Global warming strikes again...

[rah]

I've been called worse by better.

I've read the labels on those and can honestly say I have never purchased them. I rarely buy frozen meat. Usually only from the high end mail order services.

 

[Hrothbern]

I've been called worse by better.


I've read the labels on those and can honestly say I have never purchased them. I rarely buy frozen meat. Usually only from the high end mail order services.

Neither do I buy such products. I just seldom buy processed food. No need for much reading of labels, except once and good for the stuff I buy repeatedly.
I consider hamburgers as a real treat. My youngest daughter the one making them mostly. One of my better educational successes: learning my kids to love making food

 

[rah]

You're a better man than I. I am weak, and sometimes lazy.

 

[Hrothbern]

You're a better man than I. I am weak, and sometimes lazy.

IDK...I am quite lazy... except when driven by something.
We have a Dutch saying: "liever lui dan moe" (rather lazy than tired). I loved that one, especially during schooltime. Together with friends we cribbed our way forward over the years

 

[Hrothbern]

Coincidence or Climate ?

The strongest cyclone ever to hit Mozambique has made landfall in the country’s north, five weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated its centre, according to meteorologists.
Surpassing both Idai and the 2000 cyclone that had been the strongest to date, Cyclone Kenneth hit Cabo Delgado province with wind speeds of 140mph (225km/h), bringing the threat of extreme rainfall.

What worries me and could be related to Climate:

“Nothing like this has happened in this region, and rarely happens anywhere in the world, where a cyclone of this strength stalls for this many days. So the kind of rainfall totals that the models are showing for Kenneth are really extreme in the global context,” he said.
Holthaus said that there was probably a “blocking pattern” in the upper atmosphere that prevented Kenneth from dissipating inland or escaping to the south, so it would most likely sit around 100km inland, attracting more moisture from the Indian Ocean.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/cyclone-kenneth-mozambique-hit-by-strongest-storm-ever

Hurricanes (cyclones) move in somewhat predictable ways: direction and speed. It is called hurricane propagation.

In general, hurricanes are steered by global winds. The prevailing winds that surround a hurricane, also known as the environmental wind field, are what guide a hurricane along its path.
In addition to the steering flow by the environmental wind, a hurricane drifts northwestward (in the Northern Hemisphere) due to a process called beta drift, which arises because the strength of the Coriolis force increases with latitude for a given wind speed.

so far so good
but what worries me is that when they are stalling in one place and keep getting energy enough, they keep on raining on the same spot !

Since beta drift involves a hurricane’s ability to modify the environmental wind field, the impact of beta drift on the hurricane’s track changes if the hurricane’s size changes.
http://hurricanescience.org/science/science/hurricanemovement/

The size of the hurricane is related to climate change: warmer water => more energy => a bigger hurricane.
With as possible typical effect: a bigger hurricane => more chance on a stalling hurricane => more casualties and damage from more concentrated rainfall.

Considering the efforts done to understand, to forecast the path of a hurricane.... Considering that this is still difficult.... I guess we have still much to learn on all the factors involved in that path and predicting of a possible stalling in one place out of reach at current insight status.

 

[Samson]

Message for us all, probably from Banksy at the Extinction Rebellion protests at london:

 

[onejayhawk]

There is an interesting article in Politico dealing with the changes advances in battery manufacture may make to the use and generation of electricity. One of the major blocks to renewable power has been the intermittency, ie irregular production. Solar requires daylight. Wind requires wind. So far there has been no way to effectively store unneeded power. That may be changing. Republicans will like this because it's a market based solution.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...wind-power-electricity-battery-storage-226755

J

 

[El_Machinae]

This is what proponents of the Entrepreneurial State were talking about. There needed to be a dedicated push to creating the technologies that allow alternatives. After that, you can you use prices to help people migrate. And during the end-stages of the migration, you then literally start efforts to keep current reserves in the ground.

There are quite a few Republicans who believe in the concept of the entrepreneurial state. Unfortunately, they're currently in a coalition with people who want the government to do zero investment and with people who don't believe that climate change is worth dealing with. It's been pretty rough in Canada, because of 'the deniers', our mainstream conservative parties can't even coherently discuss carbon policy. It makes it hard to figure out if they even understand.

 

[rah]

Don't know if this is the right place but what the hey.
And Illinois wonders why people are fleeing the state.
It must be one of the worst managed states in the nation.
I read this earlier today
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-electric-vehicle-fee-illinois-20190509-story.html

quick summary, some dolt thought it would be a good idea to charge electric car owners a grand EVERY YEAR to register their car.
The logic being is that they use the roads without paying gas taxes to support them.
One arm of the government is offering tax incentives to encourage people to buy them while others want to tax them more to discourage them.
What a state.
Maybe when most of the cars are electric this might make more sense but not in the infancy of the industry.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I think they are tied from winning all the time.

In the Midwest, Heavy Rains, Devastating Floods and ‘Then the Sirens Go’
First came flooded fields and roads across Nebraska and Iowa. The Mississippi River rose and rose. Then violent tornadoes tore through the region.
Now more flooding looms. The relentless storm season has brought a new level of exhaustion to the Midwest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[Estebonrober]

I think they are tied from winning all the time.

How dare you insinuate all this flooding (that has prevented me from taking call this weekend due to road closures actually) has anything to do with anthropogenic global warming!

 

[EnglishEdward]

We do not know if the person playing Russian roulette who decides to slip in an extra bullet before spinning was killed by the extra bullet.

I like that analogy, I had not heard it before.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Don't know if this is the right place but what the hey.
And Illinois wonders why people are fleeing the state.
It must be one of the worst managed states in the nation.
I read this earlier today
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-electric-vehicle-fee-illinois-20190509-story.html

quick summary, some dolt thought it would be a good idea to charge electric car owners a grand EVERY YEAR to register their car.
The logic being is that they use the roads without paying gas taxes to support them.
One arm of the government is offering tax incentives to encourage people to buy them while others want to tax them more to discourage them.
What a state.
Maybe when most of the cars are electric this might make more sense but not in the infancy of the industry.

I mean... how much "gas" would you have to be buying to pay that much in tax anyway, especially with how cheap the stuff is over there?

Okay it's maybe not completely unrealistic, but it seems quite high.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I mean... how much "gas" would you have to be buying to pay that much in tax anyway, especially with how cheap the stuff is over there?

Okay it's maybe not completely unrealistic, but it seems quite high.

In NM the state gasoline tax is $0.17. That's 5,882 gallons to cover the $1,000 fee. If a fill up was 10 gallons on average, that would be 588 fill ups or 11 trips to the gas station each week for the year.

Illinois has a $0.19 gas tax so that is only 5,263 gallons and 526 fill up with a 10 gallon average. So only 10 fill ups a week are needed.

$1,000 does seem a bit over priced.

 

[Zkribbler]

... some dolt thought it would be a good idea to charge electric car owners a grand EVERY YEAR to register their car.

It is only a proposal.

 

[Samson]

The arctic is on fire, caused by and causing global warming

June has been the hottest since records began, drying vegitation and melting and drying peat. This, combined with heat lightning (?) and strong winds have contributed to an unprecedented amount of fires all around the arctic circle, across Russia, northern Scandinavia, Canada and Alaska.

These fires released an estimated 50 megatonnes of carbon dioxide in June alone - the equivalent of Sweden's annual carbon output. Also a lot of the particulate matter from these fires will eventually come to settle on ice surfaces further north, darkening them and thus accelerating melting.

A real present example of the positive feedback that may yet doom us as a species, or at least a civilisation.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Don't know if this is the right place but what the hey.
And Illinois wonders why people are fleeing the state.
It must be one of the worst managed states in the nation.
I read this earlier today
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-electric-vehicle-fee-illinois-20190509-story.html

quick summary, some dolt thought it would be a good idea to charge electric car owners a grand EVERY YEAR to register their car.
The logic being is that they use the roads without paying gas taxes to support them.
One arm of the government is offering tax incentives to encourage people to buy them while others want to tax them more to discourage them.
What a state.
Maybe when most of the cars are electric this might make more sense but not in the infancy of the industry.

Anyone want to be that he received contributions from non-electric car companies?


In a win against global warming, four major automakers (Ford, Volkswagen, Honda and BMW) have reached an agreement with the state of California to raise miles per gallon ratings of their fleets to 50 mpg by 2026. This is a bit short of the Obama-era rule of 51 mpg by 2025 but it flies in the face of Trump's efforts to roll that rule back and restrict states from having higher standards than what the feds set going forward. Because state's rights only matter when they're doing what the GOP wants them to do.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/7453...ith-automakers-to-produce-fuel-efficient-cars

 

[AmazonQueen]

How low can they go?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...-disturbing-column/ar-AAFbZ3P?ocid=spartanntp

Murdoch newspaper attacking the messenger whilst ignoring the message (again).

 

[Yeekim]

One of the major blocks to renewable power has been the intermittency, ie irregular production. Solar requires daylight. Wind requires wind. So far there has been no way to effectively store unneeded power.

Well, there's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That depends on either massive investment in infrastructure, special geography or both. More useful for general purpose grid-level storage will be massive banks of batteries which are now being deployed in some numbers. There is obvious synergy in personal electronics and EV's which are both continuously improving battery technology and pushing major growth in industrial capacity to build them. Hell, they're even beginning to recycle old EV batteries into grid level storage projects because after the batteries have lost enough capacity to be useless as vehicle power sources, they are still very useful when banked together at the grid level. I watched a documentary on a power storage facility in Alaska which held thousands of old lead-acid car batteries to hold charge to tide the grid over during brief power plant outages - this concept will naturally be extended as more and more decommissioned EV li-ion batteries come available, in addition to all-new facilities.