LibertyBell

Well we would have been in a FAR better place had Gore become president rather than the illegitimate "election" of war criminals Bush, Junior and Mercenary Cheney.

Heh yeah I've been wondering about the vulnerability of a democracy in which a large segment of the population isn't properly educated to make smart decisions about existential threats. They are very easy to manipulate without even knowing it's happening.

You used to be a climate change skeptic and had a radio show? I didn't know either of that. I thought climate change had been settled going way back to the 80s. The science is not that difficult (for those of us who love science) and your use of analogies is a handy method for showing people how it works without having to delve into mathematics, charts, etc. We already knew it was happening back then and it turns out that the fossil fuel cartel knew about it even before that. It's just much more obvious now then it was back then. Obviously the cartel had been doing a great job covering their tracks, and now that they can no longer do that (well to most of us anyway) they espouse failed strategies like removing carbon from the atmosphere and "clean coal".

15% slower was the figure I've seen attributed to TC forward speed. Not sure on the strengthening as they near landfall factor, but the SST are abnormally warm near shore. That Siberian megaheatwave sure was something to behold, never heard of anything so anomalous lasting so long.

what about something like rapidly strengthening hurricanes as they approach the Gulf Coast? The water is abnormally warm there and in the last few years we've seen a spate of hurricanes strengthening right to landfall- Harvey, Michael, Laura, and now also Sally? Also much slower moving storms (Harvey, Florence and now Sally).

the sky is a pale yellow here.....

One of the reasons I chose 08-09 is because it came after two back to back well below normal snowfall seasons and also follows the snowy March theme we have seen in recent years.

does 08-09 sound like a reasonable analog to you?

may be a major at landfall

Prediction is for lows of 37-38 at my other home in NE PA and highs in the upper 50s for next weekend.

We'll be onto the Greek alphabet before the end of this month. Will beat 2005 in total tropical storms, but not in hurricanes or majors.

I like the European heat index better, it accounts for sun angle, wind speed and other variables. Question- what is the difference between wet bulb temperature and dew point?

Nature paper on life on Venus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4.pdfhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4.pdf

Sudden methane release would be an ELE (extinction level event)....it has happened in the past and caused mass extinctions....

One of the higher execs in FB regularly attends Trump banquets.

On a lighter note, if life can exist on the Greenhouse Hellhole that is Venus, we should be fine even if we burn all the carbon on the planet right?! You know I'm kidding.....

Don, on a more positive note, this is breaking news from the British RAS

San Francisco, Portland and Seattle all have the worst air quality on the planet.

Yes all those la nina winters that I remember from the late 80s thru early 90s had very little snow in December, some of them only a T. I'd be thrilled if we even had an average winter, something like 08-09!

brilliant sunrises/sunsets for us?

Yes, I remember having to wear sweaters quite regularly in late September going back to the 90s, haven't done that in at least a decade or more.

So minimum hasn't been reached yet, Don?

It'll be awesome when FakeBook gets regulated to death

Did you see the replies, Don? Looks like FakeBook has been doing this for years!

Yeah, I see they learn from their previous mistakes there. One good thing to come out of all this is that China is closing down all the wet markets that were prevalent there. Wish we would do the same in NY.