Earth's Hottest Month

[ultrarunner]

We could be so much better is an under statement...

 

[ikoflexer]

Thats why I’d rather produce here. At least we could be responsible enough to clean it up instead of giving the pproduction to the Chinese

I agree. Together with production goes skill sets that takes generations to build. The entire nation becomes dependent on a frenemy. But what are you gonna, the poor is dependent on buying cheap, the rich on big profits. Both of these wouldn't be possible without cheap production elsewhere.

Can't really blame the poor Chinese who barely make any money, their first priority being to feed a family, couldn't care less about the smog. It's a huge population. majority being very poor. Likewise many farmers here are very suspicious of carbon reduction if it puts a dent in their income. The most fervent proponents of carbon tax are those who either stand to profit from it or don't get affected by it. Plus, will it be enough to make a difference? I suppose some will feel good that they at least tried.

 

[Hay Dude]

We could be so much better is an under statement...

Why don’t we want to have great, prosperous country for everyone . Seems treasonous to keep holding this country back from it. Someday in the near future, if not now, we won’t have an opportunity to return to prosperity for everyone.
I fear we are there- hope I’m wrong

 

[Frankenkubota]

Are you in Pennsylvania? I ask, because it says S.E. PA on your avatar, and I believe PA stands for Pennsylvania.

According to this website, https://data.ydr.com/tornado-archive/ there have been 935 tornadoes in PA since 1950

Which brings up a good point. How many people think that just because what they think is happening around them, that means Global Warming is real?

Remember everything was orange? Power lines. Power poles. Buildings. Houses. Playground equipment. Everything had an orange tint to it from the steel mills.

now that you mention it....

i grew up in beer town, Milwaukee. It you got anywhere near the breweries the smell was amazing......bad! I guess it was hops?

grandma lived outside orlando and i speant a lot of time there. do you remember when the auto makers first had to hide the structure of their bumpers, back when they introduced 5 mph bumpers. They put on a large flat piece of body color plastic to cover the void and, in florida, the plastic would disintegrate with black stuff all over it.

Fertilizer, central florida has....or used to have a special kinda reek to it from fertilizer ...... or so i was told.

 

[Frankenkubota]

I've seen this sentence more than a few times, and i wonder if they are referring to the history of the planet as a whole, or just for the short period of time since life was on it?

life's been here for billions of years.

 

[Torvy]

My wife used to work for Miller in MKE. Part of the reason we came here was that she could transfer. Another option was actually NC. The smell was likely the wort.

People complain today about the smell of manure. Growing up, I was always told 'that's the smell of money'.

 

[Frankenkubota]

The basic timeline of a 4.6 billion-year-old Earth includes the following:

• About 3.5 - 3.8 billion years of simple cells (prokaryotes).
• 3 billion years of photosynthesis.
• 2 billion years of complex cells (eukaryotes).
• 1 billion years of multicellular life.
• 600 million years of simple animals.
• 570 million years of arthropods (ancestors of insects, arachnids and crustaceans).
• 550 million years of complex animals.
• 500 million years of fish and proto-amphibians.
• 475 million years of land plants.
• 400 million years of insects and seeds.
• 360 million years of amphibians.
• 300 million years of reptiles.
• 200 million years of mammals.
• 150 million years of birds.
• 130 million years of flowers.
• 65 million years since the non-avian dinosaurs died out.
• 2.5 million years since the appearance of ****.
• 200,000 years since the appearance of modern humans.
• 25,000 years since Neanderthals died out.

70,000 years ago....**** sapien-sapien

humans thinking about thinking.

 

[Frankenkubota]

My wife used to work for Miller in MKE. Part of the reason we came here was that she could transfer. Another option was actually NC. The smell was likely the wort.

People complain today about the smell of manure. Growing up, I was always told 'that's the smell of money'.

the champagne of bottled beer

in the sub sandwich business vinegar and oil was the smell of money.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Why don’t we want to have great, prosperous country for everyone . Seems treasonous to keep holding this country back from it. Someday in the near future, if not now, we won’t have an opportunity to return to prosperity for everyone.
I fear we are there- hope I’m wrong

i look at the standard of living as a good benchmark. if memory serves, ours peaked in the 80s or 90s?

 

[rademamj1]

MoKelly, it is Earth First. We'll strip mine the other planets later.

Science says the earth is 4.5 billion years old. We have temperature readings going back 150 years. That is the same as reading the last letter in the last sentence on the last page of a 10,000 page novel and saying you know what the book is about. Talk about arrogance.

First it was an impending ice age. Now it we have the hottest July on record. We stopped using paper bags because we were killing all the trees which was causing global warming. Replaced them with plastic, and now we have outlawed plastic bags because they are killing the planet. Gas cars are bad, oil energy is bad. EV cars are good as is solar energy, except for the energy required to make solar panels, and how will we dispose of all the batteries when they are dead in 10 years?

As said before, the climate change "catastrophe" is about power, control and money. It is not about weather or our planet.

Don't forget Solar Panels require special chemicals and metals to just fabricate these panels, and lots of electricity is used in the manufacturing process. These solar panels have an average life span of 23 years before they need to be replaced. The efficiency of Solar Panels has not increased more than 0.6% over last 10 years, despite $Billions spent on academic research. Currently there are only three American "manufacturers" of Solar Panels, but two of those actually just import Chinese solar panels and resell them for Homes, RV's and Solar farms. Leaving TESLA as the only true American company and the largest manufacturer of Solar panels in the US.

About 30 years from now when all these first generation of solar panels are ready for the trash, the world will be asking scientist why did we ever decide on solar panels.