Climate in the 21st Century

[Sativied]

This is a weird one

California residents told to avoid gas stations in one county

An air quality alert was issued in parts of the state on Tuesday due to high levels of ozone.

www.newsweek.com

We call it summersmog. When pollution, like nitrogenoxide, is turned partly into ozon by the sun. In contrast wintersmog is particulates in the air. It’s got to be bad when “residents were also told to avoid burning candles as it is a source of indoor air pollution.”

 

[Budley Doright]

Gonna be just fantastic here .

 

[sunni]

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its been sooooo hot

 

[BudmanTX]

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damn, stay hydrated man, wear a hat......just overall becareful.....that heat can wipe you out.....it does me down here....

 

[Sativied]

Would not mind if you could all send a little of the sunny weather and high temps my way. It's been raining 3 months straight, or so it feels. Not the type of rain you walk through, but the type that makes you go oh shit we need to shelter / get inside. Temps between 60 and 70. Had one beach day in entire spring, all the outdoor festivals are drenched, it's depressing, I need it to recharge. Aside from everything being lush green, it's almost like it's autumn and winter is coming.

 

[BudmanTX]

Would not mind if you could all send a little of the sunny weather and high temps my way. It's been raining 3 months straight, or so it feels. Not the type of rain you walk through, but the type that makes you go oh shit we need to shelter / get inside. Temps between 60 and 70. Had one beach day in entire spring, all the outdoor festivals are drenched, it's depressing, I need it to recharge. Aside from everything being lush green, it's almost like it's autumn and winter is coming.

i'll trade ya

 

[cannabineer]

Would not mind if you could all send a little of the sunny weather and high temps my way. It's been raining 3 months straight, or so it feels. Not the type of rain you walk through, but the type that makes you go oh shit we need to shelter / get inside. Temps between 60 and 70. Had one beach day in entire spring, all the outdoor festivals are drenched, it's depressing, I need it to recharge. Aside from everything being lush green, it's almost like it's autumn and winter is coming.

sounds downright English.

 

[CANON_Grow]

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Lots of companies finding out that cutting back on preventative maintenance and delaying repairs doesn’t save as much money as they thought it would. I’m going to start adding a popsicle charge to those that were told this was going to happen. Lol

 

[Sativied]

sounds downright English.

We used to have that at least... we could say "the English have it even worse".

I just read an article a few days ago about fellow countrymen who went to Greece on holiday "I wish we stayed home, it's so hot...". People are dying there, as well as in Mecca now 400 550 600 900+ death. Not making light of dangerous heat and rising temps, but when someone from NL flies to Greece and complains about the weather it's just ungrateful and insensitive to sun worshipers like me.

Relatives search for missing in Saudi Arabia as hajj death toll tops 900

Friends and family searched for missing hajj pilgrims on Wednesday as the death toll at the annual rituals, which were carried out in scorching heat, surged past 900.

www.france24.com

American man among tourists missing in Greece amid deadly heat waves

A local rescuer in Greece says "it defies logic" that people are risking walks alone in such extreme heat.

www.cbsnews.com

Few week ago my wife was on the phone with a client, talking about the weather. I read it's a thing humans do to socialize. He joked he'll send over some of that sunny weather. He was in Norway...

The spring temperatures in Russia and Norway break records

May 2024 has been a few degrees warmer than normal.

thebarentsobserver.com

 

[topcat]

UCLA study on long-term effects of wildfire smoke.
UCLA study of wildfire smoke’s long-term health effects finds upwards of 50,000 deaths in 11 years | UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

 

[Sativied]

Germany had some heavy rain too over the past months, just an excerpt:



Oh and I was wrong about the 3 months rain in NL… it’s 8 months. Since Oct last year. Not literally constantly of course but yeah, scientists and experts are “perplexed“.

 

[cannabineer]

Thwaites Glacier is near catastrophe, and its decay seems to be exponential.

MSN

 

[cannabineer]

Climate/freeway politics in the Golden State

It's one of California's worst freeway bottlenecks. Will fixing it ruin the planet?

Caltrans wasn't supposed to build a freeway lane without environmental review, but many believe that's exactly what it did. Environmentalists are now trying to stop its use as a toll lane.

www.yahoo.com

I wonder how expanding freeways is gonna reduce gallons burnt/day.

 

[CANON_Grow]

Climate/freeway politics in the Golden State

It's one of California's worst freeway bottlenecks. Will fixing it ruin the planet?

Caltrans wasn't supposed to build a freeway lane without environmental review, but many believe that's exactly what it did. Environmentalists are now trying to stop its use as a toll lane.

www.yahoo.com

I wonder how expanding freeways is gonna reduce gallons burnt/day.

I'm biased as I have to deal with the busiest highway in the world daily, but I would suggest that more fuel is spent while not moving until the point comes where a detour is needed regardless of extra distance (the obvious part); and believing that people will finally just end up choosing to avoid getting somewhere because congestion is bad is just not realistic.

One of the downsides to optimization of the workforce is that instead of someone being employed and staying in a relatively limited geographical area but are not always productive - is less (cost) efficient than employing less people that cover a larger area. There is also an issue with on-demand or just-in-time inventory that causes the same as the previous example - extra traffic that didn't exist previously but is not going to disappear regardless of how busy the roads get. The downside of capitalism, enshittification of everything.

N.A. is way behind on mass transit and even if shovels started digging tomorrow it would take until the 22nd century to be where it needs to be, if it's even possible now.

 

[injinji]

Not climate, but environment

Connecticut-sized "dead zone" expected to emerge in Gulf of Mexico, potentially killing marine life, NOAA warns

Nearly 6,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico are expected to be severely lacking in oxygen, forcing some marine life out and leaving those that remain to likely die, this summer.

www.cbsnews.com

Most of the N coming down the Mississippi River is from lawns, not the millions of acres of farm land. The cost of a fifty pound bag of 8-8-8 is fifteen bucks. It takes a couple three hundred pounds per acre, so the farmers are going to use as little as possible. But someone in a suburb living on a quarter acre lot is not going to feel the cost the same way and double up on the recommended rate.

 

[injinji]

Would not mind if you could all send a little of the sunny weather and high temps my way. It's been raining 3 months straight, or so it feels. Not the type of rain you walk through, but the type that makes you go oh shit we need to shelter / get inside. Temps between 60 and 70. Had one beach day in entire spring, all the outdoor festivals are drenched, it's depressing, I need it to recharge. Aside from everything being lush green, it's almost like it's autumn and winter is coming.

It's been a really dry spring here on the Sandhill (NW Florida). And it's hot and windy. I spend a good deal of everyday watering the garden. It's time for our rainy season to start, but so far the rain is always three or four days away.

No twisters or flash floods, so not bitchin' too hard.

 

[cannabineer]

From the headline I thought it was a safety issue, but it’s another air quality alert. Bigger badder heat domes make for stagnant air.

Map shows 2 states where people are advised to avoid "driving alone"

The air quality alerts arrive as the first heat wave of the season pushes temperatures to dangerously hot conditions in many states.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Drop That Sound]

 

[injinji]

Yesterday was one of the few where the weather didn't lead the nightly news. There was a shooting at a grocery store. They still showed the flooding and whatnot before getting into the shooting story though.

It's kind of ironic that so much of the flash floods, twisters, heat waves, etc, etc happen to be happening in red states. It's getting more nonsensical when they say that climate change isn't real. Here in Florida, little Ronnie and his large government have made it against the law for state employees to mention climate change in reports. No one moves to Florida to deal with reality, right?

 

[cannabineer]

It’s not just North America having unseasonable heat.

At least 1,301 people died during Hajj - Saudi Arabia - BBC News

Most were unregistered pilgrims who walked long distances in intense heat, officials said.

www.bbc.com

Fifty degrees! I’m surprised the Saudi government didn’t have some water stations on the few routes the unregistered observants could have taken. Bwdik