It's Climate Change, Stupid

[Ziggins]

Florida is still gaining population, especially from New York.

 

[JackLuis]

America hit with wildfires and snowstorms — as two new tropical storms form in the Atlantic

Crazy weather continues in 2020 with Americans facing different seasons depending upon where they live.

In the southeast, it is still hurricane season, with two new named storms forming on Labor Day:

California was hit with a heat wave and record fires, as the Santa Ana winds begin:

Meanwhile, it’s snowing in the Rocky Mountain states, where winter has arrived.

And the southern plains are facing flash floods:

In the meantime Washington DC is awash in bullshit!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Devastation’: Wildfires ravage western United States

“Unprecedented” wildfires fueled by strong winds and searing temperatures were raging cross a wide swathe of California, Oregon and Washington on Wednesday, destroying scores of homes and businesses in the western US states and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.

In California, where at least eight deaths have been reported, National Guard helicopters rescued hundreds of people trapped by the Creek Fire in the Sierra National Forest.

“We simply do not have enough resources to fully fight and contain every fire,” said Randy Moore, regional forester for the Pacific Southwest Region.

California has seen more than 7,600 fires this year which have burned more than 2.2 million acres — an annual record, with nearly four months of fire season still to come.

Smoke filled the great valley this week as the state goes up in flames!

 

[JackLuis]

Fifteen killed, 500,000 evacuated as western US burns out of control

Crews battled sprawling wildfires up and down the US West Coast on Friday in a wave of infernos that have killed 15 people and forced more than half a million others to flee their homes.

The true scale of destruction was hard to gauge across wide stretches of California, Oregon and Washington that were cut off by flames fueled by record heat and intense, dry winds.

More than 2.6 million acres have been burned across the whole state so far, a Cal Fire spokesman said late Thursday. And the state has not yet hit the peak of the fire season.

Half a million people have been evacuated in neighboring Oregon to the north, where the government said firefighters were “prioritizing life (and) safety as they battle a record 900,000 acres of wildfires.”

Governor Kate Brown said the area incinerated in just the last 72 hours was twice the state’s annual average, and that at least five towns had been “substantially destroyed.”

“We have never seen this amount of uncontained fire across our state,” she told a press conference.

Governor Gavin Newsom blamed the ferocity of this year’s fires on climate change.
“We must do more,” he tweeted. “We need action at EVERY level. CA cannot do this alone. Climate change is REAL.”

 

[phrodeau]

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[bhurry]

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Pretty Good buy look nice over the fireplace i would .

 

[bhurry]

Fifteen killed, 500,000 evacuated as western US burns out of control

MOVE or try some good forestry practices.

 

[Just4AFriend]

MOVE or try some good forestry practices.

Yeah! The Feds should water their forests better too! Or perhaps the states should take the Federal lands for themselves
And those Australians... same stupidity!
Nothing whatever to do with draught and climate change!
If only the fire protection folks had the Chinese drones that Trump cut them off from obtaining for setting controlled burns back when it have helped more OR now as backfires... or just using the drones to watch for fires...
Damn those Chinese!!! First the virus then not sending us drones
Remind us to turn our backs on the Hurricane worries if others!
Soon?? Medi-canes.. Hurricanes in the Mediterranean...yeah.. nothing new there!

 

[KeithD]

MOVE or try some good forestry practices.

Do tell us of these better forestry practices than their budgets permit.

 

[Just4AFriend]

Do tell us of these better forestry practices than their budgets permit.

We need to rake more of course !
Ignore the Russian trolls

 

[JackLuis]

Do tell us of these better forestry practices than their budgets permit.

They say the blood of Tyrants is the best fertilizer.

 

[KeithD]

They say the blood of Tyrants is the best fertilizer.

Thomas Jefferson certainly said that.

 

[JackLuis]

In cruel climate twist, rooftop solar fails in CA wildfire smoke

Solar rooftops systems fail as smoke from California wildfires blocks sunlight.

When deadly wildfires tinted Western skies a Martian hue this week, homeowners with their own rooftop solar systems were able to tell with great precision just how much useful sunlight reached them through the gloom: next to none.

Wednesday was "the worst generation day, ever," said Mary Holstege, a retired software engineer in Cupertino, California, who went solar a year ago. Her system, which puts out 40 kilowatt-hours a day in the summer, barely dribbled out 1.65 — maybe enough to dry a load of laundry.

Others fared worse. Bentham Paulos, an energy policy consultant in Berkeley, called the solar power system he's had for 10 years "extremely predictable every single day, except this week." On Wednesday he peaked at about 12 watts, or enough to light one LED bulb, "and it went away," he said.

Left Coast fires have burned over 3 million acres and they still aren't out!

 

[JackLuis]

Slow-moving Hurricane Sally heads towards southern US states

The National Hurricane Center said the storm in the Gulf of Mexico was packing maximum sustained winds of around 90 miles (150 kilometers) per hour.

At 1800 GMT, it was located 160 miles southeast of Biloxi, Mississippi, and heading in a west-northwesterly direction at seven mph.
It was expected to make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, which is still recovering from Hurricane Laura, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Sally could impact the southeast part of the state and told residents to be prepared.

Sally is one of five active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
The others are Hurricane Paulette, tropical storms Teddy and Vicky and tropical depression Rene.
According to meteorologists, the only other time there were five active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic at the same time was in September 1971.

Just Trump's luck. FEMA out of money, a pandemic rages and five Hurricanes on the move!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Yet another alarm bell’: Ice chunk twice the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland glacier Amid Record Arctic Warming

News of the development came as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared this summer the hottest ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

A chunk of ice nearly twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s largest remaining glacier and fallen into the ocean, a frightening phenomenon that researchers and environmentalists attributed to record-breaking Arctic warming driven by the human-caused climate crisis.

“Speaking of the disintegration of glaciers, it is happening in Antarctica, too,” Cole notes. “There are two gargantuan glaciers, Pine Island and Thwaites, that are already responsible for 5% of sea level rise. They anchor the West Antarctic Ice Shelf. If they become unmoored, and the parts of the ice shelf that are not already in the water plop in to the ocean, it would raise sea level by an average of 10 feet over time. That would pretty much do in Miami and New Orleans, but also parts of lower Manhattan. It would be a catastrophe.”

“The three-month season from June through August 2020 was the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest meteorological summer on record, surpassing both 2019 and 2016 which were previously tied for hottest,” the agency said in a statement summarizing its findings. “This period, which also marks the Southern Hemisphere’s winter, was Earth’s third warmest in the 141-year record at 1.66 degrees F (0.92 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average.”

 

[bhurry]

Do tell us of these better forestry practices than their budgets permit.

surplus ? sierra club

 

[bhurry]

‘Yet another alarm bell’: Ice chunk twice the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland glacier Amid Record Arctic Warming

Any more bullshit or is that it for today? Just asking.

 

[JackLuis]

Tropical Storm Beta prompts hurricane watch for parts of Texas

Tropical Storm Beta is churning in the Gulf of Mexico, prompting forecasters to issue a hurricane watch for a swathe of the Texas coast spanning from High Island to Port Aransas. Slow strengthening is expected, with Beta forecast to grow into a hurricane on Sunday.

The storm is the latest to form in a highly active Atlantic hurricane season – so active that forecasters have run out of traditional storm names and moved on to using the Greek alphabet to name new storms. This has only happened twice in history.

On Friday, three new storms came to life in a single day: Wilfred – using the last of the traditional names – followed by Alpha and Beta.

"On the forecast track, the center of Beta will slowly approach the Texas coast into early next week," the National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning.

With Fla still cleaning up from Sally, Texas braces for another blow job.