Yep, it seems earlier than usual this year.Meanwhile New Mexico burns now...
One factor is that you have ideologies such as veganism jumping on the climate catastrophe bandwagon with dodgy anti-meat statistics to champion their chosen way of life and attempt to persuade governments to tax meat and also push the vegan agenda. I respect vegetarians but veganism has such a high failure rate* that it is never going to be an effective method of driving dietary change.It worth reading this article through - note it does NOT deny there is climate change, almost no-one does this, however, as a cheap shot at anyone who wants to discuss the actual data, it's effective.
https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-great-climate-change-fallacy/
Relating to the IPCC's original mission, in 2010:
The article makes the point that one of these original scenarios developed by the IPCC (12 years ago) is still being used to deliver messages, the one related to their worst case scenario 'RCP8.5':
In fact, due to reductions in emissions and changes in energy policy, we're now looking at...
...which, while not ideal, is not the 'we're all gonna die' scenario continually trotted out. The plain fact is, that the 'hopeless' message will have the opposite effect on general behaviour, as it's seen as a something no-one really has any control over. A more measured (and truer) message will probably have a far larger effect on the general population.
So my question is: why, given this well established backfire effect, do the powers that be persist in telling us 'we're all gonna die', unless we all give up our cars, electricity and economic stability?
Meanwhile New Mexico burns now...
Yes, avoid prolonged sun exposure.Be careful, @charliebrown .
Yes, avoid prolonged sun exposure.
I hear the Salt Lake is drying up, which is another serious issue.
And our problem is continual flooding, getting worse each year, soon it will be a calamity.The western states have water restrictions as their many years of drought continues.
At least water is not a probably in our area.
Salt Lake City faces potential for arsenic laced dust clouds if the evaporation continues.Yes, avoid prolonged sun exposure.
I hear the Salt Lake is drying up, which is another serious issue.
We work if it's less than 45 degrees - above that, sit down under a tree.I never liked original formula Gatorade, but zero sugar Gatorade is not bad.
Unless you have to go somewhere, one does not stay out too long in 100 F or 38 C weather.
Midsummer is almost here.
Yes C.B., Pretty much the middle of winter.Mungoman,
In NSW I assume you are in the middle of winter ?
Some polar bears adapting to changes
Polar bears have long been seen as a symbol of global warming's damaging impact on the natural world.
The bears rely on Arctic sea ice to hunt seals - so its decline puts the species at risk of extinction.
However, in a rare piece of hopeful news for the ice bears, scientists say several hundred in southeast Greenland have now adapted to hunt using freshwater platforms.
Researchers found the animals were using ice that breaks off glaciers.
"They survive in fjords that are sea ice-free more than eight months of the year because they have access to glacier - freshwater - ice", said University of Washington polar scientist Kristin Laidre, the study's lead author.
The findings, from a research team based at the University of Washington, open up the possibility that pockets of the species might survive despite rising temperatures.
"One of the big questions is where in the Arctic will polar bears be able to hang on," Dr Laidre said. "I think that bears in a place like this can teach us a lot about where those places might be."
The research team spent two years interviewing Inuit hunters, who shared their ecological knowledge of the area.
Travelling to the remote region using helicopters, they tagged the bears with satellite tracking devices and collected genetic samples.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61835778
"...survey results for 8 of the 19 polar bear subpopulations, only two of which showed insignificant declines after very modest ice loss. The rest were either stable or increasing, and some despite major reductions in sea ice. As a result, the global population size is now almost 30,000 – up from about 26,000 in 2015."
"...the official IUCN Red List global population estimate, completed in 2015, is 22,000-31,000 (average about 26,000) but surveys conducted since then, including those made public in 2020, would raise that average to almost 30,000. There has been no sustained statistically significant decline in any subpopulation."
https://www.thegwpf.org/its-not-a-myth-2020-was-another-good-year-for-polar-bears/
As of yesterday by coincidence, the discovery of a previously-unknown group of polar bears has increased their recorded population by about 300 to over 36,000.
If they hadn’t been made an icon of conservation and global warming, we’d probably be seeing their numbers listed as “burgeoning”.
maximus otter
was that they said "where are all the penguins?". But we already knew that polar bears aren't too clever...survey results for 8 of the 19 polar bear
There should be some way all that water could be piped to the west where it is needed in some way to keep it from flooding in the east.And our problem is continual flooding, getting worse each year, soon it will be a calamity.
We have the same problem in New South Wales.There should be some way all that water could be piped to the west where it is needed in some way to keep it from flooding in the east.
When the US managed to put men on the moon repeatedly, 50 years ago, and since then we have dug the longest tunnels through the alps, and the channel tunnel, and the huge dam in China, and other massive engineering projects around the world, I think you'll find that the only obstacles to any kind of project of that nature are money and the desire to do it.They keep saying it can't be done
And here, the local river overflows its banks with every single northeaster storm and hurricane.We have the same problem in New South Wales.
There are massive amounts of river water pouring into the Tasman Sea/South Pacific constantly, and nearly every year, just over the Great Dividing Range one of our major inland river systems (Murray Darling Basin) stops flowing and then suffers from cyanobacteria (bluegreen algae).
We could harvest less than 1% of the flows from 4 northern NSW rivers and have every Inland dam, reservoir, and lake that contributes to the tributaries of the Murray Darling Basin (a major agricultural area), via the Darling River, full.
We could use solar power to pump that water through a ganged system of pumps when total capacity fell below 85%, allowing the Water Authority to maintain a 90% flow throughout one of the driest areas in Australia.
They keep saying it can't be done...but they are prepared to raise the height of existing dam walls and spend 8 Billion Australian dollars on altering an 80 year old river system....
You've got to ask yourself why it can't be done, when It was done in Western Australia by a gentleman called CY O'connor, who brought water inland 500 miles to Kalgoorlie district which is at an elevation of 630 feet...IN 1901!!
I'll get orf me soapbox now...
Well, damn you and your inconvenient facts! (I hope you know I am joking, MO)"...survey results for 8 of the 19 polar bear subpopulations, only two of which showed insignificant declines after very modest ice loss. The rest were either stable or increasing, and some despite major reductions in sea ice. As a result, the global population size is now almost 30,000 – up from about 26,000 in 2015."
"...the official IUCN Red List global population estimate, completed in 2015, is 22,000-31,000 (average about 26,000) but surveys conducted since then, including those made public in 2020, would raise that average to almost 30,000. There has been no sustained statistically significant decline in any subpopulation."
https://www.thegwpf.org/its-not-a-myth-2020-was-another-good-year-for-polar-bears/
As of yesterday by coincidence, the discovery of a previously-unknown group of polar bears has increased their recorded population by about 300 to over 36,000.
If they hadn’t been made an icon of conservation and global warming, we’d probably be seeing their numbers listed as “burgeoning”.
maximus otter