The Green Room

[DaveMatthews]

'2021 is pulling out all the tricks': Fish rain from the sky in rare phenomenon in Texas

The city of Texarkana experienced a rare meteorological phenomenon when it rained fish during a storm: "2021 is pulling out all the tricks."

www.usatoday.com

 

[DavidRvR]

The cooling is continuing.. kinda surprised as its winter and didnt expect it..

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

National Weather Service

 

[Art Deco]

2020 Ties 2016 as Hottest Yet, European Analysis Shows..... nytimes is paywalled, but you know the gist of it by now. Climate change is oscillating weather systems worldwide, but the heating trend continues. The last six years are the hottest since record keeping began.​

 

[DavidRvR]

Give it time.. things will be cooling down for the next 3-500 years approx.. then it will warm up but none of us will be around and it wont be climate change that you died from.. Neither your kids or grand kids and so on..

So many people have found so many things to be worried about... So scared of life... So far its worked where they take your money to fight these fights Global or a virus.. Your happy to do it under the guise of "its the right thing to do" or " protect the children"... and so on.. You say you dont give your money? Taxes hit almost everyone ...

I believe this is a conversation that never wins ... because Time will Tell.. and none of us will be around like I said.

 

[john peck]

2020 Ties 2016 as Hottest Yet, European Analysis Shows..... nytimes is paywalled, but you know the gist of it by now. Climate change is oscillating weather systems worldwide, but the heating trend continues. The last six years are the hottest since record keeping began.​

Has anyone kept track of our own domestic climate refugees in the last 6 years? 2021 has been a
big one for that. The ranks among deniers is thinning rapidly.

 

[DavidRvR]

Wonder what caused it? Maybe it was the Automobile was born? No, maybe it was the Coal plants? No, maybe , maybe, maybe... and so on

Deniers lol...

Highest temperature recorded on Earth​

The current official highest registered air temperature on Earth is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F), recorded on 10 July 1913 at Furnace Creek Ranch, in Death Valley in the United States.

Highest temperature recorded on Earth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Climate change takes a mental toll​

Climate change takes a mental toll - The Boston Globe

Guess its doing what it was meant to do...

 

[PedalUma]

Big pharm flogs us with ads that don´t really tell you what
they´re for, but have more side effects than the disease for which they´re prescribed. Most of the other
ads entail body shaming or touting other crap that no one really needs. Smash your TV & take up
knitting or basket weaving, anything that might be soothing amidst to death throws of civilization
disintegrating into anarchy.

I suspect that watching pharma advertisements makes people ill. That is good for their business. I shut that stuff OFF.
@VoltMan99, It is freezing here. I am headed down to get a steaming bowl of local crab claw chowder with SF sourdough. Then I get to work on a really cool and creative bike project to protect my cabin fever, pandemic sanity for the New Year.

 

[Catalyzt]

<< So scared of life... >>

Would that be when I hit 43 MPH during my solstice ride, or earlier in the ride, when I rode my first rock garden at 64 years old on blood thinners? Or maybe it was in November, when I got smashed into the water by a bad wave and held underwater for 13 seconds... or was it when I came back and surfed the same break the next weekend? I think John and Art don't get out as much as they used to, but I believe that's because of age and health problems, not because they think the sky is falling. I haven't ridden in two weeks because we had 10 inches of rain.

<< I believe this is a conversation that never wins ... >>

No one 'wins' a conversation. I think you're referring to a debate, but any serious debate ended a long time ago. Why you are arguing a settled issue with some fictional image you have of your stereotypical opponent?

I suppose it's possible that we would enter an ice age hundreds of years from now. It's also possible that a solar flare might destroy the magnetosphere. But are you going to keep smoking just because you might die from a car accident before you get cancer?

Has anyone seen Don't Look Up? I was really reluctant to watch it, but enjoyed it way more than I expected. It wasn't just a sendup of MAGA brainlessness, it also featured a scorching satire of hypocritical liberal technocrats and virtue-signaling mainstream media foolishness.

Smash your TV

The characters smash a lot of smashing things while WATCHING TV. Streaming is getting more toxic, but there are still some fun things to watch without advertising. Eventually, I will probably wind up paying college students to deliver films on USB drives to my house on bikes or horseback. Would love to dump Amazon, but that's a hard habit to quit.

 

[Art Deco]

Actually, I gave up network TV decades ago and haven't even turned a TV on for a movie since the pandemic started. Since this thread is (very roughly) focused on adapting to climate change, losing the TV is a pretty good place to start.

Anything more than a half century away (at most) is irrelevant to us, but it took centuries (aeons?) for the climate to stabilize the last few times.

And millions of years for life to recover from the fifth extinction.

 

[PatriciaK]

I'm pretty sure we're past the tipping point now... Disappointing that there's no organized planning going on to deal with the coming in our lifetime consequences.

 

[PedalUma]

As for Climate and Weather look at what I saw today popping up after the rains and as a light frost melted leaving the deep shadows white. Didn't get the soup after all. I was warmed after the ride and the sun was bright.

The mash has truffles.

 

[PedalUma]

'We Are in a Climate Emergency': Late-December Wildfires Ravage Colorado​

'We Are in a Climate Emergency': Late-December Wildfires Ravage Colorado | Common Dreams

"None of this is normal," said Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod. "We are not OK."

www.commondreams.org

 

[Art Deco]

I'm pretty sure we're past the tipping point now... Disappointing that there's no organized planning going on to deal with the coming in our lifetime consequences.

The giant organized planning process was never going to happen, but lots of local semi organized plans and actions are still happening, and will continue.
I suspect the governments would and will continue to be the biggest part of the problem...

 

[Art Deco]

As for Climate and Weather look at what I saw today popping up after the rains and as a light frost melted leaving the deep shadows white. Didn't get the soup after all. I was warmed after the ride and the sun was bright.
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The mash has truffles.

And the ground has ... crocuses?

 

[tomjasz]

Sadly wild caught fish are no longer sustainable. And the fish farms I visited were awful. Nothing fit for my lips. Sadly I was a big fish eater but very seldom now. It’s recommended to reduce fish eaten from the upper Mississippi. Nasty stuff in the River.

 

[Art Deco]

Sadly wild caught fish are no longer sustainable. And the fish farms I visited were awful. Nothing fit for my lips. Sadly I was a big fish eater but very seldom now. It’s recommended to reduce fish eaten from the upper Mississippi. Nasty stuff in the River.

My fishing liscence says not to eat more than a few fish per year if they are from the nearby Susquehanna river. Nasty stuff in all the major rivers.

 

[PedalUma]

And the ground has ... crocuses?

Yes. Right along a bike path this morning.
When I was a kid I was an ecological disaster. I fished every fish out of a creek. It took years to recover. I would only use live natural baits with no sinker and a long stick as a pole so it looked natural.

 

[Mulezen]

I’ve just finished John Dvorak’s How the Mountains Grew…North America. Readable, very, for all the rocky details. The last section had to do with Pleistocene issues where I learned WHY the glaciations began 2.5 million years ago…anybody have their hand up?…the answer has to with the joining of NA and SA at the isthmus which shut down ocean currents. At the start of agriculture climate stability occurred from man’s increasing activities With CO2 at about 280ppm. That changed with the onset of coal and oil (1800). CO2 was recognized as a greenhouse gas in 1859 (Irishman John Tyndall). The great acceleration of CO2 began in 1970 and the charts are truly frightening. Only an ideological fool would argue otherwise. Dvorak comments that the ice sheet in Antarctica will be gone at the end of this century. The ice ages are what drove our evolution, and its absence will kill us off.
Geology has fleshed out many things since my two semesters of it in 1970. If you wondered about earthquakes in the middle of the continent…this is the book for you. Or where exactly California is going, what happens to Florida, or why North America drains the way it does…A fine book

 

[Art Deco]

Yes. Right along a bike path this morning.
When I was a kid I was an ecological disaster. I fished every fish out of a creek. It took years to recover. I would only use live natural baits with no sinker and a long stick as a pole so it looked natural.

"So it looked natural " you were just ahead of your time. Greenwashing is all the rage now.

 

[Mulezen]

Art…Dvorak mentions the Chesapeake Bay as heavily impacted by climate change with salt water intrusion