LibertyBell

Fascinating that you mentioned trees. In Cosmos, Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson brings up the intelligence and networking capability of trees, how they provide nourishment to injured trees by sharing their roots with them and how parent trees protect their children by shading them so they don't grow too quickly. Likewise bees are amazingly intelligent, having a complex series of dance moves using which they communicate both astronomy and math (wind direction, angle of the sun, etc.) when communicating new prospective hive locations.

Right, the planet has a Tipping Point (it abhors dominance by any one species) when the checks and balances eventually get us....we are ever closer to that. You correctly brought up the population crisis, new technology is a double edged sword, while it feeds the masses, it also enables a larger than safe carrying capacity of humans to exist at one time. At the current point, with our population of around 8 billion, we are consuming the amount of resources it would take 1.7 earths to sustain. This is why we have a human caused mass extinction event currently ongoing. The industrial revolution is the ultimate in two edged swords....we can't live without it, and we might not be able to sustain ourselves with it. There are some brilliant people looking for and even finding possible solutions, the question is will the rest of humankind's inertia stand in the way of getting us where we need to go?

https://twitter.com/i/events/1438247239810535430 a funny if slightly disgusting read....if cows can be potty trained, there is some hope for humanity too

looks like a nowcast watch lol

some 40" winters in there too like 2015-16 here. 50" seems to be the demarcation for when you actually need a cold winter to get that kind of snow.

hey it's my birthday I'll celebrate it even if it's a torch haha

are the so-called "natural" ones any better (the ones made from plant extracts that plants use to ward off insects.)

also drug resistance.... we also get that with pesticides

time to start doing something to get this humidity out of the air and suck it into space

thats very interesting because 1966 was one of our hottest summers

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Did you know that female elephants consume a certain herb when they become pregnant because this herb eases them through pregnancy and labor and childbirth. Fascinatingly complex animals out there that humanity in its inherent egotism has taken for granted for far too long and assumed they were somehow "lesser" I will also add the real "beasts" are the humans who hunt down animals for ivory, causing PTSD in elephant babies who witness their parents' deaths or kill rhinos for their horns, all because of some dumb ideas that so-called "sapiens" have that such a thing as a god-fairy exists and that religion is anything but mythology. You know as well as I do that if human beings vanished from the planet, the planet would be far better off. And it's about far more than just climate change. Human beings' behavior on this planet can be fairly compared to a virus. Earth is the patient and humanity is the pandemic.

Nonhuman animals typically have different types of intelligence, but you may be right about deviation from normal amomgst humans vs other animals. There are some seriously intelligent animals though. Like orangutans, chimps, bonobos and gorillas. An orangutan was given a saw and learned how to saw wood on his own without outside influence in about 20 minutes. Outside of the primate world elephants are extremely intelligent and have deep feelings very similar to humans. As shown by burying their dead and mourning them as well as carefully planning their escape from shackles that cruel humans place them in. African Grey Parrots can do multiplication and division, understand the concept of zero and understand that when they see their reflection, they are actually seeing themselves. Dolphins in many ways have just as much of a social life as humans do- across the whole gender spectrum. Empathy is also profound in the animal kingdom, with animals of different species becoming best of friends and mourning the other when s(he) passes away. We could learn a lot from them.

This is sad and alarming Polar bears turning to inbreeding and cannibalism as they face extinction https://twitter.com/i/events/1437886948148920328

For next week, that sounds like sneaky local tropical development?

Walt for the end of the month, do those look like mostly recurving storms that pass east of us?

By the way looking at old pictures is a really good way to tell what weather was like in a specific year. I'm really glad I take pictures during and after every storm and also at random times during the year to catalog plant growth. It has a three dimensional aspect to it that one simply cannot get just by looking at data of specific years. It adds context to the data.

Summers of 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2002 I think were the really hot summers I remember where NYC was in line with the rest of the urban weather reporting sites, it was after 2002 that I started to notice a huge divergence. Not coincidentally, 2002 was our last really dry summer too which also kept foliage in check (2010 was also dry but by then the foliage was already out of control.) Looking back at my pictures from 2002, that was my last summer where the grass was yellow lol and looked like straw. 1995 and 2002 were the two years I have pictures of which had this parched grass. Not even 2010 had that.

for "jobs" (which are dead end go nowhere low paying jobs anyway) or is it because they give him......supplemental income lol?

This would be an exotic species of wasp not native to our area? Let's hope introducing it here does not cause unforeseen side effects (as has happened before.)

I wonder who their main predators are. Seems like our fauna is just as shocked to see them as we are. Fortunately they haven't made it to Long Island yet but I guess it's just a matter of time. We have these on the east coast and those monstrous murder hornets on the west coast. I wonder what's next? FWIW those murder hornets look so artificial that it makes me wonder if THEY were created in a lab lol

That was back when temps at NYC and EWR were very much in line as NYC hit 80 that day too.

What I see is the number who deny climate change is fewer now than it was before, but the strategy has shifted now that it's obvious to mitigation and removal rather than transitioning off of them. I heard Manchin talk about companies switching to renewable on their own and there is no reason for the government to do anything because that will just increase the costs for the consumer and just let the companies make the necessary changes in their own time. I think in their ideal world the changes wouldn't get made until they were either all retired or dead.

China is being allowed to get away with way too much, as is India. I'm not sure why they aren't being called out on it.

I'd be curious to see what the shortest periods are between last and first 80 degree day