Whistling wind
The heat wave continues here in the Pacific Northwest. Hovering around 100 for the last ten days, it has caused the suspected death of many older citizens, two just yesterday. A man in his 50s found dead in his apartment, which had no AC, and a 55 year old woman was found dead as a result of extreme heat.
And more hot temperatures are on the way for the foreseeable future.
Millions of homes and apartments in the PNW have never had ac as heat was never a big problem for the cool temps of yesteryears. Hot summer spells never lasted as long before.
Now, they are not only lasting longer, but are higher temperatures, and more often, happen in earlier months, and extend late into the fall.
Much like California, which used to have an actual "fire season", but now is a season that lasts year round, we are experiencing an increase in events.
My garden at home is doing fine as I'm able to water it daily. My choice to not plant a garden at the farm this year is directly the result of not being able to tend to it properly with watering.
Of the 70 pine tree saplings I have planted, nearly half have died, probably from irregular watering.
An automatic irrigation system is my next priority.
Add to this the multiple fires burning up and down all three western states, smoke is in the air everywhere.
But climate change is a hoax doncha know?
Whistling past the graveyard.
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weather weirding is real...
While y'all are burning up, we're having highs in the 70's...in August in Alabama. Tomorrow AM is supposed to be 52F.
As the arctic warms there's less differential between the temperature at the equator and arctic. That provides less drive to the jet stream and it creates big loops...
Shifting Winds: How a wavier polar jet stream causes extreme weather events
I fully expect to see the weirding increase as I age. Now it can be argued if CO2 and human activity is the cause, but it is a fact that change is happening.
Arctic sea ice extent timelapse 1978-2024
Over the last 40 years, annual Arctic sea ice measurements show ice shrinking by 12.6 percent each decade, a pace of decline that’s unmatched by any point in at least the last 1,500 years.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/climate-indicators/sea-ice
In the Arctic, sea ice extent has declined markedly since 1979, although the trend has levelled off since 2007. The decline has occurred in all months of the year, but has been largest in September, when the ice extent reaches its annual minimum.
In March, the long-term reduction in sea ice cover is greatest in the Barents Sea. In September, the reduction is much more widespread across the Arctic and is greatest in a band stretching from the Kara Sea to the Beaufort Sea.
Alongside the decline in Arctic sea ice extent, the proportion of multiyear (‘old’) ice has decreased, while the proportion of first-year (‘young’) ice has increased.
In the Antarctic, despite successive record minima reached in February 2022 and 2023, sea ice extent as a whole shows large year-to-year variability and no clear long-term trend since 1979.
However, perhaps the changes are not all bad...
Research: Global warming contributed to decline in tropical cyclones in the 20th century
Stay cool, and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for the links, Lookout
I'd like to think there is a silver lining here, like, as one door closes, another opens. Perhaps the northern reaches of Canada and Russia will lose all their ice and snow and reveal a lush and fertile landscape ideal for cultivation and habitation. And with a renewed appreciation for soil health and general love for the Earth.
Just think of all those shiny new Russian icebreakers going on the auction block.
Beyond my time though.
Have a great day.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Spot on.
That is the thing that climate change deniers universally refuse to understand. There's an article currently on Zerohedge about this: they are saying "It is unusually cold this month, which proves that the whole concept of climate change is a lie".
They are mistaken.
Climate change is expressing itself as the weirding you mention. Climate is not weather: the two are certainly related, but are neither synonymous or identical, as the deniers would have one believe. And this change in the Earth's climate is increasing the chaos in what were formerly-dependable weather patterns, and doing so in undeniable ways. This very real weirding is resulting in hotter hots, colder colds, dryer drys, and wetter wets.
There is no part of the country, or the world, that will miss out on this increasing entropy. I will avoid the inevitable arguments about whether the current climate change is being increased by human activity (since the Industrial Revolution, perhaps). Such discussions devolve instantly into religion, and ultimately serve no purpose, since H. Sap. clearly isn't going to change anything about what it does or how it does it. But the increased chaos can't be missed: it can only be disingenuously ignored.
On the other hand, I can say one thing without fear of contradiction: it will most assuredly get worse before it gets better. I'm just waiting to see what names this year's Thanksgiving or Christmas hurricanes will be given. (:-)
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Regarding the names
for the coming holiday hurricanes.
Trump will have to be one of them. Must feed his ego.
I notice he is pushing for a $500 dollar bill. Gee, wonder what presidential face will be on it?
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Shortly after the war on global warming was announced
We were told that atmospheric temperature increases we were observing were being driven by CO2 and some other gasses (Freon and other refrigerants?) and we humans were to blame. The Greenhouse Effect became the focus for our remediation efforts. A friend of mine immediately called bullshit, citing much higher average CO2 levels on the planet for millions of years. I dismissed his point of view out of hand, and moved him into my “Kook” folder.
Today I find myself now also in the same “kook” folder. The tipping point arrived recently when global sea surface temperatures spiked more than could possibly be explained by solar radiation and the greenhouse effect, leaving the scientists without an adequate explanation. Previously, science was puzzled by the extent of rapid sea ice loss in Antarctica. Science figured that one out when they realized the ice was melting largely from below.
Science may be a bunch of hot air at times, but it’s altogether possible that the bulk of the ‘problem’ lies in the increasing hot water we are surrounded with and not the CO2 in the atmosphere that we’ve been blaming all along.
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
I read that piece
regarding the ice melting from below.
"Science figured that one out when they realized the ice was melting largely from below."
It did seem credible, at first. Then I realized that the Earth should not be getting warmer, but cooler, like a hot potato left out on the galactic table.
I suppose it possible the magma is moving around under the crust as a natural phenomena, perhaps something to do with the magnetic field getting ready to flip.
Or, here's a kook one, the CO2 is lighter than air and the more of it in the atmosphere the less atmospheric pressure is exerted on the crust holding down the magma's natural process of expanding outward through the volcanic process. On a global scale a tiny bit less pressure could be momentous.
I really don't know anything for sure as I'm no scientist.
But I rely on my sense of rational and physics ( for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction) and the certain knowledge that there is a limit to the human population of the Earth in finite resources.
And converting fossil fuels into CO2 is ultimately unsustainable.
The timeline could be 10 years, a hundred, or a thousand, but here is where we have to decide. Are we a human family? Or just selfish animals living in the moment?
Thanks for the food for thought. Mmmm, I'm full.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Cascades and Pacific Ocean is part of the ring of fire
our knowledge of movement of magma and geothermal heat keeps growing as new technological tools become available to monitor the area we live. Just a few bites to digest.
Hydrothermal vents, methane seeps play enormous role in marine life, global climate Oregon State University May 27, 2016
Diverse behaviors of Cascade Range volcanoes unraveled in subduction zone studies KATU June 2, 2025 (7,45 min)
Scientists find giant magma reservoirs hidden beneath dormant volcanoes in the Cascades Live Science February 5, 2025
The current heat cycles remind me of the few years after the severe drought in the seventies ended. Perhaps in addition to the annual cycle with 12 lunar cycles there are longer of multiple years and/or decades. Foreknowledge of such patterns are a powerful tool for influence.
Wikipedia 8/26/2025
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Thanks for the links and the video
Yes, there is a lot we don't know about what goes on on the seafloor. It is the last terrestrial frontier. It's just under water, a lot of water.
I would imagine advances in drone tech will allow us to gain a lot more knowledge without "boots on the ground".
Interesting tidbit: Russia has successfully powered oil and gas pumping rigs on the sea floor using submersed mini nuclear power plants.
It also powers their undersea listening stations.
Why can't we build stuff like that?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I suspect that our Sun, and all of its planets
have a more dynamic relationship than I had assumed, and that exchanges of energy may be ongoing between the Sun and all its planets. Solar activity seems to be related not only to our Earths weather patterns but to earthquake and volcanic activity as well.
Perhaps our Sun energizes the core as well as the surface of our planet Earth and we are not as alone in the universe as we might imagine.
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
Good afternoon, e1!
You'd be amazed at the number of people who do not understand the difference in climate and weather. Having a lucid conversation with them is pointless. Once you do find a person who can define "climate", there will likely be a difference of opinion on whether it is changing, and if it is agreed that it is changing, did humans cause it? Moving right along, agreeing humans are the cause, people are likely to disagree on whether it is fossil fuels, CO2, or geoengineering that is the culprit.
Last year was the August of constant heat stroke deaths, and this August is the coolest I can remember in all my life. That is a brutal way to die. Very tragic.
Well, I spent over an hour in the office yard picking up fallen limbs and twigs. Wind gusts from a weekend storm littered the yard. No clients will trip and fall, mowing can be done, and I got some exercise.
Thanks for the OT, my friend! Enjoy your day and make that irrigation plan!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I think
every schoolchild should have a course in meteorological basics, if just to know what their weatherman is telling them on tv about atmospheric highs and lows and why the wind blows.
Or why the ocean temps are colder on the North American coasts than the East coast.
It's really not rocket science.
Have a great day.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Absolutely!
I will admit that jet streams were not a term when i was growing up. Climate zones were maybe college level.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening e1, et. al. Humans are interestingly
blinkered in a lot of ways. I believe that this is why they invented god(s), either a panoply of gods, one for each type of thing, or one in control of everything.
"Oh look, this phenomena appears to have multiple "causes"; a, b, & c all contribute to it." 'No that's crazy, it's cause (singular) and effect (singular) a bi-directional one to one mapping, anything else is too bizzare and complicated to fathom.' "OK, how about GOD did it?" 'Yeah, that must be the answer, anything else has to be just wrong; it can't be a if it can be b or c, now can it."
So there you have it. Lucy for us, this means that all remedial action beyond prayer is doomed to be futile, so we needn't curtail any comfort or behavior in any way, because none of them, beyond GOD, can be the magikal sole cause.
That being the case, I'm gonna indirectly sacrificed (past tense) a pig and go have me some bacon.
It's warmish here, but it has been warm to hot too damn many consecutive days. Since we ssaw this coming on we cleaned our solar panels, so our heat pump A/C is costing us less, whether in payout or payback, come our true-up. OF course, solar cooling is clearly pseudo-science, but I'm carzy like that.
Sorry I'm late cjhecking in- busy, busy morning
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I'm still up and at it
You guys get your moneys worth out of me.
My favorite question to bible thumpers at my door is: Who is God's daddy, and wouldn't he be even more powerful?
They usually just turn and leave mumbling to themselves.
I finish with "Bless you!"
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.