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1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

That's nothing. It was 110 degrees at DFW yesterday, bettering the record for 9/8 by 10 fucking degrees!

We had three 110+ days this year. I believe we had one day under 100 in July this summer and August was almost as bad. We had the third or fourth-most 100+ degree days of all time but I'm pretty sure we had more 105+ days than any other year maybe other than 1980. Also, August was the hottest average temperature month in DFW ever at almost 90 degrees.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

That's nothing. It was 110 degrees at DFW yesterday, bettering the record for 9/8 by 10 fucking degrees!

We had three 110+ days this year. I believe we had one day under 100 in July this summer and August was almost as bad. We had the third or fourth-most 100+ degree days of all time but I'm pretty sure we had more 105+ days than any other year maybe other than 1980. Also, August was the hottest average temperature month in DFW ever at almost 90 degrees.

That’s only the hottest day in September in DFW so far. It’s going to get worse. 

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2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

That’s only the hottest day in September in DFW so far. It’s going to get worse. 

I think we are past the 100-degree days.  It saying we won’t have some high 90’s but sadly, those have been so far and few in between that they’ve seemed reasonably pleasant.

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On 9/8/2023 at 7:44 AM, RomaVicta said:

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Rush hour traffic in Austin.

Hey, we're all going in the same direction at the same time. I've go an idea! Let's all buy separate vehicles with engines powerful enough to hurl us down the road at 120 mph! We can look at that big number while we're creeping along at 3 mph! We can listen to the motor's idle rumble as it generates exhaust!

We'll give special yellow dots to those wise enough to be travelling to an office job in a heavy pickup truck or SUV. They put out splendid amounts of exhaust! 

When the guy on the radio tells us there's another referendum for rail service, we'll laugh and scoff because taking a train will be so much more inconvenient than spending an hour in the ol' Silverado traveling 15 miles. Rail is a terrible and expensive idea. That's why nobody uses them in Europe or New York or anywhere.

Nope. We'll just keep on keepin' on. These SUVs will make pretty good shelters from Sun radiation for those people trying to survive the cataclysm we're causing. Too bad for them. LOL!

 

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And as I sit here idling in my big gas guzzler belching poisons and greenhouse gases into the air, I’m gonna get real mad if I see anyone toss a cigarette butt out their window. That motherfucker should die because I care so much about the environment. 

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A bit of provincialism in this headline because there’s no such thing as a global summer. When it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, of course, it’s winter south of the equator. And the time period described is technically late spring to late summer. But during our “summer” months this year (June, July, and August), global temps were the highest on record. By a large margin.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/summer-2023-hottest-record

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It was also the warmest August on record globally. Here are graphs for surface air and sea temps.

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1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

Apparently a lot of them went to the University of Texas in the DT

They live through the record heat this year, bigger and bigger Hurricanes, more tornadoes and the crazy winter storms over the last three years and deny it.  If their dicks were on fire when they pissed they would probably deny having the clap too.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

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Joe just announced the formation of the Climate Corps.  Will give 20k young people training they need to access green jobs.

 

I doubt this will benefit a middle-ager like me(how did this happen!?!?), but as someone trying to break into a career working in/for the natural environment, that's awesome to see. There should be a lot more stuff like this out there.

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1 minute ago, hookem2010 said:

I doubt this will benefit a middle-ager like myself (how did this happen!?!?), but as someone trying to break into a career working in/for the natural environment, that's awesome to see.

That’s very annoying actually. I would love to be a part of something like this. 

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just sent that link to my niece... she's graduating college next year and had wanted to work in the NPS... but she did an internship in Vermont this summer where they, also, experienced a 100 year climate event (massive historic flooding) to the point they had to be evacuated from their base camp and half their crews had to quit bc they live in VT and their own homes were damaged/destroyed.

she has been pretty disheartened about the whole thing and it really effected her enthusiasm for natural work... maybe this will give her a little hope and redirection. i told her at least somebody is trying to do something

it's pretty hard to try and say the right thing to keep these kids spirits up and moving forward positively in their young lives... when i myself often feel like 'fuck it' 😒

 

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1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

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Joe just announced the formation of the Climate Corps.  Will give 20k young people training they need to access green jobs.

 

 

57 minutes ago, YChang said:

Love this concept

Me too - I've thought for a long time that the shoudl bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps. If this is anything like that, I love it. 

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An acquaintance from HS posted this on Facebook today:

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The thing about the billionaires telling us to reduce carbon emissions for the fake global warming nonsense, is that they certainly don’t believe in global warming. If they did, they wouldn’t have mansions, super yachts or fly to the office in private helicopters. It’s all nonsense look at what they do not the lies they tell every time they open their mouths:

I made a snarky comment, mentioning actual science, and this was his response:

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because the science I see is quite clear it’s nothing more than a cash and control grab. I respect that you feel differently. But take a look at what the billionaires and elites do. They obviously don’t believe it’s real or they would not live as they do. Hilariously that absolute fraud and kept con man John Kerry is pointing to China as the green standard. However China and India are basically paving their lakes with coal fired power plants. AND they’re exempt from climate accords. Again if our leaders believed in any of this nonsense they wouldn’t allow that.
 
Right now we are at the end of a solar maximum of a little over a decade. We are also entering an El Niño. Two things that have since creation driven temperatures and extreme weather. Humans have nothing do do with those. But expect to hear our elites babble about the weather from the decks of their yachts as they board their private helicopters.
 
Respectfully how can you believe them? 

What is this obsession with "billionaires" and "elites"?  I hear it all the time now.  The behavior of a few ultra-wealthy American oligarchs hardly disproves the science.  I can't imagine being so disconnected from reality that this seems like evidence overcoming . . . you know . . . measurements and shit.

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billionares are just humans who have perfected hypocrisy, but we all do it. NO MORE SINGLE USE PLASTIC!!! yesterday alone, bacon packaging, lunch at a client meeting with plastic fork and knife (not my choosing but I used them),  bottle of cold press juice for breakfast, lid on a starbucks coffee (we were out of coffee yesterday morning), I took a piece of chewing gum out of a single use plastic container, shit I could probably go on and one and this is through noon.  REDUCE METHANE PRODUCTION!!! yet I throw away most food scraps (septic) and I'm too lazy to compost. REDUCE ICE EMISSIONS!!! yeah I do better than most, and use solar for 80% of my electricity and to recharge my electric car, but we have ICE cars and I'm about to buy a used ICE truck for my son and we fly on the reg. I buy carbon offsets with a solid company that funds meaningful projects to reduce climate change gasses but come on, I try but not enough. there's hypocrisy in that, just messy and not 100% disgusting like the private jet crowd. but it's still there, it's there for all of us. 

in the end, we need governments to legislate and fund and market innovation to take advantage of opportunity including those created by government to save the planet and we are going to have to pull carbon out of the air, there's no two ways about it. we will never be carbon zero.

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48 minutes ago, troph said:

billionares are just humans who have perfected hypocrisy, but we all do it. NO MORE SINGLE USE PLASTIC!!! yesterday alone, bacon packaging, lunch at a client meeting with plastic fork and knife (not my choosing but I used them),  bottle of cold press juice for breakfast, lid on a starbucks coffee (we were out of coffee yesterday morning), I took a piece of chewing gum out of a single use plastic container, shit I could probably go on and one and this is through noon.  REDUCE METHANE PRODUCTION!!! yet I throw away most food scraps (septic) and I'm too lazy to compost. REDUCE ICE EMISSIONS!!! yeah I do better than most, and use solar for 80% of my electricity and to recharge my electric car, but we have ICE cars and I'm about to buy a used ICE truck for my son and we fly on the reg. I buy carbon offsets with a solid company that funds meaningful projects to reduce climate change gasses but come on, I try but not enough. there's hypocrisy in that, just messy and not 100% disgusting like the private jet crowd. but it's still there, it's there for all of us. 

in the end, we need governments to legislate and fund and market innovation to take advantage of opportunity including those created by government to save the planet and we are going to have to pull carbon out of the air, there's no two ways about it. we will never be carbon zero.

Finding out we had been lied to for 30 years about plastic recycling was a fucking gut punch.  We are so far down the plastic path, I don't see a way back.  

That said, small changes by individuals add up dramatically once you scale it.  Changing our food habits is absolutely something that is necessary if we really want to reduce emissions.  CAFOs are a fucking horrendous innovation in agriculture in the past 50 years.  Those need to be stopped.  But all of this REQUIRES government intervention.  People WILL NOT do this on their own.  

Use carrots, not sticks, at first, but sticks if necessary down the line.

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https://news.yahoo.com/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-record-094412722.html

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Sea ice encircling Antarctica has reached unprecedented low levels this winter, a preliminary analysis of US satellite data shows in yet another dubious record broken this year in the South Pole.

As the southern hemisphere transitions into spring, Antarctic sea ice reached only a maximum size of 16.96 million sq km (6.55 million sq miles) by 10 September, Nasa and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said on Monday.

That is the lowest winter maximum since satellite records began in 1979, the NSIDC said, and about 1 million sq km less ice than the previous winter record set in 1986.

This comes after the summer Antarctic sea ice extent also hit a record low in February this year, breaking the previous mark set in 2022.

 

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2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Finding out we had been lied to for 30 years about plastic recycling was a fucking gut punch.  We are so far down the plastic path, I don't see a way back.  

That said, small changes by individuals add up dramatically once you scale it.  Changing our food habits is absolutely something that is necessary if we really want to reduce emissions.  CAFOs are a fucking horrendous innovation in agriculture in the past 50 years.  Those need to be stopped.  But all of this REQUIRES government intervention.  People WILL NOT do this on their own.  

Use carrots, not sticks, at first, but sticks if necessary down the line.

the plastic issue isn't global warming per se but i've had enough of ocean pollution for the love of fucking god.

this year we started taking advantage of H-E-B's plastic bag program:  https://ourtexasourfuture.com/plastic-bag-recycling/

family of four we are down to 2 bags of trash per week and our large trash can is usually fairly empty.

If we can compost our food scraps we might get down to 1 bag per week.

we do have quite a bit of plastic recycling but we are trying really hard to buy aluminum, paper and glass in lieu of plastic where we can. you can get better at it, but it's still really hard. 

We can demand governments do more, but business too. Rare occasion that we would go to a place like FireBowl for fast serve food but they are 100% single use paper and plastic for even sit down meals. Yeah, never again. I also praise restaurants that don't offer single use plastic utensils or offer paper to go containers. 

 

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we do have quite a bit of plastic recycling but we are trying really hard to buy aluminum, paper and glass in lieu of plastic where we can. you can get better at it, but it's still really hard. 


Honest question - do we know for sure that aluminum and glass are significantly better? Just for simplicity, if you are choosing between a Coke in a plastic bottle and a Coke in a can, is the can actually a “good” choice from an environmental standpoint, or merely a “less bad” choice? What is the actual impact of that can, both from a manufacturing standpoint and a recycling/disposal standpoint?

I have a lot of plastic guilt, which definitely influences my purchasing habits, but like you said, it’s impossible to completely get away from it. I also struggle with knowing if my alternative purchasing options are truly better, and it seems like industry wants to make this intentionally confusing, or completely distract consumers from the topic.
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1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

 


Honest question - do we know for sure that aluminum and glass are significantly better? Just for simplicity, if you are choosing between a Coke in a plastic bottle and a Coke in a can, is the can actually a “good” choice from an environmental standpoint, or merely a “less bad” choice? What is the actual impact of that can, both from a manufacturing standpoint and a recycling/disposal standpoint?

I have a lot of plastic guilt, which definitely influences my purchasing habits, but like you said, it’s impossible to completely get away from it. I also struggle with knowing if my alternative purchasing options are truly better, and it seems like industry wants to make this intentionally confusing, or completely distract consumers from the topic.

 

Glass and metals are 100% recyclable.

Plastics/polymers are not, and they can also leach chemicals into our food, landfills, and what-have-you. They can also be cancerous or mimic hormones that have ill side effects on the human body.

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