Wish we had it back when I live in Cleveland.
And it smells good!
Posted on 03/13/2022 7:15:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Mainers are no strangers to winter road hazards. Bad weather brings dangerous driving conditions. Rock salt eats up undercarriages and metal infrastructure. Springtime thaws bring frost heaves and potholes.
For generations, those headaches were at least fairly predictable. But as global climate change warms the state’s winters, erratic, severe weather will likely mean more damaging potholes and water pollution from excessive salting to keep up with more frequent ice storms.
The extent to which warming trends are damaging Maine roadways is unclear. There’s been limited research, but early results from of recent study by Minnesota’s Department of Transportation found no evidence of more frequent freeze-thaw events in that state.
New England has lost three weeks of winter in the past century, and “mud” days have increased by up to a few weeks per year, said Sarah Nelson, director of research at the Appalachian Mountain Club. Winter isn’t just warmer, it is prone to extreme highs and lows, a trend termed “winter weather whiplash” by a research group Nelson is part of.
“It is not just that winters are getting shorter and we are losing snow cover, but there is a sense of a lot more variability,” Nelson said. “Increasing variability in weather is one of the signs of climate change. It is that unexpected condition at the wrong time of year that can cause these kind of impacts (to roads and infrastructure).”
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
Oh good grief!
Anyway, here’s today’s first mandatory silly science “climate change” claim.
Journalism.
When majoring in “studies” proves too difficult.
Portland Press Herald. Second only to Pravda
None of these idiots know what Climate is
Ha, ha. Just how many people in Maine say, “Damn, I wish it were colder”?
While climate change is freezing Texas.
We had a snow storm yesterday on March 12, 2022 that left several inches in parts of Maine. Portland got rain all day turning to snow about 4 pm. It will be melted on my car bey the time I get to it at 10:30 this morning.
“...New England has lost three weeks of winter in the past century, and “mud” days have increased by up to a few weeks per year, said Sarah Nelson, director of research at the Appalachian Mountain Club...”
YAWN...Maybe down south in “north Boston” but NOT WHERE I AM!
Move everyone to metro Boston and shut the place down.
Global warming, as a subject ,does have an up side. It reveals sources that have compromised. If a source pushes this scam don’t trust anything else it claims.
Its warming up but more frequent ice storms. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
The coming worldwide famines which will be the direct consequence of the dismantling of the fossil fuel industry will be blamed by the MSM on “climate change”. The MSM are propagandists who are trying to condition and indoctrinate gullible, easily influenced people.
***damaging potholes and water pollution from excessive salting to keep up with more frequent ice storms. ***
This again? I remember people being urged to look for “pollution” screaming about this back in 1970. Among other things they were screaming about was tire residue from worn out tires and burning of Christmas trees after Christmas.
As usual it was the “Karens” of that time doing the screaming.
Sorry to burst the bubble here. Potholes are more prevalent due to government shifting gas taxes and other resources targeted to maintain roads and bridges and infrastructure and they instead use those funds to defray skyrocketing welfare costs as they keep giving money away.
Yep, pretty darn cold and snowy up here in the County!!
Mrs AV
Experts. What would we ever do without them?
Next thing you know, the best minds in science will invent a pig oink translator so that.. pig farmers will be able to understand their animals.
Meanwhile the uncomplicated real world says, "Yay, sunshine!" or, "Yay, bacon!"
“ New England has lost three weeks of winter in the past century, and “mud” days have increased by up to a few weeks per year”
She just says this. Does she have any scientific data or completed studies we can read to determine whether or not to believe what she is saying? Because I am not buying it without.
What is three weeks of winter? Is that, three weeks of …what? Did Tgey gain three weeks of fall? What is that?
This sounds to me like “he would have been much sicker if he hadn’t been vaccinated and boosted.”
Would he have been more such with just one?
There is no data nor completed study to back these claims.
The Portland Press Herald is a useless rag. Here in central Maine I’ve had more sub zero temperatures than, I think, ever before. The mud thing is BS too.
Wish we had it back when I live in Cleveland.
And it smells good!
“ While climate change is freezing Texas.”
I was in Texas for that freeze. In the 30 years I’ve been here I have never seen 12 degrees then a week of nights in the teens. There’s my data.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.