Posted on 01/29/2019 9:02:49 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Due to the severe winter weather conditions, the U.S. Postal Service has announced postal delivery Wednesday will be suspended in Minnesota, Iowa, western Wisconsin and western Illinois.
Temperatures in the Twin Cities were expected to drop to near -30 degrees Tuesday and Wednesday and a wind chill warning was in effect.
A release from the USPS said retail operations at local offices will be available, but may be limited.
There will be no collection mail pickup from businesses or collection boxes. There will also be no residential or commercial package pickup services.
I love that story.
I don’t think anyone cares. We’re just happy to have heat and be alive.
Yep - I’m on the MS Gulf Coast and it hasn’t gotten below 30 but once or twice this year - daughter is in Upstate NY and they have seen below 0 a few times....I don’t miss that but I do miss the 4 seasons of the northern climes.
She fixes the agony of defeet.
Brrrr!!!
I don’t think that (delayed weather effects of the fires) would be “major”, but I’d not rule such completely.
OTOH, one has to consider that in this event we are looking at under 5% of the Earth’s surface setting record cold temperatures, in a mere eyeblink in time (of records).
I’d also point out that your volcano reference reminds me of something — a mistake FReepers often make. While I tend to believe human CO2 emissions are more likely to delay or keep us out of another period of glaciation, than do some sort of human species threatening harm, humans and their enterprises in total actually DO exceed total volcanic releases of CO2, on an annual basis. Now if Yellowstone goes off, full tilt, that might not be true, but then CO2 may be the least of the problems: For one thing, the cooling effect of the particulates blasted into the atmosphere likely exceeds the effect of the CO2 released.
However, back to my point(!), in normal years / times, using current figures as the basis of calculation (such as how much CO2 is produced by burning a gallon of gasoline), some junior / senior high school level math, compared with what volcanologists have known for some time about volcanic releases, will easily show that the TOTAL of human CO2 releases exceeds that of volcanos in even fairly active years, by quite a bit. Volcanoes are big, but there are a LOT of us.
Of course, even humans are but a small part of the picture. Humans and our activities are only a small portion of the chemical and biochemical activity on Earth.
Although it draws some dubious conclusions, and other dubious interpretations can be made from the data, this article creates a fascinating “visual” of the scale of “life” on Earth, compared to humans:
Whups, that was supposed to be:
I’d not rule out such completely.
thank you for your answer and the link very interesting information.
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