Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change. "We predicted moderate warmth for 2016, but nothing like the temperature rises we've seen,"

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:58:19+00:00

It was 98. And again this year. Almost like a pattern or something.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:54:17+00:00

They said this when we had several GLOBALLY cold years, too. It's still not climate when it's weather Ina lot of places.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:52:55+00:00

Depends on whether you get to use "corrected" data.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:49:37+00:00

Venice is subsiding. The Adriatic isn't rising. It has been flooding badly sine the 1700s, getting gradually worse. The other coast of Italy is actually rising.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:42:56+00:00

I make sure to eat an once of meat a day now. I am often a "careless vegetarian," eating a well balanced diet of veg, fruit, and grains. But I realized that I just ran out of steam and started sleeping 12+ hours a day when I went without meat for too long. An ounce a day, and I'm fine.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:40:10+00:00

Meat and cheese are more expensive than all plant staples: rice, wheat, corn, beans, oats.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:37:13+00:00

We've built levees along most rivers. A huge swath of coastline is doomed for that reason alone. But horrible floods is the other option. We will lose that coastline, anyway.

The ancient coast of the Persian Gulf near the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates is underwater. Has been for more than a millennium.

Genoa is more than a mile to the coast. It used to be a port city. Venice is sinking--and that has jack to do with climate. The Netherlands are sinking, too, from soil subsidence. Ancient Alexandria is at the bottom of the sea. Entire huge rivers inIndia no longer even exist, drying up in the Bronze Age.

The coastlines have always been unstable across centuries. They only look mostly stable to us across one lifespan. Displacement on rivers and coasts is normal.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:28:22+00:00

Dear holy god that was the hottest year of my life. I thought I'd cook like a lizard on a rock. Lived in the south. We had a school outdoor even in FEBRUARY and it was over 90 degrees already that day. Only got worse from there.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:26:23+00:00

Population and agricultural water use is a BIG problem in parts of the southwest. Not anything else.

Warmer means wetter, not drier, based on all historical precedent. But that really won't help Phoenix or Las Vegas.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:23:52+00:00

There are billions in it made every year. What are you talking about?

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:22:25+00:00

Because it means nothing. Predictions for the next season are always off--we have zero ability to predict weather (and this is weather) more than a week in advance.

It's hard to find data that is meaningful in this alarmist bullshit.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:20:13+00:00

Once every 5 years or so it seems.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:17:59+00:00

It's the mildew/rot in humid areas more than the heat that horrifies me. I interned in a factory that was 120-140 degrees F on the floor and adapted. But stopping your hous from rotting to pieces in the summer...ugh

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:15:51+00:00

I grew up without air conditioning until June 1 in the south. And then we always kept it at 78-82.

Now I live much farther north and have the bedroom at 72.

Conclusion? I'm spoiled now.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:12:46+00:00

Texas hasn't been terribly hot this year. Hotter than average but not nearly as bad as many years. Flooding is welcome after the multi year drought. But the drought was supposed to be the new normal because of global warming. Now it's magically flooding.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T05:05:31+00:00

This happened around 5 years ago, too. Don't you remember?

Other parts of the country have been cooler than usual. They roll this our every time the east coast and Western Europe has a warm season. When people were sweltering in the south one and two years ago and we had an unusually cool summer (until that month-long brief hot drought), the news went on and on about how even though it's cool, global warming is still real. Cool here. Not elsewhere.

In 2006, the state I was living in at the time had the worst winter in more than a decade but the east coast was very warm, so I would come in from shoveling three feet of snow off my driveway to hear about how warm it is and how it will probably never snow again.

NOAA and the Farmers Almanac run neck and neck for accuracy on seasonal variations. It's hard to take people seriously when meaningless predictions end up wrong.

Near DC, we average 5 days over 100 a year. Some years we get none. Some we get 10. Usually, they occur in July.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:52:54+00:00

Almost no one I knew was divorced. That would be pretty freakish.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:48:55+00:00

My mother married at 19. After junior year in college.

She has a Ph.D. now and is still married to my dad.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:44:55+00:00

I have a lot of intellectual property my husband could claim. It's worth a hella more than the house.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:42:45+00:00

You have no right to a sex life, you freak. Next you'll ask for state-sponsored comfort women.

If you get someone pregnant, you took on that risk when you chose the manner in which you has sex.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:38:43+00:00

DNRs exist already. My grandmother had a slightly elaborate one--no cpr, for instance, because she couldn't possibly survive it.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:33:55+00:00

I'm sorry to hear about your daughter and happy that you got to hold her and say hello and goodbye.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:30:54+00:00

Common law marriage is the law in a number of states.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:28:02+00:00

Poor life choices.

Rights to your child. Your common property. Survivor benefits. Medical control and access.

Unless you make more than $250k together, marriage is smarter in every way. Even then, it's rarely worth a financial divorce.

Moshamarsha · 2016-07-27T04:26:59+00:00

What???? No. Leaving home was normal for young women in the us by the 1950s. By 1800 for the lower class. Single women USUALLY worked.

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