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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

This could go on about 7 different threads on 4 different boards. Congrats Big Ballz and DOGE

 

 

Feature not a bug.

1.) it allows for a scapegoat

2.) it ‘proves’ their original assertion that the NWS was a waste of $ because they don’t even do their job well.

The circular stupidity works with their cult.

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tl;dr: here’s what you need to know:

We have added a lot of carbon to the atmosphere, and that extra carbon traps energy in the climate system. Because of this extra energy, every weather event we see now carries some influence from climate change. The only question is how big that influence is.

Measuring the exact size takes careful attribution studies, but basic physics already tells us the direction: climate change very likely made this event stronger.

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@Captainant Cross posting here as I think it could spawn better discussion:

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday.

Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

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7 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

@Captainant Cross posting here as I think it could spawn better discussion:

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday.

Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

And guess whose cars won't be bought by anyone else in the world.

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Just now, Biff Tannen said:

Hasten the end. Let’s gooooo!!  Leeerooooooooyyyy JENKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!’

Goddammit Leroy.

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Seriously renaming the Kennedy center opera house after Melania Trump is fucking maddening. God dammit. 

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3 hours ago, troph said:

Seriously renaming the Kennedy center opera house after Melania Trump is fucking maddening. God dammit. 

I mean, for this thread, this is extraordinarily small potatoes. 

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14 hours ago, troph said:

Seriously renaming the Kennedy center opera house after Melania Trump is fucking maddening. God dammit. 

I think tearing out the rose garden, paving it over, and replacing it with a $200,000,000 gilded ballroom is a much more effective and thoughtful "fuck you, you fucking motherfuckers" than renaming the Kenedy center, imo

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45 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I think tearing out the rose garden, paving it over, and replacing it with a $200,000,000 gilded ballroom is a much more effective and thoughtful "fuck you, you fucking motherfuckers" than renaming the Kenedy center, imo

are you a bot? do you even read responses?

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1 minute ago, troph said:

are you a bot? do you even read responses?

What? I'm riffing along in agreement with you - it's fucked they're renaming the Kenedy Center, and they're also tearing up the Kenedy Rose Garden 

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2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

What? I'm riffing along in agreement with you - it's fucked they're renaming the Kenedy Center, and they're also tearing up the Kenedy Rose Garden 

read like a disagreement and another non sequitur to the climate issue.

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1 minute ago, troph said:

read like a disagreement and another non sequitur to the climate issue.

rarely non-sequitur, apologies for rubbing you the wrong way across a couple threads it seems. In a thread about climate change, tearing out a rose garden to replace with a gaudy ballroom feels pretty emblematic of the Presidential™ vibe

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WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday.

Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.



We are so fucked. People have chosen ignorance over science and truth.

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Here is the existential problem, my dudes....

The endangerment finding isn't just a technical legal document; it's the foundation for federal climate action in the United States. Without it, you don't have the ability for the EPA to regulate and there is effectively no Clean Air Act.

The good news?

1000% there will be legal challenges from states, multiple states, a coalition of states, environmental agencies, etc. that will tie this thing in legal morass for many, many years. Hopefully we can run out the clock in courts until 2028, seems to be the best case.

 

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For mitigating the unrelenting heat of climate change and water scarcity that seems to be coming, I think the only answer is literally run for the hills (mountains) and hope the fires don’t get you.  Upper latitudes near the Great Lakes too. I don’t know when that becomes the existential move but it’s already the comfort move. 

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3 hours ago, troph said:

For mitigating the unrelenting heat of climate change and water scarcity that seems to be coming, I think the only answer is literally run for the hills (mountains) and hope the fires don’t get you.  Upper latitudes near the Great Lakes too. I don’t know when that becomes the existential move but it’s already the comfort move. 

While I hear you, I for one am enjoying the mildest summer in DFW I can remember. Thanks to an above average wet spring and summer (which itself brought tragedy, though).

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9 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

While I hear you, I for one am enjoying the mildest summer in DFW I can remember. Thanks to an above average wet spring and summer (which itself brought tragedy, though).

Houston summer seems mild because the highs aren't particularly high (largely due to scattered rain each afternoon). But the overnight lows are the 3rd highest on record (behind '22, '23, and just ahead of '24, so not a great trend).  So this is actually 7th hottest on record (thru july 22):

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But someone messaged us on Instagram recently asking if it was a pretty mild summer so far. “I’ve been able to enjoy the mornings and evenings outside which hasn’t always been the case,” they noted. And, I had to agree! It’s been hot, just as every summer is, but we’ve had enough rain chances (almost daily it seems) to break it up. It’s felt kind of like what would be a typical Houston summer.

And then Lee Corso barged in and said, “Not so fast, my friend.”

https://spacecityweather.com/has-it-been-a-fairly-mild-summer-in-houston-the-answer-may-surprise-you/

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3 hours ago, troph said:

For mitigating the unrelenting heat of climate change and water scarcity that seems to be coming, I think the only answer is literally run for the hills (mountains) and hope the fires don’t get you.  Upper latitudes near the Great Lakes too. I don’t know when that becomes the existential move but it’s already the comfort move. 

 

Narrator: Eventually the fires will get you. No place is safe from climate change. 

 

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8 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

I’m fucking down. 
 

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Peacock had some thoughts on actions the public can take to show support for wild lands and species.

“I think we’ve got to get together and bring some actions in public places,” he said. “Like the next Fourth of July I think everyone should go to their nearest national park or monument and just plan on protesting. It’s the kind of stuff I don’t normally do because I don’t like crowds, but I’m going to partner up with some people and encourage people to take some action.”

 

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30 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

sorry, kids. the olds just needed their oil.

 

 

And today we announced that we will not be funding ANY wind or solar projects going forward.  We are giving the future to the Chinese on a silver platter.

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2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

And today we announced that we will not be funding ANY wind or solar projects going forward.  We are giving the future to the Chinese on a silver platter.

China already had the solar game on lock. Crazy those guys.

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Japan harnesses the power f osmosis to run a desalination plant.

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Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant, in the south-western city of Fukuoka.

Only the second power plant of its type in the world, it is expected to generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year – enough to help power a desalination plant that supplies fresh water to the city and neighbouring areas.

That’s the equivalent of powering about 220 Japanese households, according to Dr Ali Altaee from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), who specialises in the development of alternative water sources.

While it is still an emerging technology being used only on a modest scale as yet, it does have an advantage over some other renewable energies in that it is available around the clock, regardless of the wind or weather or other conditions.

It relies simply on the mixing of fresh and salt water, so the energy flow can continue day and night, providing a steady source of electricity.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka

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On 8/21/2025 at 3:34 PM, Biff Tannen said:

And today we announced that we will not be funding ANY wind or solar projects going forward.  We are giving the future to the Chinese on a silver platter.

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35 minutes ago, Captainant said:

So they're mixing fresh and salt water, to run a desalination plant?

They use the osmotic difference between treated wastewater and the brine discharge of a reverse osmosis desalination plant to generate a meager amount of electricity.

This will never scale.

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1 hour ago, Viking said:

They use the osmotic difference between treated wastewater and the brine discharge of a reverse osmosis desalination plant to generate a meager amount of electricity.

This will never scale.

Yeah, this seems like WAY too little, too late in the desal game.

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55 minutes ago, Viking said:

They use the osmotic difference between treated wastewater and the brine discharge of a reverse osmosis desalination plant to generate a meager amount of electricity.

This will never scale.

Ah ok that makes more sense, and it's not supposed to be primary power but rather to improve efficiency by capturing energy that would otherwise be discharged

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2 hours ago, Captainant said:

So they're mixing fresh and salt water, to run a desalination plant?

Pressurized salt water on one side of a barrier, fresh water on the other. When the fresh water passes through the barrier, osmosis, the salt water is forced through a turbine, generating electricity.



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