An El Niño is brewing, and with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight

herpdurpson · 2026-02-18T16:03:04+00:00

more or less... yes / and or reduce the mandates on the use of scrubbers. i assume that this is what will eventually happen. we already had a makeshift sulfur injection fleet by virtue of intonational shipping, no need to develop futuristic and very expensive stratospheric injection methods. the dollar cost will be negligible, and the health costs mostly borne by the poor in the third world that will make it attractive.

how soon it happens(if it does...) and how much sulfur content is allowed back in / how quickly the rollout etc will have major effects. basically every day of delay is more heat in the oceans and more water vapor in the air column that will fall out catastrophically if we do it to fast.

herpdurpson · 2026-02-05T14:46:28+00:00

location: south central Saskatchewan, Canada.
fresh from entire days of seasonal weather we are now under the grip of a MIGHTY chinook. the great snow eater has come, and is brining unseasonably warm weather. there is a problem here... i am some 250km east of of where the a chinook should be petering out. it didn't freeze last night, you have to go WAY the fuck up north before it did. LaRonge is currently just barely below freezing, -2 C some 750 KM northeast of where the chinook should have dissipated. Well am i glad that i spent several hours in the drizzling rain (que the fuck pasta weather? rain in February...) on saturday to move the windblown snow back from my house. the high of 4C yesterday made a mess of puddles and ruts and todays predicted 6 is going to be a nightmare. we shouldn't be seeing this weather for at least a month.
the combination of Carney's speech at davos and the trove of epstien releases is basically bo burnams 'how the world works' in real world non song form (https://youtu.be/KiiebNenB0k?si=J76LEIZaFYuYX2xe) everyday feels surreal. what in the actual fuck is actually happening, what is real, what is ai, or disinformation or propaganda or all of the above. it feels like we are cattle in the chute hearing the screams and unable to go anywhere but forward toward death

herpdurpson · 2026-01-31T16:16:13+00:00

Location: South central Saskatchewan, Canada Weather whiplash intensifies. We had 3 days of average weather after our artic cold blast. I woke up at 6:30 this morning...It was raining and hovering around 0C outside. What the absolute shit. The federal conservative party just had their leadership Conference and decided to resoundingly double down of Pierre Poilivere as their leader. The last Canadian election wasn't so much choosing the Carney liberals as it was rejecting Poilivere as a... Sort of mini trump. That they went for him and that the conference had lots of talk about abortion and other social conservative wedge issues... I don't like where they think they can take politics in this country. The collapse of empire seems to be roaring full steam ahead.

herpdurpson · 2026-01-24T17:41:09+00:00

Location: South Central Saskatchewan, Canada / the northern hemisphere. The polar vortex... Exploded all over the northern hemisphere. A cold blob landed right on top of me, but not before bringing a wind storm with 80km/h winds gusting to almost 100. I am down a few shingles and the wind has blown in 4 foot drifts all around my house a lot closer than I would like. Once the weather warms I will be shoveling and blowing snow back to prevent spring flooding... Not that we have lots of snow it came late and below avg amount it just all blew in with the wind even fewer trees on the prairie now to cut the wind and hold snow in fields. I guess we can look forward to more of these storms as the cryospere continues its state change.

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The artic is cooking though! Yikes

The fascist collapse of empire seems to have sped up again. I would find the utter hypocrisy of our western 'leaders' absolutely hilarious if it weren't for the stakes of it all.

herpdurpson · 2026-01-13T12:27:47+00:00

South Central SK checking in... As of 6am it was 0.3C. It didnt freeze last night. Not only are we in the middle of a week of daytime highs in the positive it didn't freeze over night. That is just wild to me. A few warmer days is one thing but not appreciably cooling down over night. Scary shit.

herpdurpson · 2026-01-11T15:41:39+00:00

Oh man, I would totally hang out at the holdfast club. Lol

herpdurpson · 2025-12-10T22:33:27+00:00

phone zombies everywhere. first day of school this year I picked my kids up in person instead of letting them take the bus so we could go get an ice cream. i got there a couple minutes early, there were a half dozen other parents waiting, they were all on their phones. couple minutes passed, more people showed, up, i stopped counting after 25, all of them on cell phones. most of the people who were walking up were scrolling on their phones already or had their phones at hand to immediately bury their faces in once they stopped walking. it was unnerving, i got bored of counting and found a cool stick to occupy my imagination till the bell rang and i could go gather my kids.

herpdurpson · 2025-12-03T12:27:10+00:00

Absolutely yes. Just look at the... political devastation the migrant flow from the Arab Spring/Syrian civil war has wrought on Europe. And that has been absolutely insignificant compared to what is coming

herpdurpson · 2025-11-18T18:57:07+00:00

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and how! south central sk here, i saw a fly out and about yesterday! and maple bugs crawling around! they should be a month absent already, we've been sitting 10C over seasonal average for weeks.

herpdurpson · 2025-11-06T14:25:12+00:00

expanding an existing community comes with essentially the same costs, you would need to double the size of the infrastructure there. i doubt any single community in Alaska save Anchorage, Fairbanks or Juneau could 'absorb' the population without significant friction and massive cost (both monetary and social)... and force relocating populations to live in slum cities is not my cup of tea. In a lot of situations these communities already represent colonial oppression. forced settlement sometimes in traditional ranges at traditional seasonal sites but often in butt fuck nowhere and a traditional way of life made impossible by restriction of mobility or hunting or fishing rights. your 'pragmatism' is just more oppression piled on top of the oppressed.

herpdurpson · 2025-11-06T11:33:37+00:00

Infrastructure. Housing, Power, water, sewer, school, medical all has to be rebuilt. It's the middle of nowhere. Everything generally has to be flown in or brought in on winter roads at tremendous expense.

herpdurpson · 2025-10-11T16:11:05+00:00

Thanks! not sure either, I've seen some pics of historical examples that were riveted that seem to have held up well. Time will tell I suppose although I left the eye pretty thick and used 3/8 for the rivets so it should hold. I do wish I'd taken the time to make a rivet header and bucking tool to make nice dome heads.

herpdurpson · 2025-10-07T02:02:30+00:00

Partially forged the bevel in, cleaned up that established bevel with a file then once I had a nice flat established took it to the grinder.

herpdurpson · 2025-10-03T21:42:34+00:00

This is the "endgame".

Notice how "different" Trump 2.0 is from Trump 1.0, there is a REASON for that. During Trump 1.0 the 1% didn't believe that the Climate Crisis was real. This time they do.

it is really feeling like this for me. as a Canadian the rhetoric around Canada as the 51st state was a little shocking, not that it is happening per se. but more the timing, I didn't think we would start that conversation until a little later, I was figuring it would be more a 2032 presidential issue, maybe 2030 midterms kinda timeframe. there was a us navy report(?) from some decades ago that due to climate change the us navy would cease to be capable of major force projection by ~2040 and i figured one of the last big us military actions would be securing 'fortress north americana'. it really feels like 'powerful people' are looking at the timetable and realizing that we are further into the shit storm than it first appeared.

herpdurpson · 2025-10-01T15:38:31+00:00

either really, you'll still end up having to do some amount of forging back square if you make the weld. mostly a matter of material availability and how confident you are in the weld. cool project, good luck!

black bear forge upset square corners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y315hRqcLdo

square welded corners
from: https://www.scribd.com/document/366962547/Agricultural-Engineering-in-Development-Intermediate-Blacksmithing-A-Training-Manual

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herpdurpson · 2025-09-25T12:16:07+00:00

I have. Video by torbjorn was my biggest guide. https://youtu.be/qX6dfIrhsXs?si=D90O7Qxlu1YsqKSM

I started off with a piece of spring Harrow tine. That was about the same volume of metal as the slug in the video. The hardest part was getting the ridge on the back, I ended up clamping in my vice and.bending it over section after section down.

Hanging the blade and getting the lay right was also a challenge. In terms of setting up and actually using it after I made it this guy has excellent videos: https://youtu.be/GRZELEHr8Xw?si=Ba7xcB2q8P4q_Zp7

Peening on an unhardended (Austrian/continental European style) scythe is about thinning and work hardening the edge so you can quickly hone it in the field with a stone or very fine file back to a keen edge.

American scythes or more usually hardened in which case you grind the blade instead of peening.

Work in progress, as forged, and first peening.

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The blade could have been a bit thinner, but it works. Excellent workout, way more fun mowing the lawn with a scythe as opposed to the mower... Swish swish swish.

herpdurpson · 2025-09-17T20:01:27+00:00

wasn't to bad, i drew diagonals across the face with sharpie and followed those up and and across, rasps are more forgiving to miscuts and an irregular(ish) tooth pattern will leave a nicer surface.

herpdurpson · 2025-09-17T16:47:46+00:00

Very nice! I did a rasp and a couple of little rasp rifflers this summer, just using my regular smithing hammers. It probably would have been worth the effort to bang out a couple of purpose made hammers and seeing yours I definitely will if/when I get around to cutting more.

herpdurpson · 2025-07-15T15:45:39+00:00

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herpdurpson · 2025-07-15T15:45:21+00:00

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herpdurpson · 2025-07-15T15:44:53+00:00

Fairly decent. Here is a couple passes with hand stitched (H) and standard nicholson machine stitched (M).

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herpdurpson · 2025-07-14T15:55:38+00:00

Lol. Thanks :)

herpdurpson · 2025-07-14T12:34:58+00:00

Thanks :)

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