Global Heat: Britain longest heatwave in 42 years, deadly heat in Japan and Arctic
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Go geothermal. Ground source. The mean temp of the Earth is 55F. Pull heat out in the winter. Pull cool out in the summer. Way lower bills. Way fewer parts.
Next house.
Buddy of mine heats his garage with vintage cars that way. 300 gallon plastic tank buried in the floor filled with ethylene glycol and a pump with pipes running through the floor. He did a similar deal with a middle school renovation that he was the project manager on. Front steps and sidewalk are heated and bingo, no salt tracked into the school.
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That sounds like radiant heat. Radiant is used in a lot of commercial applications for the reasons you stated. Works well in residential as well. Geo is replacing the heat pump outside with buried coils and circulating the refrigerant through the coils instead of the compressor. Inside its forced air just like any heat pump. But you're only running one motor, so it's efficient and cheap.
Our next house, Lord willing is radiant and geo. Perfect for keeping the ancients warm and toasty.
W. Bush's house vs. Al Gore's house, from noted left-wing website Snopes no less:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tale-two-houses/
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I've said it a hundred times
A Warm Wet Green Earth is a happy Earth
Cold Ice is Death
We are still coming out of the last Ice Age a mere 10,000 years ago, STILL in the interglacial warming period
When the ice advances again it will scrape all of Canada down to bedrock, again
I think the baby seal pup killers should be burning stacks of car tires to keep the warming going as long as possibe
A Warm Wet Green Earth is a happy Earth
Cold Ice is Death
We are still coming out of the last Ice Age a mere 10,000 years ago, STILL in the interglacial warming period
When the ice advances again it will scrape all of Canada down to bedrock, again
I think the baby seal pup killers should be burning stacks of car tires to keep the warming going as long as possibe
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I send my boys outside with aerosol sprays every day.
You all need to put more CFCs back in them cans.
That ozone hole warmed up the north.
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You all need to put more CFCs back in them cans.
That ozone hole warmed up the north.
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There's only one way to save the planet now
KILL WHITEY!
White people’s diets are killing the environment
Caucasian populations are disproportionately contributing to climate change through their eating habits, which uses up more food — and emits more greenhouse gases — than the typical diets of black and Latinx communities, according to a new report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Researchers tracked information from multiple databases to identify foods considered “environmentally intense” by requiring more precious resources such as water, land and energy to produce — and, as a result, releasing more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide through production and distribution.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/white-peoples-diets-are-killing-the-environment-study/
KILL WHITEY!
White people’s diets are killing the environment
Caucasian populations are disproportionately contributing to climate change through their eating habits, which uses up more food — and emits more greenhouse gases — than the typical diets of black and Latinx communities, according to a new report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Researchers tracked information from multiple databases to identify foods considered “environmentally intense” by requiring more precious resources such as water, land and energy to produce — and, as a result, releasing more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide through production and distribution.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/white-peoples-diets-are-killing-the-environment-study/
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There is an insensitive joke in there somewhere.
Western PA has had exceedingly few days over 90* in the last four years. Ain't no global warming here.
What will they think of next? The idiots need to back off because they've jumped the shark.
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When I was a kid whenever it hit 90 it was an automatic go to the pool day. Wasn't that often, was an event. Must have been some global cooling going on in PGH around 40-50 years ago too.
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The truth is we (the U.S.) are headed in such a good direction with energy and cost but the media and liberals are so hell-bent on playing Chicken Little no one knows about it.
Natural Gas is producing very clean electricity. Solar technology in some of the most energy-stressed areas (like California, the southwest and florida) is making a difference and coming down in cost. Geothermal and milder winters is making heat pump systems more efficient.
Truthfully, if we eliminate just some of the fringe issues (actually invest in new power plants, reduce the regulation burden to build them, take out of commission older plants), the U.S. can be a very reasonable energy producer and not effect the global CO2 issue much at all over the next 100 years. No need to eliminate "all of it". The planet and our hemisphere can easily handle what is being pumped out.
I look around at what is being accomplished and how reasonable regulation and capitalistic market forces are changing the energy sector and all I see are pretty good things. The constant attacks on the technology advances by fringe (but loud) voices are just stupid.
Natural Gas is producing very clean electricity. Solar technology in some of the most energy-stressed areas (like California, the southwest and florida) is making a difference and coming down in cost. Geothermal and milder winters is making heat pump systems more efficient.
Truthfully, if we eliminate just some of the fringe issues (actually invest in new power plants, reduce the regulation burden to build them, take out of commission older plants), the U.S. can be a very reasonable energy producer and not effect the global CO2 issue much at all over the next 100 years. No need to eliminate "all of it". The planet and our hemisphere can easily handle what is being pumped out.
I look around at what is being accomplished and how reasonable regulation and capitalistic market forces are changing the energy sector and all I see are pretty good things. The constant attacks on the technology advances by fringe (but loud) voices are just stupid.
Green New Deal advocates...........
Reporter - "Does the GND go too far"
Bernie - "No, you cannot go too far on climate change"
Voted - PRESENT
Amy Klobuchar - "I would see it as a jump start, so I would vote yes"
Voted - PRESENT
Elizabeth Warren - "Green new deal, I'm in all the way"
Voted - PRESENT
Ed Markey (co-sponsor of the bill) - "What do we want"
Crowd - "Green New Deal"
Ed Markey - "When do we want it"
Crowd - "Now"
Voted - PRESENT
Reporter - "Does the GND go too far"
Bernie - "No, you cannot go too far on climate change"
Voted - PRESENT
Amy Klobuchar - "I would see it as a jump start, so I would vote yes"
Voted - PRESENT
Elizabeth Warren - "Green new deal, I'm in all the way"
Voted - PRESENT
Ed Markey (co-sponsor of the bill) - "What do we want"
Crowd - "Green New Deal"
Ed Markey - "When do we want it"
Crowd - "Now"
Voted - PRESENT
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NATIONAL PARK REMOVED WARNING GLACIERS ‘WILL ALL BE GONE’ BY 2020 AFTER YEARS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL
Funny. This national park actually had signs like this.
Not surprisingly, they are not just removing them, they are replacing them -
So, in spite of being ridiculously wrong again, they cling to their premise. Nice science. Trump should just shut down anything like that at national parks.
Funny. This national park actually had signs like this.
Not surprisingly, they are not just removing them, they are replacing them -
So, in spite of being ridiculously wrong again, they cling to their premise. Nice science. Trump should just shut down anything like that at national parks.
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With that glacier sign, the good news is all they have to do is use a little whiteout on the year and change it. The issue is that they need to use a new year that isn't to near in the future because they know they'll just have to change it again but it has to be soon enough to keep people scared and voting properly. Such a dilemma.
I'll just drop this here, as it's somewhat related...feel bad for this dude.
A TV meteorologist who objected on air to management’s ‘code red’ orders might be out of a job
By Matthew Cappucci
Washington Post
Joe Crain has been a meteorologist at WICS NewsChannel 20 in Springfield, Illinois, for 15 years. He holds a degree in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State. He’s a go-to source for severe weather coverage and is widely trusted by viewers.
And Monday, he might not have a job to return to.
The reason? Crain criticized Sinclair Broadcast Group’s initiative to implement mandatory “code red” days in their affiliates’ forecasts. Meteorologists at local stations under Sinclair’s auspices are encouraged – or at times, forced – into declaring code red days, the decision often made by management. And during Wednesday morning’s broadcast, Crain had had enough.
“Code red was created by likely a journalism school graduate,” said Crain as the live cameras rolled. “A lot of people not happy with this since we’ve implemented it. That’s evident by the thousands of comments on social media, letters to the editor, and frequent calls to local talk radio shows.”
Last week, a letter to the editor appeared in Springfield’s State-Journal Register, in which viewer Victoria Edwards complained she is “sick to death” of code red days.
“It would appear any cloud in the sky will warrant a ‘code red,’” wrote Edwards, arguing that the constant bombardment of code red days desensitizes the viewer – “like the boy who cried wolf. It makes the viewers skeptical of anything the weather people say.”
Crain alluded to that effect in his since-viral forecast Wednesday, expressing sympathy for viewers fed up with the corporate-imposed hype.
“As far as the code red name itself, we get that, too,” Crain said. “When you hear ‘code red,’ you think ‘the feces is about to hit the fan.’” That all culminated into an apology he offered to the viewers.
“I take my job seriously and my responsibility to the public,” lamented Crain, clearly upset that code red days have taken a toll on the credibility he spent a decade and a half earning from viewers. “We want you to know it’s not us. This is a corporate initiative. Behind the scenes, many of us have tried to dissuade it for the past several months.”
Crain’s segment concluded on a slightly more hopeful note, urging viewers to double down on their efforts.
“Despite the fact that this facility is owned by a corporation … it’s still licensed to serve the public. You still have a voice. Keep those cards and letters coming.” Crain was not seen delivering the weather on-air Thursday morning, and his bio has since been removed from the company website.
Management at WICS wasn’t immediately available for statement. The newsroom couldn’t verify whether Crain remains employed, stating they were “unable to comment on personnel matters.”
Thousands have taken to social media to express their support for Crain. Some have pledged to boycott the station, while others are urging local advertisers to pull their ads.
It’s not just viewers who have Crain’s back. Meteorologists across the country are outraged.
“Let meteorologists do their job,” said Erik Dean, chief meteorologist at K2TV in Casper, Wyoming. “Management needs to stay out of it. That’s what they have meteorologists for.”
Crain’s not alone in fighting pushback from management. Dean has run into similar issues in the past.
“I had a news director years ago that would want us to blow it up for three or four snowflakes.” Dean said he now works with a news director who he “loves to death.” He was tasked with writing his own criteria for what constitutes an alert or impact day, and declaring one is his discretion – not management’s.
“I just update them at the 2 p.m. news meeting if we’ve got something going on. Otherwise, it’s up to the meteorologists. That’s how it should be.” After all, that’s what meteorologists go to school for.
Other meteorologist aren’t a fan of proprietary alert days to begin with, expressing reticence toward alerts that don’t originate from the National Weather Service.
“To me, the best option is communicating the risks issued by the Storm Prediction Center,” wrote Kit Cloninger, weekend meteorologist at KSNB in Hastings, Neb. “It’s simple, and consistency is key with broadcasting. Otherwise, viewers may wonder why one station issued an ‘alert day’ while another one didn’t.”
Jamie Moker, a University of Arizona researcher working on improving weather modeling, agrees.
“Branding is not universal across all stations,” he wrote. After all, the National Weather Service already has more than 100 types of weather alerts it can issue. Moker argued the solution isn’t for stations to create more alerts, but to work on communicating existing ones.
“The National Weather Service’s mission is to protect life and property,” he wrote. “The Sinclair code red is to grab attention from viewers, which gets them more money.”
Moker says he’d be more open to code red days if Sinclair was to share what their thresholds are, but he said he doubts that will happen. “A lot of those indices are proprietary, so scientists like us cannot scrutinize and evaluate their performance.”
A TV meteorologist who objected on air to management’s ‘code red’ orders might be out of a job
By Matthew Cappucci
Washington Post
Joe Crain has been a meteorologist at WICS NewsChannel 20 in Springfield, Illinois, for 15 years. He holds a degree in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State. He’s a go-to source for severe weather coverage and is widely trusted by viewers.
And Monday, he might not have a job to return to.
The reason? Crain criticized Sinclair Broadcast Group’s initiative to implement mandatory “code red” days in their affiliates’ forecasts. Meteorologists at local stations under Sinclair’s auspices are encouraged – or at times, forced – into declaring code red days, the decision often made by management. And during Wednesday morning’s broadcast, Crain had had enough.
“Code red was created by likely a journalism school graduate,” said Crain as the live cameras rolled. “A lot of people not happy with this since we’ve implemented it. That’s evident by the thousands of comments on social media, letters to the editor, and frequent calls to local talk radio shows.”
Last week, a letter to the editor appeared in Springfield’s State-Journal Register, in which viewer Victoria Edwards complained she is “sick to death” of code red days.
“It would appear any cloud in the sky will warrant a ‘code red,’” wrote Edwards, arguing that the constant bombardment of code red days desensitizes the viewer – “like the boy who cried wolf. It makes the viewers skeptical of anything the weather people say.”
Crain alluded to that effect in his since-viral forecast Wednesday, expressing sympathy for viewers fed up with the corporate-imposed hype.
“As far as the code red name itself, we get that, too,” Crain said. “When you hear ‘code red,’ you think ‘the feces is about to hit the fan.’” That all culminated into an apology he offered to the viewers.
“I take my job seriously and my responsibility to the public,” lamented Crain, clearly upset that code red days have taken a toll on the credibility he spent a decade and a half earning from viewers. “We want you to know it’s not us. This is a corporate initiative. Behind the scenes, many of us have tried to dissuade it for the past several months.”
Crain’s segment concluded on a slightly more hopeful note, urging viewers to double down on their efforts.
“Despite the fact that this facility is owned by a corporation … it’s still licensed to serve the public. You still have a voice. Keep those cards and letters coming.” Crain was not seen delivering the weather on-air Thursday morning, and his bio has since been removed from the company website.
Management at WICS wasn’t immediately available for statement. The newsroom couldn’t verify whether Crain remains employed, stating they were “unable to comment on personnel matters.”
Thousands have taken to social media to express their support for Crain. Some have pledged to boycott the station, while others are urging local advertisers to pull their ads.
It’s not just viewers who have Crain’s back. Meteorologists across the country are outraged.
“Let meteorologists do their job,” said Erik Dean, chief meteorologist at K2TV in Casper, Wyoming. “Management needs to stay out of it. That’s what they have meteorologists for.”
Crain’s not alone in fighting pushback from management. Dean has run into similar issues in the past.
“I had a news director years ago that would want us to blow it up for three or four snowflakes.” Dean said he now works with a news director who he “loves to death.” He was tasked with writing his own criteria for what constitutes an alert or impact day, and declaring one is his discretion – not management’s.
“I just update them at the 2 p.m. news meeting if we’ve got something going on. Otherwise, it’s up to the meteorologists. That’s how it should be.” After all, that’s what meteorologists go to school for.
Other meteorologist aren’t a fan of proprietary alert days to begin with, expressing reticence toward alerts that don’t originate from the National Weather Service.
“To me, the best option is communicating the risks issued by the Storm Prediction Center,” wrote Kit Cloninger, weekend meteorologist at KSNB in Hastings, Neb. “It’s simple, and consistency is key with broadcasting. Otherwise, viewers may wonder why one station issued an ‘alert day’ while another one didn’t.”
Jamie Moker, a University of Arizona researcher working on improving weather modeling, agrees.
“Branding is not universal across all stations,” he wrote. After all, the National Weather Service already has more than 100 types of weather alerts it can issue. Moker argued the solution isn’t for stations to create more alerts, but to work on communicating existing ones.
“The National Weather Service’s mission is to protect life and property,” he wrote. “The Sinclair code red is to grab attention from viewers, which gets them more money.”
Moker says he’d be more open to code red days if Sinclair was to share what their thresholds are, but he said he doubts that will happen. “A lot of those indices are proprietary, so scientists like us cannot scrutinize and evaluate their performance.”
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A good rule of thumb is that any issue that you need to use scare tactics to get people involved in, isn't as big a deal as you're making it out to be. Otherwise, fear mongering wouldn't even be necessary.....people would care naturally because the severity would be self evident.
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NATIONAL PARK REMOVED WARNING GLACIERS ‘WILL ALL BE GONE’ BY 2020 AFTER YEARS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL
Funny. This national park actually had signs like this.
Not surprisingly, they are not just removing them, they are replacing them -
So, in spite of being ridiculously wrong again, they cling to their premise. Nice science. Trump should just shut down anything like that at national parks.
Seems crazy the glaciers reached their peak AT THE END OF THE LITTLE ICE AGE!!!
It snowed 10 days ago in Flagstaff, yesterday it was close to 80 degrees, I think that means something.
The climate changed so rapidly, scary!
The climate changed so rapidly, scary!
You don’t get it... us unintelligent serfs cannot grasp the intricacies of the science that proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt and we are stupid for questioning science, which is absolute and never changes... unless of course that science disagrees with their agendas desired results, in which case it’s heresy that must be shouted down and punished.... in ten more years the first church of climate change will open its gates... salvation to all who sacrifice their electricity, cars, and wealth to the greater good... aka the rich people who aren’t going to give up anything....
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Also remember that "Summer is Sexist" according to a recent OP-ED piece is USA Today.
So by this logic, global warming is sexist....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ikini-body-hair-moms-camp-assault/1290427001/
So by this logic, global warming is sexist....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ikini-body-hair-moms-camp-assault/1290427001/
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Snowed in my area the end of May. Central AZ. Late May. Snowed.