LibertyBell

It's that plus the mass extinction event humanity began with the industrial age. The industrial age gave us a short unsustainable boost in productivity but unless we go in a different direction, it will also destroy us.

Awesome lol-- there's also this https://www.overshootday.org/ It's called Earth Overshoot Day-- we passed the tipping point in 1970 This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 28 Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

https://www.overshootday.org/ It's called Earth Overshoot Day-- we passed the tipping point in 1970 This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 28 Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

Oh that was sleet? The sun came out right after that. I see it's snowing in Boston lol.

Those of us who experienced this will remember this storm forever, it was the only HECS between 1978 and 1996

It's the anniversary of the January 1996 blizzard! I think people should remember that....

Only good thing is the California drought is finally coming to an end and no more wild fires recently.

I mean it's also pollution and other factors but this is in general true. You cannot have an infinite population on a finite surface-- this is why the rich are looking into going to space. Fertility is also going down (not a bad thing at all.) We exceeded the tipping point in 1970. Right now we use the amount of resources that would need 5 earths to be regenerated every year. Do we have 5 earths to draw these resources from? No....so we use up what was accumulated millions of years ago.

remember Nestor from ancient Greek mythology? it's estimated old king Nestor lived to 90 or 100? He even survived the Trojan war lol.

awesome lol misery loves company

I have to tell you i'm seeing some of the most unusual birds this "winter" Everything from parrots to geese (that haven't migrated yet or came back north) and spring songbirds. I heard it snowed in Boston today, what's up with that?

Yep this is true. Best life expectancy is in the usual nations that rank highest on every metric-- the Scandanavian nations. Iceland leads the pack I believe.

You can't broadbrush it like that though, only 3 states are near 80, and there are large pockets of areas (specifically urbanized areas) where it's closer to 60 (much of it because of air pollution-- the number one shortener of life on the planet-- which leads to heart disease, lung disease, asthma, etc.) This is exactly why we're doing the right thing when we ban diesel trucks and drilling near urbanized areas.

That's why people talk about climate engineering. We engineer in every other field of science and climate is not going to be an exception-- there's lots of money being poured into this and the billionaires are behind it, so that's a sure way of knowing it's going to happen.

02-03 was like the Derek Jeter of winters lol, very overlooked in terms of numbers but they really added up, and it had everything you could ever want, early season snow, late season snow (April daytime heavy snow!) and a widespread HECS to boot (very rare, the only 3 I remember are Feb 1983, Jan 1996 and PD2), and it set the stage for four 'championship' winters in a row (although the last one was rather mediocre-- lol-- but we still got to 40" and had a HECS in the middle of it.) The winters before 02-03 were mostly ugly....00-01 was okay but even that had a historic bust at the end.

March was roasting in 1990 but then we somehow got a few inches of snow in April lol.

I would LOVE an ultra strong el nino-- I don't think a 'weak' el nino will be enough. Not to change this pattern. Some of those weak el ninos we had in the 50s that came after la ninas didn't produce much snow either. Give me a 1957-58 or 2002-03 or 2009-10 type strong el nino....historically this is what you need to change the pattern, not some wimp of a weak el nino. Check out the snow seasons prior to those years....I think they were all bad to just about average before those strong el ninos came and gave us snowy winters for a few years.

There's also cancer alley in Louisiana which has an 85x higher risk of cancer because the fossil fuel cartels put their factories near minority housing. Fortunately they fought back and stopped it, a well known activist there went right to Washington and got the construction of yet another factory stopped.

For some-- not for urbanized areas though. West Oakland is still awful with all the diesel trucks (which need to be banned completely), they use AQI meters there to measure the (poor) air quality there. The life expectancy there is 9 years lower because of air pollution. Fossil fuel companies rather stealthily build their factories near urbanized areas where minorities live because they know they are less likely to complain. California did the right thing by banning drilling completely near urbanized areas. Air pollution and growing up near heavy traffic areas has rather strongly been connected to asthma and also to autism.

I've been talking about 89-90 for weeks lol, we just missed the November snowstorm lol But if you research 89-90 there was actually a Suffolk County snowfall in February....much less than February 2013 of course, but it was there. So both 1989-90 and 2012-13 had November and February snow and not much else.

the health impact and air pollution should be front and center-- air pollution lowers life expectancy by 2 years on average across the planet and up to 10 years in urbanized areas.

No it wouldn't-- they'd just point to Buffalo or some other place that had snow. They are just like that....

They are? I'm not sure how accurate these models are now but it could be the climate has shifted enough to create a semipermanent la nina-- I guess we'll find out soon enough.

It's going to get mild again after the 17th but maybe we can get a few inches out of that 13-15 event.

Seeing some connections between this and 2001-02. There was a big Carolina snowstorm later in January that year.