Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.
The rain at a research station â not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several hours, as temperatures rose slightly above freezing â is yet another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on the planet.
âItâs incredible, because it does write a new chapter in the book of Greenland,â said Marco Tedesco, a researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. âThis is really new.â
At the station, which is called Summit and is occupied year-round under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, there is no record of rain since observations began in the 1980s. And computer simulations show no evidence going back even further, said Thomas Mote, a climate scientist at the University of Georgia. (...)
A monitoring station on the Italian island of Sicily reached a scorching temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius, or 119.84 degrees Fahrenheit, on Wednesday. If verified by the World Meteorological Organization, it would mark the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe, topping the previous record of 48 degrees set in Athens in July 1977.
Though long accustomed to the summer heat, Sicilians donât need an official record to tell them that this season has been particularly oppressive.
âI have no memory of such an unbearable heat,â said Francesco Italia, the mayor of the ancient city of Syracuse, near where the station recorded the potential heat record, in a phone interview. âIt is so humid that you just canât be outside after a certain hour.â
Elsewhere around the Mediterranean, after 10 days of battling blazes across the country, firefighters in Greece managed to contain most of them on Thursday, although a thunderstorm was a mixed blessing: The rain doused some of the smoldering fires, but lightning sparked new ones.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece said radical changes were required to prevent and respond to the âmegafiresâ that have raged in many parts of Europe this summer amid record-breaking heat waves. âThe climate crisis is here,â Mr. Mitsotakis told reporters, adding that âeverything needs to change,â citing energy policy and the way people treat the environment.
my grandfather bought a 2 Ha block on a stony windswept beach north of Wellington. It was just sand, tussock grass and lupins when he got it. Put up a wind belt, erected a windmill that powered an artesian bore that fed a water tank on the top of the biggest dune. Then installed a gravity fed irrigation system. It was awesome. He fed the entire extended family. In the end he had two steers, pigs, chickens, a goat called Arnold. We went down every second week to work on it. Still guts me that we couldn't keep it in the family when he died.
Leviticus 19:28 - Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.
So that is why there are no scarrings or tattoo marks on my body? I always thought it went something like this: "You can take the boy out of the Lutheran Church. But you cannot take the Lutheran out of the boy."
Truth. I avoided tattoos because I am a wimp, don't like pain and more to the point am not fond of drawing attention to myself from public security forces, not fond of attention from territorial bangers, but I am fond of going into any traditional community or modern sub-culture and engaging. Positively.
It is a common human tray. Nothing special. The fact that you point fingers at North Americans seems to be showing the same. An age-old saying goes, "When you point your index-finger at someone, the majority of your fingers is pointing back at you."
I love referencing the Bible because North Americans like to pump themselves up as 'moral' and 'decent'.
It is a common human tray. Nothing special. The fact that you point fingers at North Americans seems to be showing the same. An age-old saying goes, "When you point your index-finger at someone, the majority of your fingers is pointing back at you."
I wonder what the Christian Deity (or Deities, depending) think of all this. Is there not a passage or two in the bible that warns against trashing the temple of the soul?
That depends on one's tribal/ideological interpretation.
That might be easier than challenging the cheap energy entitlement in places like the USA (and many others).
Climate change will help. Flooding, coastal storms, extreme heat and cold all have wonderful potential to kill and kill again.
Thanks to world-beating US obesity-sitting-dementia policies â don't worry, Canadians love them too â more Americans in bad health will die in the future from what should be otherwise survivable shocks to weather.
I wonder what the Christian Deity (or Deities, depending) think of all this. Is there not a passage or two in the bible that warns against trashing the temple of the soul?
Sure is... - I got trashed before, citing the Bible, as "expecting to be taken serious".
That might easier than challenging the cheap energy entitlement in places like the USA (and many others).
Climate change will help. Flooding, coastal storms, extreme heat and cold all have wonderful potential to kill and kill again.
Thanks to world-beating US obesity-sitting-dementia policies — don't worry, Canadians love them too — more Americans in bad health will die in the future from what should be otherwise survivable shocks to weather.
I wonder what the Christian Deity (or Deities, depending) think of all this. Is there not a passage or two in the bible that warns against trashing the temple of the soul?
Also from my unsourced source way farther down is this little tid bit ... . Physiologically speaking, the existence of people and our livestock is removing carbon from the atmosphere, albeit at an incredibly slow rate.
That shoots down the whole cow thing, which is foundation to so many arguments against raising cows as a food source, eh ? Turns out the opposite is true, like so many of the canned climate change fear mongering "facts" y'all like to use.
you still think funny. There is a critical distinction between methane and CO2.
So what about the CO² emissions from humans ? The average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day. ... Take this number and multiply by a population of 7 billion people, breathing away for 365.25 days per year, and you get an annual CO2 output of 2.94 billion tons. Time to reduce the human population, too ?
Also from my unsourced source way farther down is this little tid bit ... . Physiologically speaking, the existence of people and our livestock is removing carbon from the atmosphere, albeit at an incredibly slow rate.
That shoots down the whole cow thing, which is foundation to so many arguments against raising cows as a food source, eh ? Turns out the opposite is true, like so many of the canned climate change fear mongering "facts" y'all like to use.
The average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day. ... Take this number and multiply by a population of 7 billion people, breathing away for 365.25 days per year, and you get an annual CO2 output of 2.94 billion tons.
Time to reduce the human population, too ?
Do you think the number of people on this planet is: A. Too few B. Just right C. Too many
The average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day. ... Take this number and multiply by a population of 7 billion people, breathing away for 365.25 days per year, and you get an annual CO2 output of 2.94 billion tons.
Time to reduce the human population, too ?
Do you think the number of people on this planet is: A. Too few B. Just right C. Too many
