Anthropogenic Global Warming ... how hot is it ?
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If the anti-progress troglodytes understood science they'd be smart enough to know how stupid they are.
All they have to do is read the dictionary. The dictionary tells what a refinery does.
The root word of "refinery" is "fine". That's why it's FINE !
The problem with Democrats, they pretend everything is a crisis.
re·fined  (rĭ-fīnd)adj. 1. Free from coarseness or vulgarity; polite. 2. Free of impurities; purified. 3. Precise to a fine degree. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. |
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I'm glad the election will be soon. I can't take much more of this.
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Florida Governor DeSantis Signs Law Deleting Climate Change From Florida Policy
May 15, 2024 ... Florida's state government will no longer be required to consider climate change when crafting energy policy under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Ron ...https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/climate/desantis-climate-change-florida.html
"Attribution Science":
"How much can we attribute climate change to any one given disaster?" PBS Correspondent William Brangham / Bradenton, Florida
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"... soil treated with manure or compost fertilizer stores more carbon than soil treated with chemical fertilizers or no fertilizer."
news.yahoo.com
%$#@ !
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Researchers make stunning discovery after examining farmland treated only with organic fertilizers for decades: '[Will] help us to move forward'
"Understanding the role of the different minerals, chemicals, and microbes involved will help improve models..."
%$#@ !
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Some may think "all natural" is "better", and may pay $more for it.
Asbestos is natural, not recommended for salad.
For farm produce generally cooked before being eaten, the e. coli risk may be minimized.
But for farm produce that is not necessarily sanitized by cooking at temperature that neutralizes pathogens like e. coli including broccoli
"all natural" may be potentially deadly.
If a trace amount of agribidness fertilizer gets on your broccoli in the field, eating it may not be optimal, but also not likely fatal.
But "all natural" can include cattle waste which is spread on fields to enrich the soil.
Such pathogen risk is not necessarily detectable with the unaided human eye.
Bottom line, enjoy what you eat, but look before you leap.
Some may think "all natural" is "better", and may pay $more for it.
Asbestos is natural, not recommended for salad.
For farm produce generally cooked before being eaten, the e. coli risk may be minimized.
But for farm produce that is not necessarily sanitized by cooking at temperature that neutralizes pathogens like e. coli including broccoli
"all natural" may be potentially deadly.
If a trace amount of agribidness fertilizer gets on your broccoli in the field, eating it may not be optimal, but also not likely fatal.
But "all natural" can include cattle waste which is spread on fields to enrich the soil.
Such pathogen risk is not necessarily detectable with the unaided human eye.
Bottom line, enjoy what you eat, but look before you leap.
Shiftless2
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Meteorologist threatened after debunking hurricane conspiracies
Story by Liz Jassin
Katie Nickolaou, a meteorologist, says she’s received death threats for debunking hurricane conspiracy theories regarding the latest natural disasters in the U.S.
“A lot of people are looking for someone to blame,” Nickolaou said Friday on “CUOMO.” “I’m just trying to get out there and answer questions in terms of understanding this insane weather.”
The meteorologist, who shares weather updates on her TikTok, said she’s not alone and that several other meteorologists are reporting similar hostile messages.
Milton recovery efforts underway in Florida as 2M without power
“Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes,” Nickolaou wrote on X, alongside a screenshot of one threat she’d received.
Meanwhile, Washington, D.C.-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci said he’s received hundreds of messages from people accusing him of modifying the weather to create hurricanes with space lasers, the New York Post reported.
Crews resumed ....
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How did they wrest control of the space lasers from the wild fire pyromaniacs?
Marge !?
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#247: No gratuitous insult intended, but that kid doesn't look old enough to me to be a meteorologist. High school junior ?
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Good News of ACC ? An Archeological Bonanza !
"Climate change reveals secrets of our ancestors hidden in the ice.
Spectacular archaeological finds in melting glacier and mountain ice are giving new - although fleeting - insights into prehistoric hunting practices and more." by Joseph R. McConnell
www.nature.com
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Media Alert:
PBS has scheduled a 2 hr. documentary on AGW: Check local broadcast schedule -
Youth v Gov
Since 2015, 21 plaintiffs, now ages 13 to 24, have been suing the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, personal safety, and property through their willful actions in creating the climate crisis.
Good News of ACC ? An Archeological Bonanza !
"Climate change reveals secrets of our ancestors hidden in the ice.
Spectacular archaeological finds in melting glacier and mountain ice are giving new - although fleeting - insights into prehistoric hunting practices and more." by Joseph R. McConnell
Climate change reveals secrets of our ancestors hidden in the ice
Spectacular archaeological finds in melting glaciers and mountain ice are giving new — although fleeting — insights into prehistoric hunting practices and more.
www.nature.com
b)
Media Alert:
PBS has scheduled a 2 hr. documentary on AGW: Check local broadcast schedule -
Youth v Gov
Since 2015, 21 plaintiffs, now ages 13 to 24, have been suing the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, personal safety, and property through their willful actions in creating the climate crisis.
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Chances Jump for Tropical Storm Nadine to Form This Weekend
Chances jump for Tropical Storm Nadine to form this weekend
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a Caribbean system that could become the Atlantic hurricane season's next named storm.
www.newsweek.com
It looks like the Republicans have themselves (& U.S.) in hot water.
Previously posted, some authorities suggest drought may help trigger Earthquake. The following suggests a similar relationship with volcanic eruption.
Scientists are racing to find out whether the rapid retreat of glaciers could drive a surge in eruptions as magma builds whether the same thing might occur at ice-covered volcanoes around the world.
Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?
https://www.reuters.com/investigati...ing-fuse-under-icelands-volcanoes-2024-10-26/
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Scientists are racing to find out whether the rapid retreat of glaciers could drive a surge in eruptions as magma builds under the island nation — and if so, whether the same might occur at ice-covered volcanoes around the world, putting many lives at risk.
By GLORIA DICKIE / Filed Oct. 26, 2024, 10 a.m. GMT
Filed Oct. 26, 2024, 10 a.m. GMT
Through this forbidding terrain – “Viti” is derived from the Icelandic for “hell” – Michelle Parks, a volcanologist with the Icelandic Meteorological Office, picked her way toward the water’s edge one day last August. With a monitor strapped to her hip to warn her if the gases reached dangerous levels, she stooped to submerge a temperature probe in the lake – 26.4 degrees Celsius (79.5 degrees Fahrenheit), consistent with recent readings.
That was reassuring, at least for the time being. The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875. Askja’s last eruption, in 1961, was milder, and for decades after, the volcano was quiet. But in 2021, Parks and other scientists keeping tabs on it were shocked to find that in just a few months, the volcano had rapidly expanded, uplifting by 11 centimetres (4.3 inches). This phenomenon, called inflation, occurs when magma or pressurised gases accumulate under a volcano, pushing the ground upwards and outwards.
In the three years since, Askja’s bloat has reached about 80 cm (32 inches). That uplift, scientists estimate, is the result of 44 million cubic metres (1.6 billion cubic feet) of magma flowing into the existing reservoir around three km (two miles) beneath the surface.
Volcanologists have established a correlation between magma buildup under a volcano and subsequent eruption. But they don’t know exactly how much magma is needed to help trip an eruption. That is why Parks and her colleagues are closely monitoring the temperature and acidity of Viti’s crater lake. A jump in either, indicating that more gases are pushing in from below, would suggest the volcano is moving closer to an eruption. So far, those metrics have remained stable, but the scientists watching Askja don’t take that for granted.
“There’s so much uncertainty on when this will erupt — if it will erupt,” Parks said. It could be years, or decades, she said, or “it could be sooner.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-glacier-volcanoes/
Scientists are racing to find out whether the rapid retreat of glaciers could drive a surge in eruptions as magma builds whether the same thing might occur at ice-covered volcanoes around the world.
Is climate change lighting a fuse under Iceland's volcanoes?
https://www.reuters.com/investigati...ing-fuse-under-icelands-volcanoes-2024-10-26/
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
Scientists are racing to find out whether the rapid retreat of glaciers could drive a surge in eruptions as magma builds under the island nation — and if so, whether the same might occur at ice-covered volcanoes around the world, putting many lives at risk.
By GLORIA DICKIE / Filed Oct. 26, 2024, 10 a.m. GMT
Filed Oct. 26, 2024, 10 a.m. GMT
Through this forbidding terrain – “Viti” is derived from the Icelandic for “hell” – Michelle Parks, a volcanologist with the Icelandic Meteorological Office, picked her way toward the water’s edge one day last August. With a monitor strapped to her hip to warn her if the gases reached dangerous levels, she stooped to submerge a temperature probe in the lake – 26.4 degrees Celsius (79.5 degrees Fahrenheit), consistent with recent readings.
That was reassuring, at least for the time being. The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875. Askja’s last eruption, in 1961, was milder, and for decades after, the volcano was quiet. But in 2021, Parks and other scientists keeping tabs on it were shocked to find that in just a few months, the volcano had rapidly expanded, uplifting by 11 centimetres (4.3 inches). This phenomenon, called inflation, occurs when magma or pressurised gases accumulate under a volcano, pushing the ground upwards and outwards.
In the three years since, Askja’s bloat has reached about 80 cm (32 inches). That uplift, scientists estimate, is the result of 44 million cubic metres (1.6 billion cubic feet) of magma flowing into the existing reservoir around three km (two miles) beneath the surface.
Volcanologists have established a correlation between magma buildup under a volcano and subsequent eruption. But they don’t know exactly how much magma is needed to help trip an eruption. That is why Parks and her colleagues are closely monitoring the temperature and acidity of Viti’s crater lake. A jump in either, indicating that more gases are pushing in from below, would suggest the volcano is moving closer to an eruption. So far, those metrics have remained stable, but the scientists watching Askja don’t take that for granted.
“There’s so much uncertainty on when this will erupt — if it will erupt,” Parks said. It could be years, or decades, she said, or “it could be sooner.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-glacier-volcanoes/
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Dozens of CT brush fires being monitored as historic drought turns state into 'tinderbox'
Officials said dozens of brush fires across Connecticut have the chance of re-igniting even though they may be “contained or controlled.In the past week, 40 fires have been contained and about 12 of those were more than an acre in size, according to data from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Causes of the fires varied, from things such as ....
Dozens of CT brush fires being monitored as historic drought turns state into 'tinderbox'
Gov. Ned Lamont said the drought data is the worst experts have seen in 100 years and described the state as a "tinderbox."
www.ctpost.com
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Hurricanes might mean Floridians get swamped again: With a car insurance increase
The car insurance industry is likely to suffer multibillion dollar losses because of car losses in recent hurricanes and it could affect next year's rates.
Anne GeggisEva Kelly-Cubells knows her 2016 Chevy Cruze — and tens of thousands of other cars swamped in hurricanes Helene and Milton — did not go quietly.
The 86-year-old Punta Gorda resident and her cat evacuated to a friend’s house on Sept. 26. There, Kelly-Cubells thought, she would be a safe distance from the canals and ponds that surround her manufactured home for Hurricane Helene’s anticipated visit. Deep in the night, though, she heard the water surging across the nearby road and then something even more ominous: a cacophony of car horns going off.
“Then it would stop, and you’d know that was ....
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Trump is dismissive about anthropogenic global warming. But how do MAGAs feel about / address immediate $pocketbook global warming issues like this?
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Hundreds are dead in Spain's floods. Scientists see a connection to climate change
Julia SimonAt least 205 people are dead, and dozens remain missing after flood waters and mud swept through towns and cities in Spain’s east.
It’s one of the most deadly weather events in modern Spanish history, and climate scientists see a connection to human-caused global warming.
Climate change made this week’s intense rainfall about 12% heavier and twice as likely, according to a rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution, an international network of scientists who assess the impact of climate change on major weather events.
“There is a clear climate change footprint on events like this one,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA who was not involved in the analysis, writes in an email.
For decades, climate scientists have warned that global warming, which is primarily caused by humans burning oil, gas and coal, would cause severe deluges.
An atmosphere made hotter by burning fossil fuels can hold more water vapor, which can make downpours more intense. The world is now at least 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than it was during the 1800s. Climate research finds a 1.3 degree temperature increase means the atmosphere can hold about 9% more moisture.
In places like Chiva, a town near Valencia, a year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours, according to ...
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Very sciency.
The good news? The sale of automobiles can be expected to increase there, even if only temporarily.
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One in four Insurers Turn to AI Storm Risk Assessments to Combat Climate Change
Survey of 200 senior Property & Casualty insurance executives by ZestyAI has revealed rapid adoption of AI risk assessment models for wildfires and severe convective stormsSurvey of 200 senior Property & Casualty insurance executives by ZestyAI has revealed rapid adoption of AI risk assessment models for wildfires and severe convective storms
The report also reveals that 73% of insurance industry leaders believe AI models help to manage climate-related losses
90% call for more transparency in predictive modes to help insurers communicate policyholders about possible risk mitigation
Contrary to headlines, most insurers are prioritising inspections, manual reviews, deductible strategies, and ACV roof endorsements over nonrenewals, which only 32% prioritize.
ZestyAI, the leading provider of climate and property risk analytics solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI), has released a survey of how 200 senior insurance leaders are responding to ...
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Reality change hasn't expelled humanity from our hunter-gatherer roots from 12,000 years ago.
Instead, humanity has grown increasingly clever about materials science.
Computers are thinking machines. Even a simple shirt-pocket "four-banger" calculator can perform calculations faster and more accurately than we can.
"AI", artificial intelligence is a tool.
This headline in #258 is good news.
Insurance, actuarial tables are approximations. Insurance $premiums are based on those approximations.
Many insurance markets are competitive. That's incentive for insurers to make their policies $competitive, affordable.
Improving the accuracy of actuarial information insurers use enables reducing $margin, $cushion in insurance premiums, when the probabilities are more precisely known.
Thank you Silicon.
If the Mendeleev "Silicon" formality is too burdensome, you can just call it "chip".