LibertyBell

twitter should autoban these people did you see how bots are spreading a false narrative of australian wildfires being mainly "caused" by arsonists?

I dislike the term "bomb cyclone"- it's like they combined two words that dont belong together into one phrase. It sounds very awkward.

This is very poignant (and for more than just climate change reasons.) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joel-sartore-on-saving-endangered-species-and-ourselves/ The video has images of species nearing extinction.

On a related topic, look up the series Blue Planet 2 on BBC America. It's EXCELLENT. It shows the vast variety of life in the depths of the oceans and what warming is doing to them. The answer to deep sea drilling should be a perpetual NO! 90% of all life lives down there and life may have started down there and the life there is so magnificently alien-like that I cant help but think that actual alien life would be like that. They showed fish with transparent heads where you can see their brains through their skulls (so they can look up without having to move their heads, they can actually look through their skulls!), fish that communicate by flashing different patterns of lights (we still dont know what they are saying to each other) and fish discovered 6km down that have actual feet and walk on the ocean floor and one particularly weird fish with two different sized eyes, one that always looks down and the other (much larger) that always looks up! They showed a part about coral reefs and what bleaching is doing to them and all the species dependent on them including clown fish that actually build homes inside the reefs and keep them clean.

I see the effects are different in different places- here on the east coast we've seen a rapid rise in relative humidity and annual precip totals. Longer allergy seasons and higher insect populations (and the bad kind of insects like mosquitoes.) And the changes to the ocean are also destroying the fragile marine ecosystem, this is having massive consequences which will only get worse.

It's interesting how the changes in the Pacific are causing all these changes all over the globe. They have a multiyear drought going on in Australia, very similar to what's been happening in the SW.

I'm sensing that most scientists feel that the error was on the conservative side too. I've noticed the predictions of sea level rise have gotten higher and we're already seeing sunny side flooding on a regular basis in Florida and South Carolina and even on the south shore of Long Island. Aren't there parts of the Florida Keys that have been underwater for 3 months now?

the same weather pattern looks like it will continue... also the number of people missing is now at 28. the 8,000 koalas reported to be dead is one third of the koala population, that's worse than decimation!

They have a very conservative government. Do you think whats going on there is also influencing our weather (note the record warm 90 degree SST just north of Australia.)

Yes but Staten Island and Brooklyn had similar totals to Manhattan and most of Long Island.

I think it's accelerating and will continue to accelerate as we will see the Antarctic ice start to melt at a faster pace too- there are hints that might already be underway. Australia might be uninhabitable within a few decades.

18 people dead, half a billion animals dead, worst forest fires and poorest air quality in their recorded history, 15 million acres burnt- no where to go but the beaches.....

JFK undermeasured even back then!

well right now one third of all fuel being used is renewable, the projections are by 2030 it'll be two thirds and net zero will be attained by 2050. Wind and solar are the fastest areas of growth in the job market and they are also the cheapest sources of fuel. The wind farms being built are hundreds of miles offshore where the winds are much stronger than they are on land.

the fourth 4"+ storm that month!

we'll have a huge problem if the entire ice sheet up there melts. Don did you see the new projections for NJ of 1 ft sea level rise by 2030 (over 2000 levels) and a 6 ft rise over those levels by 2100?

No, the way it works is all new housing will be heated by renewables. Good riddance to both oil and gas and their ridiculous prices anyway and their health issues. Going all EV will dramatically improve air quality. Fossil fuels are called dirty for a reason. Dont need to worry about gas leaks or pipeline explosions or fracking quakes anymore either, which seem to be rampant in other parts of the nation. I like that we're building a few hundred miles of wind farms off the coast of Long Island, not only are they good for energy but they should also lessen the impact of hurricanes hitting the coast.

It doesn't actually feed 8 billion people, it just feeds those in power and it's highly addictive. Most of the planet is in abject poverty.

Yes nuclear is better than gas or any other fossil fuel. Hopefully a lot safer than it was back in the 80s.... looking back on what was going on back then makes me realize why it has such a stain on it.

is that in April?

it's all about net.... if the losses in the summer outnumber the gains in the winter year after year it wont matter. You're seeing the effects of that now with parts of the Keys going permanently under water. The King Tide came in a few months ago and never left.

What do you think of this new commercial being put out by the industry about greenhouse gas emissions being half of what they were a generation ago? I oppose natural gas (it's really methane) because of fracking and pipelines, thankfully we have placed a moratorium on them here in NY and are going with wind, solar and hydro. I'd rather have nuclear, but we also had a lot of problems with the Shoreham plant on Long Island, and the power company was eventually charged with racketeering. The rates got extremely high when LILCO was trying to build that plant. The Indian Point power plant was also shut down recently because of issues. These plants shouldn't be near big cities or near fault lines, as Fukushima demonstrated.

and 2 snow events in April, after 4 of them in March!

I think it happened before the 1993-94 winter.... I remember the Dec 26 1993 storm as being the only all snow event that winter for us lol. Was a low moving up the coast developing east of ACY dropping 4-5 inches of snow here. I remember a coast to coast low that went east off of Norfolk that dropped 4-6 inches also, do you remember what year that might have been? I distinctly remember it because coast to coast lows passing south of us are pretty rare.

the first big storm of the season and the start of the coldest period of the winter that ended with the big Jan 96 blizzard! We had both a white xmas and white new years! And a white valentine's day too lol. (How often does that happen?) 8 inches at NYC and JFK, but 14" at LGA and 12" at ISP and a plane slid off the runway at JFK and into Jamaica Bay! It was a good storm but still a bit of a bust as the predictions were for 15-20 inches of snow.