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Snow What?
Author: BobR    Date: 03/01/2018 14:47:30

The political climate in DC right now could be described as hostile, turgid, contentious, and toxic. With tRump doing what he does best (generating conflict) in an already polarized partisan atmosphere, our entire government is in disarray.

It's somewhat of a metaphor for what our actual climate is like. Global warming has disrupted our weather systems, changing climates around the world, and not for the better. Here in DC we have had a warmer-than-normal February, which - while nice for those who hate the cold - is not so good for the plants.

Plants have evolved over the centuries to work with the natural rhythms of nature. They flower in the spring, grow in the summer, produce their fruit in the fall, and sleep and recharge in the winter. Longer warm seasons disrupt that natural rhythym:
This week’s unusual heat may have come as a pleasant surprise for winter-weary East coasters, but a few days of tropical weather in February can wreak havoc on plants, animals and insects. Flowers may emerge before birds and bees arrive to pollinate them. Or worse, trees blossom early only to perish amid a late-winter frost. Weather reporters in New York, Washington and elsewhere catalogued early blooms on Wednesday.

Weather is screwy everywhere. Europe is in a deep freeze, and the north pole is above freezing - in winter:
A Siberian cold front has spread sub-zero temperatures across Europe, carpeting southern cities and palm-lined Mediterranean beaches with snow.

On Sunday, meanwhile, air temperatures at the North Pole — which won’t see the Sun until March — rose above freezing.

“In relative terms, that’s a 30 C (54 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature anomaly,” Robert Rohde, lead scientist at Berkeley Earth in Washington, tweeted.

At the Longyearbyen weather station on the Island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean, temperatures were 10 C above average over the last 30 days, according to Zack Labe, a climate modeller at the University of California Irvine.

At the same time, sea ice is covering the smallest area in the dead of winter since records began more than half a century ago.

So yes, that means snow in Rome (as well as the rest of Europe). That's not a "never seen before" thing, but it's another item on a growing pile of evidence that the weather and climate we've relied on year after year is no longer reliable.

Cold is expected in winter, and warm is expected in summer. An occasional bad storm is expected. What we're seeing, however, is consistently weird weather that is creating problems with our normal human processes. That means food production is impacted, and we're incurring greater costs for recovering from weather-related events. The coal and oil industry tries to claim that getting off fossil fuels will cost us jobs, but there are jobs in renewable energy, and the costs for dealing with climate change grow higher every year.

Dealing with this is no longer just the right thing to do - it's the cost-effective thing to do. Pretty soon it won't just be jobs or costs, but the very survival of society.

 
 

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Comment by wickedpam on 03/01/2018 14:24:56
Morning

Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 14:27:01
Mornin' all!

Heading into a meeting in a few mins, so I'll be in mode for a lil bit.

Also, I think I'm getting the hang of this game streaming thing. Went for about 4 hours last night.

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 14:32:07
Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 14:35:53




Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 14:43:02
Quote by Raine:




So I got to Kroger and wondered are the guns next to the produce? Then I got to part about Fred Meyer.

Comment by BobR on 03/01/2018 14:47:58
BLOG IS POSTED

Comment by wickedpam on 03/01/2018 14:53:58
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:




So I got to Kroger and wondered are the guns next to the produce? Then I got to part about Fred Meyer.



Omg, I was just wonder where the hell in Kroger do they sell guns?

Comment by BobR on 03/01/2018 14:54:55
Comment by BobR on 03/01/2018 14:59:48
Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 15:03:02
*sigh*

Good Blog, Bobber.

Depressing, but good.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 15:04:02

That is a moral stance, I have to give them that.

Comment by TriSec on 03/01/2018 15:06:10
Morning, comrades.

Not sure if I'll be driving in the city tomorrow. We wouldn't normally suspend operations in just a rainstorm, but due to the onshore winds and astronomical high tides, the city is taking steps to try to prevent a recurrence of the flooding downtown that we had in the last big storm.

Atlantic Avenue on the waterfront, much of the Seaport district in Boston, and all of Logan Airport is no more than 20 feet above sea level. We'll see how this goes.



Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 15:06:12

All lonbg as AR's are available in the Untited states, I sorta feel like Dolt is arming the nazi's here on our soil.

The other thing, I really do blieve this, is that I think we are useful idiots (This administration) in Russia's push for unber Natioanalism.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 15:06:55
Quote by TriSec:
Morning, comrades.

Not sure if I'll be driving in the city tomorrow. We wouldn't normally suspend operations in just a rainstorm, but due to the onshore winds and astronomical high tides, the city is taking steps to try to prevent a recurrence of the flooding downtown that we had in the last big storm.

Atlantic Avenue on the waterfront, much of the Seaport district in Boston, and all of Logan Airport is no more than 20 feet above sea level. We'll see how this goes.

We are under a noreaster watcvh here as well.

Stay safe tomorrow, Tri.


Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 15:50:06
Even tho this nor'easter seems like it's gonna be a whole lotta wind & rain, I can't help wondering if it may end up being a ton of snow.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 16:01:01
Kinda makes me whistful for Eric Cantor:





Comment by trojanrabbit on 03/01/2018 16:01:04
Still recovering slowly here. Halfway through the Tamiflu. Got zero sleep last night so just taking little naps as I can. The fur-bearing critters want no part of me because all I do is cough and scare them.

The Mrs annual trip to MS is set for Memorial Day weekend. Now I need something to do.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 16:01:38
Quote by Scoopster:
Even tho this nor'easter seems like it's gonna be a whole lotta wind & rain, I can't help wondering if it may end up being a ton of snow.

Supposed to be all rain here.

I hear you about the snow.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 16:12:50
Oh man.

Kelly has got to be on the way out.

The last thing I wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the Secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me I guess.


Comment by wickedpam on 03/01/2018 16:31:25
Quote by Raine:
Oh man.

Kelly has got to be on the way out.

The last thing I wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the Secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me I guess.



Who's gonna be left? Only people that will work for them are the horrible and stupid who can't get clearances.

Comment by TriSec on 03/01/2018 16:33:08
Remember when it was Obama that was going to take everyone's guns?



Comment by TriSec on 03/01/2018 16:50:53
And scrumming about my history websites, it was on this date in 1692 that Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba were dragged before a magistrate in Salem, MA.

Or, in the words of our patron saint...."More Weight."



Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 16:55:16
Quote by TriSec:
Remember when it was Obama that was going to take everyone's guns?


The Deplorables are very very quiet about this.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/01/2018 16:56:20
Good morning bloggers!!

The weather has been up and down here. We were at y3 earlier this week and we will be 20 degrees cooler.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 17:06:24
Woah!






Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 17:39:20
Welp it looks like we're starting a trade war now. Starting next week 25% tarriffs on steel imports & 10% on aluminum.

The price of constructing houses, cars, appliances & almost all infrastructure is about to skyrocket.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 18:23:44
Quote by Scoopster:
Welp it looks like we're starting a trade war now. Starting next week 25% tarriffs on steel imports & 10% on aluminum.

The price of constructing houses, cars, appliances & almost all infrastructure is about to skyrocket.
I am so tired of watching them destroy this country.





Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 18:25:55
Quote by Scoopster:
Welp it looks like we're starting a trade war now. Starting next week 25% tarriffs on steel imports & 10% on aluminum.

The price of constructing houses, cars, appliances & almost all infrastructure is about to skyrocket.

From Axios: Trade War declared

Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 18:42:37
Think I'll read this tonite for my opener.





Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 18:57:23
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 18:57:29
Quote by Scoopster:
Think I'll read this tonite for my opener.



This is perfection!


Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 19:00:08
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 19:01:53
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 19:04:24




Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 19:05:13
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
That is weird. it still works for me.

I guess I am lucky.





Comment by wickedpam on 03/01/2018 19:05:26
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.


I've learned how to do it on chrome - makes it so much better


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 19:10:56
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.


Did you leak that DEVIN? We know you did DEVIN!

Wonkette's headline for this story is magical: Senate Intel Committee Gonna Kick Devin Nunes’s Traitor Ass Behind The Gym After Third Period

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 19:13:59
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
That is weird. it still works for me.

I guess I am lucky.





Yeah I that happens to me as well. I mentioned it yesterday. when I got a WaPo link after my paltry five articles a month. The paywall pop up comes up, and the URL redirects to the front page of the Post's site. I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 19:18:49
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
That is weird. it still works for me.

I guess I am lucky.





Yeah I that happens to me as well. I mentioned it yesterday. when I got a WaPo link after my paltry five articles a month. The paywall pop up comes up, and the URL redirects to the front page of the Post's site. I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!
you can't right click?

I do that for NYT.

Look I know it might be real popular, but Paying for an online subscription is sorta worth it for journalism, no?




Comment by Scoopster on 03/01/2018 19:22:18
Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 19:23:02
Comment by BobR on 03/01/2018 20:05:40
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
That is weird. it still works for me.

I guess I am lucky.




I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!

Seriously? You don't have the time?

Jaysus... I right-click and select "Open in incognito window". That adds a whole micro-second to the process.

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 20:16:44
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
Here's another article that's probably behind a stupid paywall...

Senate Intel Committee: Mark Warner's private texts investigating Russian interference were leaked deliberately by & under the direction of Devin Nunes.

Warner & Richard Burr are PISSED. So pissed they had a sit-down with Paul Ryan.

There is no way Nunes survives this arc of history without an Obstruction of Justice conviction.
I canot be the only one that has
in
cog
ni
To functioning can I?

I already pay for WaPo, So I incog the grey lady.

Actually, incognito mode has stopped working for me on a few websites. It instead goes straight to the paywall, no free views or anything.
That is weird. it still works for me.

I guess I am lucky.




I don't even have enough time to copy and past the URL into incognito. So, I have to WaPo site incognito and try and find the article. FU wapo!

Seriously? You don't have the time?

Jaysus... I right-click and select "Open in incognito window". That adds a whole micro-second to the process.


No, Bob, the redirect to the root domain for the WaPo comes up too fast to copy and past.


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 20:20:31
Now, I suppose if I were enterprising, I could instead of clicking on the link as is the habit, I could click on the respond icon and copy and paste the URL and then dump it into an incognito window.

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 20:24:28
Quote by Mondobubba:
Now, I suppose if I were enterprising, I could instead of clicking on the link as is the habit, I could click on the respond icon and copy and paste the URL and then dump it into an incognito window.

I can right click from the links here on the blog.

I am very confused.

Anyway, paying a digital subscription for journalism isn't a bad thing, that was my basic point.
Especially in these times.

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/01/2018 20:41:25
I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce:

Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 20:53:15
Quote by Mondobubba:
I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce:

Christ, Mondo. WTF is your deal?



Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 20:55:15
AGAIN,

digital subscriptions are not a bad thing.




Comment by Raine on 03/01/2018 20:58:17
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce:

Christ, Mondo. WTF is your deal?


Were you being your sarcastic self?

because if you weren't, I apologize. if you were, you are really being condescending and I don't see the need for that.

But you know, 'FU WaPo' and ignore what I thought was a suggestion.

Thanks for no discussion at all.



Comment by wickedpam on 03/01/2018 20:59:19
Quote by Mondobubba:
I am also stupid. :head desk: Never thought about right clicking to open directly in an incognito window. :dunce:

I did not know we could do that!

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