This year may be biblical

[noisyturtle]

Baltimore at 6pm in Feb and it's over 60° F
Someone mentioned it's nice not to worry about the cold weather for a change, but I think this is much more worrying

oh, but climate change is not real right? 

[fohat.digs]

climate change

5 days ago here the daytime high was 24F/-5C with low of 16F/-9C, today the daytime high was 64F/18C and the low is 28F/-2C

But this is still winter.

[tp4tissue]

Climate change isn't real. Tp4 says it ain't so it ain't.

[tp4tissue]

Measles killing people again.  Oh yea, the wonderful-Nostalgia, it's all coming back, ConservativeP4.



If theoretically, the alien race was Do'nStuff, (they prolly arn't, but),  and they'd be like, too many hughmahns,   why NOT promote antivaxx?

[fohat.digs]

My kids have thanked me many times for always ensuring that they were properly vaccinated.
The school systems required it and very few people squawked about it back then.

Of course, I am old enough that I actually HAD measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc, as a child.
But I made damn sure to get the shingles vaccine (chicken pox holdover) a couple of years ago!

Let's hope that Brain-worm Kennedy doesn't pull vaccines out of the system out of personal spite ....

[fohat.digs]

Earthquake in Los Angeles - but USGS web site was off line.

"Ignorance is Bliss" George Orwell 1984
 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-02/magnitude-3-9-earthquake-rattles-burbank

[tp4tissue]

What's likely going to happen, is a power plant will blow, and we're all gonna get irradiated.

The iodine pills only protect your thyroid, it won't help with any of the other slower but inevitable hard-cancers.  Ukrainians have a very high prevalence of the Rare-Cancers thanks to (hernob1.

[tp4tissue]

Japan wildfires.  Forest fires release alot of radia71on.  The soil absorbs the hot particles spread by rain/wind, the trees sequester some of this, part of it comes out in pollen, but if you burn it, it's extreme revolatilization.

Forest firefighters can experience 1-10 years worth of rad dose in an hour.

If you guys live there with offsprings, Consider Leaving if that fire makes it too far south. Women and children are ~5-20x more radiosensitive.

[tp4tissue]

NYC got dat measles.

MEga contagious.

R-naught is 12-18 for Measles.  If you are infected, anyone near you, not vaccinated, will have 90-95% chance of infection.



ConservativeP4's got his Horse Medicine, Vitamin D, and Zinc ready. FULLY PREPARED. Bleach, well stocked and delicious, the final solution.

[tp4tissue]

Measles parties.  Oh boy. 

[fohat.digs]

Measles parties.

As a child I was sent to friends' houses to get the "childhood diseases" measles, mumps, chicken pox. That was what we did in the 1950s-1960s. No doubt there were "parties" but I never went to any.

But it was not long thereafter that the vaccines were developed. And I still have the round scar (now more of an oval) on my left upper arm from my polio vaccination.

[phinix]

Measles parties.

As a child I was sent to friends' houses to get the "childhood diseases" measles, mumps, chicken pox. That was what we did in the 1950s-1960s. No doubt there were "parties" but I never went to any.

But it was not long thereafter that the vaccines were developed. And I still have the round scar (now more of an oval) on my left upper arm from my polio vaccination.

Yep, I'm still that generation who has that round scar

[tp4tissue]

Was that for polio or tuberculosis?

[fohat.digs]

Polio. By the late-1960s an easier process - eating a sugar cube - replaced the painful process we went through.

[phinix]

Polio. By the late-1960s an easier process - eating a sugar cube - replaced the painful process we went through.

really?
In Poland I got it in 1980...  )

[tp4tissue]

There's something wrong with the birds this year.  Seems far fewer of them.  And they are not as vivacious (loud) in the early morning.

[fohat.digs]

far fewer of them.

As a beekeeper, I am deeply vexed whenever a "pest control" van drives down my street, and that is very often.

Our society spews ludicrous amounts of  "--icides"  into our environment, and insects take the biggest hit. Just considering the birds that visit my feeders, even among those who generally eat seeds, their chicks need more protein-rich and easier-to-digest food, and that is usually in the form of caterpillars. From the University of Illinois Extension:

"They do this from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. for each of the 16 to 18 days it takes the chicks to fledge. That's a total of 350 to 570 caterpillars every day, depending on how many chicks they have. So, an incredible 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars are required to make one clutch of chickadees."

Those caterpillars are scarfing up whatever is on the surfaces of whatever leaves they are munching on.

[tp4tissue]

The Rocky mountain locust was a critical inflection point.

..weighing 27.5 million tons and consisting of some 12.5 trillion insects..

The entire biomass of humans is only 60 million tons.


THINK ABOUT THAT.    What we've lost..   You really think, an Ecosystem can "Take this",  for "How Long" ??


But Capitalism,  Tp4, Capitalism,  we need to see those numbers go up.

Capitalism is Extraction and Externalization of Cost.   The forest, the whales, the pandas,  THEY PAY the cost with their lives.

Our Bank accounts INVERSELY count their deaths. 

Whoever extracts and externalizes and Burns, and KILLS the most, Wins Capitalism.


At the cost of KILLING everything that keeps the earth alive.

[tp4tissue]

The CO2 lvl right now is the highest it's ever been, in 3 Million years, with high confidence data, 15 Million, with low confidence data.


We're totally going to be OK. 

[tp4tissue]

Sigh.

Let's get down to basics.

When they say 3 degrees Celcius increase global average,  it's about DOUBLE that on Land vs Ocean.

That's almost +10 Fahrenheit average on land, wherever you live.

Our forests, and most of our cultivated "bred" crops, are NOT adapted.  Up in flames, more out of control wild fires > burnscars > fewer trees > less sequestration > more fires.

/Burning house.

[tp4tissue]

So, the entire internet is angry at Wombat kidnapper woman.

Meanwhile, they happily cram Burgers and Pizza into their mouths, adding to the 80 Billion animals killed by humans each year.

This is a holocaust in plain sight and because it's the NORM, it's largely invisible.

Bycatch alone, we kill 5 fish for every 1 eaten, and more than half of that doesn't even make it to consumer due to spoilage from broken cold chains.

[tp4tissue]

If H5N1 can screw up Antarctica,  It can screw up America.  Buckle up.

https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-avian-flu-strain-spreading-rapidly-antarctica

[tp4tissue]

Something is very very wrong.

There are no birds outside. And it's already reasonably warm.

Nature is dead. We've killed it.

[tp4tissue]

Korea on fire.

At least 26 people have died and hundreds of buildings destroyed in the south-eastern province of North Gyeongsang, with the country’s disaster chief saying the fires had exposed the “harsh reality” of global heating.

About 37,000 people have been displaced, the Yonhap news agency said.

The military has released stocks of aviation fuel to help keep firefighting helicopters flying to douse flames across mountainous regions in the province, where fires have been burning now for nearly a week. More than 300 structures had been destroyed, officials said.

As of Thursday morning, authorities were mobilising more than 9,000 people and about 120 helicopters to battle the fires, the government’s disaster response centre said.


The fatalities include a pilot whose helicopter crashed during efforts to contain a fire and four firefighters and other workers who died after being trapped by fast-moving flames driven by strong winds.

Authorities have not disclosed details of the civilian dead, except that they are mainly in their 60s and 70s.

Last year was South Korea’s hottest year on record, with the Korea Meteorological Administration saying that the average annual temperature was 14.5C – two degrees higher than the preceding 30-year average of 12.5C.




Again.. The business of "fighting fires" with "Gasoline."

Turn around, forget, repeat.

[tp4tissue]

Mass stabbings now, guess 5 is a pretty big number in stabs, he's gotta run pretty fast to catch people vs mass school type shootings.

But this one was amsterdam. 

[tp4tissue]

Myanmar earthquakes,  bet these people feel real silly living in a city with skyscrapers.

Falling glass kills significantly more people a year than sharks.

Cities are the epitome of putting all your eggs into 1 basket.   A very tall unbalanced basket.

And in Myanmar and Thailand they don't even have the budget for the advanced earthquake silicone columns that japan has.

It's a death-trap. Just a matter of time.

[tp4tissue]

Everyone talking about "the earthquake."

No one's is talking about "mankind's Hubris."



So, insurance can't even deal with the problems we have, NOW, they're straight up bailing from high risk areas.

What are we expecting "Capitalism" to do for the Risks in the Future, which nearly 100% of Scientists tell us is going to be MUCH WORSE, and a damned certainty.

[tp4tissue]

Decoupling economies.

What does that mean,  If you had a guy, that suddenly decided, he's going to stop using his legs for walking, and now produce all locomotion through the use of 1 arm.

That's what decoupling economies fundamentally is, STUPID and ultimately-IMPOSSIBLE, the economics simply won't allow it.

[tp4tissue]

What people don't quite understand as it departs from the advertising is, Electric is a SECTION, a small section of our materials infrastructure/economy.

It's like saying, You're going to just drink water.  Yea, water is nice, but you will die.

OIL is like potatoes, you can have no water, and NOTHING else to eat, OIL like potatoes can sustain every modern economic sector, this is not an accident, this is a LAW of nature..


Nothing will EVER EVER replace oil in the next 150 years, baring miracle God-Tech wishful AI emergence, this is a big gamble.



So logically, given the very real LIMIT to emissions, the only CERTAINTY isn't that we'll all be driving electric cars, it's that the economy will RAPIDLY contract, and we will be in global recession for the indefinite future. 

And that's the best we can hope for, the only other option is to Fry ourselves and completely blow out burn.

[tp4tissue]

Tonga Earthquake, prayers for these good people.

[tp4tissue]

The perfect allegory,

These macaques figured out how to use rocks to crack open beach shellfish.

Very rapidly, they've virtually extincted their local island supply.


Our fossil power is the rock, our island is the earth, and we're the m0nkeys.

[tp4tissue]

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/all-arctic-ice-could-melt-by-2027-warn-scientists-2644667-2024-12-04

This article. So, the plot is, 2027, potentially no arctic ice (north pole), scientific study asserts.

Then they say, but there is HOPE "" However, there is hope: significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions could delay this timeline and mitigate some impacts. ""


On an Indian news outlet, IndiaToday.   The same India where living in New Delhi is the same as smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

Where Hospital Pulmonology department say, they haven't seen a healthy pink colored lung in anyone in New Delhi, that people in their Teens are already saddled with grey-ish smokers lungs, (who don't smoke).

This Grand Delusion that we share with one another.

[tp4tissue]

The future awaiting us all.

Everywhere all at once. 

[tp4tissue]

Not gon' lie,  Tp4 thinks we're probably hosed.

""Measles is airborne and can linger in the air for hours. If an unvaccinated infant enters, say, a grocery store where someone with measles was even hours before, he is at risk for infection. ""

[tp4tissue]

God damn articles like this is why we're all going to die.

""Thallinger said: “The good news is we already have the technologies to switch from fossil combustion to zero-emission energy. The only thing missing is speed and scale. This is about saving the conditions under which markets, finance, and civilisation itself can continue to operate.”""

__Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies.


If you have Top executives at a major insurance player, who doesn't god damn understand that gasoline only makes up for 30-40% of what we use OIL for,  then it's pretty clear we're fffff..

When they say clean emission technology, what the hell even is that. The vaste majority of that technology is actually electrical only. ALL of which must be built ON fossil fuels, metals, transport, plastics, glass,  are all fundamentally DIESEL powered.

Electricity is also only 15-30% of our energy economy.


The world is so god damn blind, it's hopeless. We're out of time. Prepare for Crash.

[Leslieann]

The world is so god damn blind, it's hopeless. We're out of time. Prepare for Crash.

Don't worry, Colorado's governor found the fix... Just declare any energy as "clean", problem solved.

If Trump can reroute a hurricane with a Sharpie, we can do just about anything with a pen. I guess it really is mightier than the sword.

[noisyturtle]

The world is so god damn blind, it's hopeless. We're out of time. Prepare for Crash.

Don't worry, Colorado's governor found the fix... Just declare any energy as "clean", problem solved.

If Trump can reroute a hurricane with a Sharpie, we can do just about anything with a pen. I guess it really is mightier than the sword.

Colorado wind farms are driving the whales crazy!

[fohat.digs]

wind farms are driving the whales crazy!

They actually are harmful to birds, it is explained in the marvelous book  "An Immense World"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59575939-an-immense-world

[tp4tissue]

Well, in theory,

Drump TANKING capitalist-Consumerism quite seriously, it seems,   

HE MAY,  in fact,   do more for Climate-Change than any person in the history of Mankind.


Not a good guy,  but the Hero-We-Needed ? 


Tp4 can confidently assure ya'll,  there is no pot of gold @ the end of the economic rainbow as it is currently defined.  If the human economy continued to Grow, and "Blossom" under existing metrics,  we would BURN OUT by 2050.

[Leslieann]

They actually are harmful to birds, it is explained in the marvelous book  "An Immense World"

They solved this years ago.
Besides the birds starting to figure out that area is dangerous (same for some solar farms), the fix for the wind farms was make one blade a sightly different color. That's all it takes.

Why this was ever a thing I have no idea, they've been painting swirls on jet engine cones for the same purpose for quite a while.

[tp4tissue]

Hang on, what if they see the black one, but not the 2 white ones?

[fohat.digs]

Birds' eyes are oriented to look down in search of prey, but they are also sensitive to movement in the peripheral vision. So anything "winking" at them will get their attention.

My quip was because Drumpf has always claimed that wind blades were especially killing bald eagles - a good dog whistle for his base.

[tp4tissue]

Dominican Republic,  night club roof collapse, kills 28.

See, this is why Tp4 keeps tellin' ya'll. You go outside, and this will happen to you. Only a matter of time.

[phinix]

Dominican Republic,  night club roof collapse, kills 28.

See, this is why Tp4 keeps tellin' ya'll. You go outside, and this will happen to you. Only a matter of time.

tp doesn't go outside.

Like Gordon goose

[tp4tissue]

/accurate

[tp4tissue]

Something's up w/dat rain.

It's been overcast and cold, but not particularly, wet.

[fohat.digs]

In Beijing people who weigh under 50 kg must stay indoors due to WIND?
Whoa!

[tp4tissue]

The average American man weights 199lbs (90kg) and 171lbs (78kg) for women?

Wind proof indeed. They will never defeat us.

[nathanchere]

OMG...  SUPER EL' Niņo

Wouldn't the bigger version of El Niņo just be El Hombre?

[tp4tissue]

It's really stupid to send these celebrity to space.

The bad news, IF one of them dies, would tank the stock market.

Space is a no confidence industry, it barely works as it is.  If that illusion is shattered, you can kiss nasdaq goodbye.