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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
Why dont fishermen and locals try to block the oil leases given out in the Gulf of Mexico which clearly cause much more harm and there was a leak from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 that still hasn't been cleaned up, 17 years later! -
No one cares about a cold November, we didn't have one last year either dude. November is a pretty meaningless month for cold and snow.
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
Meanwhile China is having problems with coal (GOOD) https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-coals-last-hurrah-comes-too-late-old-mining-towns-2021-11-11/ Back in 2019, government researchers were already debating whether production should be expanded and more coal power plants built in order to alleviate potential shortages over 2021-2025. But experts say this year's shortages prove China needs to accelerate its transition to renewables, and speed up reforms to allow electricity users to switch more easily to cleaner power sources and end their dependence on coal. "I'm puzzled as to why there is not a campaign-style push to ramp up renewable energy like we have seen with coal," said Alex Wang, co-director at UCLA's Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. "Coal reliance makes China vulnerable," he added. "It's an energy security problem." -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
there is such a thing as storage of energy you know? we can store solar and wind energy in chemical batteries to use later -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
it did until Munchkin got ahold of it. -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
they cant claim economic hardship because renewables are price competitive with fossil fuels and dont kill you or destroy the planet -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
we're building a huge wind farm offshore, I dont see anyone complaining about that it's 300 miles wide -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
Thorium dude, the answer is always Thorium -
whats the least snowiest? neutral?
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One can argue 95-96 was perfect November through April!
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I wonder if everyone remembers last year at this time we had 5 straight days of 70+ and even upper 70s (November 8-12) it was a +5 November which is amazing. The only difference was we had a freeze on Halloween last year, so we had an Indian Summer in November.
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There is nothing better than clear skies and low humidity. It can snow during actual winter, as long as it's nice and sunny the rest of the time.
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Maybe we have a chance to hit 70 one more time, today. Think this is the last one for the year, Don?
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One more chance to hit 70 today!
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JFK and LGA? also got one for MPO, Don?
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that will kill you
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try pieced green peppers next time
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
this country isn't one nation, it's like 50 different nations. States like NY should and will ban coal products from WV and other fossil fuel states (should ban guns too....we have enough of a problem with them.) -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
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. -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
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? -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
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 -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
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
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2021-2022 ENSO
LibertyBell replied to StormchaserChuck!'s topic in Weather Forecasting and Discussion
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. -
2021-2022 ENSO
LibertyBell replied to StormchaserChuck!'s topic in Weather Forecasting and Discussion
wow almost reached 40" in 1955-56.....the April snow makes it an even closer match to what happened in 2017-18
