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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.

yes and the president of Brazil letting the Amazon burn for more farmland.

people still have a sour taste after March 2001. like people still have a sour taste after Jan 2015, even though the season was excellent after that (and much better than 2000-01).

Don, it's not about phasing out civilization but living in a much more sustainable way. I look at the native americans and how they lived much more in sync with the environment and did not drive other species to extinction the way the white man did. They were far more civilized. An example is all the toxic chemicals being used on our farms that are now polluting the waters of the GOM and our oceans and killing off sea life by depleting oxygen levels.

actually population collapse would be a good thing and I too believe that will happen in the future. I dont mean that in a cataclysmic sort of way, but more in the sense that fertility rates will drop (they are dropping already.) The earth's human population needs to stabilize around 1 billion, not tens of billions. That's for the health of humanity as well as the rest of our environment.

you need an effective world government that usurps the authorities of ignorant leaders like the "president" of Brazil. Economic sanctions can be used as a way to make them be more sustainable.

Population "stability" isn't enough, the earth is already overpopulated with humans. They're destroying essential tropical rain forests, polluting and crapping on the environment and driving the mass extinctions of other species. Add to that bad land usage with chemical fertilizers and pesticides and animal farming and you have a crisis on your hands. As John Kerry and Arnold said, climate change isn't a strong enough argument to convince most people- they dont care what's going on in the Arctic and dont care about sea level rises unless they live near a coastline. You need to use the pollution argument- look at how polluted the air in Delhi, India is (as an example.) There is a strong pollution argument to be made for why to stop using fossil fuels.

you think thats bad, imagine being a kid on Long Island during the mid 80s-to early 90s!

Having experienced various winters here over the decades, I can say that I find 50" of snowfall a season to be "satisfactory." Anything under 40" is not satisfactory, but 50" is what I consider a Grade A winter. 60" is A+

No, much more likely that we get it in February. Maybe even January considering some of the newer forecasts I've been looking at say we may be in for a cold January. It's been many many decades since there's been an HECS in March- namely 1993.

haha I was thinking of his Dark Tower series, I haven't read any of his earlier works, I found it laudable that he was trying to combine all of his fiction into one series, very Tolkien-like. Then again I'm more of an Asimov science fiction fan, as fantasy doesn't really do it for me.

Some of America's greatest writers hailed from Maine.... I'm thinking John Updike, Stephen King and Robert Frost (?). It is indeed a refuge for intellectuals and inspires creativity.

at some point humanity will need to attempt climate regulation. There is no way around it. In every other science (except for astronomy of course, since we cant reach the stars yet), we are more than just observers, we are experimenters. Climatology is no different.

what happened to the climate shifts thread?

Well it's their funeral. Whatever happens it's what humanity deserves. I feel bad for the younger generation, but until the older people die off, this wont be solved.

actually if we want to technically define winter as the coldest 90 day period of the year, it would be from about December 8th to March 7th.

Heck, the solstice isn't even the shortest day of the year!

Yeah I was thinking Syracuse too because it's a larger city. You will just have to give up tracking tropical storms and hurricanes in the summer and fall though unless you're willing to come back to the city for those seasons. The city's better during the warm season anyway.

they're both actually good- Syracuse is the city with the highest snowfall average and gets snow both from lake effect and coastal storms (see Syracuse totals from Dec 1991 and Mar 1993)! Caribou gets more snow from latitudinal storms, Maine has had a banner November. I'd probably put both cities on my shortlist.

coastal storms are quite exciting in coastal Maine, it best resembles the climate of Maritime Canada. You even get the occasional hurricane up there. Allergy levels are quite low too, especially around Caribou.

summer temps got less accurate after the asos was put in lol and wind too

Yes thats what put it 3rd on my list, I have Jan 2016, Feb 2003 and Jan 1996 in that order. The second day of the storm was a bit of a disappointment.

the winds must have been amazing! higher LE directly correlates to the difficulty in shoveling it lol

I always forget that March 1914 storm, wasn't that a triple phaser? And of course, Dec 1947 belongs on this list. Wow we had another big LE wintry storm almost exactly a year after Feb 1920.

Yes! I like to put the 3" LE all frozen storms in a category of their own. The only one I had like that which was all snow was Jan 2016. Looks like you had even more with Feb 2013. The highest snowfall totals I read about were around 40"! Feb 1961 and perhaps the snowicane in Feb 2010 belong in that list too. Two ancient storms that probably also belong on that list are the blizzard of Mar 1888 and Feb 1920.