I lived in Carlsbad, North SD County for 3 decades before I retired in Thailand 6 years ago. The place was paradise and I truly miss the sunsets. We never had weather like they are experiencing now. Truly saddening......* it's still the best part of SD County.....just sayin'......
My go-to response to the promulgators of client disinformation is the tried-and-true Steve Martin DIY divorce method: In the presence of the individual and reliable witnesses, repeat "I break with thee, I break with thee, I break with thee!", and then toss a pint of dog shit onto their shoes. Even more official if they are barefoot.
I'm really looking forward to hot rain this Sunday and Monday. Now that's going to be a lovely experience. We're a god damned desert and rain is supposed to be cold and infrequent!
The ignorance is astounding to think that western world's Northern lands will somehow become ripe for agriculture once the climate warms. Oh great, more land to colonize. I guess they didn't learn about the Canadian Shield and black flies.
I can't believe there are still climate deniers out there I live in a very ruby red area of upstate NY on Lake ONTARIO and no one denies climate change here! They still use the other stupid arguments though it's too late, it will be too expensive or the best I can't vote for people like that because they'll take my guns. Ridiculous I know but up here that's the excuse for everything the left wants that would be nice but they'll want to take my guns away, nevermind I've been hearing that for 50 years and no one has taken away anyone's guns yet and we live in NY the bluest of blue states!
For some reason San Diegans are complaining about the humidity THIS summer. It's been humid EVERY summer for at least 10 years! There was a time A/C was an afterthought. Now, warm days and cool summer nights are gone forever. Can't live without A/C. East coast no-nothings say, "oh, 72 every day in San Diego." Correct if it was 1959, 1967, 1972, 1984. Not any more. I thought I left this crap behind in the midwest....
I don't run across many climate deniers in south Minneapolis. When I do, I turn the conversation to gardening. And I always make sure to remind gardeners of a certain age about the conventional wisdom of tomato planting at latitude North 45°.
When I was a kid in the '70s, the rule was that tomatoes weren't totally safe outdoors until Memorial Day, and every day after Labor Day was borrowed time. So Minnesota gardeners wanted early varieties, 60-75 days at most.
Now we can plant the first week of May, and are almost certainly safe from frost until mid-to-late September. I've gotten away with planting in late April.
I'll ask if their 100 year old house is having new wet basement and roof issues, like mine. The ice dams that didn't used to be a major problem on house roofs. If the fact that our houses were built to hold in heat is costing them more in air conditioning, when we used to be able to get things pretty tolerable with window fans; as the dew points were a lot lower. If they've noticed the rising overnight lows in winter. The rainstorms in January, between cold snaps.
And I'll ask when was the first time they saw opossums in the neighborhood. It was less than 10 years ago. Or I'll ask if they've noticed the stress and increasing die-off of pine trees.
They do. But it's not climate change, see. It's...well...the climate is changing but it happens all the time. And there's nothing we can do about it because we have to have cars and cars have to run on gasoline.
Oh Brooke, I too remember Portage Glacier when you were within a few feet of it in the parking area. I was stunned when I returned for a visit after years away. Tears were the correct response.
a relative recently treated me to a harangue about how there's no climate warming and the UK isn't even keeping track of it any more, or whatever the hell this was about, i wasn't really paying attention. if anybody knows what he's referring to, i'd be happy to hear because some other day, when i'm up to it, i intend to address this.
Not at all. Your non-comment triggered a memory of, very recently, having read something in The Guardian or on BBC about how it was the hottest summer evvahhh in the UK this year. And across Europe in general.
I live in "Not SoCal" but definitely within the sphere of influence. I'm in the Owens Valley, where Mulholland stole all the water to make Los Angeles bloom. They own most of the land here and all of the water. We get to buy a little water back from them, and rent the land. I 'member the last hurricane whose remnants slammed SoCal, Hilary, in 2023. Being 250 miles north of LA, I'd never seen it rain as hard as it did for over two days straight. I can't imagine how bad it got down below. Good luck, Brooke!
I despair at the lack of scientific knowledge, or even curiosity. As if all our technological marvels just magically appeared on the savannah next to a black monolith, or in a giant head that gave out guns and ammunition to us while we wandered around wearing our hair in braids and girding our loins in bright red nappies. The Greenland ice cores in 1990 pretty much sealed the case for global warming to most scirntists, but scientists also predicted the enegy crisis before 1973. (Isaac Asimov in Boy’s Life, forcryinoutloud, in 1970!) Robert Heilbronner, in Inquiry Into The Human Prospect, also took global warming and climate change due to industrial burning of fossil fuels as a given in 1971. It wasn’t just scientists for Exxon who tried to warn Congress in the late 1980s.
A quote from an SF story by Orson Scott Card (I think): “Why does a man light up a cigarette and smoke it when he knows that in 20 years surgeons will crack his chest and remove his lung? Never mind being in the business of making parachutes. Get into the business of making splints for broken bones after the person has crashed to the ground.”
Line from the Icelandic sagas: “Snorri was the wisest man who had not the gift of foresight.” We do have the gift of foresight, thanks to mathematics and physics, and we can play the game of “What Happens Next?” with Ernie on Sesame Street, but we never want to when it comes to real life, when it means we might have to endure the slightest personal discomfort. I once did phone polls, and was surprised at the vehemence one old lady verbalized about Governor Mark White’s bill requiring seat belts to be worn (which was to get federal grants for highway improvements). Seat belts save lives. So do motorcycle helmets, yet riders complained that helmets “messed up their hair”. (So does brain surgery for skull fractures.) People dislike wearing life jackets when engaging in water sports, although “life jackets” makes clear that it isn’t to inconvenience the wearers, but to save their lives.
So, as HL Mencken said, “Democracy is based on the theory that the people vote for what they want and get what they deserve, good and proper.”
I lived in Carlsbad, North SD County for 3 decades before I retired in Thailand 6 years ago. The place was paradise and I truly miss the sunsets. We never had weather like they are experiencing now. Truly saddening......* it's still the best part of SD County.....just sayin'......
My go-to response to the promulgators of client disinformation is the tried-and-true Steve Martin DIY divorce method: In the presence of the individual and reliable witnesses, repeat "I break with thee, I break with thee, I break with thee!", and then toss a pint of dog shit onto their shoes. Even more official if they are barefoot.
I'm really looking forward to hot rain this Sunday and Monday. Now that's going to be a lovely experience. We're a god damned desert and rain is supposed to be cold and infrequent!
The ignorance is astounding to think that western world's Northern lands will somehow become ripe for agriculture once the climate warms. Oh great, more land to colonize. I guess they didn't learn about the Canadian Shield and black flies.
I knew a guy who claimed the midwest would be like a tropical paradise, growing those crops instead of the current ones.
He, of course, hand-waved away my mention of all the wonderful tropical diseases and pests that come with the paradise.
I usually use argument “fuck you, dumbass” when dealing with Techbro Mike and other climate change deniers.
I can't believe there are still climate deniers out there I live in a very ruby red area of upstate NY on Lake ONTARIO and no one denies climate change here! They still use the other stupid arguments though it's too late, it will be too expensive or the best I can't vote for people like that because they'll take my guns. Ridiculous I know but up here that's the excuse for everything the left wants that would be nice but they'll want to take my guns away, nevermind I've been hearing that for 50 years and no one has taken away anyone's guns yet and we live in NY the bluest of blue states!
We really need a hero with a Sharpie!
There is not going to be a hurricane in SoCal.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep3+shtml/021435.shtml?expIntCone#contents
The best way to avoid climate disinformation is to learn about climate and consult international official sources that reflect a consensus.
For some reason San Diegans are complaining about the humidity THIS summer. It's been humid EVERY summer for at least 10 years! There was a time A/C was an afterthought. Now, warm days and cool summer nights are gone forever. Can't live without A/C. East coast no-nothings say, "oh, 72 every day in San Diego." Correct if it was 1959, 1967, 1972, 1984. Not any more. I thought I left this crap behind in the midwest....
As a fuckwitted, feeble-minded dipshit who can't handle the heat, I don't appreciate this lip from Techbro Mike.
I don't run across many climate deniers in south Minneapolis. When I do, I turn the conversation to gardening. And I always make sure to remind gardeners of a certain age about the conventional wisdom of tomato planting at latitude North 45°.
When I was a kid in the '70s, the rule was that tomatoes weren't totally safe outdoors until Memorial Day, and every day after Labor Day was borrowed time. So Minnesota gardeners wanted early varieties, 60-75 days at most.
Now we can plant the first week of May, and are almost certainly safe from frost until mid-to-late September. I've gotten away with planting in late April.
I'll ask if their 100 year old house is having new wet basement and roof issues, like mine. The ice dams that didn't used to be a major problem on house roofs. If the fact that our houses were built to hold in heat is costing them more in air conditioning, when we used to be able to get things pretty tolerable with window fans; as the dew points were a lot lower. If they've noticed the rising overnight lows in winter. The rainstorms in January, between cold snaps.
And I'll ask when was the first time they saw opossums in the neighborhood. It was less than 10 years ago. Or I'll ask if they've noticed the stress and increasing die-off of pine trees.
They do. But it's not climate change, see. It's...well...the climate is changing but it happens all the time. And there's nothing we can do about it because we have to have cars and cars have to run on gasoline.
Oh Brooke, I too remember Portage Glacier when you were within a few feet of it in the parking area. I was stunned when I returned for a visit after years away. Tears were the correct response.
a relative recently treated me to a harangue about how there's no climate warming and the UK isn't even keeping track of it any more, or whatever the hell this was about, i wasn't really paying attention. if anybody knows what he's referring to, i'd be happy to hear because some other day, when i'm up to it, i intend to address this.
Uh...a simple web search popped up this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_Kingdom_heatwaves
The heat in the UK this summer has its own damn Wikipedia page, that's how nonexistent it is.
The heat, and associated deaths, are record-setting. And they're worried about another heatwave next week.
thank you, swmnguy, for doing the work i should have done.
Maybe he meant the University of Kentucky.
Not at all. Your non-comment triggered a memory of, very recently, having read something in The Guardian or on BBC about how it was the hottest summer evvahhh in the UK this year. And across Europe in general.
Somebody over there is still keeping track.
“Yes, climate change is real, but it’s too late to do anything about it now.”
“We made sure of that by ignoring it, burying it, and calling you commies”
For 30+ years.
“Yes, climate change is real, but it’s too late to do anything about it now.”
"Well, we're all gonna die too, so why are you still wasting oxygen?"
Yes, I'm too old and tired to give a fuck about climate assholes's feelings.
I live in "Not SoCal" but definitely within the sphere of influence. I'm in the Owens Valley, where Mulholland stole all the water to make Los Angeles bloom. They own most of the land here and all of the water. We get to buy a little water back from them, and rent the land. I 'member the last hurricane whose remnants slammed SoCal, Hilary, in 2023. Being 250 miles north of LA, I'd never seen it rain as hard as it did for over two days straight. I can't imagine how bad it got down below. Good luck, Brooke!
I despair at the lack of scientific knowledge, or even curiosity. As if all our technological marvels just magically appeared on the savannah next to a black monolith, or in a giant head that gave out guns and ammunition to us while we wandered around wearing our hair in braids and girding our loins in bright red nappies. The Greenland ice cores in 1990 pretty much sealed the case for global warming to most scirntists, but scientists also predicted the enegy crisis before 1973. (Isaac Asimov in Boy’s Life, forcryinoutloud, in 1970!) Robert Heilbronner, in Inquiry Into The Human Prospect, also took global warming and climate change due to industrial burning of fossil fuels as a given in 1971. It wasn’t just scientists for Exxon who tried to warn Congress in the late 1980s.
A quote from an SF story by Orson Scott Card (I think): “Why does a man light up a cigarette and smoke it when he knows that in 20 years surgeons will crack his chest and remove his lung? Never mind being in the business of making parachutes. Get into the business of making splints for broken bones after the person has crashed to the ground.”
Line from the Icelandic sagas: “Snorri was the wisest man who had not the gift of foresight.” We do have the gift of foresight, thanks to mathematics and physics, and we can play the game of “What Happens Next?” with Ernie on Sesame Street, but we never want to when it comes to real life, when it means we might have to endure the slightest personal discomfort. I once did phone polls, and was surprised at the vehemence one old lady verbalized about Governor Mark White’s bill requiring seat belts to be worn (which was to get federal grants for highway improvements). Seat belts save lives. So do motorcycle helmets, yet riders complained that helmets “messed up their hair”. (So does brain surgery for skull fractures.) People dislike wearing life jackets when engaging in water sports, although “life jackets” makes clear that it isn’t to inconvenience the wearers, but to save their lives.
So, as HL Mencken said, “Democracy is based on the theory that the people vote for what they want and get what they deserve, good and proper.”