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  1. 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.
  2. You got two weenies and two sad faces, I tried to change things up lol
  3. 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.
  4. just a low though right? no strong winds with this?
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. I was just going to tell rclab to check out the OT posts before he chose to respond to the "ghost"
  8. Yes that would be a horrible precedent especially when we're trying to get nations like Brazil to stop cutting down the Amazon but I was led to believe that tropical rain forests are more important than temperate rain forests are? Preserving the Amazon always seems to take precedence over everything else. The only short term modification we can do that I can think of is to simply restrict people from building in that area and forcing those who already have to move out. It's too dangerous for people to live in those areas and puts firefighter lives at risk when they have to come rescue them.
  9. wtf and I just saw he weenied Don! I mean, WHO DOES THAT?! lol yea those OT things are far worse, but I was shocked to see anyone weenie Don. Think that might be you-know-who who keeps coming back under new names? Their listed location seems to match.
  10. Thats the storm Lee Goldberg talked about today.
  11. The problem is according to my physicist friend it will take too long (decades) to stop the fires even if we started reducing carbon and methane right now which is why he wants the trees thinned which would lessen the imminent fire threat that gets worse every year. The area is probably going to be a vast desert soon enough anyway, Nature is headed in that direction over there and those trees would be very out of place in a desert. It reminds me of the Sahara, which is expanding southward. The other option is to simply make people move out of the urban-wildlife interface zone and not allow people to build homes there at all.
  12. Looks like the Three Stooges have some competition for best slapstick comedy I missed it damn it!
  13. haha the Three Stooges were always my favorite growing up and decades later their slapstick humor has stood the test of time.
  14. This one suits him much better lol
  15. We are like a regular Who's on First, What's on Second and I Don't Know's on Third crew lol. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml
  16. According to Lee Goldberg's map, this hurricane Larry will make landfall as a 75 mph hurricane near the eastern edge of Labrador, he said it will then race up to Greenland and be a HUGE snowstorm/blizzard up there!
  17. It makes one wonder if it's even possible for them to ever not be very dry, they've been so dry for so long that I've thought that the area might no longer be able to support the vegetation it now has. A physicist who lives in WA half jokingly told me you want to stop all these horrendous forest fires? Chop down the trees and thin them out a lot, you get rid of the trees you won't have the fires anymore. He was only half joking- he's tired of them too and sees no other options. Do you think it'll come down to that one day, Don, will they start thinning out the trees there to stop the fires? No fuel, no more fires.....
  18. These fires are still burning even after all that historic rainfall? Wow
  19. I like heat but not humidity and would go to extremes to get rid of humidity. (Cant we just siphon it off into space? I wonder how Mars did it? LOL)
  20. heat is different from humidity. Time to start draining the oceans and use that water dammit
  21. hey Don when did NYC start measuring hourly rainfall? I thought it was 1943 for hourly rainfall and 1868 for daily rainfall? Thats what some sites mention anyway. Has it just been a continuous hourly record of rainfall since 1943?
  22. What they have to point out is September actually IS summer- most of it anyway. Fall doesn't start until after three weeks of September.
  23. Surprised it's September and October, I thought it would be December with how warm recent Decembers have been.
  24. for some odd reason Lee Goldberg just made a sort of prediction 7 days out that next Friday a tropical system may be along the east coast and be bringing us rain. Really shocked that he would do that a week out.
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