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Thatsit Fortheotherwon's avatar

Totally agree. I will say it was comfortable, particularly on the roads of the old E Germany. But I honestly sold it before the warranty ran out.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. Once we retire, we're renovating the pied-à-nuage; we've already chosen our architect. We'll be looking into both solar and wind. The heat pump was a brilliant investment, and we look forward to the day when our place is carbon-neutral.

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Lois B's avatar

Climate Change is real.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

THE GREATNESS CHECKLIST

No Satellites, No weather reports, No Climate Change ✅

No NPR, No awareness of MAGAFEASANCE ✅

No PBS, No awareness of MAGAFEASANCE ✅

No Medicaid, No Illness ✅

No Windmills, No Windmill Noise Cancer ✅

No Vaccines, No Pandemics ✅

No Courts, No Crime ✅

No Bridges, No Rivers ✅

No DOE, No Tests, No Grades ✅

No Epstein List, No Problem ✅

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HoldOnOldChap's avatar

Are climate deniers compostable? Just asking.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Looks like putting your head in the sand means you'll drown.

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bcb's avatar

Herodotus described Xerxes striking a river for inconveniencing him.

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marydn's avatar

This article is from April but showed up in my feed last night. Living in AZ means having air conditioning or you don't live. But there is an ecological cost so good news coming out of Slovinia.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-clean-cooling-tech-replace-toxic-refrigerants-metals

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Nemo's avatar
Jul 16Edited

Word salad. Pant shitting. Stumbling. Raging. Confused. Farting.

Gramps has lost it. He needs to stroke out.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Still doing my part, even though I can't know how much electricity I'm generating and/or selling back to the grid.

I bought Sunpower back in 2020, and through the magic of strategic bankruptcy, the vulture capitalists picked the bones of the carcass and rid themselves of legacy costs like pensions and system monitoring for customers, which was baked into the price we paid. Now they want to sell monitoring on a subscription basis, partially negating the cost savings we front-loaded already.

Fuck capitalism.

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Whale Chowder's avatar

The enshittification of the retail green energy sector was inevitable. I just hope solutions can be found for people like you caught in the undertow.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

I’m getting used to not obsessing over it. I used to check the monitoring app on my phone as frequently as I checked my texts. Now I get a monthly synopsis. I do miss the more granular hourly readings, but not enough to pay $10 a month for it.

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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

In Crom's name, an outstanding piece, Lord Dok of Zoom! Cromulent & Cromtastic. 👏🏼 Keep up the good works, ya handsome sexy "bastard" <—irony quotes😉

Fuck Shitty Hitler, fuck DOGE, fuck the NOAA and NWS cuts, fuck the Fourth Reich...and godz save the King (that UK stuff was heartbreaking; been an Anglophile since Monty Python, Dave Allen* and Benny Hill helped raise me on the telly as a child in backwater Punxsutawney, Pennsyltucky)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXenjpefNU 😂😂😂

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Bradthe🤖's avatar

“A farmer in Cornwall, Kate Hoare, told the BBC that her dairy cows have been unable to produce much milk as a result, saying, “A cow's ideal temperature is about 5C [41F], we've been up to 33C [91F], it's insane.”

Ummm, if those numbers were true, why do America dairy farmers have cows in places where the temperature is routinely hotter than 91F? Like all over the Central Valley and parts of the high desert in California?

https://www.californiadairies.com/about/history/

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Regret's avatar

I don't think you should take a random farmer's asspull numbers as globally applicable truth, but if you're interested, research it and post your conclusions and sources here.

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

Different breeds of coo, maybe?

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Central Valley has (well, had) a moderate climate on average. That's why it's up there with NY, VT, and WI as a center of dairy production (and the Gulf Coast is not.)

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

There used to be two huge dairy farms very close to Death Valley. The feed lots were all outdoors, only the milking parlors were in barns. Summer temps are routinely +/- 120F.

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Rad's avatar

Congratulations on getting an EV! I migrated one of our two vehicles over to an EV last November; I bought a Rivian R1T with the larger battery pack. I love it; perhaps one of the finest vehicles I have ever owned! We're metaphorically kicking the tires on upgrading our second vehicle before the tax incentives evaporate.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

Our Ioniq 5 is outstanding.

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Rad's avatar

We got to see one up close and personal at the New York auto show this past Spring. We were impressed with it! We have an aging Nissan Rogue that we are looking to upgrade to an EV; hopefully sooner than later.

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Erin's avatar

Our county in Pennsylvania had 3x the normal amount of rain last week compared to other years. We've been stuck at over 95% humidity for days on end. Pennsylvania is not meant to have a tropical climate, but here we are. At least we'll be able to trade the oak in the front yard for a palm tree.

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Caepan's avatar

Recently it seems that every evening while I'm watching TV that there are flood/flash flood/severe thunderstorms watches/warnings over the south central part of PA where I (mostly) live. I had to mow my sopping wet lawn yesterday at 8 pm because it was the first sunny-ish day we had in weeks, and if I didn't do it then, I'd have to wait another week or more to do it.

Those nightly weather alerts really take all the laughs out of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴. Or so I assume that's why there are no laughs to be had there.

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Peter Fotopoulos's avatar

Nothing will be done in time to avert catastrophic global warming and its attendant calamities of mass species extinction, severe droughts, global crop failures, famine, tropical disease migration, extreme weather events, coastal flooding, massive wildfires, societal disruption, and armed conflicts over resources.

Nothing. Just watch.

We'll have COP30, COP31, COP32, and multitudinous other climate summits ad nauseum, but greenhouse gas levels will continue to increase, along with temperatures.

And while there is a rapidly diminishing window of time in which humans could stop — or even slow significantly — the accelerating increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, it should be obvious to anyone by now that the window will slam shut before anything is done other than useless talking and worthless promises to take bold action sometime in the future.

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

The climate scientists and clean energy voices I trust most — Michael Mann, Jesse Jenkins, Katherine Hayhoe, and mere journalists like David Roberts and Bill McKibben, plus many others — aren't saying it's over, and agree that action now can still avoid the worst possible outcomes.

Not that we can restore the climate to where it was in the '80s and '90s when scientists really started waving around canaries that had chirped and keeled over; that's long past. Everyone knows it's bad now and getting worse. But every ton of carbon *not* added to the atmosphere will still have an impact on the future. Proclaiming we're doomed is little different from climate denialism, and may even be more dangerous, since it may seem more credible to people who might otherwise fight for decarbonization.

These folks are not Pollyannas or whistling past the graveyard by any means, and none of them say it'll be easy. Nor are they offering false hope so we won't panic. They are pointing at the remarkable progress the world is finally making in turning this fucking supertanker by a few degrees, and urging us all to keep at it. When they say it's over, then yeah, I'll give up.

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Erin's avatar

So... what then? Party till the world collapses? If we can't fix it, might as well enjoy it while we can, right?

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Regret's avatar

Climate change is not binary. There is no such thing as "over". Things will just get progressively worse. If you get a tornado destroying your house every 20 years, there is an near-infinite amount of possible frequences from 1tornado per 19 years all the way down to 1 tornado per nanosecond.

Likewise droughts, floods, firestorms, cold snaps, etc. etc. etc. It can always get worse.

So no, don't party until the world collapses, because your liver will fail before the world does. You should take action. Stop setting the city on fire, the earlier we do that, the more buildings will be left standing, but even when we're all in the last tent, we should still fight to protect our last tent.

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Erin's avatar

I forgot my sarcasm tag. I'm fed up with doomerism and got snarky.

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Peter Fotopoulos's avatar

I'm 70. I could live until next week, or until I'm 92, as Mom was when she entered the afterlife. I don't care anymore, because there is literally nothing that will be done to stop homo sapiens from destroying its habitat, whether by creating destructive climate change or conducting all-out nuclear war.

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abbienormal's avatar

I just finished watching an S&P Global webinar on sustainability and finance. The speaker from the World Bank mentioned the cattle problem in the UK. Apparently the farmers are using industrial fans to cool the cows.

The speaker from the Bank of England said that we may see a dip in US interest rates by year end but that will be temporary. The rate of physical damage caused by climate change is accelerating faster than was predicted. "50 year" events are now becoming "5 year" events and may soon become "3 year" events. This is very expensive globally and the Bank predicts that global interest rates will increase significantly over the next 5 years. Including the US.

A note: I put "50 year" events in quotes because, to me, it doesn't make sense to talk about frequency in this way. People without a stats background interpret it to mean that the event will occur every 50 years. It leads to a lot of poor decision making or is used to justify a lot of poor decision making.

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Regret's avatar

The companies that insure the insurers are already in a panic. If they give up, then insurance will stop existing, which means massive harm to everyone but especially to the poor, which will require mass debt forgiveness or it will lead to a massive crime wave where poor people give up on following the rules and they just take care of their own. Think Mad Max style lawless zones in most places.

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Rags's avatar

Luckily FEMA is standing by!

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Caepan's avatar

Of course, thanks to ICE Barbie, that's all they're allowed to do now.

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