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Published on the Doomstead Diner on January 26, 2013
Melted Lake
Discuss this article at the Environment Table inside the Diner
I picked up a new High Tech Gizmo this last week, a Compact Camera System from my favorite South Korean Appleshit Competitor, Samsung. In my last Smart Phone purchase, I ditched my Iphone for a Samsung Galaxy Mega, which is a confabulation of a Phone and Tablet called a Phablet. It’s actually big enough to web surf on and not strain your eyes, and I have a little Folding Keyboard for it also so I can actually WRITE on the thing, and not peck out TXT messages with my thumbs.
My extreme happiness with this new Smart Phone plus the fact several of us Diners are getting together down in Texas Droughtland for our first Convocation and Meeting for developing the SUN Project impelled me to looking into Upgrading my El Cheapo Sony Cybershot camera which is about 5 years old now and WAY out of date for a newer and better camera to record the Convocation proceedings. Said proceedings to include a week long Workshop Course we are all taking at Monolithic Domes, to learn how to build these sturdy Ferrocement domiciles.
I considered dropping back into Single Lens Reflex cameras like the Nikon F2 I used back in my years as Photography Editor for the Columbia Spectator. They are “DSLR” now, Digital Single Lens Reflex. The Professional models from Nikon and Canon run $3000 and Up just for the Camera Body, and this not including the Lens Kit you buy for yourself. Anybody who ever got into Photography either in the Film Era or the Digital era should know what a Rabbit Hole and Money Pit you get into when you go into this Hobby.
I’m not a Professional Photographer though, and never intend to be one at this stage of my life, though I thought about it for a while early on in my Career Jumping lifestyle. I just want a better Camera system to use for Sprucing up my Websites with HQ Pics and Vids. So after a bunch of research on what is now available, I decided on the NX300 Compact Camera System for Samsung. Besides the fact it is competitive on an image level with much more expensive DSLRs, it marries up to the Samsung Galaxy Mega Phablet through WiFi, and all in all is just a fabulous technological marvel.
This article though is not meant to be a Camera Review though, it’s about one of my first Test Uses for the camera as I get back into the world of Amateur Photography. One of the other Diners who will be attending the Convocation IS a professional photographer, and recently upgraded her system to a Canon 5D Mark III, a medium-high end DSLR. We are going to have a Friendly Competition for Image Making at the Convocation. To get ready for this Challenge, I need to Practice with the camera, since my skills are a tad RUSTY after around a Quarter Century of Atrophy.
The subject I chose today for some practice was the EXTRAORDINARILY BIZARRE weather we have been experiencing this January up here on the Last Great Frontier. The Winter started off fairly normal, but going through December unlike all the previous years I have lived here we got NO Sub-Zero days. Decent snowfall though, so it looked like a typical Winter here, snow covered roads, small mountains of Plowed Snow in Parking Lots, etc.
This all STOPPED though about a week ago now though, when the temps went ABOVE Freezing, and the snow collected thus far began to melt. And KEPT ON MELTING. Rainy days, days in the 40s, this has basically washed away now about 90% of the snow accumulated to date, in JANUARY! This sort of Snow Melt doesn’t happen here until March at the earliest usually. So with my new NX300 utilizing just the 20-50mm lens I bought it with (did not switch to the 50-200mm lens I also got for this session), I went on a Documentary Tour of the Matanuska-Susitna River Valley to show what the NEW NORMAL is like up here, with Springtime in January.
3 Stumps
Blue Trailer Trash
Bright Wires
House in the Trees
Lake House
Winter Blacktop
It is amazing how non-chalant people are about this up here. “Isn’t this odd”, they say.
I’m like, no it’s not odd if you PAID ATTENTION to the actual data that has been coming out and stopped buying the spin pitched at you by your favorite Talk Show Denier.
Folks, that Lake has never been Ice free before March for as long as I lived here. That Parking Lot is always Snow Covered with HUGE MOUNTAINS of plowed snow. There is NO WAY you could see the House in the Trees, every little branch would have snow on it. Those Stumps should be under at least a foot of packed snow.
I made some jokes about opening a Club Med up here a while back. It’s no joke. We got into the 90s last summer. I think we may make Triple Digits this year.
This climatic change is not uniform by any means. Inside the Diner, WHD reports steady Sub-Zero temperatures in his Habitat of Minnesota:
It’ll be -18F again, Monday. Might have a few days this week in a row, when the temp does not get above 0F. More snow too, than I’ve seen @ this time, in awhile. It will be curious to see about damage to my fruit trees and vines. Wind howling lately too, like it usually does in the spring and the fall. Clear skies and howling winds.
Nuts.
Nuts indeed. With Uber Cold temperatures in MN, while you are getting a Sub-Tropical Winter in AK, are you looking at Global Warming or Global Cooling? DENIERS will latch onto every story of Frigid Temps in the Mid-West as Evidence we don’t have a Global Warming trend in progress. Temps in the atmosphere in any given location do not really tell the story well of the Climate Change though. Really, “Climate Change” does not do justice to what is underway here, it is more like “Climate UPHEAVAL“.
While the temps up here in the Northern Hemisphere are doing a major Tap Dance, down in Oz in their SUMMER they are pitching out temps that are going +50C. Folks, that is 122F.
A heatwave that has enveloped much of Australia for the past couple weeks is reaching a breaking point, but not after first smashing temperature records.
On Thursday, parts of inland Australia reached temperatures around 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Fahrenheit, before a shifting air mass is forecast to bring weekend temperatures back to averages in the mid-30s. There were reports of temperatures as high as 54 degrees Celsius, 129 degrees Fahrenheit, in the outback on Thursday.
120+ is some fucking HOT shit, and really not even DEATH VALLEY in the FSoA gets that hot, at least not in past years. Nobody lives long in those temperatures, so if that is the long term course for the Globe, we are all TOAST for sure.
Speaking of Death Valley, what is happening in Sunny California and surrounding mountains these days? Here contributed by Agelbert on the Diner are Sattelite Photos from 2013 and 2104 showing the Snowpack in the Rockies.
Where is the runoff going to come from this summer into CA to irrigate the farmland there? Not like they normally get much rainfall in the summer there, so without the Snowpack to tide them over, water is going to be pretty thin there by around June or so, fuhgettaboutit in August.
The OTHER place they get their water from, Lake Mead which dams up the Colorado River with the Hoover Dam is not looking too good either!
When you talk Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam, you are not just talking the Water Issue, you got a POWER issue here also. Electricity from the Hoover Dam powers all those Vegas Lights on the Strip, not to mention the PUMPS that move Lake Mead water over the Rockies to the CA Lettuce Fields. Also powers numerous Plasma TVs and Internet Routers in SoCal.
There is something like 15′ left of leeway now between when the water level in Lake Mead is sufficient to drive the Turbines that generate that power, and when they begin to Cavitate. That happens when air bubbles start getting mixed in with the water, and the managers HAVE to shut them down when that point comes. The equipment will blow itself apart if left to run.
Can the Electricity from Hoover be REPLACED with Fossil Fuel energy? Maybe short term it can, but even if it can it makes the Water Bill a whole lot more than those Farmers can afford to pay, or the consumers of the lettuce can afford to pay either. They are OUTTA BIZ.
This does not of course resolve the issue of whether we have a Global Warming or Cooling event in progress, only that it is VERY obvious we have enormous climate changes underway which affect total rainfall and the ability of given water systems to replenish themselves. To resolve that question, as I see it you need to look not at the Atmospheric temps, but at the OCEAN Temps. The Ocean is a far bigger Heat Sink for energy than the Atmosphere is. It contains MOST of the Gibbs Free Energy extant in the system. It is patently OBVIOUS Ocean Heat Energy has been on a steady increase here for more than 20 years.
How much of the causation for this is Anthropogenic resultant from Fossil Fuel burning and how much is resultant from Geotectonic causes of Earthquakes and Volcanoes is an open question, but either way the Ocean contains an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more heat energy today than it did in 1990. that energy transfers into the atmosphere in the form of Cyclonic Storms, read that Sandy on the East Coast of the FSoA and Haiyan in the Phillipines.
Even IF the overall Global Temps don’t start exceeding 50C everywhere, you got a LOT of places right now that are facing extremes they never saw before, least so long as Homo Sapiens has been recording them. Much like the Stock Market, what you got here is EXTREME VOLATILITY. Very difficult to plan for any kind of Ag Growing when you do not know WTF will come from one year to the next, Drought this year, Floods the next; Hard Freeze this year, Heat Wave the next, etc.
Where to GO, what to DO in such a situation, eh? Do you simply wait it out where you ARE, and hope for the Best? I think that would be a BAD IDEA in Sunny California right now. JMHO. Not looking too good in Northern Oz either. China? Fuck the Weather, the SMOG will kill you first!
Escape gets tougher all the time here, and figuring out just how to handle what is quite obviously major change in the overall environment is none too easy a task either! More than a few folks have given up on the idea that ANYBODY can survive the combination of environmental & man made catastrophes we now face, and are convinced a NEAR TERM HUMAN EXTINCTION is in the offing. Maybe so, when you gather together all this shit in aggregate it sure does not look too good for the Away Team. As Guy McPherson puts it, Earth is the Home Team, and NATURE BATS LAST.
This may be true, but it is not our meme on the Diner. I can’t really speak for the rest of the Diners who all really have quite their own interpretation on the subject, but as for me, it is irrelevant if in the end Extinction is in the offing. For me,. between NOW and Extinction is the battle I choose to fight. Matters not whether I win or lose the battle either, so long as I Fight with HONOR. No quitting here, no Hospicing, no Kubler-Ross Acceptance of Grief either. Fight until the breath leaves your body. Never say die, never quit.
The CREDO of the Heliopath. It Ain’t OVAH till the Fat Lady Sings.
RE
The only deniers I am aware of are the Reality Deniers in the religion of Global Warming…go spend some time over at Watts Up With That where real scientist point out the real data show no warming for the last 15 years and where they show the “government” and “academic” so called scientist massage their data or just out right fake it.
I had to chuckle when the author said, “DENIERS will latch onto every story of Frigid Temps in the Mid-West as Evidence we don’t have a Global Warming trend in progress. ” Then does exactly that himself with his “melted lake” meme.
Excuse me? Where did I deny Global Warming is in progress? I dropped on the graph of Ocean Heat Content specifically to establish the fact that the system is in fact heating up, by an order of magnitude since 1990. Are you saying the NOAA is FAKING the data on Ocean Heat Content here?
RE
“When you talk Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam, you are not just talking the Water Issue, you got a POWER issue here also. Electricity from the Hoover Dam powers all those Vegas Lights on the Strip, not to mention the PUMPS that move Lake Mead water over the Rockies to the CA Lettuce Fields.”
—-RE, in his article
Well, all that’s true, except for one teensy detail. The Rockies are hundreds of miles to the EAST of Lake Mead. The pumps are moving the water from the lake to the WEST into California. You are hereby sentenced to at least one hour of map study of the southwestern U.S.
“I went on a Documentary Tour of the Matanuska-Susitna River Valley to show what the NEW NORMAL is like up here, with Springtime in January.” ——– RE
New Normal ……… based on only this winter?? Or was last year just as warm?
Beautiful pictures.
IF global warming is nature based …….. there isn’t a fucking thing we can do about it.
IF gloabal warming is caused by humans …….. there isn’t a fucking thing we can do about it. Not enough money. And China, India, and third world countries won’t comply with new laws.
DEAL with the weather, whatever it is. Complaining or worrying about it accomplishes nothing.
“Are you saying the NOAA is FAKING the data on Ocean Heat Content here?”
—-RE @ Tater
“Faking the data” may be a bit too strong a term. NASA and NOAA were hijacked by global warming theories decades ago. I don’t trust either agency on the subject. I’ll go with Tater’s characterization of “massaging the data.”
@Stucky
Indeed, either way, Nature based or Anthropogenic in Nature, the changes under way here cannot be stopped or reversed in the near term.
The trick here is to figure out how and where to survive such changes, if this is possible to do at all.
SoCal seems like a particularly BAD CHOICE of places to be as things progress here, and I highly suggest anyone living in that neighborhood GTFO of Dodge sooner rather than later.
On a gross cultural level, things won’t change until you get a complete monetary system collapse, which may not happen for a while yet but is inevitable in the medium term. I’m not concerned with trying to make any changes here, only with figuring out how I personally can adapt and how my friends can also.
Cant’ Save Everybody.
You can only….wait for it…
SAVE AS MANY AS YOU CAN.
re
I suppose they are faking the data about +50C temps in Oz also, and those pics of Lake Mead are Photoshopped along with Satellite Photos of the Mountain Snowpack around CA?
Nothing to see here folks…please move along.
RE
“The trick here is to figure out how and where to survive such changes ..” —– RE
It goes without saying, but that is truly the very best “global warming” advice possible. Well done, sir.
I wish they were faking the fact that we will not go above 32 degrees for two straight weeks here in Philly.
I wish they would fake the fact that I just got done shoveling my driveway for the 4th time in two weeks and I’ve been freezing my balls off since November.
They aren’t faking the fact that we have had 30 days of the last 52 days below 0F, here in Minneapolis. Which is going to be about 36 of 59 by the end of this week. From 21 above today, to -18 tonight, -20 tomorrow, might not get above 0 until Wednesday.
WHD
@Admin
You should move to Alaska! No shoveling necessary! It all melts! 🙂
RE
“I suppose they (NASA and NOAA) are faking the data about +50C temps in Oz also, and those pics of Lake Mead are Photoshopped along with Satellite Photos of the Mountain Snowpack around CA?”
—-RE
I said no such thing. Of course the temp data and pictures are real. I’ve been to Lake Mead and Lake Powell in recent years, and both are currently below 50% capacity. You can see the “bathtub rings” with your own eyes. I only said I don’t trust either agency when it comes to the incredibly complex subject of climate change, formerly know as global warming.
But you are on to something concerning the residents of southern California facing serious water and power issues. Those idiots just CUT their ties to the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona solely based on the fact that it’s a coal-fired plant. Completely ignored is the fact that the NGS supplies most of the power for the pumps sending water from the Colorado and Lake Mead to Los Angeles County. Dumbasses are cutting their own throat.
All in the name of a “Green Future.” The only green they’ll get is the slime growing in their scarce, stagnant water.
Shoveling snow is good exercise .You should do more of it.I’m assuming your still over weight.
RE, considering that the captions you affixed to your pictures are stunningly obvious, I’m surprised you didn’t title the last one, “dirty cars.”
Cute ,but I didn’t mean it as an insult.Every time you post a picture of yourself you always look like you could lose a few pounds .Just ask AWD.
Pollution is bad and needs to end.
The climate has changed abruptly in the past with no man-made influence.
Correlation does not equal causation.
We bypassed spring and went straight to summer here in the AV, went to Tehachapi to cool off. Because the lack of rain and wind movement has capped the smog over LA – reportedly – and I have asthma.
RE ,as always you got a lot of information but you can go to other websites and they will say global warming is complete B S with a lot of numbers and information backing themselves.I’m not sure what to believe on this subject but if it is real Southern California is going to be bone dry
in a few years.I have read articles that said the coming wars will be water wars.
Chicago Public Schools has called off school for its 400,000 students Monday because of the extreme cold and high winds forecast for the region.
All after-school and sporting activities are also cancelled.
“The safety and well-being of our students is paramount,” said CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett in a written statement. “The decision to close schools is never easy. However, based on the severity of the weather we are expecting Monday, I am confident that this decision is in the best interest of CPS students.”
The district will determine by noon Monday whether to cancel classes on Tuesday. Parents can call (773) 553-1000 or visit the CPS website for more information.
Temperatures Monday are expected to be below zero much of the day, and the National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory that warns of winds of up to 30 m.p.h., with resultant wind chills making it feel even chiller.
I lost all respect for the government/academia “PhDs” after working with them for 13 years.
For 13 years I trained in the use of, installed, repaired analytical instruments such as Mass Spectrometers, Gas Chronographs and Atomic Emission Detectors. Our customers were 80% private industry and 20% government which meant I was in private labs four days a week and in university or government labs one day a week.
It was very consistent with a very few exceptions the PhDs in the public sector were dumber than rocks. When I first started the job I didn’t understand how this could be, but time taught me the cause.
It went like this. If you were truly brilliant in your field you were heavily recruited by headhunters from the private sector while working on the Masters degree. The headhunters would entice them with big bonus signing checks and explained the PhD would not make that big a difference in their salaries. Plus they could start earning big bucks a year or two early. Almost all left after the Masters degree.
But what happened to the dumber than rocks Master students? They were not recruited. They had no job waiting after the Masters, so they stayed for the PhD. Once they achieved the PhD they still had nowhere to go so they would go into teaching (hence why so many academia PhDs are so stupid) or they would go into government jobs (hence why so many government PhDs are so stupid).
It was an eye opening experience that taught me the Masters/PhD process was a filtering system that let the brilliant people escape, but kept the lowest performing students to go on for their PhDs.
In those 13 years I met maybe 10 brilliant PhDs in academia (these folks wanted to teach from day one) or government. In the private sector I met hundreds of brilliant people with only Masters degrees or only undergraduate degrees.
I suspect the same is true for economists. If you think about…wouldn’t the truly brilliant ones be head hunted by Wall Street and Big Banks and never publish their work as a competitive advantage so we (the public) never hear of them, but the Krugmans of the world are the low performers who could not cut it in private sector.
I apply this same thinking to the Global Warming PhDs. They are all in academia, but wouldn’t the most brilliant weather/climate forecaster be hired in industries that bet millions on knowing the future weather/climate trends (, big ag/agricultural commodities?)…you can bet you would never read any of their brilliant work or ever know they think AGW is really a scam.
This movie “Chasing Ice” documents the melting of ice that is centuries old.
As with so many other topics, the “Global Warming” debate seems to be (1) whether Earth is warming or cooling, and (2) whether this change is caused by Man, or is “natural”.
Neither of these seems to me to be of importance at all, due to the fact we have only one planet to inhabit, and as RE has so aptly demonstrated in this post, the fucking atmosphere of Earth is undergoing some changes.
My bet right now is that some areas will be cooler, some warmer, most will be more extremely variable than we Humans have experienced in recorded history, and some mass migrations are likely due to previously habitable areas becoming uninhabitable over time.
I just read an article about how the “King Tides” in the Miami Beach area are swamping the roadways. Engineers admit they’re fighting a losing battle with the water.
@ twilight
You stupid shit. “Chasing Ice” is another Chicken Little film about global warming. It was filmed in Greenland during the SUMMER. Did you notice that shots of one of the photographers showed him in a fucking T shirt? Of course, you didn’t.
Greenland loses 92 square miles of its glacial pack every year, but what you don’t hear is the fact that some of the glacial pack is regained during the winter. But let’s go with the 92 square miles figure. Every year. Lost. No exceptions.
Based on that loss rate, Greenland will be free of glaciers in 27,000 years. Frightening, isn’t it?
This is like the argument of which comes first, the chicken or the egg…
Warming of the earth is a fact. It will not be an even, linear event but decade over decade, air (hence ocean) temperatures will rise. Not equally over the globe or even hemispheres but temperatures will rise.
The human race will do nothing about it until it is too late to salvage the situation and the violent changes in the weather are only a part of it. Whole ecosystems will gradually vanish or become violently uninhabitable. We are burying ourselves in our own shit and waste, destroying the environment wherever we roost, to lazy and greedy to clean up our own shit.
Our Florida springs – over my miniscule lifetime have gone from pristine clearness and beauty to green, algi-filled cesspools from faulty septic tanks and too much nitrogen runoff from farming.
Between climate change and population pressure, we are slowly destroying the only home we have – regardless of how fast the stupid government destroys our money and capability to live and do something about it.
The generations to come have bought the cookie and will enjoy far less than our current living standards and far more huge natural and man-made disasters.
Finally, we’ll see a reset back to a much simpler time – much less comfortable, shorter life spans, more disease, more warfare and quicker death…
It’s a World Problem and, hence, cannot be reversed.
MA
High Tide in Miami.
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This also was Faked by Climate Conspirators.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
RE
The real problem here is that the earth has a weather pattern that’s longer than most peoples lives. Just because we can’t fit the Earths weather pattern into a neat little box like days on a calender, suddenly it’s catastrophe. The earth doesn’t care what YOU think the weather should be like…..the earth doesn’t care how quickly you YOU think weather patterns should change it just happens. The only person I’ll listen to about what the weather is “normally like” is a person that has lived his whole life in one place and is 2,000 years old……he MIGHT have an idea of what “normal” is.
To quote George Carlin, “…the planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas…” —
Speaking of George Carlin, this is the video every CLIMATE WARNING! Douche should watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8HP1WzbDk
— this is where I got the quote from. Now, GC is no PHD, but I’ll bet money he was smarter than 100% of all the climate propagandists.
Average sea levels rose by 7.7 inches from 1870 to 2004. That must be one poorly planned Miami street. Or a photo that has nothing to do with supposed sea level rise. Three years ago Valdez Alaska had fifteen feet of snow on the ground. It’s not that I don’t believe in climate change. It’s that I honestly don’t give a fuck one way or the other. And I think I speak for most Americans on that.
The Carlin video is entertaining as a Rant, as most Carlin rants are. However, George misses the point here.
It’s not about “Saving the Planet”, it’s about living as long as you can. Everybody dies eventually, and all species go extinct eventually, and eventually as well all life on the planet ends. However, just about nobody wants to die Sooner rather than Later.
Besides this, although Homo Sapiens isn’t smart enough to create a system as complex as the earth, as a species we are stupid enough to screw it up.
Think of the Earth like a Car. You can’t build a car from Scratch yourself, at least not the modern complex version with all the microprocessors, fuel injectors, catalytic converters etc. However, you most certainly can WRECK a car in an INSTANT! Drive too fast, lose control, slam into a tree or another car, you are dead and the car also won’t run anymore.
George also was wrong about Species Extinction Rate. He quoted 25 species per day no matter what as going extinct, but the estimated background rate is around 1-5 species per year.
“It’s frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].”
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/
Since we ourselves depend on the biodiversity to exist, if too many other species go the way of the Dinosaur, so do we. So rather than driving fast and wrecking the car, a wise idea would be to slow down a bit here. At least if you wanna live a while longer that is a wise idea.
Another wise idea for yourself is to get off the Autobahn where everybody is driving at 100 mph and get on a slow dirt road with little traffic. At least there, if you wreck the car or it stops working, you probably won’t die immediately.
For many people of course who grew up inside Industrial Culture, if they can’t have their Carz and their Iphones, they’d rather be dead anyhow. Fine, but don’t screw up my chances to keep on rolling a while longer here.
The climate will do what it will do, and the vast majority of the world population will drive itself right off a cliff here, no doubt there. I don’t see the logic however in driving over a cliff just because everybody else is doing it.
RE
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Stucky @ 1:02 nailed it: Deal with it. I am agnostic about anthropogenic climate change. The theory sounds plausible, but the proponents have too much to gain and have clearly demonstrated themselves to be unreliable and untrustworthy. I question the source. More importantly, to think that human behavior will reverse the process (assuming humans caused it in the first place) is absurd hubris. On a slightly longer scale, the climate has been warming since the last ice age, and based on well established patterns, is likely to continue warming until the next ice age. Then you have the Pacific Decadonal Oscillation.
All that said-yes, the weather in AK has been damned odd this year. Spring 2013 was about one month late in the Interior. Similarly, fall freeze up was weeks later than usual. I was riding a motorcycle all through October-normally I put it up in the first or second week of October. And the recent very warm weather and freezing rain is both odd and troublesome. From mid ’80s to early 2000s, we never had freezing rain in winter. Lately it has been an annual event, some years multiple times. Weird.
Regardless, there is zero chance, fucking zero, that regulating human activities (or lack thereof) in a few, relatively minor countries, are going to change this. Adapt or die.
Actually there is a better explanation – a pole shift. Makes more sense than global warming to me.
“. Plus they could start earning big bucks a year or two early. Almost all left after the Masters degree.”
This pretty much. I could have easily walked into a PhD program, but why would I do that when I could be in my current position?
On topic:
1) Error bars for historic temperature are equal to or greater than the current experienced temperature change.
2) No mechanism exists to explain where the missing heat went. Saying “its in the ocean” doesn’t count. Why is it in the ocean? Have we calculated it? Do we have total ocean heat readings for the past 100 years?
3) CO2 production and global mean temperature increased in a somewhat linear fashion for around 50 years, before that and after they deviated wildly.
4) Every major weather and climatic event is being tied back to man-made climate change. All of them.
5) Arctic ice is on the lower end of the average for this past year, however still well above historic lows. The antarctic gets little press, as its refusing to follow the narrative, and is piling on ice at record levels.
6) Record highs and record lows globally every year.
My contention:
We know the Earth has cycled through warm and cold cycles historically, only creationists will dispute this. All of this predates humanity.
This past century has seen an explosion in mankind’s understanding of the natural world, as well as ability to measure its mood swings. Rather than assuming that our data set isn’t complete, our illustrious scientists cry wolf every time the climate deviates outside of our typical values.
Our data is incomplete, and on a climatic scale it is woefully lacking. Currently, the system is outside of our ability to comprehend it. Our best supercomputers struggle with predicting the climate a few months in advance, let alone decades.
Now, if you want to talk pollution or deforestation, I’ll gladly join in. The rape of the world’s oceans is a damned travesty.
But if you want to pray to the alter of climate science, kindly go fuck yourself.
As with medicine, Do No Harm is generally a good rule to follow.
Given that you as an individual can’t do much about changing climate, you have to figure out what the best strategies are for dealing with it.
Where are the worst locations to be now and 10 years from now?
Where are the best locations to be now and 10 years from now?
What resources do you have available to you now and what is likely 10 years from now?
What methods of food production will work for you under changing climatic conditions?
What tools are you going to need and can you make them or scavenge them?
What can you do now in terms of practicing and developing your methods for survival under differing climatic circumstances?
Do you have a Group of people assembled to work together in transitioning off industrial economy dependence? If not, how will you assemble such a group?
Needless to say, it is a whole lot easier and smarter to prepare for a bad situation BEFORE you actually are immersed in it and infrastructure is already collapsing, along with the society.
Or you can just Deny it or Complain about it on the Internet. Your choice.
RE
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