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75,000 – 80,000 birds dead from botulism near Oregon border
Bird Alliance of Oregon blamed the outbreak on a warming climate.
“Historically, botulism outbreaks would have infected perhaps hundreds of birds. But, as wetlands continue to shrink and dry up across the Intermountain West, birds are forced into smaller bodies of water. This creates larger concentrations of birds than would occur in a more natural system. In the Klamath Basin alone, more than 90% of wetlands have been lost. This packs birds into available wetlands. Combined with longer warm, dry periods in summer and early fall, this creates perfect conditions for massive, non-natural, outbreaks.”
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It is the normal cycle of things. But you go ahead and believe what you choose.
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More Leftist lies and guess who's getting rich off them.?
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"normal cycle" FFS what an absolute ignoramus!
when Earth's temperature moves as much as it has over the last 50 years it has taken over tens of thousands of years previously.
The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia.
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So are you saying smog doesn’t affect climate change?
Yes our climate has been changing since the beginning of time but burning fossil fuels, especially since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s in 200+ short years has had the most adverse impact on our earth. 200 years of man made neglect has done more damage than 4.5 billion years combined. Now tell us how smog doesn’t affect climate. Or maybe you don’t think smog is man made???Comment -
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These companies are buying energy infrastructure upgrades like solar panels, wind turbines, power storage banks for literally pennies. Making trillions for far less than the before cost. Meanwhile the average uneducated consumers bill keeps increasing.
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I asked you what do you believe? Do you think man can impact climate. It’s a simple question. I definitely know man has impacted our environment and our climate. If you don’t believe it, maybe I can share some facts.
The ozone is a great example. By countries agreeing on the Montreal protocol to reduce ozone depleting substances, the ozone layer has been recovering over the last 2 decades. You’re getting it.Comment -
Today, the ozone hole still exists, forming every year over Antarctica in the spring. It closes up again over the summer as stratospheric air from lower latitudes is mixed in, patching it up until the following spring when the cycle begins again.Mar 21, 2022[/COLOR]
If you want to use this as your excuse to vote for Kamala Harris, be my guest.Comment -
# Fundamental uncertainties arise from insufficient observational evidence, disagreements over how to interpret data, and how to set the parameters of models. # IPCC, created to find and disseminate research finding a human impact on global climate, is not a credible source.
Once again I ask the climate change warriors; WHO'S GETTING RICH ON THE CLIMATE INITIATIVE. My guess, everyone in the Political Spectrum and definitely not the population.Comment -
I have no opinion either way but here are a few observations
-If whole house plug and play systems can be purchased by any average consumer at such a reasonable price some as low as .20c per watt produced from ie; companies like shop solar. How cheap is it for huge buyer?
-recently moved from a deep red state the average electric bill was $70 this includes running a 3-zone 15k-btu mini split literally nonstop day, and night, everything was electric including oven
-here(in AZ) it appears the kwh charge is the same rate but its 50% more cost to consumer? We are all solar but know people who use the electric company
-what besides usage and some taxes are consumers paying? I say you're paying for infrastructure that was bought and paid for 30 years ago.
-the city charges 5k gallons on water usage minimum, can tell you wife and I can fill a 3500 gallon hold tank, and it can take 2 months to use it. Now if a family has kids 5k gallons may be accurate but upfront it bs that's like over 150 gallons a day usage. Alot of cities have high water bills which is just crazy, seriously crazy. I kid you not call Edgemont, SD city hall its $108 m/o for water, while Custer, SD is only $35. 25 miles separate the cities??
-taxes on a 100k house in rural new york is around $3k
-taxes on a that same value house in az is around $600
-literally for the cost of 3-4 years' worth of electric bills although upfront costs, one can be free from the intrusion. But local building jurisdictions, codes are going to require huge inspection fees, especially if its permanently attached to a dwelling
-greed publics like $et pay almost 8% dividends per year to shareholders. Some pay higher much higher than thatLast edited by veriableodds; 09-27-24, 12:55 AM.Comment -
Zillow is adding climate data to home listings…Comment -
In a stunning leak, Project 2025’s leaders announced if Donald Trump is elected, he will eradicate all references to climate change and all progress made to fight it.
This is how dangerous Trump is to our planet.Comment -
The area in North Carolina around Asheville, where the French Broad River and Swannanoa River meet, received more than 20in (51cm) over three days. For context, 8.4in over that time span would have been considered a once-in-1,000-year event by a metric created prior to climate change.
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Plant cover across the Antarctic peninsula has soared more than tenfold over the last few decades, as the climate crisis heats up the icy continent.
Analysis of satellite data found there was less than one sq kilometre of vegetation in 1986 but there was almost 12km2 of green cover by 2021. The spread of the plants, mostly mosses, has accelerated since 2016, the researchers found.
The growth of vegetation on a continent dominated by ice and bare rock is a sign of the reach of global heating into the Antarctic, which is warming faster than the global average.
Scientists warned that this spread could provide a foothold for alien invasive species into the pristine Antarctic ecosystem.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...nment_b-gdneco
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US citizens will eventually wake up as these once in a lifetime storms happen every few years, driving the price of insurance to prohibitive levels. Florida won’t be the only state.
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For the 1st time in recorded history, 3 active hurricanes were captured in the Atlantic basin in the month of October or later, CIRA found.
hmmm ... wonder why
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Nothing to see here. Climate deniers just don’t want to take responsibility for fukking up the planet.Comment -
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I dont know what that means either
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for me, I don't trust our government at all so until we fix that, I cant believe anything they say.
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The devastating winds and torrential rains that Hurricane Milton delivered to Florida were made far worse by human-induced climate change, a team of international researchers reported on Friday.
Record-high global temperatures, boosted by the burning of fossil fuels, helped power the storm as it traveled across the balmy waters of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the World Weather Attribution group’s analysis released Friday morning. Those conditions boosted Milton’s rainfall between 20 to 30 percent and wind speed by 10 percent compared with a scenario without human-caused climate change.
“[T]he results are compatible with those obtained for other hurricanes in the area that have been studied in the scientific literature,” the researchers wrote. “We are therefore confident that such changes in heavy rainfall are attributable to human-caused climate change.”
The type of torrential rainfall from storms like Milton was twice as likely because of the 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming the world has experienced since the middle of the 19th century, WWA said. Milton delivered nearly 19 inches of rain in St. Petersburg, causing what meteorologists described as a 1-in-500-year flood in the city that sits on a peninsula at the mouth of Tampa Bay.
The findings come just days after the same research group found climate change also intensified Hurricane Helene, which like Milton intensified rapidly as it barreled toward the U.S. coast. Helene was the deadliest storm since 2017, killing more than 230 people across six states.
Attribution science, as the discipline is known, has matured in recent years and gained wider acceptance among the scientific community, according to the National Climate Assessment, a federal governmentwide anthology of climate science and impacts. The group’s findings on Helene and Milton back up broader research by scientists that suggest a hotter planet will fuel more intense cyclones whenever they form.
Despite the growing body of science showing the effects climate change is having on making hurricanes more powerful, scepticism remains among many politicians, such as Republican Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, who has downplayed climate change and dismissed any link to the storm this week, saying, “It is hurricane season.”
Those remarks came after Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, another Republican, drew ridicule from members of both parties for her post on X saying, “Yes they can control the weather.” She added, “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
The team of researchers and scientists at the WWA compare and model extreme weather against a scenario in which no human-driven warming existed to determine how climate change influences those events.
Many of the conditions that sparked Helene remained in place for Milton, the researchers said. Climate change made the abnormally warm Gulf of Mexico waters that served as an engine for the rapid intensification of both cyclones 400 to 800 times more likely. Milton’s ascension over two days from tropical depression to Category 5 hurricane, with wind speeds clocking up to 180 mph, was particularly fast.
The group acknowledged some limitations in the quick analysis just a day after Milton made landfall. The researchers said not all observation-based datasets were updated and could not “reliably estimate how rare the heavy rainfall in the path of Milton was.” It also did not use climate models as it did for Helene.
The researchers instead relied on assessing trends in observed data, where in 3 of 4 datasets they found heavy one-day rainfall events like Milton are twice as likely with 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming and 20 to 30 percent more intense. The fourth dataset conveyed larger changes.
That the hurricanes made landfall just two weeks apart highlights the growing concern among emergency managers and climate scientists that compounding events driven by a turbocharged atmosphere are straining disaster response capacity.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said it was able respond to both Helene and Milton simultaneously, though the agency spent nearly half the disaster relief in eight days that Congress has allocated for the next 12 months.
Helene slammed an inland area of the Southeast largely unaccustomed to hurricanes, worsening its impact as it washed away roads and destroyed scores of homes. Milton killed comparatively fewer people, but its full toll is not yet known.
“Both the rapid intensification and the fact that emergency personnel were still continuing with the recovery from Helene made preparations difficult,” the WWA analysis said.
The Biden administration in August informed Congress the fund would need more appropriations to carry out fiscal year 2025 obligations, though lawmakers are not expected to take up any new funding measures until after the election.
Another blow would strain the coffers — and weeks of hurricane season remain.
While forecasts by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that 2024 would be the most active hurricane season in decades did not materialize as expected, the recent hurricanes have brought tremendous devastation and sizable financial losses. AccuWeather estimated between $160 billion and $180 billion of damage and economic loss from Milton, and $225 billion to $250 billion for Helene.Last edited by Hareeba!; 10-11-24, 07:16 PM.Comment
