This series is being shown on the BBC atm... https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/429613/bbc-big-oil-v-the-world/ It's also available on youtube I believe. A lot of it is just a restatement of what's already known but some of it is new and, in any event, it covers the story as a whole and is well done.
Ah, it turns out it's also available on PBS... https://www.pbs.org/video/the-power-of-big-oil-part-one-denial-redxh6/
My daughter sent this yesterday from her apartment in New Delhi. 91 degrees and fog. Made a perfect sauna.
This drought in the UK is starting to get real, real serious. It's quite shocking to me just how fast these extreme weather events are coming, around the globe.
Yeah, but this year and next year will be highly unusual. We had a major, major volcanic eruption in the South Pacific which spewed debris and water vapor at astronomical amounts. And we know from history that such events will effect the weather dramatically for a couple of years, or more.
I have been thinking about this lately and I have my personal doubts. I suspect that there are no more severe weather instances today than there were 50 or 500 or 5000 years ago. We just hear about them because of ubiquitous access to media. Also, people are whinerbabies. Just to be clear, I don't doubt human-made climate change for one second. And if some climate scientist told me I was wrong, I'd believe them. But I'm skeptical that every storm, cold snap, or heat wave is attributable to climate change.
There has been a fair amount of reporting over the past few years that these "once in a hundred years" or "once in a thousand years" weather events are occurring at a far higher rate than they should be. To be clear, that is a statistical measurement, not literal. But those type of weather events are occurring again and again, and sometimes in the same geographical area.
I don't think anyone serious makes that argument? But the fact that we are seeing record european termperature peaks and dried up rivers in the context of a decade of hot years is pretty conclusive of the path we are on
It's not the individual incidents or years, it's the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Meticulous weather records have been maintained since the 19th century, tree rings can take us back hundreds of years and geology thousands of years.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/europe-drought-river-cruising/index.html The European river cruise industry is, well, drying up.
Lookout @roby and others living in temperate coastal areas. We’re going to have caravans of refugees invading trying to become your neighbors. Bringing their AR15s confederate flags and their extreme lifestyles to pervade our schools and destroy our lifestyle. As they move out of New Sahara’s 125 degree days. 'Extreme heat belt' to cover middle of US by 2053: report “This would encompass a geographic region stretching from northern Texas and Louisiana to Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin -- inland areas far from the more temperate weather often seen near the coasts.”
You're going to cross paths with those of us heading for higher ground as the polar ice caps melt and the sea level rises.
AFAIK there are NO climate scientists that say a specific weather event can be 'blamed' solely on AGW. The point is that, as AGW becomes more prevalent, extreme weather events will occur more often and the severity of them that do will be greater. So whether our recent heatwave was as a direct result of AGW... what difference does it make? https://www.nationalacademies.org/b...ing-is-contributing-to-extreme-weather-events Global warming is contributing to extreme weather events CLAIM Extreme weather can be linked to global warming. FINDING In some cases. Some types of extreme weather events are happening more often or are becoming more intense because of global warming. What he said!
Feds dictating 21% reduction in water consumption of Colorado river starting in 2023. First, let the water wars begin. Second, there goes your lettuce which in my thinking is something we won't miss a bunch. My wife likes lettuce but I find it a waste of time washing it, spinning it, drying it, etc for close to zero calories. I guess it is the roughage.
I meant the newest water wars. Man has always fought over access to water as you would expect. Also, now the Feds are stepping in which should get some of those states rights people up in arms.
This is the latest YT from potholer about the latest claims about carbon dioxide being released from volcanoes and it being more than man produces... The second half of that vid, (at about 8 mins), comes to the inevitable conclusion about people like the guy he mentions there, a fella called Ian Plimer... most of these guys are just conmen and grifters. I note, particularly, the point about carbon emissions not being treated as pollutants because carbon is black and the air isn't black so it can't have carbon in it... or something As he says, that fella cannot POSSIBLY be that stupid.
It rained here yesterday and I just went outside and walked around in the rain in a t-shirt and shorts for twenty minutes. I'm thankful to have an engineer for a sibling who has promised to help me sort out my house with water reclamation tools, a heat pump, and other doodads once I can afford them all.