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Heat wave 2018: Mother nature's smackdown
Roe
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Its been pretty crazy here in the North East. Three full days of 90+ temps and we were getting the easy stuff.
Anything that makes you cooler from stores in my city is gone. People are hording every fan they can find and then some.
Talk about the 'oppressive heat' in your state in this topic.
Anything that makes you cooler from stores in my city is gone. People are hording every fan they can find and then some.
Talk about the 'oppressive heat' in your state in this topic.
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hopefully it's cooling down now
Yeah it's cloudy in DC, which means it's the first time in a while I haven't been miserably sweaty walking into work at 8:30 AM.
And then the drip tray on our home unit hits capacity because the AC has been running full blast for days straight now. So, I shop vac the water out of that and I'm babying that unit along because I'll be goddamned if I'm paying to repair two AC units in one year. And of course this is the hottest summer in years.
This weekend we are breaking out of the heat in the DMV. Looks gorgeous.
Seems like new normal for Southern California. :?
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air conditioning is contributing to the problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/science/air-conditioner-global-warming.html hm
Air conditioning saves tens of thousands of lives.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
In 2003, over 70,000 people died during a European heat wave, including 14,800 people in France during only 8 consecutive August days. Most were elderly, living in homes with no AC.
I'm pretty done with this weather.
It's the drought that's the real problem.
Which is kind of amusing, because the Netherlands isn't exactly known for not having enough water.
I go back and forth between that and the dishwasher. Depends on the time of year.
It's nuts in the UK at the moment too. We're topping 80°F daily (84 today); and nobody's house has air conditioning, neither do most businesses, and it's with high humidity. A breeze is a rarity at the moment too. So it might not be quite at the peaks you guys in the States are getting, but it's much harder to escape. (Edit: hence those 2003 fatality figures above.)
Stay safe and well, everyone.
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Usually there is at least some cloud, even if only minor. I haven't seen one in days.
I don't know if we're officially in drought yet, if so I haven't heard; but in pretty much all practical terms, yeah, we basically are. I've seen water-saving tips doing the rounds on Facebook.
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We really only need one, so how about a floating monocle?
Then we can give Earth the fancy top hat it so desperately needs.
But also a neat telescope at night.
We've made mother nature cranky and prone to mood swings, so we better wise up before she gets angry.
Solution: Nuclear power supplemented with renewable energies
No more temps of mid 90s to 100s. Now a more sane mid 80's heading down to a near perfect of low 70's next week.
Yesterday I was mowing the yard with a push mower. It was 99 and 53% humidity.
I have to take a 10 min break every half hour or so to go inside and cool off and get some water, so it takes forever to finish.
also like
for the US residential Electrical is ~21% of greenhouse emissions
so AC is like ~1% total
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Luckily it was only for part of Saturday, but for a few nights it was still hovering around 85-95 at night, like, 1 or 2 in the morning. I was at a bachelor party and we left the bar with it feeling like things had barely abated.
Thankfully it only lasted for the weekend, maybe 3-4 days? But it's quite a set of extremes to live in a section of the world that can be somewhere between -40F and 110F+. A 150 degree Fahrenheit swing is a bit much.
A horrific windchill a few years back was what taught me that -40F and C is the same temperature. Suffice to say, it is fucking cold.
Both of these statements are true, although if we weren’t busily warming the climate in other ways we could have our cake and eat it too, with available ac for rare heatwaves and for the vulnerable.
That number is likely to climb as global warming increases (and reinforces the cycle because of greenhouse emissions) until such a point where we can reduce emissions and install carbon sinks. The good news is it looks like they found a way to take in more carbon from the atmosphere than the power consumption of the carbon sink device. So we might actually have a long term solution to AGW. The even better news is you can put them in areas with lots of solar power and build a lot of them and have a considerable impact in the environment.
I think there's 2-3 solutions that are ready to go currently they just need $$$ investments. I'd have to look that up though.
At most we get usually 2-3 days of 40+ in an entire year.
Climate has been all over the place this year. I don't like this.
Someone, presumably the government, still needs to pay money to run them. And if you're paying money to sink carbon anyway my suspicion that your best $/carbon value is to pay people to farm bamboo (or whatever is considered expedient) and then just bury it.
But anyway my larger point is I don't think home AC is some bit of massive waste that's driving global warming... residential energy prices are generally high enough that the average joes of the world do what they can to conserve energy because they don't want big bills. The cheapskate dad demanding you put on a sweater or open the windows before he'll turn the heater/AC on has been a stereotype far longer than anyone's cared about global warming.
The problem is at the top starting with using fossil fuels to generate power (or heat directly) in the first place, and the bajillion gallons of gasoline we burn every single day.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies