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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 23, 2022, 12:59 am
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How to be a Westerner:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-heat-leads-more-air-100000883.html
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> Record heat leads to more air conditioning, creating a
depressing loop
> ...
> the high temperatures are likely to increase the production of
energy and greenhouse gasses contributing to global warming.
>
> The heat is killing people, energy grids are getting
overwhelmed, and more people in more places will be looking for
air conditioning in the future, creating an insidious and
depressing loop.
>
> “Most of the great bulk of our greenhouse gas emissions come
from consuming energy, mostly to make electricity,” said Michael
Gerrard, director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for
Climate Change Law.
>
> The extreme heat, in turn, “greatly increases the need for air
conditioners, which are a significant energy consumer,” he
added.
> ...
> Extreme heat means increased demand for power generation,
which is “problematic,”
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Increased demand by whom? Answer: Westerners.
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> the greater demand for electricity generation both increases
emission from power generation and strains regional grids
> ...
> “It’s a bit of an unfortunate feedback loop that when it’s
hotter, we need more power,” she said.
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What is the name of this feedback loop? Answer: Western
civilization.
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> Urban heat islands are a term for cities with dense
concentrations of particularly heat-absorbent infrastructure,
such as pavement and buildings, in place of natural land cover.
The phenomenon can lead to higher temperatures as well as
increased energy costs and air pollutant levels.
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See also:
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#Post#: 14871--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 25, 2022, 10:13 pm
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Stating the obvious:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/air-conditioning-not-save-us-100014155.html
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> Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us
> ...
> Extreme heat kills more people than any other climate disaster
on the planet, including hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. In
the U.K., temperatures are reaching 104ºF for the first time in
recorded history, and the heat is stoking wildfires across
Europe. In India, cities inhabited for centuries are now
unlivable with highs of 123ºF. And, driven largely by carbon
emissions from the developed world, climate change is making it
worse. Heat waves are getting hotter, they’re happening more
often, and they’re lasting longer.
> ...
> Nothing but the massive reduction of fossil fuels will slow
this trend.
>
> Many of us living in the U.S. assume we have the best solution
to this mess: air conditioning. The U.S. uses more energy for
cooling per person than any other nation on the planet. In 2016,
328 million Americans—that’s less than 5% of the world’s
population—guzzled more energy for cooling than the 4.4 billion
people living in all of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East,
and Asia
> ...
> Our fixation with air conditioning is so intense that the only
solution most of us can think to the air conditioning crisis
is…more air conditioning. It misses the ultimate irony: air
conditioning itself contributes significantly to global warming.
Most AC units still use refrigerants that are powerful
greenhouse gases (GHGs) thousands of times more potent at
trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, the main
GHG.
> ...
> In other words, air conditioning is making the world more
difficult to air condition.
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By the way, it's OK for air conditioning to be "white":
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> During the New York City heat wave of 2019, the limits of air
conditioning as a universal solution to urban heat emergencies
became obvious. On a Sunday in July, at the start of a three-day
blaze that pushed the heat index to 113ºF, neighborhoods in
Brooklyn and Queens lost electricity. Because the system handled
a record-breaking load of energy—most of it to power room air
conditioners—several sections of the southeast Brooklyn grid
failed. In response, Con Ed, the investor-owned monopoly
corporation that acts as the city’s public utility,
intentionally cut power to an additional 33,000 residents in
order “to prevent any further outages and also to protect the
integrity of the energy system.” More than 50,000
residents—including seniors in several large care facilities, as
well as infants—struggled without power for more than
twenty-four hours. Perhaps most tellingly, those neighborhoods,
particularly Canarsie and Flatlands, are predominantly Black
(59%) and Latino (8%) working-class.
>
> The logic here is troubling. Nor is it uncommon or limited to
New York. It’s happening in cities around the country. Con Ed
targeted the predominantly low-income Black and brown
neighborhoods of southeastern Brooklyn as an appropriate buffer
zone for the rest of Brooklyn and indeed the entire city. “Vital
equipment” and “the integrity of the energy system” as a
whole—that is, in the whiter, wealthier, more commercial
districts—were privileged above the communities of Canarsie and
Flatlands
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#Post#: 14898--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 28, 2022, 3:44 am
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How inferior is Western civilization?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGmMou4cSU
This would not have happened under any other civilization in
history.
#Post#: 14928--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 31, 2022, 6:25 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/heat-waves-intensify-tens-thousands-123036822.html
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> As heat waves intensify, tens of thousands of US classrooms
will be too hot for students to learn in
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Correct response: end compulsory schooling. Compulsory schooling
contributed to global warming in the first place by producing
all those machinists who invented all those new machines that
all required energy to run.
Western response:
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> Since 2019, climate scientist Sverre LeRoy, at the Center for
Climate Integrity, and I have worked to determine if the
nation’s schools are prepared for the heat waves on the
approaching horizon.
>
> Comparing the climate conditions under which U.S. schools were
built with the projected conditions over the next two decades,
we looked at the vulnerability of all K-12 schools to increasing
temperatures. We determined whether current schools have air
conditioning or not and whether they would be required to add
air conditioning in the future.
>
> The results of our study, “Hotter Days, Higher Costs: The
Cooling Crisis in America’s Classrooms,” show that by 2025, more
than 13,700 schools will need to install air conditioning, and
another 13,500 will need to upgrade their existing systems.
> ...
> the additional costs of operating air conditioning systems to
meet the new demands will exceed .4 billion per year
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Which just leads back to:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/climate-weather-and-climate-effects-2020-and-beyond/msg14871/#msg14871
Which is why nothing will improve until we kill Western
civilization.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 12, 2022, 11:33 am
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Las Vegas slammed with another major flash flood as vehicles
thread through water
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> Two weeks after it was first hit with major flash flooding,
Las Vegas was hit again on Thursday, leaving many vehicles
having to travel through water.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vlE3SP2YU
Kentucky flooding: kayaker describes heroic rooftop rescue |
LiveNOW from FOX
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_fbB9O3Rh8
#Post#: 15217--------------------------------------------------
Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 19, 2022, 11:27 am
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As Heat Waves Worsen, THIS Policy Predicts Where People Will Die
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> With extreme heat waves in Europe, Asia, the United States and
beyond, it’s clear climate change is making summers more
dangerous and deadly. Urban areas are feeling the worst effects;
a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. 2022 saw
high temperatures in Kansas, Spain, Portugal, England
(especially London), and India. But even within cities, the
warming is not distributed evenly. During the Pacific Northwest
heat dome of 2021, the region's most extreme heat wave ever,
this temperature difference reached a staggering 25°F between
neighborhoods in Portland, OR. And new research is illuminating
how a century of racist housing policies known as redlining have
contributed to this often deadly inequality.
>
> The 2022 heat waves are not single events. They are another
data point during years of escalating extreme weather.
Previously, the 2019 European heat wave, the 1980 US heat wave,
1995 Chicago heat wave and many more are part of this trend.
>
> In this episode we are going to dive into this unjust history
of housing discrimination and see what it can teach us about how
to keep cities cooler and save lives. We’ll visit Richmond,
Virginia and Portland, Oregon to understand the problem and
solutions. Innovative solutions are being carried out at the
Science Museum of Virginia and by the Portland organization,
Friends of Trees.
>
> Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and
produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common
natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and
what we can do to prepare.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkTpfLqtSpQ
Hunga Tonga Volcano Update; This Eruption will Warm the Planet,
Not Cool It
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> The destructive eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai which
occurred in January of 2022 was the largest explosive eruption
of the 21st century. New research into the eruption has revealed
something completely surprising; instead of cooling the planet
slightly like other prior large explosive eruptions have, the
eruption instead will warm it. So, why is this the case, and why
is this eruption so unique? This video will answer these
questions and discuss the highly explosive volcanic eruption.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgsNYGkkIAE
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 22, 2022, 3:26 pm
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Crazy flooding in Dallas Texas! Storm with a
one-in-a-thousand-year rainfall record!
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> Dallas Texas: A flooding that occurs once every 1,000 years
slammed the Dallas area. On highways covered in water, cars
float. In just 12 hours, one weather gauge captured about 40% of
Harris County's typical annual rainfall. Flash floods hit the
Dallas-Fort Worth region overnight into Monday, requiring rescue
operations, the whole amount of precipitation would be called a
flood once every 1,000 years in some regions.
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 28, 2022, 5:43 pm
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News Wrap: Residents urged to evacuate at floodwaters rise in
Mississippi
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> In our news wrap Sunday, a major flood threat faces
Mississippi as the Pearl river is expected to crest 8 feet above
flood stage on Sunday. Residents in Jackson have been advised to
evacuate. Plus, Two U.S. warships sailed through international
waters in the Taiwan Strait, and a Mickey Mantle baseball card
set a new record at auction.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoEm0A9rlXs
China to use geoengineering to combat historic drought | DW News
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> China is suffering a severe water shortage after its hottest
and driest summer since the government began recording rainfall
61 years ago.
> Authorities try to protect this year's harvest from intense
drought by using chemicals to generate rain and people are
warned to save 'every unit of water' as a severe drought
continues.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQ4qU8XD3Q
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 30, 2022, 1:24 pm
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Catastrophic flooding devastates Pakistan
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> Flood victims in Pakistan carried belongings they could
salvage from their submerged houses as they wade through a
flooded area in Dera Allah Yar on Aug. 28.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZJCiKNPgug
Pakistan Is Facing ‘Monsoon on Steroids,' UN Says
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> The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal Tuesday for
$160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by
record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,150 people
since mid-June.
>
> U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Pakistan’s
flooding, caused by weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains, were a
signal to the world to step up action against climate change.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdgyjeV8dI
State of emergency has been declared in Mississippi after
developing water crisis
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> Weekend flooding severely damaged a water treatment plant in
the state. This potentially leaves close to 200,000 people
without safe water to drink, to fight fires or even to flush
toilets for the foreseeable future.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Cp9RQOGVE
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest78
Date: September 4, 2022, 5:04 pm
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More than 400 houses were underwater after the storm and flood
in Kastamonu, Turkey
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQVFhut91dY
Apocalypse storm hits Texas! ⚠️ Scariest storm and
strong winds tearing the roofs in Dallas
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmFsysosca4
Georgia Hit With Severe Flooding After Heavy Rainfall
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> Residents in Georgia were hit with severe flooding after heavy
rain overnight. Roads, homes and businesses including the
sheriff’s office were flooded. The area is under flood watch
with more rain expected in the forecast.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Net2_757o
Fire crews continue to battle Northern California wildfires
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> The Mill Fire burning near Weed, California, was 25% contained
Sunday after burning 4,254 acres since Friday, according to Cal
Fire officials.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDuij6YJm4o
Parched: California's Climate Crisis
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> A special report on California's changing climate and the
ongoing drought by CBS stations across the Golden State.
(9-1-22)
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRD1SZ1HWJQ
Record setting heat wave grips the West l GMA
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1YrRRCeCFE
Dust storm hits Arizona
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> The National Weather Service said winds up to 70 mph were
expected as the storm passed through southeastern Arizona.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7hPpHVL5zI
Why You Should Be Worried About This Glacier
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> Known as the ‘Hollywood Glacier,’ Europe’s largest ice cap has
been the picturesque and otherworldly scene of movies and TV
shows for decades. But the real drama lies underneath;
Vatnajökull glacier sits across some of the most active
volcanoes in Iceland.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6A_7KS-eOY
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