LibertyBell

There's good reasons to keep them undeveloped....both for environment's sake and for human lives.

We saw this during Harvey too. Sometimes there is no other option. I'd like to know what have been the costliest disasters in NYC tristate area, both in terms of dollars and lives? Sandy and Ida must both be near the top of the list, but what about long duration events like the December 1992 noreaster? I remember the area was basically underwater during that historic event. Blizzard of 1888 is right up there too.

weird we've had minimums on 9/1 before but haven't had one in August before in recorded history?

Oh I would like to know why that goes unanswered too. I believe we should apply strong sanctions to these nations that are going backwards with coal. They should rather invest in nuclear power which actually releases less radiation than coal does. Maybe it will be addressed in the upcoming meeting in Glasgow?

So this is what real food tastes like!

what caused those crazy EF4 in CT and MA though? I find it weird that they can occur so far north and yet we haven't seen them in NY or NJ

the only way to do it is to just shut the roads down so people cant travel, that will take the decision making process out of their hands.

If people care so little about the weather why do these guys put the weatherperson on like 4 times during a newscast though? It irks me because they just say the same things multiple times lol and while we're at it, why is the news on for like 6-8 hours every day? People really want to watch the same crap over and over again?

I hate both sea breeze and humidity lol. Last 100 here was 2013, same with you?

methane needs to be tightly controlled, we have 5% coming from methane leaks during fracking (one reason we banned it in NY) and the other thing is to limit animal farming (both for the benefit of the planet and for our own health). Methane is 86X more efficient as a GHG than CO2 is.

Wow, I thought you were quoting an article like what Chris (Bluewave) did, but as I was reading this I realized you wrote this yourself! I totally vibe with the part about Stage 1 and civilizations below that, my contention has always been that the Greatest of Filters lies ahead of us and that's the real reason we haven't discovered any other technological species out there in space (granted our range of detection is very limited.) And a supernova within 100 light years wouldn't even be needed to cause the ultimate "climate change" event, you could have an intense gamma ray burst pointed in just the "right" (meaning wrong) direction from a longer distance to do the trick. It's been considered as a vector for some of our mass extinction events. The current one is, of course, entirely caused by humanity and is happening much faster than any of the so-called "natural" ones, just like climate change. The idea here is, whether by our means or theirs, Stage 0 to early Stage 1 civilizations, usually don't manipulate for the better - they tend to blow them selves to kingdom-come before they become apart of any bustling interstellar thoroughfare Sci-Fi fantasy like that of Star Trek. . Also vibe with the idea that change will happen, we only have the choice of either doing it voluntarily and more gently, or nature will cause the change for us and establish equilibrium in its own harsh way. Either way, one way or the other, the necessary change WILL occur. Gaia, the concept of the planet self regulating, is a proven fact. However its self regulation would be a lot worse for humanity than the changes we can and should be making. I almost consider the climate change crisis as a failure of National and Global Security ... It is becoming clear, there is going to be a huge population correction, either by choice ... or force ( it's like "Gaia" is giving Humanity a choice like "Gozer" in Ghost Busters: "Choose .. Choose the form of the destructor") ... But, humor and metaphor aside, the lack of vision of Nat/Global security et al, in taking the subject seriously decades ago - it's hard to know where the origin of that incredulity was. But, you better believe, Climate Change IS not only a National Security matter at this point, it is in fact a World order event.

nice sunny day today. Those light rainfall amounts really caused my allergies to act up last night but it was all better today

I was also looking at pictures from the three/four day heatwave in April in 2002, that was epic.....the skies were some of the bluest I've ever seen in these parts. Amazing to have skies such a deep blue during a heatwave here.

Yeah one of the hotter summers at JFK. I really liked that the humidity was low that summer.....along with 2010 those were two of the least humid hot summers I've experienced here.

Just looked at pictures from the April 2003 snowstorm, such a photogenic all day snowstorm. Did someone say sun angle lol? No problems there, I had snow encrusted daffodils all over my yard.

quickly fixed by 2002 and the years that followed I was looking at old pictures from my garden, 2002 was a banner year

Indeed! I loved Uncles seesaw idea of moving back and forth between the Earth and Mars. Someone should write a story about that...... Did you know that there's a star system not that far away (relatively speaking of course), that might have 7 habitable planets? Could you imagine what it would be like if life developed independently on even just 2 of those worlds? Or even more remarkably if life developed on just one of those planets but was spread to the others via meteoric impacts? Considering how much fighting we have between different countries, consider how much worse the fighting would be between different worlds. Then again maybe they would have all learned to get along early on so they would avoid violence. This is the system I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1 It is about 40 light-years (12 pc) from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius.[14][15] Seven temperate terrestrial planets have been detected orbiting it, more than any other planetary system except Kepler-90.[16][17] A study released in May 2017 suggests that the stability of the system is not particularly surprising if one considers how the planets migrated to their present orbits through a protoplanetary disk.[18][19] A team of Belgian astronomers first discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting the star in 2015. A team led by Michaël Gillon at the University of Liège in Belgium detected the planets using transit photometry with the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile and the Observatoire de l'Oukaïmeden in Morocco.[20][13][21] On 22 February 2017, astronomers announced four such additional exoplanets. This work used the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope at Paranal, amongst others, and brought the total of planets to seven, of which at least three (e, f, and g) are considered to be within its habitable zone.[13][22][23] All could be habitable as they may have liquid water somewhere on their surface.[24][25][26] Depending on definition, up to six could be in the optimistic habitable zone (c, d, e, f, g, and h), with estimated equilibrium temperatures of 170 to 330 K (−103 to 57 °C; −154 to 134 °F).[7] In November 2018, researchers determined that planet e is the most likely Earth-like ocean world and "would be an excellent choice for further study with habitability in mind."[27]

1966 was my favorite summer of all time (just going by numbers), and was followed by an amazing winter. I guess that turned things around? Interesting that the 80s are in there too and a small nod to the early 00s for being dry also. Funny we went from one extreme in 1982 to the opposite extreme in 1983. My favorite summers are very hot but dry I hate humidity like the plague

I guess that includes the birds lol I was thinking of some advanced but last resort techniques like laying down black matting to smother it.

I think the colorful birds I like to photograph spread this stuff around

I love the idea of replacing the golden parachute with a golden noose! Very wise words my friend! Once they know that they have no soft landing available to them maybe they will make better decisions....

Yeah I've transitioned to electric for the most part. Plastics are the garbage that's littering our oceans. Earth is quickly turning into one huge garbage dump- no wonder the ultrarich want to leave the planet lol.

It's so upsetting that we subsidize all this crap

The 1960s were the good years with lower humidity

Cicadas are still around too. How do you get rid of ragweed? This stuff is awful