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https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/climate-change-manchin-what-matters/index.html It wouldn't be the first time he's committed violence on legislation to address climate change. Back in 2010, when he won as a Democrat in a red state in a very red year, Manchin did it by running an ad in which he literally fired a bullet into climate change legislation. That legislation, the last major attempt to enact climate change legislation, did fail. Eleven years later, the effects of the climate crisis are all the more apparent and frightening but Manchin is still out to get climate change legislation he thinks will hurt his state. It could also hurt him. His family's wealth is directly tied to coal. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/climate-change-manchin-what-matters/index.html Years later, he's a man specifically made for this moment. The Democrat representing a red state, he's got complete power over legislation. The chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee only amplifies his importance on energy and climate issues. The current proposal he killed would have paid utilities for moving more quickly away from fossil fuels. Manchin opposes moving more quickly away from fossil fuels since he says the US is already moving away from fossil fuels. He's right. But it's not happening fast enough. Time is running out. Experts are convinced the window is closing for the US and other countries to address climate change, which is already wreaking havoc on the weather and supercharging natural disasters, before the effects are catastrophic. RELATED: Coal-fired power is on the rise in America for the first time since 2014 One new study published in Nature suggests that to in order to avoid catastrophic consequences, most of the world's remaining fossil fuels should remain in the ground. I've been trying to see this from Manchin's perspective. He's like a politician from another time -- when there were Democrats representing red states. He's sticking up for the energy source of another time -- when coal was king. He doesn't see the need for the government to hasten the demise of coal since coal's demise is here. "The transition's already happening," Manchin told CNN, although he would not comment on a story about coal and West Virginia. "So I'm not going to sit back and let anyone accelerate whatever the market's changes are doing." West Virginians are feeling the effects of climate change and the energy markets. Read this excellent story from CNN's Ella Nilsen about the energy bills of West Virginians. They could save money by retiring more coal plants. Read the New York Times' recent report on floods and other disasters in West Virginia.

the interesting thing about 1983 is that was an early warning shot about summers to come with its rainy hot humid summer.

60 mph winds and 8-10 inches of rain Walt?

warmer SST cause the tuck in

I'm impressed with how 1983 still held onto the warmth this late and then went full on extremely cold starting in December, and that was also a la nina, but one in a drier climate regime, might look at that year as an analog for this winter. Although the previous year being an extreme el nino might give one pause. Think JFK can hit 80 one last time for the year on Monday?

we could get a mega block buster snowstorm in that pattern and the se ridge might help by keeping the storm coming up the coast rather than going offshore

it could also be a big player to get a mega block buster storm up here that would be way offshore without the ridge

thats correct, and that can occur in any pattern, we have become a one hit wonder type of of winter city anyway see 2005-06, 2015-16, etc.

and still have not reached freezing in any part of our area, not to mention Monticello, Mount Pocono, Westhampton, Toms River, Marthas Vineyard or Scranton!

hard to believe Sept 2005 was so dry with all that tropical action going on, but you know what happened in Oct 2005, biggest turn around ever lol

we could get that much rain in NYC too, looks like an Ida type rainfall with wind this time

first noreaster of the season?

college football OT rules are comical might as well decide the outcome on a coin flip

this rain was a surprise, it wasn't supposed to rain tonight! it was accompanied by a big temp drop from 60 to 52 so I guess there was a cold front passage

Have both gotten to 35 already but not 32 yet? I see Caribou still hasn't hit 32!

Don is there a chance Caribou and our area wont experience the first freeze until November? Do you have the numbers for Mount Pocono and Scranton too?

mass extinction event will hurt humanity in their wallets https://twitter.com/i/events/1451310011519418420

You could say that all the heat building up in the Arctic is finally making its way southward.

Hopefully not, I have zero plans to turn my house heat on before November.

we need to go with our (now) regular climate patterns. I find it very hard to believe we wont get to 70 sometime between next week and the the start of astronomical winter and also at some point later during the winter.

Oh well, I'm counting it as 80 because it hit 80 here, JFK is hotter than LGA on a downslope wind so I'm a bit suspicious of yesterday's numbers there

it's the limbic system, specifically the hypothalamus, the most primitive part of our brains where greed, fear, anger, all of that comes from. The interesting aspect of what you mentioned is that the civil rights movement and the environment movement are allies and grew up together, after all minorities are the ones who suffered and continue to suffer the most from pollution caused by fossil fuels. The most toxic output usually ends up being dumped in the urban areas.

you only need the pattern to change for a few days to get a snowstorm.....so we had 40/40 both in 2015-16 and 2016-17? How close was 2005-06 to that?

2005-06 was a torch winter where we got 40" of snow and it was a La Nina too