Climate News & Discussion: Part 2

[uafanataum]

Air-Conditioning Almost Wiped Out the Planet—and It’s Threatening To Do So Again, Unless We Make a Change

We came close to destroying the planet with air conditioning before. We're heading that direction again. We need to rethink how we cool.

time.com

Interesting article with some interesting ideas. If I am being honest though, I am not giving up my A.C.

 

[JDCrimson]

If the ProPublica study is correct we won't be living the South without even more AC.

 

[Bamaro]

Air-Conditioning Almost Wiped Out the Planet—and It’s Threatening To Do So Again, Unless We Make a Change

We came close to destroying the planet with air conditioning before. We're heading that direction again. We need to rethink how we cool.

time.com

Interesting article with some interesting ideas. If I am being honest though, I am not giving up my A.C.

Sissy

 

[B1GTide]

Air-Conditioning Almost Wiped Out the Planet—and It’s Threatening To Do So Again, Unless We Make a Change

We came close to destroying the planet with air conditioning before. We're heading that direction again. We need to rethink how we cool.

time.com

Interesting article with some interesting ideas. If I am being honest though, I am not giving up my A.C.

The problem - homes built in the last 50+ years are not able to vent themselves adequately without AC.

My SiL lives in a very old house in north Alabama. It has high ceilings, high windows and thick walls. It is pretty comfortable in the summer, even in Alabama, and they have no AC. They do have a single window unit in their bedroom, but they almost never use it, and when they do it is only at night. They also have an attic fan, which draws air through the house from the attic. Awesome way to pull hot air out of a home and create air flow on a still day.

Older homes were designed to vent heat and allow great air flow. Modern homes are built to look good, and rely on AC for cooling. Without AC, those homes are almost unlivable on hot, humid days.

 

[tidenstory]

If co2 traps heat, how did Portland record the largest temperature drop in history, dropping 52 degrees overnight?

 

[Tug Tide]

I may have missed it if this was already posted.

Flames erupt in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures

Bright orange blaze captured in Yucatan peninsula

www.independent.co.uk

I promise I didn’t do it

 

[NationalTitles18]

If co2 traps heat, how did Portland record the largest temperature drop in history, dropping 52 degrees overnight?

I remember the days of finding every nugget to support my wish that climate change wasn't real while ignoring the sea of science and specialists saying it was. Ahhhhh, the "good" old days of cherry picking ignorance I "enjoyed"...

Portland’s record-breaking heat wave: by the numbers

The past several days have seen sweltering temperatures across Portland and much of the Pacific Northwest unlike anything seen in modern recorded history.

www.oregonlive.com

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...Consecutive days Portland set new all-time high temperature records. Before this weekend, the previous record, set first in 1965 then most recently in 1981, was 107 degrees. Saturday recorded a high of 108 degrees, Sunday was 112 and Monday clocked in at 116 degrees, among the hottest places in the world for the day...



...75 degrees



The low temperature overnight from Sunday to Monday in Portland. It marks the warmest low temperature ever recorded in the city. High temperatures at night are of particular concern during heat waves because the cooler nighttime hours are often the only time our bodies have a chance to recover...

...While the heat dome that squatted over the Pacific Northwest for the last few days was not precisely caused by climate change, rising temperatures that are a result of increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere make these types of extreme weather more likely and, when they do happen, climate change makes them more intense. Some experts have attributed an extra 3 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming during our last heat wave solely from the heat-trapping contributions of greenhouse gases.

 

[TexasBama]

Antarctica hit record high temperature in 2020, scientists confirm

Antarctica logged a new high temperature record of 64.94 degrees Fahrenheit (18.3 Celsius) in 2020, scientists with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed this week.The tem…

thehill.com

 

[Tug Tide]

Oil firm's plan to abandon 1,700 Gulf of Mexico wells could mean 'environmental disaster,' say rivals

A Houston oil company that grew into one of the largest producers in the Gulf of Mexico before going bust last year is planning to abandon hundreds of oil wells

www.nola.com

 

[92tide]

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I remember the days of finding every nugget to support my wish that climate change wasn't real while ignoring the sea of science and specialists saying it was. Ahhhhh, the "good" old days of cherry picking ignorance I "enjoyed"...

Portland’s record-breaking heat wave: by the numbers

The past several days have seen sweltering temperatures across Portland and much of the Pacific Northwest unlike anything seen in modern recorded history.

www.oregonlive.com

new member with 1 post with some clever lib pwning “logic”

 

[Bamaro]

If co2 traps heat, how did Portland record the largest temperature drop in history, dropping 52 degrees overnight?

I hope that you forgot to put that in blue font.

 

[uafanataum]

If co2 traps heat, how did Portland record the largest temperature drop in history, dropping 52 degrees overnight?

Not sure if serious

 

[rolltide_21]

I may have missed it if this was already posted.

Flames erupt in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures

Bright orange blaze captured in Yucatan peninsula

www.independent.co.uk

I promise I didn’t do it

I’ve studied about the lake of fire in Revelation 20 but I never thought I’d see one this side of eternity . Mark another off the list of things I thought I’d never see.

 

[jthomas666]

Unprecedented heat, hundreds dead and a town destroyed. Climate change is frying the Northern Hemisphere | CNN

The tiny town of Lytton has come to hold a grim record. On Tuesday, it experienced Canada's highest-ever temperature, in an unprecedented heat wave that has over a week killed hundreds of people and triggered more than 240 wildfires across British Columbia, most of which are still burning.

www.cnn.com

Lytton hit 49.6 degrees Celsius (121.3 degrees Fahrenheit), astounding for the town of just 250 people nestled in the mountains, where June maximum temperatures are usually around 25 degrees. This past week, however, its nights have been hotter than its days usually are, in a region where air conditioning is rare and homes are designed to retain heat.

IN CANADA

 

[tidenstory]

Any man made global warming is caused predominantly by the growth of man made structures and by global deforestation. Every man made structure in sunlight is creating more heat than it did in its natural state and wherever it sits, it is creating more heat than the ground underneath would have created if not covered.
According to one study we have removed 1/3 of the planets forests. According to another study we are removing forests each year the equivalent size of Portugal. Remove one third of the shade from anything and see how much warmer it gets.
What we have done to the atmosphere, by analogy amounts to tossing 2 ping pong balls into a box of 2,500 and believing those 2 ping pong balls without any internal source of heat, are warming the other balls, to a measurable and even catastrophic degree. Sorry but that requires too much faith to believe

 

[NationalTitles18]

Any man made global warming is caused predominantly by the growth of man made structures and by global deforestation. Every man made structure in sunlight is creating more heat than it did in its natural state and wherever it sits, it is creating more heat than the ground underneath would have created if not covered.
According to one study we have removed 1/3 of the planets forests. According to another study we are removing forests each year the equivalent size of Portugal. Remove one third of the shade from anything and see how much warmer it gets.
What we have done to the atmosphere, by analogy amounts to tossing 2 ping pong balls into a box of 2,500 and believing those 2 ping pong balls without any internal source of heat, are warming the other balls, to a measurable and even catastrophic degree. Sorry but that requires too much faith to believe

So you fancy yourself smarter than all the physicists, climatologists, and other highly educated and experienced specialists on the face of the planet.

Do you intend to show your work, complete with the appropriate equations and data?

 

[TexasBama]

new member with 1 post with some clever lib pwning “logic”

 

[TexasBama]

So you fancy yourself smarter than all the physicists, climatologists, and other highly educated and experienced specialists on the face of the planet.

Do you intend to show your work, complete with the appropriate equations and data?

I'd be content with a basic demonstration of how black body radiation works

 

[92tide]

So you fancy yourself smarter than all the physicists, climatologists, and other highly educated and experienced specialists on the face of the planet.

Do you intend to show your work, complete with the appropriate equations and data?

funny how that works

 

[92tide]

So you fancy yourself smarter than all the physicists, climatologists, and other highly educated and experienced specialists on the face of the planet.

Do you intend to show your work, complete with the appropriate equations and data?

i remember the dude several years back who was working on book that would definitively prove intelligent design. he never did come back and share his book with us