LibertyBell

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.

Maybe someone will remember the year this happened, I know it was in December..... An arctic front passed through the day and there were snow squalls with almost completely clear skies during the day and high winds, but no accumulations..... Then at night we had a rogue snow squall move in with partly cloudy skies and a near full moon around 10 PM. I remember seeing the weather on WPIX and there was a rogue band of snow around JFK and SW Nassau. It sat there for 2 hours and we had 2 inches of snow in that time, all the while seeing the moon pass through the clouds (or vice versa lol.) What date did this happen? It was somewhere between the mid 80s and mid 90s (prior to 92.)

15 inches at JFK! But it all fell at night here and I was so exhausted tracking it all day and waiting for it to start snowing that I fell asleep and never saw a single flake fall!

Last night was a new memory for me- the greatest series of snow squalls I have ever seen! It snowed from 4 PM to 11 PM at varying rates and all the roads here were snow covered!

Don, in place of Yatutat you can use Verhoyansk or Omjakon. Those three locations are often cited as the three coldest locations in the Northern Hemisphere and they are in the same geographical area. Also, I heard that Australia beat its hottest temp ever recorded (beating the record from last year), is this true and what is the new record? Is it 120 recorded at Forrest?

thats correct, but there are lots of natural processes that are highly destructive.

Not to mention all the toxic chemicals from the farms being drained into large bodies of waters and causing a massive die off. FYI these are also toxic to humans and are now being found in local lakes and aquifers where we get our drinking water from.

People always think the population problem is overblown and yet...... NOAA scientists said that overpopulation is the major reason why we face a climate change crisis and the best way to reduce your carbon footprint has been listed as having one less child. It's also a great way to lower pollution (as an example, Delhi was recently enveloped in so much smog that people couldn't breathe.) This is a pretty progressive point, as it's also been mentioned in the NY Times and Wa Po. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/best-way-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-one-government-isn-t-telling-you-about The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is one the government isn’t telling you about By Sid PerkinsJul. 11, 2017 , 4:30 PM Recycling and using public transit are all fine and good if you want to reduce your carbon footprint, but to truly make a difference you should have fewer children. That’s the conclusion of a new study in which researchers looked at 39 peer-reviewed papers, government reports, and web-based programs that assess how an individual’s lifestyle choices might shrink their personal share of emissions. Many commonly promoted options, such as washing clothes in cold water or swapping incandescent bulbs for light-emitting diodes, have only a moderate impact (see chart, below), the team reports today in Environmental Research Letters. But four lifestyle choices had a major impact: Become a vegetarian, forego air travel, ditch your car, and—most significantly—have fewer children.