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Post by Sigurdur on Jul 1, 2021 5:02:33 GMT
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Post by douglavers on Jul 7, 2021 21:49:54 GMT
polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/The chart, and the associated graph of the Surface Mass Balance, deserves a much wider audience. Normally, there is a fair amount of melting/sublimation in Summer. This year, the ice sheet has net picked up ice.This might suggest that the Arctic is really cold this year, and may say some unpleasant things about autumn/winter 2021/22.
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Post by blustnmtn on Jul 7, 2021 22:14:26 GMT
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Post by douglavers on Jul 7, 2021 22:51:52 GMT
Perhaps our planet is cooling?!
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Post by ratty on Jul 8, 2021 2:17:03 GMT
Perhaps our planet is cooling?!  |
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Post by Sigurdur on Aug 21, 2021 18:41:04 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 2, 2021 23:13:02 GMT
Engineers are a Refreshing Alternative to Wokenomics Fairies Reliability Challenges in Meeting New York’s Climate Act Requirementswattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/02/reliability-challenges-in-meeting-new-yorks-climate-act-requirements/One would hope that the overriding goal of those that develop and operate energy grids is to meet system requirements under extreme conditions ... i.e. conditions under which lots of people potentially die if the system collapses. The following from the article: In a post on my blog I did an overview of all the presentations. The warning in five of the six presentations was similar: it will not be enough to depend on today’s technology to develop a reliable electric system with net-zero emissions. A “large quantity of installed dispatchable energy resources is needed in a small number of hours” and it “must be able to come on line quickly, and be flexible enough to meet rapid, steep ramping needs”. That technology does not exist for utility-scale applications. That's tough engineer talk ... and Wokens that override the engineers should be put on record that they will personally be held responsible for the results. I pinched the following from an online source, describing the Great Blizzard of 1888. I could (and might) go back to the History of Weather and extract some other examples, but I seem to remember "many" historic blizzards that have buried significant parts of the NE US on a regular cyclic basis since forevah. These events combined with todays energy/power requirements define what the system must produce. The Great Blizzard holds infamy as the one of the worst, longest, and most deadly snowstorms on record, and spanned several Northeastern states. Between March 10 and 14, 1888 a powerful system carrying moisture moved up the east coast, meeting with an Arctic blast moving down from Canada. Heavy rains turned to a colossal snowstorm--one for the record books. New York saw the deepest snowfall levels, recorded in Troy and Saratoga, each measuring over 50 inches. The system, also called The Great White Hurricane, brought formidable winds. In New York City, 40-plus mile an hour sustained blowing, with gusts recorded at over 70 miles per hour, created drifts in places over 50 feet high, covering three story houses and virtually shutting the metropolis down for over a week.
400 people lost their lives to this storm, over 200 in New York City alone. But it brought about much needed change at a time that defined technological advances and modernization. Elevated trains that had been paralyzed in the aftermath of the storm were thereafter designed to run underground where ice couldn't derail or snow piles impede. Gas, telephone, and telegraph lines knocked down in the storm took weeks to restore. With growing populations increasingly dependent on these utilities, their infrastructure went subterranean as well.
Some nice maps in this link: www.newyorkupstate.com/weather/2017/01/what_were_the_worst_25_storms_in_the_northeast_in_the_past_60_years.htmlWhat say you Blu? |
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 3, 2021 19:48:41 GMT
Well, after the parade of a$$hat politicians yesterday blaming the remnants of Ida that came through on “global warming”, I say nothing will change the course here in NY except a mile high glacier.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 3, 2021 23:09:43 GMT
Well, after the parade of a$$hat politicians yesterday blaming the remnants of Ida that came through on “global warming”, I say nothing will change the course here in NY except a mile high glacier. Or a multi-thousands men march with projectile instruments.  Tar, feathers and rails optional. |
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Post by ratty on Sept 4, 2021 0:42:09 GMT
Well, after the parade of a$$hat politicians yesterday blaming the remnants of Ida that came through on “global warming”, I say nothing will change the course here in NY except a mile high glacier. Care to make a prediction? PS: How was Ida in your NOTW? |
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Post by youngjasper on Sept 4, 2021 1:00:06 GMT
Well, after the parade of a$$hat politicians yesterday blaming the remnants of Ida that came through on “global warming”, I say nothing will change the course here in NY except a mile high glacier. Care to make a prediction? PS: How was Ida in your NOTW? I’ll make a prediction: A mile high glacier will STILL gets blamed on global warming. Look at all the evidence there is on everything the left continues to push yet they still make themselves look like fools for sticking to their narrative. Includes climate change, Covid, the sock puppet and more. Ida in the NOTW of my cousin (Lafitte, LA) was the worst he’s ever had there - about 50 years. Never flooded before. Three feet of water in his house and it is above almost all other houses in his area. Three inches of mud to boot. He’ll make it. He’s tough as nails and will probably help his neighbors before he starts on his own home. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 4, 2021 13:30:17 GMT
Well, after the parade of a$$hat politicians yesterday blaming the remnants of Ida that came through on “global warming”, I say nothing will change the course here in NY except a mile high glacier. Care to make a prediction? PS: How was Ida in your NOTW? More people died from the tropical depression remnants of Ida that moved through the metro NY region than the major hurricane Ida that struck Louisiana. The heavy rain/flash flood warnings were made well in advance, yet some still perished. Life is dangerous. Water flows downhill. A paved world prevents absorption. Basements in low lying areas are not good places to sleep during a flash flood warning. Driving vehicles into flooded roads is generally not wise. Politicians never run out of words. |
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Post by walnut on Sept 4, 2021 13:33:41 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 1, 2021 0:10:07 GMT
A Good and Well-Written Argument Below are pertinent points sent to me by John Shanahan, Civil Engineer, and Editor of allaboutenergy.net: 1) Reliable, affordable, plentiful energy is the only real currency. All paper currencies, even gold, are only worth the trust people put in their governments or how they value gold. With energy from fossil fuels and nuclear power you can do work for retail businesses, manufacturing, heavy industry, transportation, mining, space heating and cooling, food production, communications, information processing, knowledge preservation, education, tourism, entertainment, cell phones, the Internet, and vacations. 2) Since the 1960s, individuals and organizations have worked continuously to stop the progress made possible by fossil fuels, nuclear power, and their myriad of by-products. These people want the world to return to the level before fossil fuels, before 1800 AD. This is criminal, in my opinion, worse than almost all crimes ever committed. It would force the reduction in world population from about 7.9 billion (2021) to less than 1 billion (1800 AD). That will be a slaughter of 6.9 billion people, more than killed by all the wars, plagues, famines, etc. throughout history. 3) Alarmists, many media, and many politicians in North America and Europe are participating in this crime. This was unimaginable to me in the 1950s. 4) If these alarmists succeed in forcing everyone to stop using fossil fuels and nuclear power and impose wind and solar on North America and Europe, both continents will become economic, political, and learning backwaters. They will fall victim to others who are stronger, just like in nature from the smallest to the largest creatures. Nature recycles everything that isn’t alive, strong, healthy and able to control its environment. One example of terrible things being done to dismantle the modern world is the completely unscientific false alarms that the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide from 280 ppm (parts per million) in the atmosphere in 1800 AD to 430 ppm today is causing life in the oceans to die. Most of Earth’s history has had atmospheric CO2 at levels far higher than today. Taken from Electroverse: electroverse.net/global-energy-crisis-china-coal-inventory-nears-record-low-nation-suffers-worst-outages-in-a-decade-lng-prices-hit-new-highs-brent-crude-soars/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-last-newsletter-total-posts-from-our-blog_1 |
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Post by blustnmtn on Oct 9, 2021 23:37:47 GMT
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Tar, feathers and rails optional.
