I know they don't care, but the elite agenda pushing here kinda hurt my feelings:
"Older people are contributing to climate change, and suffering from it" by Paula Span New York Times, May 27, 2019
When it comes to discussing climate change, older people may have one advantage: They have watched it happen.
Yup, and I trust my senses more than what I read in an agenda-pushing rag.
In the nine Northeastern states, for instance, where average winter temperatures climbed 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit between 1970 and 2000, they have seen fewer snow-covered days and more shrubs flowering ever earlier, and they have experienced hotter summers. In New York City, daily summer temperatures at LaGuardia Airport have risen 0.7 degrees per decade since 1970, according to the city’s Panel on Climate Change.
So they say.
Older Americans are also significant contributors to climate change. A just-published study has found that residential energy consumption rises as a resident’s age increases.
Why do older people use more juice? The study could not provide explanations, but “there might be more need for air-conditioning,” Hossein Estiri, a computational demographer at Harvard Medical School and an author on the paper, speculated. “Or older people may not be able to maintain their homes as well” to conserve energy. “Maybe their appliances are old and less efficient. All of these could contribute.”
The climate change story has plenty of villains; seniors are hardly wrecking the environment on their own. Still, the demographic trends do not bode well, but in a world that is both warming and graying, older adults suffer disproportionately from climate change.
Oh, wow, we are all villains now just for existing.
How insulting, and you would have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe these altruistic elite $cum mean nothing but the best for us rather than wanting to get rid of us all as your health care is cut and you are filled with poisonous vaccines and prescription pills, fellow villain!
This rank rot agenda-pushing stinks, folks.
Consider extreme heat. “It puts a stress on anybody’s body, but if you’re old and frail, it’s harder,” said Patrick Kinney, who studies the effects of climate on health at the Boston University School of Public Health. In addition, he said, “certain medications older people take, for blood pressure or cholesterol, reduce the body’s ability to thermo-regulate.”
Maybe we all should just crawl away and die, huh?
Humans can adapt to these extremes, of course.
What say?
Any particular episode of extreme weather may be linked only loosely to climate change, but the overall relationship is clear: Aside from heat waves, climate change will bring other kinds of extreme weather and disasters. Elderly people will be disproportionately affected.
As an elderly person, that was were my antiquated print copy cut the story.
In California, Pacific Gas and Electric recently announced that it would consider turning off transmission lines when deemed necessary to prevent wildfires.
I don't think you have to worry this year, unless there is more arson with some sort of weird weather weapon because things just didn't look right.
“If the power goes off for three or four days, people here are not prepared,” said Lisa Brown, director of the Risk and Resilience Research Lab at Palo Alto University. She thinks older people — indeed, all people — should always have enough food and water to last five to seven days and a plan to evacuate or seek help in emergencies.
Remember when preppers were laughed at?
At least they are warning you to expect disruptions. The chaos serves a purpose.
Perhaps older Americans, as disproportionate contributors to and victims of climate change, could play an additional role, as active participants in the global campaign to mitigate the damage.
Oh, I $ee, we are VICTIMS when they want us to join them in promoting the agenda!
A decade ago, Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist at Cornell University, began exploring environmental volunteerism among older adults. He found that most environmental organizations had not recruited older members or adapted to support their participation, leaving a major resource untapped. He established a program called RISE, for Retirees in Service to the Environment, to prepare older volunteers for leadership roles in environmental stewardship.
Older volunteers would benefit by working to halt climate change, Pillemer said: “Participants gain fulfillment from activities that have results they will not be here to enjoy.”
Later-in-life, or “generative,” volunteerism has been shown to increase health and psychological well-being.
“If the boomers could be motivated to take this on as their defining generational legacy, they could have incredible impact,” Pillemer said. “With their huge numbers, they could potentially do something about it.”
Just don't protest any wars, 'kay?
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Related:
Heat wave before summer even starts grips Deep South
I'm told they had the hottest temperatures ever recorded in May so forget the flooding!
1 dead, 130 hurt as an estimated 55 tornadoes rip through eight states
Time to get back out to the West Coast:
"Californians wish they were dreaming as record-breaking cold and wet weather hits" by Mike Branom The Washington Post, May 29, 2019
Any Californian who has simply had it with May’s gray, soggy chill had to hate the Memorial Day weekend.
I'm tired of my pos paper pushing hate and villains for their $elf-$erving agenda, sorry.
On Sunday and Monday, precipitation fell and temperatures dropped, establishing daily records across the southern two-thirds of the state.
Downtown Los Angeles had a daytime low of 49 on Memorial Day, the first sub-50 day in the month of May since 1967.
Only two days this month have reached 75 degrees or greater in Los Angeles. In the record since 1878, only six years have had fewer in downtown. Readings will approach that mark in the days ahead, but if the city can stay 75 degrees or below for high temperatures to finish the month, it’ll be the first time in May since 1914.
The chill lasted into Tuesday’s early hours, with the San Diego suburb of El Cajon reported a record low of 48 degrees. The persistent cool weather has left towns such as Barstow, Ojai, Bakersfield, and Fresno experiencing a top-10 coldest May on record to date, and with lots of cool weather has come plenty of rain.....
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Better not holler drought this summer, and it put out all the fires, didn't it?
Please remember the connection between wet weather and cool temperatures please.
So who do you think started these fires?
"Arson devastates harvests in Iraq and Syria" by Salar Salim and Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, May 30, 2019
IRBIL, Iraq — It was looking to be a good year for farmers across parts of Syria and Iraq. The wettest in generations, it brought rich, golden fields of wheat and barley, giving farmers in this war-torn region reason to rejoice, but good news is short-lived in this part of the world,
Could also be describing California.
Now fires have been raging in farmers’ fields, depriving them of valuable crops.
Guess who got blamed?
Islamic State militants have a history of implementing a ‘‘scorched earth policy’’ in areas from which they retreat or where they are defeated. It’s ‘‘a means of inflicting a collective punishment on those left behind,’’ said Emma Beals, an independent Syria researcher.
Like what Israel does to Palestinians.
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for burning crops in their weekly newsletter, al-Nabaa, saying they targeted farms belonging to senior officials in six Iraqi provinces and in Kurdish-administered eastern Syria, highlighting the persistent threat from the group even after its territorial defeat.
Now you know it is a western intelligence agency operation and front.
Islamic State said it burned the farms of ‘‘the apostates in Iraq and the Levant’’ and called for more.
‘‘It seems that it will be a hot summer that will burn the pockets of the apostates as well as their hearts as they burned the Muslims and their homes in the past years,’’ the article said.
Unless it rains a lot.
Hundreds of acres of wheat fields around Kirkuk in northern Iraq were set on fire. Several wheat fields in the Daquq district in southern Kirkuk burned for three days straight.
Farmers in the village of Ali Saray, within Daquq’s borders, struggled to put out the blazes. The militants had laid land mines in the field, so when help arrived in the village of Topzawa Kakayi, the explosives went off and seriously wounded two people, according to the local agriculture department and farmers.
In eastern Syria’s Raqqa province, farmers battled raging fires with pieces of cloth, sacks, and water trucks. Piles of hay burned and black smoke billowed above the fields.
Meanwhile in Kirkuk Thursday, a series of explosions shook the center of city, killing at least four people and wounding 23, Iraqi security officials said.
The six blasts went off in quick succession after iftar, the meal that breaks daylong fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when streets are typically crowded with shoppers and people out having dinner.
Honestly, no true Muslim would do that.
The bombs went off in a commercial area that has several malls, cafes, and restaurants, sending people fleeing in panic.
The nature of the blasts was not immediately clear, but the officials said they appeared to be improvised explosive devices.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.....
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Related: Off-duty soldier set fire to Palestinian fields
Somehow that one didn't make the Globe!
"Farmers face delayed planting amid extreme rain and flooding" by Katie Mettler Washington Post, May 30, 2019
In Kendell Culp’s corner of northwest Indiana, the relentless rain began falling on his farm months ago, saturating the ground his family has nurtured for generations and delaying the kickoff of their planting season by more than a week.
It eased up briefly at the end of April. Then the rain started falling all over again.
Nearly 90 percent of his corn crop is already growing, thanks to a few dry days and long, strategic hours in the fields, but he has yet to plant a single soybean. Last year, he was done planting everything by the first week of May.
Food prices have already started to rise with the price of gas.
For months now, the Culps — and many farmers across wide swaths of the Midwest — have rarely seen days dry enough to work, leading to what agricultural experts are calling a historically delayed planting season that could exacerbate the economic and personal anxieties brought on by a multi-year slump in farm prices and the Trump administration’s trade war with China, the world’s largest soybean buyer.
In individual states, the gap is even more severe. Just 22 percent of the corn crop had been planted as of May 26 in Culp’s home state of Indiana. Soybeans stood at 11 percent.
‘‘Week after week, farmers haven’t been able to get out in the fields to plant corn and soybeans,’’ said John Newton, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, noting that this was the worst planting day on record since the USDA began tracking such data in the 1980s. ‘‘The frequency of these disasters, I can’t say we’ve experienced anything like this since I’ve been working in agriculture.’’
The flooding is so bad they had to move two research divisions.
From the Rocky Mountains to the Ohio River Valley, millions of Midwesterners have endured unremitting rainfall, hundreds of dangerous tornadoes, and debilitating flooding brought on by swollen waterways that are spilling into already saturated grounds — much of it farmland.
Of the 6,000 flood gauges that NOAA maintains on waterways across the country, 381 were above flood stage this week across the Central Plains and in the upper Midwest, said Storm Prediction Center chief forecaster Bill Bunting. Much of the most-severe flooding is concentrated in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, northwest Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, and Oklahoma — where on Tuesday the governor declared all 77 counties under a state of emergency.
Online, people have shared maps of the Midwest completely underwater, joking that it’s all the new Great Lakes. Farmers are sharing pictures of their fields from last year with ones from right now, illustrating just how far behind they are. They’ve asked for prayers.
And yet most of the ma$$ media coverage is Trump, impeachment, and petty politics in the ruling cla$$' game of musical chairs.
Though the setback is causing duress among farmers, it might not necessarily be felt by the average consumer in the grocery store, Newton said. Much of the corn crop being affected is grown for livestock feed and ethanol processing, and potential shortages of both might drive up those prices.
It's been the ‘‘a perfect storm,’’ and I never thought burning food for fuel was a good idea.
As for the livestock, won't they have to be slaughtered early then?
Otherwise, they starve to death, right?
Some farmers blame this spring’s extreme weather on the changing climate, another example of the way Mother Nature has become increasingly unruly and unpredictable, alongside historically strong hurricanes, bitter cold, and devastating, deadly wildfires.....
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Don't expect any help from Washington.
Also see: Flooding rampant after US has wettest 12 months on record
Including around here:
"The cold, wet weather has been making things hard for local farmers" by Emily Sweeney Globe Staff, May 14, 2019
All of this chilly, rainy weather hasn’t made things easy for local farmers.
The cool temperatures and lack of sunshine this spring have hindered the growth of crops, said Kevin O’Dwyer, who owns an organic farm in North Easton.
It’s also been very wet. In fact, it rained in Boston for 21 days during the month of April, which was a record high, according to the National Weather Service.
That’s delayed the planting of warm-weather crops like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and summer squash, he said.
The recent weather conditions have also put pressure on greenhouse space, which is filling up with plants that should be going into the ground.
“Our greenhouses are bursting at the seams,” he said.
O’Dwyer said this is their 10th season running Langwater Farm, and it’s been one of the wettest and coolest springs in recent memory.....
Must be why the Globe placed the article on page B6!!
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Yeah, if the weather has your spirits down, perhaps it will make you feel better to know that the persistent rain is not a fluke, but instead a human-caused catastrophe related to climate change.
Good thing it's not snow.... ing:
"April showers bring ... May snow?" by Ysabelle Kempe Globe Correspondent, May 14, 2019
Snow in May is about as welcome as a bull in a china shop, but that doesn’t mean it won’t occasionally come.
There were reports of light snow showers in Berkshire County on Sunday during the day, and more on Monday night in northern parts of the county, according to the National Weather Service in Albany.
In response to the snow on Sunday, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation lowered the speed limit on the Massachusetts Turnpike to 30 m.p.h from the New York line to Springfield. There were some weather-related crashes on the turnpike on Sunday.
Although neither of the snowfalls resulted in much more than an inch of accumulation and temperatures remained above freezing, the unseasonable weather left residents baffled.
OMFG!
“Everybody that came in was shocked. A few customers told me ‘Oh, we have our winter caps back on now,’” said Cara Baril, a cashier at the Granville Country Store. “It’s not normal. It’s supposed to be ‘April showers bring May flowers.’”
Regardless of what you think regarding the i$$ue of climate change, or global warming as it used to be known, what can't be countenanced is the pushing of the agenda in the face of your own senses!
It might be uncommon, but this weather is not unheard of, according to Joe Cebulko, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albany. There have been many times where it has snowed in May, he said, especially in the mountainous terrain of Berkshire County.
“It doesn’t happen every year, but it happens plenty of years,” Cebulko said. “If it was 10 inches of snow, that would be extremely rare.”
Exactly!
David Coe, a Ph.D candidate in atmospheric sciences at University of Massachusetts Lowell, explains that the dreary skies are due to an abnormal weather pattern researchers have observed this year. It is the Greenland Block, which happens when atmospheric pressure builds up over Greenland and forces the jet stream to funnel into eastern North America. The Block is usually only present in winter months, he said. Out of season, however, the pressure displaces cold air, pushing it south toward Massachusetts.
The Block also funnels rainstorms toward Massachusetts. These storms would have otherwise been pushed off the coast of the Carolinas, into the Atlantic Ocean.
Massachusetts has seen more rainy days than average this month, Coe said, but the rainfall is lighter. In terms of inches, there has actually been less rain than usual for this time of the year.
OMFG, REALLY?
I saw the rivers around here busting at the shorelines!
The combination of chillier air with increased wetness results in the May flurries experienced by Berkshire County.
It is likely these extreme weather patterns can be ascribed to climate change, Coe said.
PFFFFFFT!
“We are going to see more extreme weather,” he said. “Warmer places get warmer and colder places get colder. Most people think ‘Oh, global warming, we get warmer.’ Well, we are still going to see these colder snaps. It’s all connected.”
Uh-huh!
If you’re hoping to pack away those shovels and snowboots sooner rather than later, Cebulko has some good news for you — it’s not forecasted to snow in the next week and a half.
“That’s going to put us near the end of May,” Cebulko said. “Once you get toward the end of May, it’s pretty rare to get any snowfall.”
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Do you remember what happened last fall and winter?
Yeah, this is getting ridiculous and wait until next year when they tell us 2019 was the hottest year ever!
Yeah, somehow it is making the winters here worse!
So, are you ready for a steamy summer?
Time to head north:
Trump administration pushed to strip mention of climate change from Arctic policy statement
It is because the ice has begun to harden again.
Climate change missing as US defends Arctic policy
Can they frack up there?
EPA fracking report offers few answers on drinking water
They spent six years and more than the $29 million and say they still don't know?
Now the Globe is calling on them and not the state to regulate water pollution?
And they say global-warming, climate change "deniers" are in the pocket of indu$try?
DEP must answer more questions about contested gas facility in Weymouth
Also see: As Natural Gas Infrastructure Decisions Loom, Massachusetts Gov. Baker Invests in Fossil Fuel Companies
Maybe the Globe will get around to asking him. Maybe not.
N.H. study finds 14 local bee species on the decline
The true cause is what they don't mention, and that would be GMOs!
Same with the bears, turtles (never mind that freezing cold sea water) and geese!
Hey, we are all gonna die!
It is only a question of where.
Time to go nuclear:
"Concerns about the safety of nuclear power — especially after the disasters at plants in the former Soviet Union and Japan — have contributed to the industry’s decline. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in recent years had designated Pilgrim one of the nation’s three least-safe reactors, forcing the plant to spend tens of millions of dollars on upgrades and inspections, but the changing nature of the larger energy industry, and the resulting economics, has played an even larger role....."
You will never believe jwho is arguing for it!
Also see: Three Mile Island, Global Warming and the CIA
At least Chernobyl has come back to life. Can't remember the last time I read anything about Fukushima in the pre$$.
When they tell us "eighteen of the 19 warmest years on record for the planet have occurred since 2000," they have completely jumped the shark and assume you are either stupid or senile!
Democrats should embrace a carbon tax
If you are $mart, you will $ee it is nothing but a money grab!
SUNDAY GLOBE UPDATES:
They doubled down and are all wet if not under water.
Also see: On Eagle Pond
Related:
"Mount Etna, the largest of Italy’s three active volcanoes, is spewing ash and lava again, but at its summit and at no risk to people. Etna began Thursday as two new cracks opened up, sending lava down its flank. The volcano also erupted in December; that was linked to an earthquake which caused injuries and damage to buildings on and near the volcano’s slopes (AP)."
Also see: The fatal Mount Everest obsession
