This year may be biblical

[Evolurkeeb]

We should just focus on living our lives well and cherish the present.

[tp4tissue]

Sigh, Phoenix Arizona, cooling centers, mobile cooling busses.

This is man's hubris. The continued belief that climate change can be solved with air-conditioning.

It's like taking aspirin for your heart congestion, while eating a whole pizza every day.

[Leslieann]

Sigh, Phoenix Arizona, cooling centers, mobile cooling busses.
This is man's hubris. The continued belief that climate change can be solved with air-conditioning.
It's like taking aspirin for your heart congestion, while eating a whole pizza every day.

You can have my A/C when you pry it from my warm dead hands.

BTW, I was there over the weekend mountain biking, just gotta be off the mountain by 8 or 9am.

[tp4tissue]

This was a slightly upsetting day.

Spent all day at the aquarium.  They had this mini-film at their revolve around theater.  The whole movie was about coral bleaching.

But RIGHT BEFORE the damn movie,  they played an advertisement for eating at a Steak restaurant..   Coral bleaching, sponsored by Big-Beef.

And they had a whole exhibit about "sustainable" seafood, which is complete BS, green-washing.  Right next to their exhibit about how all the SHARKS are dying.

[tp4tissue]

The Key-Largo-Tree-Cactus is the first hardline-documented species to have been wiped out by rising sea levels resultant of climate change.

It was a Florida Native.

[tp4tissue]

5 cases of H5N1 discovered among poultry farm workers in Colorado.

HERE WE GO.... !!

[fohat.digs]

Key-Largo

rising sea levels

I saw something on TV about working on roads and such in the Florida Keys (where water is already a foot deep at king tides). WTF?

Believe me, I love a relaxing beach vacation (it has probably been a decade since I had one) and can certainly feel sympathy for people who have lived there in a "tropical paradise" for a good portion of their lives.

But hey folks! Wake up and smell the coffee! You got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em ....

[noisyturtle]

Florida people be like, "Oh sweet, the beach is closer to my house!"

[tp4tissue]

Major Texas power outage continues after Hurricane Beryl, the earliest category 4 ever, devastates the state.

"""During the outage, a generator powered one elevator and a large, air-conditioned lounge at the complex – a lifeline for many who are dependent on electric wheelchairs and scooters to get around and oxygen machines for pulmonary disease. At times, as many as 40 residents sought refuge in the lounge. Others remained in their stifling apartments. Some stayed with relatives. """

This is only the beginning. The hubris in believing that technology will save us, that technology has mastered nature. What wanton disrespect for the 1 TRUE GOD.

[tp4tissue]

This article, super guilt tripping the Tp4.

"""Ramesh lives with his parents, three brothers, a sister-in-law, and three children, in a congested suburb in western Delhi, a city that has made headlines in recent years as mercury levels regularly climb to dangerous levels.

And as temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) this June – closing schools, damaging crops and putting pressure on energy supplies – the heat was making his family sick too.

Ramesh, who goes by one name, says he borrowed $35 – nearly half of his monthly salary – from relatives to buy a second-hand air conditioner for his home.

“It makes a noise, sometimes it releases dust,” he said. But he cannot do without it. """

[tp4tissue]

Sigh. Tp4 calculating recent expenses.  No, don't stop @ go, just send Tp4 to jail.

motorized tv lift, $200
motorized desk lift $200
air purifier x4, $280
road food, rice, berries, veggies, ~(approx) subway veggie sub x60, $780, closer to $1000-1500
7800x3d base parts, $700
6950xt $600
7900xtx $1070
gas 6000 miles, $1300
midea u air conditioners x6, $1680
s90c 77" oled $2300

~$10,000, closer to $15,000 including hotel use.

That's 430x second hand air conditioners in India. For which that ailing farmer had to borrow money for. +Tp4 literally ate all his rice.

[fohat.digs]

I am reading a book on fundamentalism and I was struck by this passage, and how you could fill the blanks with names of many different groups and get wildly different scenarios, but which are entirely reasonable. I replaced the original terms with blanks. Fill them in yourself.

“The issue of normalcy most divides the _______ right from left. The left longs for normalcy and wants _______ to be a nation like other nations. The entire _______ right, on the other hand, is united in its resentment of the idea of normalcy and its belief, along the lines of _______ religion, that _______ are exceptional – different from other people and nations. Reverence for the national past allegedly solidifies this uniqueness. Religious _______ believe that God made _______ unique, many of the secular right believe that _______ are destined to be unique by their past and have no free choice in the matter.

Another, but somewhat less important, reason for the affinity between the secular right and religious _______ is that the latter are capable of providing “convincing”arguments for perpetual _______ rule over the land of _______ and the denial of certain basic rights to the _______. These arguments are not only put in terms of national security but more importantly in terms of the God–given right to this territory. Secular _______ scholars and politicians are often far too alienated from the ________ past and _______ values to talk competently, or even to  understand properly, such matters. Only the religious can provide an in–depth rationale for _______ policies, which are grounded not in short–term strategic considerations but rather in the long history of the special relationship between God and his chosen people.”

[tp4tissue]

Language has always been vaguely defined.

It changes to suite whatever condition is temporally most likely to be valuable.

Benevolent vs Despicable Method.    Do we judge the outcome or the method, or do we defer to the larger grand scheme.


Comprehension changes based on arbitrary cutting. Victims become Perpetrators, become victims, become perpetrators as you randomly step back in time.

[tp4tissue]

They want to "grow" Vegas?

Tp4 was just there, experienced the fabled 120F @ death valley. It was 110 morning in Vegas, 100 at night. Homeless people would walk around the parking lot asking for water.

Seriously, the Arrogance and Worship of the almighty air conditioning.


Tp4 had an actual dark chocolate bar melt in his pocket.


Flames 400 feet high in Jasper Canada. Wildfires are out of control, the Town is likely lost.

Where's your air-conditioner god now?

[tp4tissue]

Sigh.. Jasper Canada, you know, that town which denies Climate Change, voted against increasing fire mitigation costs,

GOT BURNED DOWN by wildfire,  1/3 to 1/2 of structures destroyed.

[tp4tissue]

This tourist in death valley walked around, his foot basically skillet fried on the ground and he had to be rescued.

[tp4tissue]

Antarctic ice 5-std deviations below normal. NE1 who knows what stddev is, knows it means GG-humanity.

[tp4tissue]

""The loss of water has serious impacts on the lives of animals and people.

Researchers in Utah have begun to detect sharp declines in shorebird populations, such as burrowing owls and snowy plovers, as a result of brine shrimp dying out.

Dust storms and air pollution, born out of a dried up lake bed, is also a major concern for Utah residents. Scientists have also warned that the lake has high concentrations of neurotoxins and cancer causing carcinogens — including arsenic and mercury.

That's worrisome for the majority of Utah's 3.3 million population who live near the lake. ""


It's coming... !!

Tp4 has read you can build up a tolerance for Cyanide, but can you build up tolerance to Arsenic?

[tp4tissue]

This is fine, humanity is fine with this.

[fohat.digs]

fine with this

There is no indication as to what the scaling notation of this indicates, but I feel some small comfort by living in a yellow area.
 

[tp4tissue]

I feel some small comfort by living in a yellow area.

Tp4 recommends Air purifier in all occupied spaces. 24/7

There is alot of radiation in that smoke resultant of US weapons fallout/production/mining/power plants.

[tp4tissue]

""Delivery riders take a break in one of the new buses, an air-conditioned rest stop, which allows riders a break from the summer heat on July 31, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The buses are also equipped with water, snacks, and a cooling vest, which riders can wear while they're out driving to help bring down their body's core temperature. Deployed throughout the UAE, these rest stops are part of summer initiatives aimed at enhancing safety for delivery riders by offering spaces to cool down during the sweltering days when temperatures consistently soar to 113 degrees Fahrenheit or more. ""



Because you know, praying to the Air Conditioning God is going to solve the climate crisis.

[tp4tissue]

The Quarry Fire.......Firefighters struggle with limited resources and “a rattlesnake problem”.....

ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[tp4tissue]

One wishes the god damn Glaciologists would make up their minds about how much water is in the ice.

Estimate range from 30 meters to 60 meters worth of sea level rise.

We're doomed either way,  but Tp4 would like to know precisely HOW DOOMED. 

[tp4tissue]

Less Krill = Less Whales.

[tp4tissue]

The greatest president we never had.  Great youtube channel though. Sighhh...

[tp4tissue]

You read about "who will pay the cost" when x****X  climate tipping point &^%(( happens.

Realize, the fossil fuel industry is the backbone of "money." in general.   And we AGREE, that their reserves, the capital, is all worthless when nature Forces-the-issue. That is to say, we'll all be broke when it happens, everyone. The money system as it exists falls apart with the rest of the die-off.  Yea, the heads might get a few extra meals while the rest of us starve first, but all this energy to quibble about nothing.

[tp4tissue]

AMOC,  good article.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/08/climate-crisis-atlantic-amoc-wired-science-tipping-point/


lol, cool exerpt, hyughyughyughyug..

"In footnote 4 of the IPCC’s latest big report, “very unlikely” meant that, in the panelists’ view, the AMOC had less than a 1-in-10 chance of collapsing before 2100. One in 10. Those odds didn’t strike him as “very unlikely.” Russian roulette is one in six, and we all agree that’s a bad idea. "

[fohat.digs]

“very unlikely”

I would guess that Europe would feel any change in the Gulf Stream.

From Wikipedia:
48.8575° N, 2.3514° E
Paris, France Lat Long Coordinates Info

Northern US / Southern Canada border line = "49th parallel"

[tp4tissue]

Florida, big floods.  /laughs in climate change.

[tp4tissue]

Thinking about what's happening in the Park Fires, Now 4th largest in the state of California.

We're at the point in climate-catastrophe-phase, such that a Singular-action by some-idiot, can set off record fire/ damages. 400,956 acres burned, destroying 564 structures and damaging 50 (so far).


And this is only the beginning of the end ?? 

[tp4tissue]

Don't think people understand that this year's weather is just Diet-Soda.

When the Full Version comes down. We gon' die.

[tp4tissue]

Blue Tongue disease,  here we go. Spread by mosquitos.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/08/06/gevolg-rendac-blauwtongvirus/

[tp4tissue]

Went downstairs to get a cup of mango-pineapple-apple-lemon juice.

By the time Tp4 got up the stairs back to the room, he had already finished the juice.

This is pretty much climate change in a nutshell,  we are drank all the juice on the way up the stairs, and now there's going to be no juice.

[tp4tissue]

Brazil plane going down from a stall, Allegedly due to "An ICING PROBLEM"

Exactly as prophesied in the movie Ironman 1, and The Day After Tomorrow.




But at least it's slightly uplifting to see that brazil is using solar thermal water heating. They're plastic pipes painted black to absorb infrared, then they pump water through it.

[tp4tissue]

Not the Yaks..  Noooo the yaks...

Indian Council for Agricultural Research-National Research Centre for Yak (ICAR-NRCY), India’s premier yak research institute.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/asequals/climate-change-himalayas-yak-women-as-equals-intl-cmd/

[tp4tissue]

"Fire Clouds"

Clouds generated by wildfire, which release intense lightning, which extends the wildfire in unpredictable ways, breaking projection models.  Scientists are now researching this while all the forests burn down and humanity suffocates.

No one has eaten any broccoli.

[tp4tissue]

It's out. A new strain of "hypervirulent"  K. pneumoniae, antibiotics resistant, causes severe infections even in people with healthy immune systems. Known to cause pneumonia, urinary tract infections, bloodstream infections and the nervous-system infection meningitis.

https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/dangerous-strains-of-hypervirulent-superbug-detected-in-us-and-15-other-countries

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/RRA-20240129-48%20FINAL.pdf

[tp4tissue]

Barrier reefs,  just give up scientists, animal agriculture killed it.

[tp4tissue]

CDC to begin offering flu vaccines to farm-workers.

This is getting pretty serious. H5N1 people.. 60% you die.

[tp4tissue]

Just so gekrs are aware.  Alberta is the Texahhs of Canada.   Annnd their god is taking care of them.

[fohat.digs]

"Surprising no one, Texas has been at the forefront of this behavior. Last year, the state passed a law that blocked local rules in Austin and Dallas requiring companies to provide 10-minute water and sun breaks to construction workers every four hours. The law also bars any other cities from passing similar ordinances in the future. Texas was already the state with the most heat-related on-the-job deaths since 2011, but the state’s conservatives say the real issue is that having differing local ordinances about water breaks is tough on businesses."
- Lisa Needham 2024-08-12

[Leslieann]

"the state’s conservatives say the real issue is that having differing local ordinances about water breaks is tough on businesses."

To be fair, that can be an issue, but only if you have a boss/owner wanting to take advantage of their employees... Which in my experience is a lot of them.

While I would like to give them reasonable doubt and say they have the right idea but executed it clumsily, but we all know that's not the case. There's a many reasons companies really like Texas.

[tp4tissue]

"the state’s conservatives say the real issue is that having differing local ordinances about water breaks is tough on businesses."

To be fair, that can be an issue, but only if you have a boss/owner wanting to take advantage of their employees... Which in my experience is a lot of them.

While I would like to give them reasonable doubt and say they have the right idea but executed it clumsily, but we all know that's not the case. There's a many reasons companies really like Texas.

Doubt it's about the water break, did Texas stuff some other laws into the same bill.

[Leslieann]

Doubt it's about the water break, did Texas stuff some other laws into the same bill.

Texas is VERY anti-union and anti-workers rights.
They portray it as being "free" but your freedom really depends on how big your company is.

[fohat.digs]

being "free" but your freedom really depends

Many times my grandfather told me: "Son, this is free country and you can do what you want. But your freedom stops at the tip of the next person's nose."

Why are workers not "free" to get a drink of water? They aren't slaves after all.

And anyway, a worker's productivity is directly related to their health and state of mind. It is in the employer's interest to have them working at top efficiency. The municipality should only be setting the absolute floor for basic safety.

[tp4tissue]

Many times my grandfather told me: "Son, this is free country and you can do what you want. But your freedom stops at the tip of the next person's nose."

Why are workers not "free" to get a drink of water? They aren't slaves after all.

And anyway, a worker's productivity is directly related to their health and state of mind. It is in the employer's interest to have them working at top efficiency. The municipality should only be setting the absolute floor for basic safety.

WE ARE SLAVES,  most people just don't realize it.

Capitalism is just slavery by another name.

Our modern slave owners (democratic government) have the exclusive rights to use Violence, and to Print Money.

[tp4tissue]

Half of Puerto Rico without power due to hurricane.

This will affect computer people.

[Leslieann]

Why are workers not "free" to get a drink of water? They aren't slaves after all.

Quite a lot of ceo's want them to be.
A few years ago a mine owner in Australia was angry because those pesky Aussies had the audacity to expect to be paid more than $3 a day like the Africans in her oversea mine. I guarantee you, if she could pay even less than $3 she would. Same for Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, and quite a lot of other companies. This is why we have H1B visas, which Twitter is almost entirely manned by at this point, they're underpaid and if they quit they get sent home.

Actually none of that is true... they don't want slaves, they want free labor, or preferably no labor at all, just give them all of the money and exist somewhere they aren't and have their needs magically met. You can never give them enough to satisfy them.

And anyway, a worker's productivity is directly related to their health and state of mind. It is in the employer's interest to have them working at top efficiency.

This is true only if you don't have a population to burn through and you actually give a sh*t.
There are places where IBM and Amazon can't hire enough people because they've burned through so much of the local population.

Yes, it costs a lot to hire someone than to keep them but that assumes you need that position filled in a hurry. If you can spend 8 months looking for someone to fill a spot you didn't really need them did you. If a company REALLY needs someone fast they will hire someone fast and if they can make more by running everyone at near burnout pace so be it. The whole C-suite is pretty dystopian.

[tp4tissue]

Mercury being released from permafrost, exacerbated by Climate Change.

Sigh... Minamata people, minamata..