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[Huntn]

Since June we (East Texas) have been running mid 90s to low 100sF (32-40C) with with hear indexes about 110F, lows of 85F (29C) at night. A high pressure dome of heat parked over the Central US bringing no rain (at least to Texas) for several weeks and high temps. Comparing F to C. I prefer the spread of F over C, but consider I grew up with F. A recent trip to Corpus Christi we saw large large fields of immature brown/dead corn.
An alarming report is that the Oceans are turning green (more plant matter growing) due to the rise of temps, sharks are reported as dying. Another report said that El Niño usually causes a reduction of Atlantic hurricane activity, but with oceans heating up, that may change.

I never thought I would be living in such a transitional period for the Earth. We have been warned for 40 years, yet as a species, we just blunder along until we are smacked upside the head.

 

[SamAndreas]

Considering the phenomenon is *Global* warming, you'd want to look at typhoons and tropical cyclones as well.

As well as atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and double arm bar troughs coming down from the frozen arctic.

Global warming causes all of that, even those troughs.


If you like the double arm bar hold, you might like Moscow hold and this image:



To answer the personal question that video poses, I have indeed been to Moab Utah.

Why?

Why because it was a neighboring town about an hour from the place in Colorado which I grew up. It wouldn't have been normal for me to not have been to Moab,,, a place Navajos consider to be out in the boonies.

Why?

Because Mormons settled there.

 

[Huntn]

East Central Texas- In early October we had a cool front that momentarily dropped the highs into the high 80s. Since then, highs back in the 90s until another cool front, yesterday giving us highs in the 70s for the last 2 days, that will climb back into the high 80s over the coming week, to drop down next week back into the 70s. Living here, it’s my favorite time of year when it does not feel like residing in a furnace. Now if it truly turned Purple that would make my day.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Humanity is “on the precipice” of shattering Earth’s limits, and will suffer huge costs if we fail to act on biodiversity loss, experts warn. This week, world leaders meet in Cali, Colombia, for the Cop16 UN biodiversity conference to discuss action on the global crisis.

As they prepare for negotiations, scientists and experts around the world have warned that the stakes are high, and there is “no time to waste”.

“We are already locked in for significant damage, and we’re heading in a direction that will see more,” says Tom Oliver, professor of applied ecology at the University of Reading. “I really worry that negative changes could be very rapid.”

Since 1970, some studies estimate wildlife populations have declined on average by 73%, with huge numbers lost in the decades and centuries before. Passenger pigeons, the Carolina parakeets and Floreana giant tortoises are among the many species humans have obliterated. “It’s shameful that our single species is driving the extinction of thousands of others,” says Oliver.

The biodiversity crisis is not just about other species – humans also rely on the natural world for food, clean water and air to breathe. Oliver says: “I think we will, certainly, in the next 15 to 20 years, see continued food crises, and the real risk of multiple breadbasket failures … that’s in addition to a lot of the other risks that might impact us through fresh-water pollution, ocean acidification, wildfire and algal blooms, and so on.”…….

Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning

As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone

www.theguardian.com

 

[Taurus]

We're our own Siberian Traps.

 

[SamAndreas]

We're our own Siberian Traps.

I looked that up and was surprised to find that this is a Siberian Trap. :

It looks like the kind of thing which would be easier to climb up than to climb down. If someone was on top of that, they would be trapped.

 

[LA - L.A.]

We're our own Siberian Traps.

I'd chuckle if it wasn't so true.

 

[SamAndreas]

I'd chuckle if it wasn't so true.

I'll chuckle in any case.

 

[Taurus]

I looked that up and was surprised to find that this is a Siberian Trap. :

It looks like the kind of thing which would be easier to climb up than to climb down. If someone was on top of that, they would be trapped.

Siberian Traps - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

They're of special interest to me because I grew up in the Channeled Scablands of Washington. An area catalyzed by eruptions similar to the Traps but on a much smaller scale. (Which is weird to say because the lava sheet is thousands of feet thick and runs from the Washington/Idaho/Oregon border to the Pacific. Yet it's positively dwarfed by the Siberian lava flows.)

The geology is fascinating and much more easily studied due to the Missoula Floods which scoured the topsoil completely clean around 12,000 years ago.

 

[MT15]

This seems good

 

[LA - L.A.]

This seems good

I wish they would had specified the weight of the tree that the half pound of substance removed an equivalent amount of carbon, so I could do some rough calculations. Mature Redwood trees can weigh anywhere from 500,000 to a million pounds. Apple trees, not so much. I don't think there's a mature tree of any species that doesn't way at least several hundred pounds are more, so the half-pound = one tree ratio is going to still be crazy efficient.

Building an eco-friendly forest of towers filled with this stuff in barren areas should rival the carbon absorption of massive natural forests. If there's a way to multipurpose those towers as wind and/or solar towers then you get a force multiplier effect. We need to build more mutli-taskers and less uni-taskers to create a sustainable energy economy and environment.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter released at the weekend by 44 experts from 15 countries.

One of the signatories, Stefan Rahmstorf, an oceanographer and climatologist who heads the Earth system analysis department at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, explains here why he has recently upgraded his risk assessment of an Amoc breakdown as a result of global heating – and what that means for Britain, Europe and the wider world.

What is Amoc?​

Amoc, or the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, is a system of ocean currents that brings heat into the northern Atlantic.

Warm surface water from the tropics flows north and releases its heat in the subpolar Atlantic, south of Greenland and west of Britain and Ireland.

Then it cools and sinks to a depth of between 2,000m to 3,000 metres before returning south as a cold current.

is one of our planet’s largest heat transport systems, moving the equivalent of 50 times the human energy use, and it has a particularly strong impact on the climate in Europe, affects the ocean’s CO2 uptake and oxygen supply, as well as rainfall patterns in the tropics……

‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount.

So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations with around half the world’s population heading to the polls, there have been major wins for Donald Trump, the US president-elect who calls the climate crisis “a big hoax”; the climate-skeptic right in European Union elections; and Vladimir Putin, who won another term and has endured sanctions to maintain Russia’s robust oil and gas exports.

“It’s quite clear that in most advanced economies the big loser of the elections has been climate,” said Catherine Fieschi, an expert in European politics and populism.

“It’s been a bad year for climate and we’ve seen a gradual erosion in the public’s commitment to action for a couple of years now. The paradox is, of course, that major climate events are happening more frequently everywhere, yet people are no longer willing to prioritize this.”

From an apogee about five years ago, with Greta Thunberg’s ubiquitous activism and talk of massive new green investments, climate has slipped down the agenda for many countries after a pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, unease over inflation and a rise in populist political figures.

“It’s been the perfect storm,” said Fieschi. “Even the vocabulary has changed – not so much green now, but clean. There’s been a shift in the political balance where climate has taken a back seat to inflation and energy prices. Rather than climate being the existential threat, it’s the Green New Deal that is seen as the threat.”………

Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis

Among sweeping rightwing electoral victories across the globe, the ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dragon]

In November, we usually get some sleet, but it's rare to see lasting snow. This year, however, is different. Winter arrived early, blanketing everything with a couple of inches of proper snow—and remarkably, it’s still here days later. It will be interesting to see if this is just a one-off event or a sign that we’re in for a truly cold winter after several years of unusually mild weather.