LibertyBell

The good thing was the humid was very low especially in that megaheatwave around July 4th.

I also don't buy this naive "But we didn't know!" excuse he gave. Maybe you and I didn't know but the people who developed these harmful chemicals sure as hell knew. Exxon, for example, knew exactly what was going to happen going all the way back to the 70s. And as far as other chemicals are concerned, companies like 3M and DuPont knew about how awful PFOA were because it made their own employees sick and better solutions were available in the 60s and yet they (literally) chose to bury the evidence and it was only uncovered during a lawsuit. Monsanto, another one of those evil companies, knew exactly how dangerous its pesticides were and yet their chief scientist in a black and white ad said it was safe enough to drink. Thank goodness for lawsuits to deal with their kind. Dow tried to manipulate laws to allow spraying of more toxic chlorpyrifos in California about a decade ago. Their kind does indeed deserve to go extinct.

I love these Fermi boundary events....did someone in one of your associations mention this? I've been talking about this for 30 years as being the real answer to the Fermi Paradox (and I was just talking about this in the NYC subforum winter banter thread)....it's ironic that humanity is about to discover the answer to the Fermi Paradox firsthand! Such "exciting" times ahead!

or 2002 which had another very hot summer, one of the three top very hot summers I experienced..... 1983, 2002 and 2010.

Yes I love these very hot summers, we had the same thing prior to the 2002 el nino

you know that's my absolutely favorite kind of weather in the spring and summer!

as long as we get rid of the gloomy rainy days I'm utterly fine with it.

He's only partially correct.....yes the earth "created" us but the earth favors biodiversity over one species dominating....any time one species dominates for a significant length of time, it goes extinct, when it exceeds the "tipping point". That's just the way the planet "rolls" and there's nothing wrong with that; when humanity goes extinct, it's the planet that will benefit from that. He mentioned plastics, which I found to be horrendous, since we're now finding plastics inside our own body and they create toxicity (for other species and for us.)

Yes, that was the last successful global cooperation we had.

It doesn't matter if people get tuned out or not....the facts are facts. People like us have no real influence on policy so it doesn't really matter. The cure may be "worse" than the disease, but really it doesn't matter anyway, since the disease leads to the cure, there really is no other way. Therefore the cure and the disease are equivalent because one inexorably leads to the other. In the end we are going to see that the industrial revolution was really a bubble and (the real answer to the Fermi Paradox) is that species who go down this path only exist for a very finite period of time. My views on this haven't changed in the last 30 years, I had the same views in the 90s that I have today and none of the evidence presented makes me think otherwise.

I wonder how quickly we'll get to 2.5 and then 3.0, as the temperatures rise, the rise will accelerate so I see 3.0 occurring before 2100.

fwiw climate change policy wont work unless humanity changes the entire way it exists....this all started with the industrial revolution and won't end until it ends.

we need carbon taxes and in a hurry

1990 - Fair weather prevailed across the nation for the second day in a row. Freezing temperatures were reported in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region in the wake of an early spring snowstorm. Afternoon highs were again in the 70s and 80s in the southeastern U.S., and for the ninth day in a row, temperatures in the southwestern U.S. reached the 90s. (The National Weather Summary) Did this snowstorm get up to our region, Tony?

there is some weird kind of power problem here, my power has gone out twice already. sunny and dry which is awesome weather though I love deep blue skies

dude, are you a vampire?

I wish we could bottle this for the rest of spring and summer

the earth was probably ice free through a majority of its history....which isn't a good thing for us when it happens again

I believe NYC will be in that 55-60 zone by 2040 or 2050 at the latest

I dont if what I saw was a lightning flash or a transformer blew but my lights went out last night at 1:14 am and came back on at 1:16 am same time as I saw the bright flash...the flash was west of here.

you sound like an energy trader

why do his energy clients care or want there to be no ACC? because they lose money with warmer winters? awesome, I hope it continues....nothing better than watching a bunch of crooked traders lose all their money.

I know man, I rather would have seen the Northern Lights too lol

I've always wondered if there is even a subtle connection between big solar storms and weather on Earth. Regardless, this seems to be the year of pronounced solar activity. If this continues into next year, I wonder if we might see something amazing during the total solar eclipse coming up then.

Going tomorrow when it's going to be better weather. I think the clouds would have blocked me from seeing them last night regardless. If it's something that truly spectacular it will be seen from anywhere (barring clouds of course), the November 2001 Leonid storm was truly spectacular as was Comet Hale Bopp in 1997. Both were easily visible from Lynbrook. With the northern lights though you do need to be away from light pollution even for a really good display.