The Global Warming Thread

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  1. deejay

    deejay Member+

    Feb 14, 2000
    Tarpon Springs, FL
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    Jorge Wilstermann
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    #6776 deejay, Jan 22, 2025
    N'awlins today

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  2. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
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    United States
    #6777 Paul Berry, Jan 22, 2025
    Luckily they built a dome to keep the snow from affecting the Super Bowl.
     
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  3. deejay

    deejay Member+

    Feb 14, 2000
    Tarpon Springs, FL
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    Jorge Wilstermann
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    #6778 deejay, Jan 22, 2025
    Climate change Florida man edition

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  4. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

    Houston Dynamo
    United States
    Jul 16, 2017
    #6779 ElNaranja, Jan 22, 2025
    Lots of snow in the capital. Neighbors been riding anything they can down the hills, from boxes to tub lids to swimming inflatables. Can't go anywhere as everything is a chunk of solid ice and snow but that's why you stock up for a few days of shutdown.
     
  5. raza_rebel

    raza_rebel Member+

    Dec 11, 2000
    Club:
    Univ de Chile
    #6780 raza_rebel, Jan 22, 2025
    Let's hope Texas learned its lesson of winterizing its grid.
     
  6. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #6781 Paul Berry, Jan 22, 2025
    This weather front is going to mess up lower division football in Europe at the weekend. The jet stream is heading eastwards at up to 250 mph.
     
  7. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    #6782 rslfanboy, Feb 4, 2025
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    9 degrees warmer than a record set 100 years ago.
     
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  8. kribi

    kribi Member

    Lyon
    France
    Jan 21, 2022
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    #6783 kribi, Feb 5, 2025
    maybe this will convince the morron climate skeptics :laugh:

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  9. feyenoordsoccerfan

    feyenoordsoccerfan Member+

    Jan 5, 2006
    Dragon's den, Rotterdam Netherlands
    #6784 feyenoordsoccerfan, Mar 1, 2025
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  10. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    United States
    #6785 ceezmad, May 8, 2025
    Texas keeps kicking ass in terms of building clean energy.

    But it has been so successful that Republicans in the Texas house are trying to pass laws to kill solar and wind.


     
  11. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    #6786 roby, May 8, 2025
    They may have built the most lately but still trail Ca in total capacity. :coffee:

    Top 10 states for solar power production the United States.
    State Solar power production February 2025 (MWh) Percentage of national solar power production
    California 5,203 23.4
    Texas 3,548 16.0
     
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  12. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #6787 Paul Berry, May 9, 2025
    Looking at it another way.

    Renewable energy as a total % of electricity produced.

    1. Vermont - 99.6
    2. South Dakota - 81.4%
    3. Washington - 75.7%
    11. California - 43%
    19. New York - 28.1%
    26. Texas - 26.5%
    42. Florida - 6%
    46. Pennsylvania - 3.1%
    50. Mississippi - 2.7%

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewable_electricity_production?wprov=sfla1

    I think politics has less to do with it than the availability of resources but some states clearly aren't trying.
     
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  13. American Brummie

    American Brummie Member+

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
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    #6788 American Brummie, May 9, 2025
    No sense putting energy infrastructure in Florida.
     
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  14. luftmensch

    luftmensch Member+

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    United States
    May 4, 2006
    Petaluma
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #6789 luftmensch, May 9, 2025
    Could start building machines to harness wave energy on land now, to be used later.
     
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  15. MattR

    MattR Member+

    Jun 14, 2003
    Reston
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #6790 MattR, May 9, 2025
    Just thinking outside the box here, what if we put wind turbines in Florida that could capture all the energy of a hurricane? And then we NUKED THE HURRICANE!

    That's stable genius level thinking, right there.
     
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  16. cachundo

    cachundo Marketa Davidova. Unicorn. World Champion

    GO STANFORD!
    Feb 8, 2002
    Genesis 16:12...He shall be a wild ass among men
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    #6791 cachundo, May 10, 2025
    Record-breaking heat in Japan is hurting rice farms [ link ]
     
  17. JamesA

    JamesA Member+

    Dec 7, 2004
    Victoria
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    #6792 JamesA, May 10, 2025
    Seems to be a ******** tonne of geothermal potential down some Palm Beach Island.
     
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  18. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
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    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
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    United States
    #6793 Paul Berry, May 10, 2025
    Can they reverse engineer the power of the Bermuda Triangle?
     
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  19. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    #6794 Bluto11, May 16, 2025
    Dust Bowl era dust storm coming into Chicago currently, got a warning on my phone. This is normal.
     
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  20. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
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    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
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    United States
    #6795 Paul Berry, May 16, 2025
    It really did a number.
    Screenshot_20250517_011310_Chrome.jpg
     
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  21. luftmensch

    luftmensch Member+

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    May 4, 2006
    Petaluma
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    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #6796 luftmensch, May 16, 2025
     
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  22. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    #6797 roby, May 16, 2025
    Geez...looks like the Rhodes was Dusty! :notworthy:
     
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  23. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    #6798 Bluto11, May 16, 2025
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  24. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #6799 soccernutter, May 22, 2025
    So, about that filibuster....

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/republicans-kill-filibuster-senate-trump.html

    This plan rests on a bold evasion of the filibuster. Trump’s EPA and Senate Republicans want to repeal California’s emissions standards under a law called the Congressional Review Act. This statute allows Congress to nullify rules that were recently issued by federal agencies, and to do so with a simple majority in each chamber, bypassing the filibuster in the Senate. Once the president signs a CRA repeal into law, agencies are forever barred from passing any regulation that is “substantially the same” as the one Congress nullified. Republicans claim that the California waivers qualify as an agency “rule” subject to repeal under the CRA. And they are racing to kill it through a mechanism that would, in theory, prevent the EPA from ever granting such a waiver again.​

    Why dose that matter (and why this thread)?

    The GOP’s current crusade against the filibuster is the result of fierce lobbying from the fossil-fuel industry, especially the American Petroleum Institute, against California’s stringent emissions requirements. The Clean Air Act expressly permits California to set its own, higher standards with approval from the Environmental Protection Agency. In January, at the end of Biden’s presidency, the EPA granted the state “waivers” to impose a package of strict requirements designed to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles. Weeks later, though, after Trump took over the EPA, the agency concocted a scheme to repeal those waivers—and bar California from obtaining waivers in the future. Now congressional Republicans seem ready to give the president a necessary assist.​

    The CA waiver was because CA is scheduled to prevent any gas power vehicles from being sold in the state by 2035. They are about to be prevented. Because, you know, Republicans believe in states' rights and all that.
     
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  25. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
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    United States
    #6800 ceezmad, Jun 3, 2025
    Meta signs a deal with a nuclear power plant in Illinois.

     
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