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guess what else is a sham....COP26. Over 500 fossil fuel lobbyists there, we weren't able to make headway against the tobacco cartels until we banned tobacco lobbyists from conferences.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-gift-of-endless-memory/ Endless memory....I wonder if this is a useful trait or will it actually cause more problems than its worth?

What you need to know - New wind and solar power projects produce cleaner and cheaper energy than new coal power plants, The Guardian and Bloomberg reports - Technology development in both solar and wind are part of what make them cost-effective sources, according to Ars Technica - There are also "positive externalities" - or social value to using solar and wind power like billions of dollars saved in health costs, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists

https://twitter.com/i/events/1453040298154606599 Renewable energy costs are already on par with fossil fuels - and only getting cheaper In 2015, when the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed, countries made commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming in this century to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), ideally 1.5C, compared to preindustrial levels, Reuters reports. One way to achieve that goal is to reduce energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by scaling up the use of renewable energy resources, such as solar and wind power instead of fossil fuels, such as coal or oil. Critics have argued the cost of developing and deploying these renewable energy sources is expensive, but research shows that renewable energy sources are cost-competitive with fossil fuels and are getting cheaper each year, as multiple news outlets and international organizations report. There are also other long-term, cost-saving benefits to implementing renewable energy sources, Vox report

Chris do you consider 1995-96 to be a book end winter on steroids? It's interesting so many of these book end winters had April snowstorms..... 1955-56, 1995-96, 2017-18

How much snow did we get in April 1957? Must be a very rare case of significant snows in back to back Aprils? April 1996 and 1997 would be another incidence of that, although not as significant in the city as it was on Long Island (east of here) and in New England as well as coastal NJ-- maybe more urban heat island effect influences in urban areas by then.

wow almost reached 40" in 1955-56.....the April snow makes it an even closer match to what happened in 2017-18

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-carnegie-hero-fund-commission-60-minutes-2021-11-07/ Carnegie heroes and the neuroscience behind acts of heroism Scott Pelley meets with Carnegie Hero Fund awardees and reports on a possible difference in brain make-up for those who commit heroic acts.

I also wanted to post the links to what I saw on 60 Minutes https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-oil-spill-louisiana-coast-guard-60-minutes-2021-11-07/ Taylor Energy Oil Spill: Stanching the longest-running oil spill you've likely never heard of In 2004, Hurricane Ivan brought down a massive oil platform operated by Taylor Energy, in the Gulf of Mexico. For years, oil has been seeping into the Gulf. Jon Wertheim reports on the efforts of a Coast Guard captain and a Cajun engineer to find a solution.

I believe you may find this interesting.....the self organization factors that developed the human brain have much in common with the self organizational principle that created the superstructure of the universe, so this design is not a one off and may be more common than any of us ever realized.....see the following: https://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/the-strange-similarity-of-neuron-and-galaxy-networks

I believe technology has both positive and negative effects on brain development and society in general but we wont fully realize it until the current generation of children grow up.....for better and for worse. I don't like the idea that developing brains get overly stimulated in perhaps negative ways as demonstrated by increased metabolism of glucose by the brain. My conjectures on amygdala stimulation could also be a result of that, as technology can have both positive (empathic) effects as well as negative (mind numbing suppressive) effects on the amygdala....this dovetails with your ideas on group psychosis. I listed additional stimuli too, like the accumulation of wealth and both childhood and adulthood exposure to empathic situations or the lack thereof. I chuckled at your creation of the word "militiagan"....I made one the other day too, I call it "crapitalism" lol.

John, I love your pyramid "scheme" (heh) it almost perfectly dovetails with my posts on the amygdala and also on some of HG Wells' seminal works on where human society will go in the future.....have you read "The Time Machine"? The only difference is he had two different species evolving and you have three levels. I believe you are closer to the truth as there is nuance there and unfortunately some of the bad actually are intelligent people who have a lack of empathy for whatever reason (see my posts on the human brain structure known as the amygdala and what may influence how active it is.....there may be childhood factors involved here too, not just the adult stimuli, both positive and negative, that I mentioned)....which tends people either towards empathy or psychopathy.

Something else to consider-- I've seen studies showing that people tend to be more altruistic when they see others do it so maybe the amygdala is also stimulated by external stimuli like the behavior of others? it shows that the human brain doesn't exist in isolation and is open to being adjusted by outside factors I can also see the reverse being true, like a Lord of the Flies scenario or what monstrosity military sometimes does.....if there is psychotic behavior being done by one or some, it causes others to behave the same way, they now consider it okay to do so, so maybe that is how the amygdala gets suppressed by external stimuli

I have a further conjecture to make in connection with this.....some people say that money just brings out what is already in the human mind. Let's say that the human mind is more malleable than that though (both for good and bad.) Is it possible that having an excess of money actually weakens the response of the amygdala and makes people more likely to show no emotions when they see people in trouble (we all know about corporate psychopathy.) Of course this isn't true in all cases....we know of some rich people who do a lot for society, but what if certain people who are "borderline" tend to go "over the edge" and into psychopathy if they come into a lot of money? An interesting experiment to conduct by analyzing these peoples' brains.

They had another interesting piece on what makes some people more altruistic than others. so in this research a Dr Marsh points to the amygdala as where altruism comes from so when exposed to scenes where other people were being hurt the brains of altruistic people lit up in the amygdala they rescued people from cars on fire they gave their kidneys etc psychotic people had no response in the amygdala and had no emotional response to scenes of violence and danger lol I think we would both light up, I feel physical pain even when I see an insect in trouble let alone a person I'm going to have to look into their online page, they are talking about the psychological cost of heroes causes burn out among other things

It's amazing that oil companies in these oil lease areas are allowed to clean oil spills in their own time and Taylor Energy's oil spills have been there for 17 years. Money makes people more stupid I see.

I love that article! and you are definitely now from New England! I believe New England has the highest percentage of writers lol! Saw something on 60 minutes today that made me super angry.....must look into this further. wow on 60 Minutes they are talking about an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that hasn't been cleaned in 17 years because the oil company is well liked and the media didn't talk about it they let the oil companies clean themselves up-- in their own time Taylor Energy, they've had nine oil leaks in 17 years and decided not to clean any of it up because they thought cleaning up the oil spills would harm the environment more haha they said it was only leaking 3 gallons of oil a day lol Louisiana.....I hope that entire state drowns and all the oil facilities go down with it would be fun to see a huge Cat 5 hurricane take down the entire dirty cartel lmao Taylor Energy tried to sue the coast guard when they tried to clean up the oil spills and said it wasn't their oil haha

In the main la nina thread they seem to think we'll have an active back end too. So maybe a snowy beginning and a snow end? Quote a few la nina's have been book end winters.

Are you thinking a two peak winter, with a the traditional active la nina beginning and an active end too? A true book end winter.

I wonder if it's colder than that in your old town on Eastern Long Island?

Must adjust for the fact that el chichen might have made that winter colder than it would've otherwise been and the fact that 82-83 was a super el nino and la ninas preceded by el ninos are different, let alone one preceded by a super el nino.

Ray, do you think it will be as cold as that winter was? Aside from February wasnt that a really cold winter?

thats another good one although 2018 had the long duration snowstorm like 1956 did. There was no match for the April 2 snowstorm though, got 6 inches in that one and the Yankees home opener was snowed out. I like getting one of those per decade lol

Glad I'm not the only one. Luckily for me I usually only see one a year. Last night was particularly horrible, after seeing the centipede earlier, I saw that mouse later on in the night. Lesson learned, all lights are staying ON!

This is awesome weather, so much sun during the day and lots of stars to see at night.