what I understand about chemtrails, they are the governments effort at reducing global warming by reflecting some of the sun's rays back into space. Two of the particles used in chemtrails are aluminum and barium, which are both highly toxic when inhaled. Trace amounts of these chemicals have been found in local ponds and lakes. My assumption is that governments around the world (this is not a local phenomenon) believe they are doing a "greater good". Time will tell.

I had no idea the Grand Canyon was once a mountain. That video surprised and amazed me. And the article about icebergs in Florida makes sense when you consider the ocean current making a 180° reversal.

I do believe reducing pollutants is a good thing. Even if doesn't help slow global warming, it will give all of us better, safer air to breathe.

Once again, thank you for putting together such an interesting post!

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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 7:46 pm
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It was sunny and 110°/43° today.

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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:51 pm
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Thanks, for the kind words on the Climate Change post, Marky. Pretty interesting theory on the chemtrails. That’s thinking outside the box, huh? I’ll have to query my major airlines pilot buddy next time I see him which may be some time though.

I too believe we can do more to help Mother Nature. Where I differ with the pundits is the history and future of it all in the approach.

Arguments in science come and go with discussions of the glass half full or half empty; but, no one wants to discard the glass or suggest it may be cracked. Lots of different things to fill it with, but what?

A lot of kids with something to shout about should look to reputable resources and history, the pattern of government and industry, dealing with catalytic converters and associated pollution changes versus the performance and end results, promises with their money making shortcomings, recent fraudulent diesel results, automotive computer fraud and questionable tweaks, Hybrid electric cars with poorer gas mileage than expected, and cleaner fuel with additives (Clear coloured gas as in the old glass gas pumps changed colour with additives. Promotion of cleaner performing fuel and gas mileage was one thing; however, others have reported that early additives also prevented competition from inventors. The big boys made that thingamabob not work as planned by changing the fuel to run it. Who knows? Could be). Even ethanol had issues. We should consider how lucky we are to have an electric grid that is being set up to provide but also fail as it has in the past. Built in obsolescence sounds like a great step forward to me. Okay. That’s enough reason to take a good look at the big picture; but, you’ll find more history of failures or misleading promises to make the environment cleaner and you needn’t stop at transportation. You might want to look at who made these decisions possible. I’d take their advice and word that it’s all good. Uh, nope.

Do the work and you’ll find corrections for the climate and the like have a fractured history with more to be desired. We have been tossed a lot of expense without being delivered the promised goods, mistakenly not needing the goods, creating more problems than advantages, or simply running off the track when it is found out to be the wrong direction and double and even triple dipping gets a handout. :roll:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180957775/

Okay. Let’s say this time the direction for climate change correction is right. My faith in the system and the players presenting the solution is not the best. Energy companies be they oil/gas, electric, or nuclear all have their issues. The automotive industry? Speaks for itself. Yep! Sure does. Government regulation, ramification, and patronage? That only skims the surface. It’s the same power marketers (You might want to see who owns what and how it defines the direction they are going. Good for you? Good for them? Maybe, both? Hmm. Hyundai for example is a BIG electric company, but that is only one connection amongst the players. See the connection? Do you think maybe electric transportation is their baby? Both good and bad.) We seem to always donate to the same piggy bank, with the same story, and likely accept the same risk of failure at our expense, and not just money wise.

I really need not chew your ear off, the problem exists, and the answer is out there. I’m just not sure i want to jump on the bus and leave the driving to them simply because it’s cool to hang with the crowd who should be wary of the motivation of the sponsorship or mentors, and we should all beware of just wanting to get there at any cost. Been there done that, and I’m not impressed so far.

Real meaningful alternatives are available. If these same smoke and mirrors razzle dazzle promoters get their way, real solutions will not only not be available they will never be included in the discussion or the import. This brings to mind the fact that here in North America in the early days of introduction to the public we produced a lesser colour tv system to be first and for control both economically and for Brownie points. We could have adopted another better quality tv system of which there were a few, but that’s not how we roll. For several reasons we keep our pride and jump in before we know what’s over our head. Pretty sure I know who the winners and losers were. Our colour tv system was called NTSC. In the industry we called it Never The Same Colour (on the other hand, Leo Fender got his invention and solution right pretty much from the get go). I hope this Climate Change answer is not one of those short circuited solutions. I have a feeling it will be.

Here’s an idea. Whether it works or not I can’t say; but . . . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car

There’s much more out there to like and to consider as a contender for Climate Change. :D
Whatever environmental auto I’ll probably have to get . . . it has to have an electric in car and block heater good for 50+ below. :lol:
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89 degrees. It's a bit up there for around here today.

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At 10am, it's sunny and 106°/41° with 13% humidity. The high is expected to be 112°/44°.

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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:26 am
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Whoa! That’s a scorcher, Marky. Is there any paint left on your trucks and cars down there? :shock:

77°F / 25°C with partly cloudy skies and expecting thunder, lightning and all for the next two days; but, chances are the weather office will be as accurate as usual. :lol:

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