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sea level rise has also been running at the upper limit of the models.

thats the limit set by the Paris agreement right? How warm would we be by 2050 even if we achieve net carbon neutral by then?

Siberia will become the world's bread basket at this rate

early 90s were very similar.... but we had a solar maximum back then and a solar minimum now?

we had some unprecedented cold that month and right through April (basically nationwide)....we even had a 6 inch snowstorm in April to snow out the Yankees home opener! I lost power in the early March event you referenced....didn't the late March event also underperform for the city and western LI?

Living solar power cells, household microgrids and more projects in the works for the decentralized grid of the future. I like this- so we could make our own power and sell the excess to our neighbors. They've already started doing this in Brooklyn.

$53 million in fines, even better. I'm glad Cuomo banned new gas lines in the NYC metro area (NYC/LI at least) and banned fracking also. There's one politician at least who has an IQ in the triple digits.

I remember hearing about ITER- good to know they're still making progress. IMHO "cheap gas" isn't the way to go, especially because of the methane leaks associated with it. Fusion is the ultimate answer.

gas company is going to pay $3 million for faulty gas lines that sparked massive fires near Boston

what frustrates me is that we've been talking about controllable fusion since the 80s....we've had so many technological advances in so many fields since then, why is it taking so long to develop viable fusion reactors?

2050 sounds about right. I think most are getting more worried about the Antarctic because of the implications of a rapid ice melt there. My question is- do we really need an outlier winter like this to get ice growth in the Arctic regions? Very few winters are going to have a + AO like this winter has had.

February is right up there too

thanks Don, and it also makes business sense because it's the fastest growing sector of the job market. Not to mention the savings in health care costs. Whats going on with Wells Fargo? I know they were recently fined $3 billion for that scam they were running from 2002-2016 (opening fake bank accts and charging customers interest) and their former CEO got banned from the financial industry), but in regards to energy, have they also moved away from funding the fossil fuel industry?

maybe there's a different way to read that article- do you have an account there? anyway, I could see where both could be true, where what happened during the 1700s had a different cause from what's going on now. I'd love to read that piece too.

nuclear power can work but they need to do a far better job than Japan did with Fukushima. and why is switching to Fusion taking so long? we've been talking about it for 40 years now. Maybe we need to start genetically modifying humans to make them smarter so they can do this faster.

just look at what's been occurring in the middle of the country, in states like Iowa and Nebraska, farms there have been underwater for two years running. They're losing billions of dollars because they cant grow crops anymore.

well, even if you dont subscribe to anthropogenic climate change, there are many other reasons to stop using fossil fuels, chief among them the health impact they have in urban areas, rising rates of asthma, etc. There has been a civic movement in east coast cities like Providence, RI, to move factories that use fossil fuels out of their cities because of breathing problems people living there have from them. So moving onto a new source of fuel is beneficial for health along with economic reasons.

Access options Subscribe to Journal Get full journal access for 1 year $199.00 only $3.83 per issue We're just talking about super el ninos here, starting with 1982-83.... what occurred during the 1700s wasn't subject to any kind of scientific measurement.

it has to do with the unprecedented type of weather that has been occurring on a large scale. Looks like Russia loves it because they're about to open Siberia for farming and will be feeding the world since America's bread basket will become unviable for farming.

that makes no sense when renewable fuels represent the fastest growing economies and sectors of the job market. At some point you have to move on from the old.

I love how some like to bend backwards to make excuses for the fossil fuel cartel, which is one of the most corrupt cartels on the planet, right up there with big pharma. at least some are seeing the light- Goldman Sachs just pulled all its funding for fossil fuel drilling and put $500 million into renewable fuels, and Delta just put $10 billion over 10 years into achieving carbon neutral by 2030. Amazon just put $10 billion into renewables also. Now we need to go after Chase and Wells Fargo, who have problems of their own.

I was driving on I-80 near the Delaware Water Gap on Monday and I saw a forest fire just ahead of me and above me, first time I've ever seen that- let alone in February! It was named the Rock Face Fire and it was burning 70 acres last I heard, and it was on Mt Tammany on the Jersey side.

but high end ninos do seem to be occurring more often since the 80s.

there is no safe side- I guess people dont care that it's ruining their health too. Darwinism always wins....

PA weather book lists that winter as dropping 120 inches in Stroudsburg!