LibertyBell

But it's about much more than just climate. It's a major health issue, asthma, cancer, systemic organ damage from plastics, etc. The long term health effects are far worse than a couple of degrees of warming.

Chris, humanity is completely unsustainable in its current form. The world only works in its current form for the rich. The hard truth is the world as it is now needs to be completely and utterly destroyed to create a better system from its ashes. And I strongly believe that will happen-- whether we want it to or not. Either we do it, or Nature will do it for us.

John, this is a really tough answer but it needs to be stated: You need to destroy the current system completely and utterly in order to build a better one and completely from scratch. That applies here.

Natural gas isn't natural and isn't safe either, it's carcinogenic. We need to make it extremely difficult for the fossil fuel cartels to do business, including labeling them as terrorists and making life miserable for them-- including seizing their assets and properties. Look what they have been doing to Donzinger. We need to take away their rights to litigate too. Germany isn't a bastion of renewable energy-- I see they've been building more coal mines and removing nuclear as an option-- they are headed in the wrong direction.

Reading this makes so angry. We should be treating the fossil fuel cartels like terrorists and create a war on fossil fuels. Associated articles about how dirty they fight so we need to fight dirty too. https://www.makechevroncleanup.com/press-releases/2019/6/20/judge-kaplan-ordered-the-seizure-of-his-passport-computer-and-cell-human-rights-defender-steven-donziger-refused-to-turn-them-over-here-is-his-explanation https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-05/chevrons-rico-victory-provides-a-model-for-other-companies?sref=fqqmZ8gi https://www.wsj.com/articles/litigation-without-end-chevron-battles-on-in-28-year-old-ecuador-lawsuit-11619975500 https://www.vice.com/en/article/neye7z/chevrons-star-witness-admits-to-lying-in-the-amazon-pollution-case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/chevron-lawyer-steven-donziger-ecuador-house-arrest https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/chevron-amazon-ecuador-steven-donziger-erin-brockovich other companies in other cartels also fight dirty https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/business/chemours-dupont-pfas-genx-chemicals.html Monsanto/Bayer losing lawsuits is a bright spot in all this https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-12-02/bayer-suffering-buyers-remorse-for-monsanto-acquisition/

A report came out how much the fossil fuel cartel has been lying about plastic recycling. MOST PLASTIC CANNOT --REPEAT-- CANNOT BE RECYCLED! BUT THE PLASTIC PUSHERS OF THE DIRTY FOSSIL FUEL CARTELS CONTINUE TO LIE AND DECEIVE BY SAYING IT CAN! THEY'VE BEEN LYING ABOUT PLASTIC RECYCLING FOR 30 YEARS NOW

That was an extension of the March pattern. I wonder taken collectively if it was one of our wettest 5-6 weeks periods ever.

Funny thing about 2007-- the first three weeks of January were warmer than the first three weeks of April lol

where did this storm sneak in from? earlier forecasts had today as sunny

I can't wait until it hits 100. or actually any sun at all, like we will have all week.

From 0 to 60 in 24 hours lol

I wonder if we've ever had that before in one week? Temperatures (all highs I'm assuming) in every decadal range from the teens to the sixties lol.

And we also had it in 1990 and 1991 when we had 22 out of 24 months above normal and you know how bad the winters were back then. It would be interesting if there's any info about the early 70s because we had some really bad winters back then too.

Yes so no allergies for me last night!

2020 was the rare outlier, I can't remember the last time before that NYC got into the 30s (actually I do-- I think it was May 1992 when we were in the upper 30s-- that was the "Pinatubo summer"-- I think before that the last time we were in the 30s in May was in 1977, when we had snow, just like what happened in May 2020.) So 30s in May is basically a once in 2-3 decade event. To my knowledge it has never hit freezing or below later than 4/20 (which happened in 1983 when we had snow that actually stuck.)

are we returning to early 80s type weather in spring lol? It was below freezing on this date in 1981 and of course we know what happened in 1982 and 1983 also had a late April snowstorm on the 20th.

wow it was so cold in the early 80s, even this late in the season below freezing on this date in 1981! April blizzard in 1982 and another snowstorm a week later! April snowstorm in 1983 on 4/20!

The last two springs have been very nice, dry and warm and last April we hit the 90s two days in a row.

Think we'll likely hit 90 at least once in May, Don?

It was really nice until that wind brought back my allergies. All the clear blue skies from this afternoon made this morning's heavy rain a distant memory and then I saw a few puffy cumulus give us a pink sunset.

Why is it our local broadcasters almost uniformly underforecast the temperatures, Don? I even heard them say "no 70s for the next 7 days" and they busted badly on the first day of that forecast!

Lots of auroral activity too

I find extensive heat powerful and memorable, those summers stay in our memories just like big snowstorms do.

a lesson learned from my dearly departed parents, you're very welcome!

Nice to see the sun out!