Climate in the 21st Century

OldMedUser said:

Sitting at -35C all day here. The dog finally decided to sleep in the mud room where it's a cosy 5C but slept outside all night last night. Zero wind so that's real temps without any wind chill. House water froze up yesterday but all good today.

Nice not to have to go anywhere when it's like this.

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Eh i wish, still gotta work, my pooches are inside right now...

Mud room? Pottery? Jc

BudmanTX said:

Eh i wish, still gotta work, my pooches are inside right now...

Mud room? Pottery? Jc

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An enclosed porch attached to the house, I suspect he has a Huskey or a sled dog.

DIY-HP-LED said:

An enclosed porch attached to the house, I suspect he has a Huskey or a sled dog.

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Meh, could be..

BudmanTX said:

Mud room?

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The room you enter first where you can take off your muddy boots and coveralls etc before going into the house.

Here it's common to take your dirty/snowy footwear off before entering many businesses, clinics etc. Thought it was weird when we first moved here 23 years ago but seems pretty normal now. Always took shoes off before going in the house all my life. Working in camps you'll get turfed out into the snow if you walk in with your boots on.

Might be all farmers here but none of them were born in a barn. Maybe born some but not raised in a barn.

DIY-HP-LED said:

An enclosed porch attached to the house, I suspect he has a Huskey or a sled dog.

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We used to have a Red Siberian Husky but the one we have now is a Border Collie/Australian Blue Healer cross. Wife just got a harness off Amazon for him so we'll see whether he's any kind of sled dog once it warms up a bit. He's probably 20lbs overweight so the step-daughter can take him for walks and maybe drop a few pounds herself. Told her I'll take the anchor off the boat for a leash handle then if he breaks away it'll keep him from moving too fast. Has those flip-out flukes but he might just snap those off. Strong dog.

We hit 70F today, but there is a bark buster on the way. 22F forecast for in town Wednesday morning, and we are always about four degrees colder. My pump at the riverhouse froze and burst last spring (at 16F). Six hundred bucks later, I'm unhooking it, draining it and all the lines in the house.

The warm weather is nice, but palm trees growing in Cape Breton and Halifax would be an issue for some! The attitude being locally, we can't do anything about it, so might as well enjoy the warm weather.


“The changes around Greenland are tremendous and they’re happening everywhere – almost every glacier has retreated over the past few decades,” said Dr Chad Greene, at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US, who led the research. “It makes sense that if you dump freshwater on to the north Atlantic Ocean, then you certainly get a weakening of the Amoc, though I don’t have an intuition for how much weakening.”

The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years and in 2021 researchers spotted warning signs of a tipping point. A recent study suggested the collapse could happen as soon as 2025 in the worst-case scenario. A significant part of the Greenland ice sheet itself is also thought by scientists to be close to a tipping point of irreversible melting, with ice equivalent to 1-2 metres of sea level rise probably already expected.

Maybe the climate in California is changing and it is turning into a wetter greener place, or maybe just feast or famine, flood or drought.

They do have hurricanes now...

DIY-HP-LED said:

Maybe the climate in California is changing and it is turning into a wetter greener place, or maybe just feast or famine, flood or drought.

They do have hurricanes now...

Atmospheric river predicted to lash US West Coast

Residents should brace for flooding, landslides, above-average levels of rain, and coastal erosion from fierce waves.

www.newsweek.com

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Maybe because of

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No simple solutions.

injinji said:

No simple solutions.

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I posted about a new company called energyX on the renewables energy thread that uses a pretty clean extraction process that uses minimum water recycles near everything and injects the brine minus 80% of the lithium back into the ground. They are going concern and are working with projects in the Salton sea among others.


Also, I posted about a new solar distillation breakthrough that produces 10 liters/ square meter of fresh water from seawater is durable and easy to make. It is incredibly efficient and can make cheap fresh water with many possible designs, fresh water can be piped or solar covered canaled hundreds of miles in land. I think over the next 15 years it stands a chance of changing the world the most for the most people. We already build solar parks with millions of square meters and one of these plants a million square meters in panel size on a desert coast could make 100 million liters of water a day. Lithium mining in Nevada and elsewhere out west might be a cause to build such a plant and pipe water to the mine. Read all about it on the renewables thread, developed at MIT among other places the paper was recently published and contains all the information an engineer would need to go to work.

I think the issues with lithium mining might be overstated and we have technology to do it better. Don't expect to see the vast evaporation ponds of South America, or excessive ground water use, too many eyes and interests.

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Like we have any choice at all about climate change but to double down on technological changes to clean things up and hopefully mitigate the issue.


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Aeroknow said:

So just curious what you guys think about this.
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We are only going to get about 70% of the lawsuit monies that we were supposed to get from the PG&E fire lawsuit. It is supposed to make us whole. 70% because they filed bankruptcy.
Should we pay taxes on this? Is that right?
I hate republicans but Doug Lamalfa introduced a bill a couple years ago and it went no where. Was supposed to hit the house floor and then McCarthy got fired. Word is it’s being reintroduced.
What do you guys think? Should this be taxable like regular income?

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Well i’ll be damned! The House actually passed it!
SEC. 401. Covers what I was talking about.

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Aeroknow said:

Well i’ll be damned! The House actually passed it!
SEC. 401. Covers what I was talking about.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7024/text#toc-HCD900556FEE14E1A8760E577E4FF3A64

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But I bet the 10 GOP senators needed to get 60 votes will be nowhere to be found. Just like the senate bill will never get a chance in the house.

Boy, are we getting buried with snow this weekend! Winter is making up for lost time and I don't expect to begin to dig out until Monday, as a lot more snow is gonna fall tomorrow. Looking at the weather radar the sonofabitch is just parked on top of us shitting snow and not moving off at all. There is no point in clearing it until the plow comes by and by Monday the snowbank on the street should be 6 or 7 feet high and the fellow up the road with the snow blower will earn his bucks! In a week or ten days warm rain and trade winds from down south might wash it all away