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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7126 on: March 20, 2023, 01:00:11 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 20, 2023, 12:35:00 PM
Humid air is less dense than drier air ...
wow I would have thought just the opposit
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7127 on: March 20, 2023, 01:08:44 PM »
Most people do because of how humid air "feels".  But H2O has a lower molecular weight than oxygen or nitrogen.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7128 on: March 20, 2023, 03:23:13 PM »
why a baseball or a golf ball will fly farther in humid air
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7129 on: March 20, 2023, 03:35:41 PM »
When I've visited desert locales, one thing that surprised me was how quickly the heat dissipates once the sun goes down.

You can go into a restaurant at 7pm in heat that is just WAY too hot for this life-long midwesterner and come out a couple hours later needing a winter coat. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7130 on: March 20, 2023, 03:54:47 PM »
the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco 

nearly froze to death at an A's game in Oakland one evening
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7131 on: March 20, 2023, 04:13:44 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 20, 2023, 03:54:47 PM
the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco
Mark Twain ...
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7132 on: March 20, 2023, 04:59:25 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 20, 2023, 04:13:44 PM
Mark Twain ...
my favority Twain quote

Man is the only animal that blushes or has a need to
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7133 on: March 21, 2023, 05:34:36 AM »
Pretty damn cold out right now. 48 degrees. Pool is at 76. Got company coming so gotta heat it up. 


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7134 on: March 21, 2023, 06:15:12 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on March 20, 2023, 03:35:41 PM
When I've visited desert locales, one thing that surprised me was how quickly the heat dissipates once the sun goes down.

You can go into a restaurant at 7pm in heat that is just WAY too hot for this life-long midwesterner and come out a couple hours later needing a winter coat.

Yeah, you need to change clothes the instant the sun goes down. 

Then there's the reverse phenomenon, where people will dress warm because it's still cold in the mornings, but then the sun comes up and they are completely screwed. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7135 on: March 21, 2023, 06:48:46 AM »
From the NYT:


1) The world is on track to surpass a significant level of warming. The world is likely to hit what scientists consider relatively safe levels of warming — 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — by the early 2030s, the report warned. Countries could still take steps to prevent that, by slashing greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and no longer adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the 2050s. But the required measures are so extreme that they seem increasingly unlikely, many experts say.

2) On the current track, brace for more disasters. Continued warming will mean more catastrophic flooding, deadly heat waves, crop-destroying droughts and other extreme weather. Some of those effects are already visible. Last year, record-breaking heat waves hit much of the world, including the U.S. and Europe, and floods submerged a third of Pakistan.
3) The world has made some real progress. In the past, climate reports warned that warming could surpass four degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. Today, the Earth is on a trajectory of around two to three degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit), thanks to the uptake of cleaner energy and to projections that coal use will decline. That difference of a few degrees can, like a fever, prevent more catastrophic events. And as my colleague Somini Sengupta noted, pivoting away from fossil fuels is the fastest way to stop global warming.

Item 3 is simply because the worst model projection was discarded, we have not made any real "progress", one can see how CO2 levels continue to rise at record rates.  This is disingenuous.  Anything based on "projections" is no sign of "real progress" either.


And of course any relationship between CC and extreme weather events is rather tenuous.  The predicted rise in hurricane strength and number has not as yet happened.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7136 on: March 21, 2023, 06:50:25 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7137 on: March 21, 2023, 07:12:59 AM »
I just turned the heat on. Burn some energy.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7138 on: March 21, 2023, 07:35:15 AM »
It's been below freezing here for several days in the AM, heat has been on of course.  We get a lot of sun in the AM which heats the place up nicely (and keep curtins drawn in summer).  Our friends with south facing condos get hammered in summer all day but have various blinds of course.  They rarely need heat in winter except at night.

We're off for a short trip up into the mountains, going to Gibb's Gardens again to see what it's like in early spring.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #7139 on: March 21, 2023, 09:56:32 AM »
Just got back from camping out at Big Bend National Park in West Texas.  It got down to 36 degrees in the basin, and sub-freezing up at the top of the Chisos mountains.  It snowed up there all day on Saturday, which is pretty rare in West Texas.  It even snowed on us down in the valley.

The RV stayed a comfortable 70 degrees throughout.
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