LibertyBell
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I'd love to know if anyone asked this before the Blizzard of 1996.... unfortunately these forums did not exist back then
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Don, what happened to the 1895-1896 winter in this list? Didn't we have less than 3" through the end of January and ended up with 46" that season-- mostly on the strength of the snowiest March on record with over 30" of snow in that month alone?
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Well, hopefully technological advances will fix that issue. I'm not a fan of lithium batteries either, we have issues with intense fires here in New York with unregulated lithium batteries used in e-bikes. We're in the process of developing solid state batteries and green hydrogen which will hopefully replace lithium. Car manufacturers actually have a roadmap to start using solid state batteries in their vehicles by 2026. By the way lithium isn't just a problem for evs, it's also a major issue for laptop computers, cellphones and other electronic devices.
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Science sorts things out as usual, independent of whatever people "think"
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Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23
LibertyBell replied to BxEngine's topic in New York City Metro
Maybe because they listen to dopes like JB? By the way we have some supposed red taggers on here who hold these same views and whine like babies for moderators. It's quite amusing. -
Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23
LibertyBell replied to BxEngine's topic in New York City Metro
Indeed, I blame world governments for a lot of it and the UN for allowing fossil fuel lobbyists to participate in the discussions. They need to be made to realize they are part of the past and will have NO role in the future of the planet. And while we're at it, we need to ban corporate lobbying and dark money altogether. -
While what you're saying does happen and has continued to happen it's not a problem of science but of human greed. We see this in how the sugar industry sought to suppress research showing that increased sugar consumption leads to diabetes-- and they continue to do so with HFCS. There's the pesticide issue I've already mentioned with Sygenta and Bayer and Dow with them strongarming the EPA; our regulatory agencies are captured. And DuPont with PFOA/PFAS doing the same thing. And then there's the infamous case of Merck and Vioxx, of them attempting to cover up the thousands of deaths caused by this dreadful drug and blacklisting doctors who wouldn't prescribe it. So, yes money does corrupt humans, but it doesn't corrupt science, which exists independently of any and all humans. But by the same token, you're making the case in the wrong direction, the fact is, it's the fossil fuel companies who have been covering up climate change research for decades. The scientists you're talking about who were taking money to cover up the truth were scientists who worked for the fossil fuel companies. Most of the time it's the corporation paid scientists whose results must be questioned, not the independent ones who do not get paid for their analyses.
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Yes, in my experience, it's always the best policy to work with nature rather than to attempt to work "against" it. After all, we're a part of nature and whatever we do it to it, we also do to ourselves.
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I think it will be a combination of AI and quantum computing. There is a poetic symmetry with having quantum computers handle these problems, because the universe is in a very real sense a cosmic quantum computer. Therefore what better to understand such a system than a microcosmic version of the same thing?
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Big Bang and Relativity will likely require modification when Quantum Gravity is worked out (Big Bang will likely be modified into Big Bounce for example and Quantum Gravity will also do away with singularities, which is a sign that a theory has reached its limit figuratively and literally lol), but modification maintains most of the original theory and adds necessary extensions to it.
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Thanks Larry, I have a few questions regarding this combined influence. Is it possible that the combined additive effect of the SSW and the pattern change will create a pattern change that will last longer than it otherwise would if only one of the two occurred? Is it possible they will have a concurrent additive effect in that create a more extreme pattern change than would otherwise have occurred if only one of the two occurred? Obviously up here we don't want a March 2014 kind of scenario when the PV is in the northeast and suppresses the storms to our south.
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Thanks, technology gives us solutions to problems that seem to have none. I also love the development of laser tech to precisely target and fry these pests.
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Yes, I am thinking of the lag effect, the same kind we see between land and sea temperatures or between the shortest day of the year and the coldest temperatures, it takes awhile for the new pattern to set in. Do you see some kind of SSW aiding in the pattern change?
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Completely agreed and I would also add the mass death of pollinators (which we really need more than most people realize.)
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I blame these on the filthiness of humans (same with rats.) On Long Island, there are zero cockroaches, I have not seen a single cockroach in all the time I've been here. In Brooklyn they were all too common. Population density issues combined with humans dumping trash everywhere. I love the alternatives of laser pest killing either with drones automatically or by hand with tools that use concentrated beams of light to kill pests. I should say when I say pests I mean weeds. The UN (specifically a panel of scientists who researched this and wrote their conclusion for the UN) specifically has stated that we don't need chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers, both of which destroy the soil in the long term and kill off essential pollinators (organic soil farming which retains nutrients better is much more sustainable and much better for the soil than applying chemicals to it to artificially maintain it.) And then when we have excessive rains, these chemicals run off either into water supply or into bodies of water where they result in toxic algae blooms and massive die offs of sea life too.
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Better than most March events
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Thanks I was figuring 7-10 days at the beginning of the month for that reason.
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My favorite was actually the one that happened in early April, did you get anything from that?
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These are the same people who don't think there is anything wrong with pesticides, meanwhile they are circulating through our blood and killing off pollinators. And now we've found the carcinogen 1,4-dioxane in our drinking water.
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Mass extinction of other forms of life is most certainly happening and at a very rapid rate. We've already wiped out thousands of species.
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Yes, I don't buy a snowy March either. I could see the cold lasting into the first week of March if it has already been well established in the second half of February, but if we have to wait until March to see cooler weather, it will just be cool and rainy, which we've already had.
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The last time we had a double digit March snowfall here was March 1993 and that changed to rain after dropping 11 inches. It was an exceptional situation-- you need something like that to get big March snows for urban areas.
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it's why the 1950s were horrible for snowfall, March was the snowiest month that decade.
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March 2018 wasn't so impressive here....the last time we had a double digit snowfall in March here was in March 1993 and that changed to rain after 11 inches of snow. March isn't a winter month here because of the sun angle really hurting urban areas, it's early spring. My favorite storm in 2018 actually happened in early April
