an even more frightening perspective
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CrimsonNBlue
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OK, if I'm going to be completely selfish, I am loving this 70 degrees in KC on December 2 and I will likely be dead before paying the consequences for it.
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bizarre-o world
heard this morning that this is the latest in recorded history that Denver has gone without snow
heard this morning that this is the latest in recorded history that Denver has gone without snow
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CrimsonNBlue
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My goal every year is to not turn on the heat until Thanksgiving. We live in a big rectangle loft that is just concrete, brick and windows, so I usually don't make it all the way through (and she runs outrageously cold). I don't anticipate having to turn the heat on for at least 2 more weeks.
Re: an even more frightening perspective
Heard some story on the radio this morning about how western wildfire season is 2 and a half months longer than it used to be. Then smelled smoke today, assumed it was somebody’s fireplace and didn’t even imagine. Freaky this shit is happening in December.
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What will the ski industry look like in 50 years? Study paints bleak forecast for Western snowpacks
https://www.deseret.com/platform/amp/ut ... ate-change
… Published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, the paper compiles findings from a number of other studies and climate models that portray different warming scenarios to forecast when snowpacks around the West could start to decline. The paper also details past winters to provide an overview of current snowpack trends.
“One important takeaway from this is maybe not all of these studies agree on when the low-to-no-snow future is going to happen, but all of them agree that it’s likely and that it’s really not that far into the future,” said McKenzie Stiles, assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Geology Department...
https://www.deseret.com/platform/amp/ut ... ate-change
… Published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, the paper compiles findings from a number of other studies and climate models that portray different warming scenarios to forecast when snowpacks around the West could start to decline. The paper also details past winters to provide an overview of current snowpack trends.
“One important takeaway from this is maybe not all of these studies agree on when the low-to-no-snow future is going to happen, but all of them agree that it’s likely and that it’s really not that far into the future,” said McKenzie Stiles, assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Geology Department...
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Just got an emergency on my phone to expect power and gas outages in my county cuz of the fire in Boulder county
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KUTradition
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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1.5-4 billion years ago earth was possibly almost completely covered in water.KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:08 pm nbd
https://www.sciencealert.com/what-antar ... -world/amp
We are speeding up the cycle we are in it seems.
https://www.livescience.com/waterworld-earth.html
https://earthsky.org/earth/ancient-eart ... n-harvard/
https://www.science.org/content/article ... ater-world
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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KUTradition
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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i sure hope dolomite is right (and all the science is wrong)
https://politico.com/news/2022/02/15/se ... s-00008944
https://politico.com/news/2022/02/15/se ... s-00008944
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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UN Secretary General on the new IPCC report:
…[an] atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership…
…[an] atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership…
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?