LongBeachSurfFreak

I’ll just call the Ambrose jet the young vegetable destroyer from now on. The last one shredded my string beans.

We have actually been reducing that trend in the US. Overdose deaths in young people is one major factor, but the real catalyst has been life style. Many Americans are sedentary and have awful diets. Now global warming is rapidly accelerating and life expectancy is stagnant or decreasing.

Maybe? I’m not sure, that’s before my time. In the 90s movie this cute scientist discovers cold fusion and Val cons her and steals the formula she keeps in her brah. The interesting thing is, the Russian oligarchs try to steal it first because fusion is really bad when you make billions off natural gas. That has to be a major deferent to making fusion a reality. Exon Mobil isn’t about to start paying for fusion research.

I could see it happening by 2050, earlier if AI figures it out quicker. The greatest thing about fusion is one of its biggest inhibitors. The movie the Saint with my buddy Val did a good job explaining this all the way back in the 90s. Practically free, unlimited energy is inherently its own worst enemy in a capitalist society.

That’s where fusion solves all problems. It’s the most renewable resource possible. If the USA were to devote the time, money and resources to fusion that we did to the Manhattan project or the Apollo missions we could have it in 20 years. It literally changes everything, unlimited clean power allows for unlimited desalination, geo carbon storage and the list goes on and on. One hope is that with advances in AI and quantum computing fusion technology advances faster.

I couldn’t agree more. Nuclear fission technology has advanced to a point that it is absolutely the way to go. Unfortunately countries like Germany would rather burn biomass like trees and have shut down their last remaining reactors. Chernobyl just did so much PR damage. The reality is that a repeat is a near zero chance with current tech. The real hope to stopping climate change in my eyes lies with fusion. The problem is it’s always 20 years out from a viability. Some progress has been made, like more energy output then input in the last few years but it’s just not viable yet. We can only hope we get there before it’s too late.

Yeah with my phone. I did increase the contrast and zoomed in. It was an especially vivid sunset.

Gorgeous sunset just now, very vivid.

Exactly what I’m thinking. A big part of why the climate models aren’t predicting huge increases in numbers are do to factors like increase shear and lower lapse rates. But on the high end, the potential increases as OHC increases. More cat 5s but not necessarily many more named storms.

Hands down the best severe thunderstorm I have ever experienced. I was life guarding at Eisenhower park. It got so dark inside the aquatic center that everyone got out of the pool, indoors! I was able to run outside and watched garbage cans get launched into the building. It was also covered in that green leaf paste you only see with high end winds.

Yeah that’s part of it too. Plus plants aren’t fans of chlorine and fluorine.

I love watering too, but natural rain is much better for Vegetables in particular. Root systems are much larger horizontally then one would think. So often times just watering around the base, as most people do isn’t the best. Also natural rain over the course of many many hours soaks into the soil more efficiently. I do not know anyone who spends 12 straight hours slowly drizzling water on their plants.

Was just out working on my veggie garden and in full sun with no wind it feels hot. Crazy difference from yesterday as far as the “feel” to the day.

Lantern flys shouldn’t be killing tree of Heaven as they are their natural hosts. They evolved together in China. Tree of Heaven was planted extensively in urban areas back in the early 1900s because of its extensive resistance to pollution. Much like Norway Maple. Both trees have become extremely invasive. In my opinion all should be removed when possible. This time of year it’s easy to see just how invasive, taking a ride on local highways. All that light green growth you see are the flowers of the Norway maple. In places it outcompetes all native trees and produces pure stands. Terrible for local fauna. Both trees also aren’t adapted to our coastal wind potential. They have weak wood and end up failing.

I agree that the population there is at huge risk. I was just thinking in terms of the monsoon becoming more intense. When temps reach a certain threshold no amount of snowfall will offset the melting. The monsoon is such a complex phenomenon too. Occasionally completely failing locally. If you melt out the glaciers and then the monsoon fails in a given year/year’s that’s when the real trouble starts.

This seems rather counterintuitive to me. If one area would benefit from higher precipitation due to higher temps It would be here, as the vast majority is of monsoon origin. These mountains are so high, that they aren’t at risk of temperatures being too high for snowfall until we see something like +5c. It’s going to snow above 18,000’ for a while. Maybe this is a temporary weather phenomenon that evens out over time? Or am I missing something….

Wow, big White Ash are pretty rare this far south. Up north where they are plentiful the borer beetle has been nothing short of devastating. My uncle has a gorgeous property on 120 acres in NE Pa just south of Binghamton at 1900’ and Ash was the predominant tree. The fall foliage was spectacular. Now it’s a stick Forrest. I was up there in October and cut down 30 decent size Ash’s nearest to the house. While that was fun for me, it’s an awful situation. Im assuming you’re talking about an American Dogwood based on the rot pattern. Those too used to be very plentiful and have been dwindling over the years for various reasons.

That’s a pretty small impact except maybe locally in some suburbs that have strict planting and removal restrictions. The neighborhood I grew up in, in south Wantagh was completely tree covered in the 80s/90s. Between March 2010, Irene and Sandy we lost a tremendous amount of trees in a short time. After Sandy especially there was a panick of removals. Now there a very few trees in the entire neighborhood. Even in the wantagh woods which was known for its mature oaks and beech’s there are far, far fewer trees. Developers buy old houses on big lots, cut all the trees and build 2 McMansions. Again this is local, where I live now in Lynbrook there are still plenty of mature trees.

Pretty blah day, kind a flash back to earlier in the month after the great weekend.

I wouldn’t use absolute air temps and obviously the Park. If you add dews and use the real feel temp, it’s been plenty hot. 106 at 55 like in 1936 was more bearable then 98 and 75. I love records too, but they aren’t always accurate as to the human experience.

Back to my original example, Allison. Obviously a naked swirl at 30 North 50 East that produces a few sheared thunderstorms and an area of 35 knot winds for 12 hours isn’t worthy of a name. That same storm pre satellite wouldn’t have been noticed.

Glad I at least put in the cool weather veggies. This week looks like optimal growing conditions. Still holding off on the hot weather loving plants, like Tomatoes and annuals.

You’re totally missing the point, this isn’t about IMBY. It’s about tropical storms having the potential to cause huge monitory damages. Even name retirement. We can talk about nor Easter vs. tropical system damage potential all day in the NYC forum. They are completely different animals and pose very different damage risks.

A TD couldn’t produce the size and intensity of flooding that Allison produced. You need the lift produced by the dynamics of a deeper low pressure. Regardless, the point I’m trying to make is that some of the most damaging storms monetarily were tropical storms. Thats especially true in the North East. Dianne, Agnes, Floyd and Irene were all tropical storms in the NE all produced catastrophic damage.

Ask Texas about Tropical storm Allison.