July 31, 20232 yr Quote When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature. "We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. In the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, Millán and his colleagues estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer. That’s nearly four times the amount of water vapor that scientists estimate the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines lofted into the stratosphere. [emphases added] -NASA
August 14, 20232 yr On 8/11/2023 at 8:39 AM, Dave Moss said: Power lines downed from high winds are being cited as a potential cause. https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/hecos-fire-response-plan-lacked-a-critical-step-shutting-down-power/ HECO Kept The Power Flowing In Lahaina Even As Poles Toppled https://www.oann.com/newsroom/maui-fires-that-killed-at-least-93-caused-by-faulty-hawaiian-electric-power-lines-attorneys-claim/ Maui Fires That Killed At Least 93 Caused By Faulty Hawaiian Electric Power Lines, Attorneys Claim
August 14, 20232 yr Wait, what? This never happens. Not in Montana! Quote The ruling in the first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S. adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change. District Court Judge Kathy Seeley found the policy the state uses in evaluating requests for fossil fuel permits — which does not allow agencies to evaluate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions — is unconstitutional.
August 14, 20232 yr This one is an absolute banger! https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0 Quote A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control. As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday. The find-one-climate-alarmist-wet-dream-that-actually-came-true challenge. (impossible)
August 14, 20232 yr What's the deal with Lighthouse for the Blind? I mean, how do they find it? Shouldn't it beep or something? And who let them drive a boat in the first place?
August 15, 20232 yr 19 hours ago, Arthur Jackson said: What's the deal with Lighthouse for the Blind? I mean, how do they find it? Shouldn't it beep or something? And who let them drive a boat in the first place? and how do they know when they are done wiping their arses ?
August 18, 20232 yr On 8/17/2023 at 1:05 PM, toolg said: Another Canadian city evacuated due to wildfires: Arson.
August 18, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, The_Omega said: Arson. That will make them feel better about losing their homes.
August 19, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Tnt4philly said: That will make them feel better about losing their homes. They can blame the arsonists, not the angry climate Gods.
August 19, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, The_Omega said: Arson. You're right, wildfires never happened before people.
August 19, 20232 yr With some luck the overall discussion will move from the activists and to people who take the problem seriously yet also are focused on practical solutions and not all the fear mongering, virtue signaling, and shaming which generally leads to the majority of people just turning off. I've heard some strong voices from the scientific community recently who are taking that line of thinking and that's just what is needed.
August 19, 20232 yr Researching (real research) is hard, and people prefer to accept whatever psuedo-scientific blurb most appeals to their beliefs. On any side.
August 19, 20232 yr We have to be really cautious - it sounds as if you two are trying to inject reasoned thinking into a political thread...
August 19, 20232 yr 13 hours ago, The_Omega said: They can blame the arsonists, not the angry climate Gods. Climate change doesn’t start fires, it makes fires worse. We need to focus on how to adapt to the changing climate instead pointing fingers.
August 19, 20232 yr Author 1 hour ago, sameaglesfan said: We have to be really cautious - it sounds as if you two are trying to inject reasoned thinking into a political thread... This was never meant to be a political thread.
August 19, 20232 yr 37 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said: Climate change doesn’t start fires, it makes fires worse. We need to focus on how to adapt to the changing climate instead pointing fingers. It increases the risk of them starting as well. I assisted in putting out a fire a few years ago at a grocery store during very dry drought conditions. It started in a very large bed of mulch by the entrance to the parking lot...you couldn't see the fire at all as it was smoldering underneath the surface, but if you kicked it around a bit, smoke and flames just leaped up.
August 21, 20232 yr https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-may-declare-a-climate-emergency-to-further-the-green-new-deal-by-nondemocratic-means Biden may declare a 'national climate emergency' to further the Green New Deal by non-democratic means: 'Just like COVID'
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