September 26, 2019 6:15 AM
Morning Reads — Thursday, September 26, 2019
Are you in the mood for a brief reprieve from the impeachment news? You’ve come to the right place…mostly.
Peaches
- This week’s edition of “Any fool could have told you this was coming…”
- Justice David Nahmias’ opinion in a murder case is on point.
- Cutting salaries to increase aid.
- Where should SPLOST go?
- The 40 days of life movement.
- Georgia’s greatest success story.
- Can Hollywood change Georgia?
Jimmy Carter
- Supposedly the impeachment chatter has helped Trump raise $5M
- The cost of the immigration programs for local governments.
- The terribleness of health insurance hasn’t yet bottomed out
- Maybe Congress won’t mess this up.
- …but there’s more to it…
Sweet Tea
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Fifteen of the first 17 days of September had 90 degree or higher highs in Atlanta. Yesterday was the third consecutive 90 degree or hotter high day, and 90 or higher highs are forecast for the next five days.
That would be 25 days 90 degree or hotter days Sept 1 through Oct 2 if the forecasted 90’s occur. The 52 year Atlanta average is 35 days per year of 90 degree or hotter highs, including 3 in September.
It’s running 10 degrees above “normal:, but it’s just another normal the GOP doesn’t care about. we’ve a fossil fuel industry primarily in Republican states at stake after all. And the tax money not plowed back into fossil fuel incentives can be given to primarily Republican farmers hurt by the weather, in addition to tariff tax money.
I’d suggest you should just get used to this hotter weather, but it’s only going to get hotter over the next few decades.
Palm trees and crocodiles above the Arctic Circle:
“Looking ahead, expect major temperature increases by 2100
Model simulations using the A2 emissions scenario found that by mid-century, people in the U.S. can expect a four to six-fold increase in the number of days exceeding 95°F (35°C).[36]
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that the global average temperature will rise 4.7°F to 8.6°F (2.6°C to 4.8°C) by 2081-2100 (relative to 1986-2005).[37]
The higher end of this estimate puts temperatures in 2100 close to one of the planet’s warmest periods in history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred about 55-56 million years ago. During the PETM, the global mean temperature appears to have risen by as much as 9-14°F (5-8°C) to an average temperature as high as 73°F. During this time the poles were free of ice caps, and palm trees and crocodiles lived above the Arctic Circle.
9°F (5°C) is the difference between the last Ice Age, when half of North America was covered in a mile-thick ice sheet, and today. Whereas that warming occurred over thousands of years, the Earth has warmed by 1.8°F (1°C) in just over 100 years. The projected rate of temperature change for this century is greater than that of any extended global warming period over the past 65 million years.”
https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/extreme-heat-and-heat-waves
But hey, we’ll have colonize space by then. Ha. I’ve speculated that other life forms in the universe haven’t contacted us because a species that would destroy it’s own and only home should be avoided and not enabled.
GOP indifference is why the word “conservative” has little meaning beyond protecting immediate self-interest.
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/102555/20003765/250004421/Volume_3_Appendix_S.pdf
So if they were farming in Greenland and growing grapes in England, was Georgia like Panama? Or Kuwait?
I guess in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary deniers have finally stopped claiming that recent temps aren’t increasing and have shifted to the view that higher temps are good for us.
Temp variations in the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period were regional, not global, and not everyone benefited as much as English wine makers. For one example, large parts of the US suffered major droughts at that time.
But the big objection to your comment comparing then to now is that you ignore cause. Best evidence is the MWP resulted from increased solar activity and reduced volcanic activity, which is to say the sun got hotter at the same time there was less ash to shade the earth. We don’t see those kinds of changes happening today; what we see is a rapid increase in the amount of CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere, an increase that is accelerating.
You believe what you want but you’ll need better evidence than a BLM footnote to a report justifying drilling in Arctic Alaska to convince me.
We’ve put as more GHG emissions into the atmosphere since 1998 as we did in all of our existence before then.
The citation is a 1,500+ page of responses to public comments on a North Slope Oil and Gas Leasing Program. How about a page number of numbers?
Do we have any info on how this is effecting the timber industry in Georgia?
https://www.axios.com/us-lumber-trump-china-trade-war-1f22783b-a4ec-4d16-a733-4e59ea44b8ca.html
House Intelligence committee has released the declassified whistleblower complaint regarding Trump’s phone call. It is a pdf:
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf