Posted on 01/05/2024 6:20:19 PM PST by DoodleBob
… balmy holidays are a preview of something darker: bigger climate extremes, more natural disasters, the specter not of a world where humans suffer through these things and find ways to survive but where we’ve made the planet so uninhabitable that, in the longer run, the planet survives but we don’t.
I was thinking about this while standing outside a science museum a couple of days ago with a friend. We were talking about the weather, but not the kind of small talk when you have nothing else to say. “I’m not sure our grandkids will even know what snow is,” she said, with a wry “I’m kidding, but I’m not” laugh.
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These moments of dread come more frequently these days, as catastrophic climate events unfold both slowly and in great, ghastly bursts of wildfire and tropical storms. It’s not the absolute events, but the deviation from the norm that is alarming… a few years ago, when it was in the high 60s in Brooklyn for a few days in January, I wondered if I should increase my anti-anxiety meds.
This past June, Brooklyn was covered in a blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires. The sky was a muted burnt sienna and the air smelled like a barbecue gone severely wrong. I reassured my son, who had many questions, that the neighborhood was not on fire.
It is my job to make my child feel safe, so I answer questions about scary, calamitous things when he asks, but carefully. … He gravitates toward questions about death and has asked me whether I’d rather freeze to death or die in a fire so many times that if I didn’t know him I might be concerned that he was planning something.
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Eh, no. I never burn green stuff or trash wood like jack pine. This is seasoned red fir and tamarack with maybe a little birch that I buy in 16” rounds. I then split the rounds into sections appropriate for the woodstove.
Yeah, I didn’t switch over from shorts to regular jeans and such until late October this year. Even now, I still see hardcorps dudes in shorts and sandals. Not me, though. Going to the fleece and flannel lined pants next week.
VIDEO: 43secs: 5 Jan: BBC: Drivers stranded overnight on Sweden’s E22 motorway in deep snow
The Swedish armed forces have delivered food and water to up to 1,000 vehicles stuck in heavy snow for nearly 24 hours...
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-67880990
The end of Leftist brain cells will happen first.
It’s snowing in N Texas right now.
Are you a fan of Randall Carlson? He has done some great analysis of the Scablands floods and the Bonneville Lake flood that followed the course of the Snake River.
Somebody tell this dumbass that the Brits already tried this same shtick a number of years ago—THEN IT SNOWED LIKE HELL ON THEM!
Nothing has changed since 1985 when the “Global Warming” Hoax was first birthed.
We go through warm cycles and cold cycles and we’re in a warm mini-cycle. If someone, like this author, has terrified their children into thinking they’ll die by freezing or burning to death, that’s not only a horrible thing to do to their progeny, but for society at large.
No, I’ve never heard of Randall Carlson. I’ve just read some Wiki, USGS and NPS information online and in visitor’s centers.
We used to visit my uncle a lot in Twin Falls and hiked down the Snake River Canyon many times. There’s a great natural history museum at the canyon rim. The southern tier of Idaho has very little topsoil — all eroded away by the great floods.
Last year, it snowed here in North Orange County, Calif. The snow melted as soon as it hit the ground, but it’s the first time I’ve ever seen snow at low elevations in Southern California. I was born at a time when MiGs and Sabre Jets were shooting at each other over Pyongyang and have lived here ever since.
Is that you Nick Zentner, sounds like a lecture you gave awhile back!
It’s been snowing all day in KC. Expecting more on Monday.
Really? I opened this thread to a HUGE snow job. yakety yak
If you want to check them out I recommend going to the video page, link below, and scrolling to the bottom. Then scroll up to find videos on the topic. Watching them in chronological order is good because he progresses through a given topic and it helps to know what he has previously covered.
Snow, yes please and LOTS of it. Thank you.
Nope. Who’s Zentner.
I’m just always fascinated by geology, especially living in the area scoured by the Great Missoula Floods. There are glacial moraines all over the place here in North Idaho. We live close to the Clark Fork River where the great ice dams were.
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check him out. I’m always looking for new topics to listen to on walks and drives.
“She’s either driven the kid nuts with her climate hysteria, or he’s realized what a nutjob she is and is thinking ahead.”
Really, no real kid is going to talk like that, so it is either a lie or she is planting these ideas in his head. Either way, she’s a nutjob.
“And this Laurentide ice sheet went on to form the Great Lakes as it melted - when you ask someone what caused this warming inevitably you get the deer in the headlights look - after a long pause just say “deer farts” and walk away.”
This loon says she lives in Brooklyn, her type is usually found in Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights, both formed by glacial deposits.
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