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Are we fools? Do we really believe that the 2015 Paris Agreement will limit global warming to well below 2°C, and preferably to 1·5°C, compared with pre-industrial levels? Commitments made by countries today would limit warming to about 2·4°C (with a range up to 3·7°C). We are way off track to meet the aspirations of Paris. For those who believe we should maintain our optimism—after all, hope encourages action, pessimism feeds nihilism—please consider reading Daniel Yergin’s book about energy and climate, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (2021). Five conclusions emerge from his sobering analysis. First, we have badly underestimated the scale of the changes we must make to the world’s economy to limit global warming. Our lives continue to be dangerously dependent on fossil fuels. 80% of the world’s energy is derived from oil, natural gas, and coal. Over the next two decades, a further US$20 trillion will be invested in oil and gas development. Second, the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables will be far more unpredictable than first envisaged. Projections about the uptake of electric vehicles, for example, vary wildly. Third, net zero emissions are not the same as zero emissions—achieving the 1·5°C target depends on carbon capture technologies that presently do not exist. Fourth, the velocity of political change needed to deliver Paris is not only unprecedented, but also full of risk. Rivalries between energy superpowers could easily spill over into full-blown conflict. And, finally, meeting climate goals requires nothing less than a total reconstruction of human civilisation—within a single generation. The Paris Agreement increasingly looks like a beautiful fairy tale. A story that conjured an imaginary, magical, and wholly fictional future. A fabrication with the intention to deceive.

Big quake in the 'Stan today. Sounds like over 1000 dead.

well, that's one reason

its the one he gave

do you have another

perhaps he just wanted to annoy a whole bunch of people from many continents

thats a given

Pretty slow start to storm season here. Only one so far, and it didn't get a name until it moved over Florida and into the Atlantic. Petered out pretty quickly after it got named.

I guess the Sahara dust is helping out. Need to read up on that more.

The teeth of the season is really Late August to mid November. That's when the water is warmest, although it is warmer than normal in some key spots now.

I had a couple of meteorology classes at UW, and a couple while going through the process of getting my USCG Captain's License. 

I kinda wish I would have gone that route sometimes.