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NYC carrying the rear again

we hit 95 a few years ago in October, it can't be as hot as that

we did have some lightning and heavy rain here

But some are still holding onto the idea that we can control climate change by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet. What do you think of that concept, Don?

Is there a way to equate this to snowfall measurements? I wonder if we can now confirm record snow depths using this method? Not to mention measure new record high and record low temps from remote parts of the world where there are few sensors (like remote parts of Antarctica that might be colder than Vostok?)

This is interesting https://twitter.com/i/events/1437209588336578561 Oil is no longer king - and that’s fuelling a revamp in some schools With the energy sector in flux, the University of Calgary isn’t the only institution figuring out how to provide broad and flexible qualifications to better lure energy engineering students. Some schools have already been doing so for years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58508001 This makes me pretty damn angry A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group. 227 people were killed around the world in 2020, the highest number recorded for a second consecutive year, the report from Global Witness said. Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation - logging, mining, large-scale agribusiness, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure. The report called the victims "environmental defenders" killed for protecting natural resources that need to be preserved, including forests, water supplies and oceans. Since the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed in 2015, the organisation says on average four activists have been killed each week. It said this "shocking figure" was likely to be an underestimate because of growing restrictions on journalists and other civic freedoms. Logging was the industry linked to the most murders with 23 cases - with attacks in Brazil, Nicaragua, Peru and the Philippines. Indigenous peoples, most often on the frontline of climate change, accounted for a further one third of cases. Colombia had the highest recorded attacks, with 65 people killed last year. A senior campaigner for Global Witness, Chris Madden, called on governments to "get serious about protecting defenders." He said companies must start "putting people and planet before profit' or he warned that "both climate breakdown and the killings" would continue. "This dataset is another stark reminder that fighting the climate crisis carries an unbearably heavy burden for some, who risk their lives to save the forests, rivers and biospheres that are essential to counteract unsustainable global warming. This must stop''. The organisation called on governments to formally recognise the human right to a safe, healthy and sustainable environment, and ensure commitments made at November's UN climate change conference, COP26, integrate human rights protections. In response, COP26 president Alok Sharma told the BBC he had "prioritised meeting people on the front line of climate change," to ensure the voices of all are heard." 'Shot dead in her living room' Those murdered included South African Fikile Ntshangase, 65, who was involved in a legal dispute over the extension of an opencast mine operated by Tendele Coal near Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal province. She was shot dead in her own living room. Her daughter, Malungelo Xhakaza, 31, said her "mother's struggle lives on." She said: "To this day no arrests have been made in the investigation into my mother's murder. There has been no accountability. It seems to me that someone wants this mine expansion and the extraction to go ahead, no matter the cost." Petmin Limited, which owns the Somkhele mine through its subsidiary Tendele Coal Mining, told Global Witness that it "acknowledges community tensions may have been a factor in Fikile's death." The company said it "strongly condemns any form of violence or intimidation" and has offered full co-operation with the police. The killings also included Óscar Eyraud Adams, who was murdered in Mexico in September 2020. He was working to help the indigenous Kumiai community in Baja California have better access to water. Global Witness said activists still under threat included communities in Guapinol in Honduras, where dozens of people have been protesting against an iron oxide mining concession that was granted by the central government in a protected area. Campaigners believe the Guapinol river, a vital water source, is threatened. The organisation says "many community members remain incarcerated."

How is added mass measured? That's fascinating!

Larry made landfall as an 80 mph true hurricane near St John's, Labrador- Don is that the furthest north landfall a hurricane has ever made? I heard it will drop 4 feet of snow on Greenland?

It seems that our hottest years dont end up on the list because when we are hot the rest of the country isn't lol. Except for 2002, that was amazingly hot here. Surprised about 1980 not being on the list because from the charts I've seen that was a three month heatwave from St Louis to the east coast. I like to exclude the west coast from conversations about our weather patterns because their climate is so unlike ours they might as well be another country.

until we develop the guts to engineer our own planet

I'm coughing just looking at it. There's more than one reason to wear a mask.

Think the smoke might actually keep the temps down?

The problem with OT is, there's a lot of arguing and name calling that goes on there. It feels very jarring to be in there lol.

sandy areas are always the kings of radiational cooling

All vaccines that have ever been made have worked this way.

Yellow (left) and orange (right) systems could get us

Weird, how is 1980 not hotter than any of these? We had coast to coast heat that year. And 1995 had similar.....

Amazingly some very anthropocentric people who should have known better thought animals were no different from robots for a long time and used it to justify their unethical treatment of them.

You got two weenies and two sad faces, I tried to change things up lol

You and I both know how people in power think, short term gains even if it means long term losses. I can see this happening. It's already happening in some parts of the country (deforestation in the South is ongoing.) It is just going to accelerate climate change and something else they didn't think about, when the big flooding rains do happen, these treeless areas will cause massive mudslides and landslides. We often see these in the west when flooding rains occur after forest fires remove the trees. Humans cutting them down will only exacerbate that.

just a low though right? no strong winds with this?

But there was no humidity today it was amazing. Why cant we have this kind of weather all year round? This is why I want to get rid of the Gulf of Mexico lol

Something I read which was troubling on the political side was an article about how more trees are better in a "perfect" world but in our carbon polluted world that we should be looking into replacing forests with grassland. I think JBurns posted this though I can't locate the link right now I'm going by memory. The argument presented was that because of the fire risk of trees that areas in which forest fires are prevalent we should replace trees with grassland, and the grass would act as a carbon sink too and grass fires (brush fires) are less destructive than forest fires. It made me think about the issue a bit more, but this goes beyond trees, there are many fauna that would die out if the trees were gone, Many animals and specifically birds are dependent on them.

I was just going to tell rclab to check out the OT posts before he chose to respond to the "ghost"