The End of Snow

Slimes ^ | January 3, 2023 | Elizabeth Spiers

[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.

[TigersEye]

You’re welcome. I can’t guarantee it but I think you’ll like his presentations. He’s spent a lot of time researching the subjects he covers.

The NPS page you linked to is good. I recognized almost all the pictures, place names and researcher’s names there from watching R. Carlson’s podcasts.

[quantim]

Have you ever been to the Great Lakes area? It’s really something to stand on a giant sand dune witnessing the curve of the Earth and watch the sunset while contemplating the Pleistocene Epoch only a 100 great grandmothers ago and ice a mile thick.

I get the left and their control mongering to the masses - it’s just one more thing the commies do but the amount of people that believe this nonsense they put out is staggering. It is proof that cutting out basic geology and particularly astronomy in early education (like I got in the 60’s) is what is allowing these type of hoaxes to continue.

[ridesthemiles]

There was 78 FEET of snow in the Sierra Nevada range last winter.

Ski resorts were open until July 4th.

They already re-opened the Friday before Thanksgiving.

[Albion Wilde]

Uh, we’ve been having snow showers here in Baltimore this AM.

[BraveMan]

“I’m not sure our grandkids will even know what snow is,”

Somebody tell Lizzy Rottencrotch her Grandkids can come shovel my driveway. They'll enjoy all the snow they can stand!

[Reeses]

The New York Times reported that Hell is receiving so many asylum requests from New Yorkers, Satan has implemented a “Remain on Earth” policy, and opened a local processing center. God is furious over its heating bill, and demanding federal assistance.