My thoughts went to the mild winter and the mild summer this year. This pleased me for the sake of our homeless community. This winter promises to be very wet and very cold. Already succeeding. And a source of further concern is my frustration with the city administration and the progressive mayor for which I campaigned and voted. He is closing all the shelters and removing the encampments. This suggests he is in favor of making it impossible for our homeless to remain in city limits. Frustrated and angry.
I wish every American politician would be given a few months of internship at a European government or municipality, just to get an idea of how things can be done differently.
Brilliant thought. I want them to have a reasonable salary and no more "bribery" from organizations. I want leaders who want good for the country for no other reason than it's the right thing to do.
Our winter is disturbingly cold with night lows of 21-23 degrees, unusually cold 🥶! Will likely get worse in the teens when we have to keep water dripping to avoid bursting pipes. This is the South after all but that means little now. And next week’s coming. I do get too personal but would be nice if my heat pump had not died last week. 😢
One day at a time; it’s the 💰I try not to worry about but the 🤡 threatening my “entitlements”, those I paid for through many working years! The powers that be might look closer at the Pentagon since they just failed to achieve an audit 7th. year in a row! We will survive! I’m sure there’s a great song with those lyrics. Need to research that! 😘
In fact, the regions bordering Mediterranean have really been very exposed to high heat this year, more than usual, and the temperature of the Mediterranean sea has clearly increased, it becomes very noticeable...
Thanks, Alex, for all these precision on climate change.
In France, the "meteorological" summer 2024 was still hotter than normal, with two heat waves and locally very violent stormy episodes.
According to the specialized press : «Before 1989, we observed on average a heat wave every 5 years in our country. Since 2000, they come back almost every year"
And especially in the south of the country, where a mixture of strong heat (day and night) and violent storms was really chaotic this year! Temperatures exceeding seasonal values by more than 2°C.
With peaks of more than 4°C, more particularly in the South-East and Corsica.
I don't want to ruin a perfectly good Sunday evening, but this is only the beginning; it's bound to get worse - as in: much worse - unless our leaders treat the crisis as the crisis it is.
Rain storm this morning all the way up in Tromsø Norway. Seems to have calmed down a bit. While temps are usually milder along the coast this is not normal in December.
Worried for the Arctic region as I've always felt at home here.
Thanks for sharing that very interesting (& troubling) study in Science. I was aware of the negative albedo effect from reduced polar ice, but had mistakenly thought warmer planetary temperatures would lead to more evaporation and higher cloud cover. Not good news, especially coupled with the AMOC struggles.
It was my expectation too. I believe a 1C rise in atmospheric temperature is about 5 or 7 percent more humidity in the air, so you would expect more clouds and reflection. Somehow, these feedback loops are far more often positive (and thus negative for us). There are some negative feedback loops; for instance, more CO2 is (to a certain level) good for plant growth, which would then catch more CO2. But these, unfortunately, don't outweigh the positive ones.
My thoughts went to the mild winter and the mild summer this year. This pleased me for the sake of our homeless community. This winter promises to be very wet and very cold. Already succeeding. And a source of further concern is my frustration with the city administration and the progressive mayor for which I campaigned and voted. He is closing all the shelters and removing the encampments. This suggests he is in favor of making it impossible for our homeless to remain in city limits. Frustrated and angry.
Going to look at lovely images.
I wish every American politician would be given a few months of internship at a European government or municipality, just to get an idea of how things can be done differently.
Brilliant thought. I want them to have a reasonable salary and no more "bribery" from organizations. I want leaders who want good for the country for no other reason than it's the right thing to do.
Our winter is disturbingly cold with night lows of 21-23 degrees, unusually cold 🥶! Will likely get worse in the teens when we have to keep water dripping to avoid bursting pipes. This is the South after all but that means little now. And next week’s coming. I do get too personal but would be nice if my heat pump had not died last week. 😢
oh no, you've been through so much already this year!
One day at a time; it’s the 💰I try not to worry about but the 🤡 threatening my “entitlements”, those I paid for through many working years! The powers that be might look closer at the Pentagon since they just failed to achieve an audit 7th. year in a row! We will survive! I’m sure there’s a great song with those lyrics. Need to research that! 😘
Images more fun! 🤩
In fact, the regions bordering Mediterranean have really been very exposed to high heat this year, more than usual, and the temperature of the Mediterranean sea has clearly increased, it becomes very noticeable...
Thanks, Alex, for all these precision on climate change.
In France, the "meteorological" summer 2024 was still hotter than normal, with two heat waves and locally very violent stormy episodes.
According to the specialized press : «Before 1989, we observed on average a heat wave every 5 years in our country. Since 2000, they come back almost every year"
And especially in the south of the country, where a mixture of strong heat (day and night) and violent storms was really chaotic this year! Temperatures exceeding seasonal values by more than 2°C.
With peaks of more than 4°C, more particularly in the South-East and Corsica.
I don't want to ruin a perfectly good Sunday evening, but this is only the beginning; it's bound to get worse - as in: much worse - unless our leaders treat the crisis as the crisis it is.
PS Mauritshaus and The Passage! Great memories.
Same here!
Rain storm this morning all the way up in Tromsø Norway. Seems to have calmed down a bit. While temps are usually milder along the coast this is not normal in December.
Worried for the Arctic region as I've always felt at home here.
Yes, many reasons to worry about the Arctic, and trouble up there always leads to more trouble down south.
Thanks for sharing that very interesting (& troubling) study in Science. I was aware of the negative albedo effect from reduced polar ice, but had mistakenly thought warmer planetary temperatures would lead to more evaporation and higher cloud cover. Not good news, especially coupled with the AMOC struggles.
It was my expectation too. I believe a 1C rise in atmospheric temperature is about 5 or 7 percent more humidity in the air, so you would expect more clouds and reflection. Somehow, these feedback loops are far more often positive (and thus negative for us). There are some negative feedback loops; for instance, more CO2 is (to a certain level) good for plant growth, which would then catch more CO2. But these, unfortunately, don't outweigh the positive ones.