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NYC just signed an agreement with Canada for power sharing to be 100% renewable energy in NYC govt by 2025 and the mayor and governor both announced urban farms which will lower air pollution and improve the greenery all around the city the city will be 30% greenery by 2030!

NYC just signed an agreement with Canada for power sharing to be 100% renewable energy in NYC govt by 2025 and the mayor and governor both announced urban farms which will lower air pollution and improve the greenery all around the city the city will be 30% greenery by 2030!

That trajectory looked to me like a southern track. Do you think that splitting the two predominant tracks (SE/Gulf and out to sea/Bermuda), which would be Hatteras to New England may be more likely than, say, when we had Henri come up here in August? If so it looks like a first week of October window doesn't it, Don?

But let's remember that the chances for anything to happen here are extremely small. What usually happens is a storm into the SE or Gulf or even more likely out to sea, which is what's been happening this month.

I like the extended dry spell, let's get that here first.

Happy Harvest Moon everyone!

It would absolutely suck if the rain extended into Saturday

what happened to the WAR keeping rain away and giving us warm and sunny weather like it does in the summer

So we'll go back to warm weather in early October?

hey on the positive side, John, you now have much more material to write about for sci fi!

I wish the NY Times was better with this but for some reason they've been lukewarm.

I think the larger cities will be spending a lot of money (trillions) on sea walls. I think Miami, Charleston and even NYC has that in the works. As well as beach replenishment programs to extend the beach outward for better protection.

That reminds me of an excellent old Twilight Zone when the astronaut came back home, but it was to a parallel earth.....

Yes but will this response include curbing usage of fossil fuels?

I know that with chimpanzees and elephants who lost their mothers when they were young became violent and exhibited symptoms of PTSD and nightmares. It's really sad and why poachers get lifetime prison sentences.

and getting chased by mosquitos I can picture reindeer getting bit by them and dumping Santa right out of the sleigh and him falling head first and getting his head stuck in a chimney with his fat ass sticking out (oops I guess I get no presents this year lol)

I hate college football, all the rednecks come out

whats the fastest way to destroy an upper level low? These things seem to always stall out and ruin an entire week. Maybe we're seeing more of them now, I'm wondering why we get this kind of crap weather more frequently now vs back in the 90s and earlier

It could be 120 every day for all I care, what I actually care about is why have our summers become much less sunny and is there any data that tracks that?

why does this happen so much?! I can understand one day of rain in a week, that's my limit but why is it every time it rains it rains for 3 days straight and we see no sun for half a week? you didn't see this stuff in the 90s, you saw actual summers with heat and sunshine not this crap

well no wetness until well after the weekend at least

Maybe they have boom or bust years just like cicadas do?

I wonder if the media even covers these things and questions the administration about being hypocrites.

One thing I did like about what Elon Musk did, he used the first real space trip by an entirely private crew to raise money for St Jude's Children's Hospital......over 200 million was raised and 50 million personally came from him. Also one of the people on the mission was a pediatric cancer survivor and a Physician's Assistant who works at St Jude's. And that was a real space trip- they were up there for 3 whole days and at around 600 miles up and in orbit!

also this one, animals might be more moral than most humans https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-018-9275-3 Rowlands (2011, 2012, 2017) has recently argued that some nonhuman animals (hereafter ‘animals’) may be moral creatures, understood as creatures who can behave on the basis of moral motivations. He has argued that, while animals probably lack the sorts of concepts and metacognitive capacities necessary to be held morally responsible for their behaviour, this only excludes them from the possibility of counting as moral agents. There are, however, certain moral motivations that, in his view, may be reasonably thought to fall within the reach of (at least some) animal species, namely, moral emotions such as “sympathy and compassion, kindness, tolerance, and patience, and also their negative counterparts such as anger, indignation, malice, and spite”, as well as “a sense of what is fair and what is not” (Rowlands 2012, 32). If animals do indeed behave on the basis of moral emotions, they should, he argues, be considered moral subjects, even if their lack of sophisticated cognitive capacities prevents us from holding them morally responsible.Footnote 1 The empirical evidence gathered until now suggests that Rowlands may be on the right track and that some animals are indeed capable of behaving morally. Some studies, for instance, have found that animals are sometimes willing to help others when there is no direct gain involved, or even a direct loss. Such apparently altruistic behaviour has been shown by rats (Church 1959; Rice and Gainer 1962; Evans and Braud 1969; Greene 1969; Bartal et al. 2011; Sato et al. 2015), pigeons (Watanabe and Ono 1986), and several primate species (Masserman et al. 1964; Wechkin et al. 1964; Warneken and Tomasello 2006; Burkart et al. 2007; Warneken et al. 2007; Lakshminarayanan and Santos 2008; Cronin et al. 2010; Horner et al. 2011; Schmelz et al. 2017). It has further been found that some animals will offer apparent consolation to individuals in distress, a behaviour that is thought to be triggered by empathic processes and has been observed in primates (de Waal and van Roosmalen 1979; Kutsukake and Castles 2004; Cordoni et al. 2006; Fraser et al. 2008; Clay and de Waal 2013; Palagi et al. 2014), corvids (Seed et al. 2007; Fraser and Bugnyar 2010), canines (Cools et al. 2008; Palagi and Cordoni 2009; Custance and Mayer 2012), elephants (Plotnik and de Waal 2014), horses (Cozzi et al. 2010), budgerigars (Ikkatai et al. 2016), and prairie voles (Burkett et al. 2016). A few studies have also found an aversion to inequity in chimpanzees (Brosnan et al. 2005, 2010), monkeys (Brosnan and de Waal 2003; Cronin and Snowdon 2008; Massen et al. 2012), dogs (Range et al. 2008), and rats (Oberliessen et al. 2016), which suggests the presence of a sense of fairness in these species.Footnote 2