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Cincydawg

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3444 on: September 03, 2020, 09:58:32 PM »
I think I'd rather work on water desalination than taking CO2 out of the air better than plants.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3445 on: September 04, 2020, 09:00:46 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on September 03, 2020, 07:34:49 PM
Who are you? - what have you done with Fearless?
Fearless has the day off - headed out to play 36
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3446 on: September 04, 2020, 09:18:14 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on September 03, 2020, 03:58:11 PM
lots of places trees could be planted

my ex-wife planted plenty in my yard
I thought you said she was out of hers
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3447 on: September 06, 2020, 02:50:42 PM »
Phone now projects a high of 109 here. Currently says 107.

If so, I believe 109 will set an all time record. I believe the highest temp ever recorded in Mission Viejo is 108.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3448 on: September 06, 2020, 02:58:15 PM »
If my weekly forecast showed up on any of ya'll's phones, you'd throw the phone in the trash can and find the nearest walk-in freezer.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3449 on: September 06, 2020, 03:02:16 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 06, 2020, 02:58:15 PM
If my weekly forecast showed up on any of ya'll's phones, you'd throw the phone in the trash can and find the nearest walk-in freezer.
When you left the frying pan (FL), it was your own mistake to jump into the fire (AZ), Fro! :57:
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3450 on: September 06, 2020, 04:25:28 PM »
Ten day forecast here looks great, though we're about to need some rain.  High Ts of 80°F or less by midmonth.

The bar next door for whatever reason is rather noisy right now.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3451 on: September 06, 2020, 05:52:49 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on September 06, 2020, 02:50:42 PM
Phone now projects a high of 109 here. Currently says 107.

If so, I believe 109 will set an all time record. I believe the highest temp ever recorded in Mission Viejo is 108.
Sorry to hear that,it's been beautiful fall 58-75 deg. between nite/day in N.E.Ohio
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3452 on: September 06, 2020, 07:17:09 PM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3453 on: September 08, 2020, 04:49:47 AM »
https://www.carbonbrief.org/cmip6-the-next-generation-of-climate-models-explained?utm_content=buffera5cb9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A rather lengthy review of the latest climate models and how they vary between each other (significantly), and how they have problems back-predicting what we think we know about temperature trends in the 20th century.

They can't all be right.  They are all very very complex.  The latest updates show more warming than the last one.  We've already warmed about 1°C, apparently, to the extent we can reliably measure global temperature.

It's not as easy as it may seem.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3454 on: September 08, 2020, 05:05:27 AM »
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-change-plastic-pollution

In September, the US consultancy A.T. Kearney asked 1,500 Germans what they thought had the strongest impact on reducing the carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint of an average person. Of the seven choices listed, 22 per cent of them thought that cutting out plastic bags had the biggest impact on reducing CO2 – more than any other option. In reality, this saved the least of any of the proposed lifestyle changes: a reduction of just three kilograms of CO2 per person per year. Cutting out meat would reduce emissions by 450 kilograms, but respondents put it second-bottom in their ranking of the most impactful things they could do to reduce CO2 emissions.

In other words, we drastically overestimate the environmental impact of the small changes we are prepared to make, while underestimating the impact of changes that seem more extreme. These results weren’t from a scientific study – so take them with a pinch of salt – but they imply that our beliefs conform to what we think is tolerable, not what is best for the environment.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3455 on: September 08, 2020, 05:06:22 AM »
A 2019 report from Greenpeace found that lost and abandoned fishing gear makes up the majority of large plastic waste in the ocean. A study into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – the vast raft of floating debris that the Ocean Cleanup is attempting to mop up – estimated that 86 per cent of its mass was made up of fishing nets.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3456 on: September 08, 2020, 05:10:59 AM »
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/11/30/global-carbon-dioxide-emissions-are-on-the-brink-of-a-long-plateau/#b37e32c338d8

The CPS implies a global decarbonization rate of about 2.1% per year to 2040, while the SPS implies a rate of about 2.8% per year. Neither of these values seems unrealistic, based on recent experience, and may even be conservative depending upon the degree to which policy makers act more aggressively than the stated policies they have already committed to. But these numbers remain far off from what would be needed if the world is to achieve deep decarbonization of 80% reductions or more from present levels. Achieving such a goal would require annual rates of decarbonization of 7.5% per year to hit a 2 degree Celsius target and 11.3% per year to hit a 1.5 degree target. The emissions reduction challenge remains as daunting as ever.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #3457 on: September 08, 2020, 07:04:57 AM »
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-high-emissions-rcp8-5-global-warming-scenario

While it is clear that the world is not currently moving in the direction of mitigation scenarios consistent with Paris Agreement targets, it is much harder to use current emissions to determine which no-policy baseline is most likely much later in the century.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/unep-limiting-warming-to-1-5c-requires-fivefold-increase-in-climate-commitments

The report suggests that existing nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement are not sufficient. It adds that emission reductions from climate pledges need “to be roughly tripled” to limit warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels in 2100. Holding warming below 1.5C would require existing commitments to be “increased around fivefold”.

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