The Green Room

[PedalUma]

It is bad etiquette to post more than once in a row on a thread. It is like serving more than one ping-pong ball before any have returned. No one wants to play with someone who does that. And how about if we get on topic and stay there?
Texas has a nominal wind generation capacity of 30,000 MW.

 

[Handlebars]

It is bad etiquette to post more than once in a row on a thread. It is like serving more than one ping-pong ball before any have returned.

One might be justified to then believe that the opposition is losing the balls. Or maybe even trying to find them.

 

[Art Deco]

Regarding cutting down forests and droughts - yeah, there's a pretty strong link ...

Clearing Forests May Transform Local—and Global—Climate

Researchers are finding that massive deforestation may have a profound, and possibly catastrophic, impact on local weather

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[PedalUma]

Regarding cutting down forests and droughts - yeah, there's a pretty strong link ...

Clearing Forests May Transform Local—and Global—Climate

Researchers are finding that massive deforestation may have a profound, and possibly catastrophic, impact on local weather

www.scientificamerican.com

It is 69 in Kansas City, today Dec. 24th, 2021. I just looked at a surface temp map and the oceans are hot along the US coasts. As warm as a heated swimming pool, 70. That is a lot of energy. More tornados? At exactly the wrong time of year? We will see.

 

[Mulezen]

On the east coast those warm waters will mean N0r’easter’s will have a stronger punch and likely bury the corridor with record snows
60 degrees here in Central VA

 

[Art Deco]

I am visiting family in Tempe Arizona for Christmas...also 60 degrees Fahrenheit here, but raining hard. In the desert.

 

[Gordon71]

On the east coast those warm waters will mean N0r’easter’s will have a stronger punch and likely bury the corridor with record snows
60 degrees here in Central VA

That's probably true however a nor'easter these days on the coast of Maine is more likely a rain event these days. Last winter we got very little snow but a fair amount of rain. Been the same so far this winter with bare ground at the moment. I've lived in this area off and on for over 60 years and winters are milder than in my youth. The odd thing is that summers here don't seem to have gotten warmer. There was only one day this summer and two days last summer when it was hot enough to use the AC side of my heat pumps.

 

[Mulezen]

I haven’t bothered lighting the wood stove yet

 

[Art Deco]

I haven’t bothered lighting the wood stove yet

Me neither, and I often start it at Halloween; Thanksgiving at the latest.

 

[PedalUma]

This is a very weird weather day. Tomorrow it is forecast to be 44 F in Ontario, Canada. It should be 22. No using Santa's skates on the ponds. But the other CA, California is getting hit with road closing snow.

Winter weather across the northern US could mean hazardous holiday travel, while record-breaking springlike temperatures warm the south | CNN

Jack Frost is taking over the northern US for the holiday weekend, delivering heavy snowfall, plummeting temperatures, and a white Christmas to the Pacific Northwest. The northern cold stops short of the southern US, where balmy springlike temperatures will likely break records.

www.cnn.com

 

[DaveMatthews]

Sunday we'll have a low of -9C in Vancouver. That is rare.

 

[Handlebars]

On the east coast those warm waters will mean N0r’easter’s will have a stronger punch and likely bury the corridor with record snows
60 degrees here in Central VA

But they said the children wouldn't know what snow is. Remember?

 

[john peck]

Sunday we'll have a low of -9C in Vancouver. That is rare.

the axis is tipping as the poles become unweighted. If this continues Into spiral,. things
could get real interesting.

 

[DaveMatthews]

the axis is tipping as the poles become unweighted. If this continues Into spiral,. things
could get real interesting.

Yeah, interesting is one way to look at it.

 

[john peck]

Yeah, interesting is one way to look at it.

Well, I try to avoid anything that would arouse despair. So far The axIs tilt is slow & toward the east.
Ya ever spun a raw egg on a table top? they wobble;; hard boiled don´t.

 

[ActionJackson]

While your posting pics of Dixie here’s a couple from the CDC to ponder (data 12/20) :

Oddly more people dying per 100,000 in the highly vaccinated places.

 

[Handlebars]

While your posting pics of Dixie here’s a couple from the CDC to ponder (data 12/20) :

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Oddly more people dying per 100,000 in the highly vaccinated places.

stop that please. you're messing with a belief.

 

[Handlebars]

While your posting pics of Dixie here’s a couple from the CDC to ponder (data 12/20) :

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Oddly more people dying per 100,000 in the highly vaccinated places.

once enough force is used so that there is virtually no control group left, they will be very very happy

 

[6zfshdb]

Talk about your Christmas turkey! There were over 70 in the field next to the house this morning. So many, I couldn't get them all in the pic! I guess they don't know what day it is.

This raises the question as to whether it's "greener" to buy a frozen bird or shoot your own?

Merry Christmas / happy holidays everyone!!

 

[BlackHand]

Talk about your Christmas turkey! There were over 70 in the field next to the house this morning. So many, I couldn't get them all in the pic! I guess they don't know what day it is.

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This raises the question as to whether it's "greener" to buy a frozen bird or shoot your own?

Merry Christmas / happy holidays everyone!!

Wow, that makes me homesick as it looks like the view out of kitchen window where I grew up in PA!

Fun story: about ten years my folks started seeing an exotic looking turkey trailing the flock whenever the wild turkeys visited the corn field next to the house. Turns out it was a peacock that had escaped from an Amish farm a few miles away.

Just like in Rudolph, the other turkeys wouldn't let the poor peacock join in their fowl games, so he was always trailing behind the flock tolerated but never accepted. He was spotted off and on for a couple of years with the turkeys before disappearing for good.