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It was Winter and we had a clear sky. Then it got clouded and within a few hours the temperatures went up by ten degrees Celsius. We all died because the temperature went from minus 15 to minus 5. 5000 years ago Siberia was 2-7 degrees Celsius warmer. This led to an extinction of the Siberian ice man.
WOAH. "The rising tide might be eroding communities of color around the world." What in the-... What does that have to do with-..... Wait lemme keep watching first before I go all anti woke
We’ve already extended our lifespan and improved our quality of health. What a blessing it is to be living in these times. I say we keep pushing the envelope! Perhaps 100 will be the new 70!
Tornado alley is more about the topography than the climate conditions. I agree with your assessment of the shifting climate conditions. But tornado alley will always be closer to the midwest because it is so flat. The powerful tornados get bred on the flat ground. Hills break them up. I live in atlanta, and the whole city is almost constant up and down hills especially to the north side around the river. The hills always felt like tornado insurance to me. It breaks them up. I have heard about some mean tornados toward the south like macon in recent years (where it is much flatter than atlanta) which to me is unusual. However i don't have all the data to make a good judgement if it is. In the last 30 years we have had two tornados in Atlanta i am aware of. Both were weak and short lived. Again, the hills break them up. The flat areas are like incubators for the tornados. But then there has to be the severe weather/climate conditions also. The climate has been really mild overall here in atlanta in about the last decade. There has been some crazy stuff in the 1990s and early 2000s to about 2014. I believe this lull is the calm before the storm. I believe there is some bigger excitement ahead!
23 states now have in place an active cloud seeding and weather altering programs 500,000 lbs of chemical have been spread in the atmosphere time for you to do research
To little too late unfortunately. Go 100% green tomorrow and the things will still get worse for decades to come. We still need to do it but we need to realize we're screwed and MUST change and quit just talking about it and letting greed take over.
Many people defend companies by saying that consumers validate these behaviors by buying from them. This is more outrageous than implying that everyone should read every TOS. Who has time in a lifetime to research the environmentalism of every company, especially when you then have to account for the companies that sell only to other companies (like mining companies or shipping companies)
This helps me know I'm not so crazy after all. I grew up at the edge of where the last Ice Age ice sheet ended. I went on to become a scientist and have always seen possible "Stuff" where no one else did. I believe there is a modern-day cause/effect from that Ice Age. I could never get anyone to take me seriously... or, more so, anyone to Care. My best way of presenting my theory was by putting it into the background of a modern-day mystery novel. Science is freaking fascinating!!!
To be specific, it is Bacillus cereus and causes two forms of food poisoning. 1) Intoxication - as Bacillus cereus grows (one of the fastest growing pathogens) it secretes enterotoxins that when it reaches a certain levels, causes GI distress - nausea and vomiting within 30 min of ingestion. It’s self-limiting with most symptoms gone within 24-48 hrs. The toxin survives cooking so it can’t be cooked out. The microbe is a spore former and cooking may destroy the living cell but the spores survive and germinate and begin to grow creating the toxins. It’s a hardy bug that grows at temperatures up to 130 deg F and some subspecies grows down to 39 deg F. B. cereus grows very well and very quickly in rice, which is why food people in the know tell you to refrigerate your rice promptly and throw it out if not used in 3 days. 2) It can also cause an infection, which may take a few days to show symptoms of fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Epidemiologists can identify certain food-borne illnesses by the rapidity of symptoms, the type of symptoms, and how long they last. Stool samples from patients are taken to confirm and are either plated on agar plates (preferably if an outbreak is suspected) or petrifilm for a quick ID that doesn’t help in identifying specific markers to identify an outbreak and its source.
7:20 Is the phrase climate change just a thought stopping cliche for you? No ants eating foodwaste is not inherently better. The best place for it is the sewer (digester fuel that helps to reduce the electrical costs of the plant) But landfills are only slighlty different. Their methane is also used for fuel, just not as frequently. And if its not used as fuel then it is flared to prevent emission as methane. Human processing is on average better since at least some of the energy is recycled for our use. Whereas ants consuming it just increases city-dwelling pest animals foodchain base, which is detrimental both in terms of supporting host communities for pathogens and expense for irradication.
Ugh yeah I'm sure the real-estate agent asks the prospective buyer "tell me is climate change influencing your decision to buy this house"? Whatever 🙄🙄
What a travesty that so much of the precious CO River water goes to golf courses! If all the golf courses in the US were made to conform to the "new green" rhetoric, many of the ills of man made blamed climate issues would be far less or even wiped out.
Straight up I will say I think the climate has been and is continuing to be adversely affected by human activity, if you disagree just come and visit me in August here in Central Texas. I'll show you pictures of my beautiful tropical garden from 30 years ago, the cactus/xeriscape garden I replaced it with 10 years ago because nothing else would grow there, and currently the barren, cracked ground where that used to be. Temps are rising. That said, why is it that the most vocal climate crises advocates and the wealthiest progressives are flocking to the very places they say are the most threatened to build their multi-million-dollar mansions? Would you build a $10M or $20M mansion on a beach you thought would be knee deep in the ocean in the very near future? Would you buy dozens of acres, hundreds even, of mountain wilderness, cut roads into it and build a pretentious $10M lodge for yourself if you believed fires and droughts were going to soon destroy it? What type of person does this? Not anyone of conviction, no one who can honestly claim any concern for the environment or the climate. Integrity and candor matters, if you have neither then you are probably a wealthy Progressive.
If temps are to climb from today's predictions, in Florida, to the adv. of 100°F by 2053... I'll be in my 80s. I do think inland Florida has a smaller risk in flooding. People need to do their homework and timetables to decide on the optimal living conditions for themselves. I'm from IL.... Florida weather and beauty looks great for anyone!!
I currently have a dirt yard. Watering grass is too wasteful living in the SW desert ... but gravel limiting the loose dirt aids in the rising of temps here in Phoenix, in the same manner as cement or asphalt. There is no clear cut alternative, cut down on loose dirt, save water, limit the heat column presented by a lack of trees in an asphalt jungle.
The only concern I have is, would we tolerate mega flocks of these birds enough without wanting to get rid of them? Humans already despise pigeons in cities. I am totally in for bringing these species back, especially thylacines, but would get the rights and protection they deserve. Would we care even less about them when we know how to bring them back?
Please keep moving to FL. I have two beachfront homes. I cannot get insurance and I really need to sell these beautiful homes. So pay no attention to all this liberal climate change talk. It's hard to beat the fantastic year-round weather in southern Florida. It's a retirement heaven; a perfect place to live. Jaw-dropping healthcare, the most beautiful golf courses, gorgeous marinas, Michelin star restaurants, a utopia for any and all Americans. MOVE TO FLORIDA!
Click here to download vote…this is purely a go,f course maintenance video NOTHING AT ALL to do with the millions of acres of grass I. General that exist in areas where it’s not native Do better pbs
As they say, luck is the confluence of preparation and opportunity. A lot of discoveries are accidental or failures of other intentions. Vulcanization of natural rubber, penicillin, post-it notes, nylon and many more
