Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

And here is some more on how the high temperatures might've impacted on the vote.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/05/india-election-results-heat-bjp-cllmate-crisis

https://i.imgur.com/zsZt5YO.png

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/during-year-of-extremes-carbon-dioxide-levels-surge-faster-than-ever

Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO2 program that manages the institution’s 56-year-old measurement series, noted that year-to-year increase recorded in March 2024 was the highest for both Scripps and NOAA in Keeling Curve history.

“Not only is CO2 now at the highest level in millions of years, it is also rising faster than ever,” said Keeling.

90+ degrees on the last day of spring, just like always. nothing to see here

https://i.imgur.com/32mC0De.png

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/louisiana-sea-wall-gas-facility-flooding/
(gift link: https://wapo.st/3zq8niG)

The marshes that blanket this pancake-flat parish south of New Orleans stretch for miles, strewn with small streams that flow into the Gulf of Mexico. A lone four-lane road goes south past a Navy air base, an idle industrial site, a coal export terminal and a handful of small storm-battered communities.

Then, suddenly, a gigantic facility rises from the wetlands. Cranes dot the skyline. They hover over crews that are installing a jumble of pipes, pumps, storage tanks and two 720-megawatt power plants — equipment needed to freeze natural gas into a liquid form so it can be shipped around the world.

It might seem like a risky location for a $21 billion liquefied natural gas plant, given this region’s ferocious hurricanes and sea levels that are rising faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. But the company building this plant, Arlington, Va.-based Venture Global, says it has an answer to these threats: a 26-foot-high steel sea wall that surrounds the 632-acre site, twice the size of Washington’s National Mall.

i think we should give the rising fortresses a fair chance!

new all-time record in las vegas today: 120 F, beating the previous mark of 117

i’m sure the local power authority was begging the casinos to limit their peak-hour a/c usage

- Fed Chair's testimony before the house Jul 11, 2024.
- Excerpt from almost the last question after two days and more than six hours of testimony.

Congress: In 2021 you were part of the FSOC report on climate related Financial Risk that for the first time identified climate risk as an emerging threat to climate stability. Do you still agree with that conclusion?

Fed Chair: The conclusion being what again?

Congress Person: That climate change was an emerging threat to US financial stability.

Fed Chair: Yeah.

Congress: I raise that because I've been troubled by some of the letters we've written by this April Bloomberg report that said:
number 1: that fed officials were pressuring the basel committee to make disclosures of bank's transition plans optional and they succeeded,
number 2: that the Fed OCC and FDIC were pushing to limit implementation of the basel committee's climate risk management principals to remove financed emissions, and
number 3: that the US, unlike other countries did not propose that any of its banks be subject to an analysis of how they incorporated climate in their credit risk assessments.
Have any representatives from your agency attempted to weaken the basel committee's work on climate risk including by expressing concern about the basel committee overstepping its mandate with respect to its climate work?

Fed Chair: I guess I would say it this way. The FED does not have an mandate of fostering an energy transition or dealing with climate change. Some of the northern European banks feel that they do. They actually have that. It is in their mandate either explicitly or implicitly but we don't.

Congress: But if we agree that climate change is an emerging threat to the stability of the banking system. Are you saying you are not acting on it because you don't have the authority or you're not acting on it because you disagree with what you said in 2021?

Fed Chair: When you say and I agree there's an emerging threat to financial stability, that's over time. I think looking to the banking agencies to lead the fight on climate change is a big mistake. I think it is a job for elected people. we don't have that mandate in the united states. We can do a very limited thing which is make sure that the institutions we supervise are aware of and can manage those risks. We are not going to be the ones who are forcing them to adopt plans to transition and that kind of thing. That is just not going to happen through the banking agencies without a law change.

Congress: So if it is the view of the rest of the world that climate change is a Financial Risk and we're going to regulate our banks is it the view of the FED that the US GSIB's should not be required to report (about this risk)?

Fed Chair: You know again, we're not going to be climate policy makers at the FED. We are not going to do that. We don't have that mandate. A key to our independence is that we stick to the job you've given us and the idea that we should discover climate and say we're going to lead the fight on climate. If we are going to do things like that we should be part of the treasury department.

Congress: Well, so to be clear, no one's under the illusions that you're the EPA. But I spoke with Janet Yellen about this yesterday. We have multiple states where the insurance industry is collapsing. Something like, as you know well, something like a third to 40% of US wealth is tied up in real estate and okay, US homeowners are not GSIBs but in the 2008 financial crisis we had risk that moved out of the GSIBs onto other entities' balance sheets and we said, 'well we're not responsible because it's an insurance company'. Well, we fixed that. You do have an mandate if there's systemic risk so the question is if we know that risk is moving through the system is the FSOC monitoring that risk or is the FSOC [of the opinion] that, 'if I'm not allowed to look at it, I'm not going to look at it. It is someone else's problem'. Because that somebody else is the person sitting here. Right. We're going to be accountable if that risk, when those chickens come home to roost.

Fed Chair: The banks know their risks pretty well and you see the banks and the insurance companies pulling back from lending in coastal areas and things like that.

Congress: No I agree. But where are they offloading that risk to? We've seen them putting it onto Fanny and Freddie. We've seen Fanny and Freddie try and put it on the reinsurance industry. ***The risk doesn't go away.***

Fed Chair: We don't regulate them.

Jeez. Thank you for posting that.

Whoever wins the election will need to have a plab for this.

The heat in the Southwest US is incredible. #Vegas saw its fifth day with temperatures of at least 115°F (46°C). During the first nine days of July, ~2.2 billion gallons of water just vaporized from Lake #Shasta. The whole region is at risk of becoming uninhabitable in summer. pic.twitter.com/osqddOEU0m

— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) July 13, 2024

trump: immigrants are the problem
biden: we will partner with the world's leading desalinization experts in israel to fix this with technology and make some money along the way

Here's some actual terrifying new math from NOAA. In 2024 (as of July 9), there have been 15 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect United States.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/billions/images/2024-billion-dollar-disaster-map.png

Defense budget is what, 850 billion now. Money can be printed over there

i honestly don't know if i could make it through something like this. it just sounds like hell on earth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/middleeast/egypt-heat-wave-summer-power-cuts.html

"with temperatures barely dipping below 100 degrees in Cairo since May..."

"the blackouts have become such a fact of life that local media has taken to publishing regular tips for what to do if stranded in an elevator as the power goes off. At least nine people have died under such circumstances, according to local media reports.

“Pound on the door and don’t panic,” suggested a recent headline in Al Masry Al Youm, one news outlet."

“Seriously, I avoid speaking or dealing with my family or my son during the power cut hours because I lose my temper so quickly,” said Fatma Hassan, 28, who lives in Aswan, Egypt’s southernmost city, where the temperature hit 121 degrees on June 6. In the shade.

While some areas saw no disruptions, she noted, her in-laws lost power for three hours a day. When she visits, the family puts her 10-month-old son in a bucket of water to cool him."

and the scary thing is, i can see it happening where i live in the coming years. its already getting that bad out west. 110 degrees in idaho and oregon? eventually, grids everywhere are just going to go poof. or rolling blackouts will happen to save power.

Protective films on vehicles inflate due to extreme temperatures during a heat wave in China, August 2024. pic.twitter.com/oirqhWMlMB

— Future Adam Curtis B-Roll (@adamcurtisbroll) August 10, 2024

not buying it. those cars are pregnant.

the ol reverse titane

Corn sweat

interesting. go on, tell us more.

sloth fever has hit the u.s.

https://apnews.com/article/oropouche-sloth-virus-travelers-f28c2fdf1d9630932b9aeada2c5d64ae

EEE and West Nile are here too. all that hot weather here brings rain forest illness. someone just died of EEE in New Hampshire. that is too close to me! good thing i never go outside.

https://www.cdc.gov/eastern-equine-encephalitis/about/index.html

interesting. go on, tell us more.

It’s corn, but it sweats

And that's.... the rest of the story. [/Paul Harvey]

In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/

is real estate just cratering in phoenix? it's one of the fastest growing cities and regions, right? when considering climate change, particularly the very visible water crisis which is going to continually get worse, how? is it just faith in technology?

(nothing against living there, people who grew up there, like to visit, etc - new mexico and arizona and utah etc are some of my favorite places on earth, i can understand why people stay)