WSJ: The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat

[ActionJackson]

For abu, he's inferring it snows at 90 degrees and warmer. What's that tell everyone?

Using his logic, we can expect the next BIG SCARE to be the coming ice age once November rolls around.

 

[Woodznutz]

What "right" way? So far all we've gotten is give up your meat for bugs, give up your AC, your ICE vehicles, your gas stoves etc etc etc.

As I mentioned before (several times) we start by mandating higher standards of building insulation including existing structures Most private and commercial buildings are under insulated. Insulating standards were established when fuel prices were low. For example, R-30 was standard for ceilings, now that standard is R-50 or more. I insulated my attic to R-49 last fall and the difference is amazing.

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

Buildings waste a lot of energy. One low-tech solution could fix that.

www.vox.com

 

[Woodznutz]

in other words, in demfk speak, hey peasant, shut the fk up and comply!!!! That's the right way!!!!

fk all that freedom crap!!!!

With freedom comes responsibility.

 

[westwall]

With freedom comes responsibility.

Mandates aren't freedom. What do you do to the poor old people on a fixed income who can't afford to insulate to the higher standards?

 

[Woodznutz]

Exactly. Like eating our veggies and beef.

I think we can do that without making a big fucking mess.

The Shocking Amount Of Food U.S. Households Waste Every Year

A new study from Penn State revealed that U.S. households waste about a third of the food they purchased every year. The results were similar to previous studies that showed Americans wasted an estimated 30% to 40% of their food.

www.forbes.com

This is only half of the sad story, as most people overeat, and the wasted food and other 'food waste' goes to landfills where it decomposes releasing huge amounts of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere.

 

[martybegan]

As I mentioned before (several times) we start by mandating higher standards of building insulation including existing structures Most private and commercial buildings are under insulated. Insulating standards were established when fuel prices were low. For example, R-30 was standard for ceilings, now that standard is R-50 or more. I insulated my attic to R-49 last fall and the difference is amazing.

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

Buildings waste a lot of energy. One low-tech solution could fix that.

www.vox.com

Like that satisfies the lefty need for control, as well as nothing to do with agriculture.

 

[jc456]

With freedom comes responsibility.

When will you become responsible?

 

[Woodznutz]

Mandates aren't freedom. What do you do to the poor old people on a fixed income who can't afford to insulate to the higher standards?

There aren't too many of them, and many live in rental housing. When I bought my apartment building I had an insulation company double the amount of attic insulation (the building had central heating and I paid the bill). The money I saved allowed me to leave rents low as many of my tenants were low income.

 

[Woodznutz]

When will you become responsible?

If I answer honestly, you will call me a liar, so why bother?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

As I mentioned before (several times) we start by mandating higher standards of building insulation including existing structures Most private and commercial buildings are under insulated. Insulating standards were established when fuel prices were low. For example, R-30 was standard for ceilings, now that standard is R-50 or more. I insulated my attic to R-49 last fall and the difference is amazing.

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

Buildings waste a lot of energy. One low-tech solution could fix that.

www.vox.com

As I mentioned before (several times) we start by mandating higher standards of building insulation including existing structures Most private and commercial buildings are under insulated.

What's the breakeven period for this new insulation?

 

[westwall]

I think we can do that without making a big fucking mess.

The Shocking Amount Of Food U.S. Households Waste Every Year

A new study from Penn State revealed that U.S. households waste about a third of the food they purchased every year. The results were similar to previous studies that showed Americans wasted an estimated 30% to 40% of their food.

www.forbes.com

This is only half of the sad story, as most people overeat, and the wasted food and other 'food waste' goes to landfills where it decomposes releasing huge amounts of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere.

Neither of which should concern you. CO2 is the basic building block of life. If the morons pushing this crap got their wish and dropped the CO2 content of the atmosphere to 200ppm everything dies.

That's how anti science these religious nutjobs are.

Methane is such a vanishingly
small amount, it is of no concern, save in the fevered brains of the panic porn agenda.

 

[westwall]

There aren't too many of them, and many live in rental housing. When I bought my apartment building I had an insulation company double the amount of attic insulation (the building had central heating and I paid the bill). The money I saved allowed me to leave rents low as many of my tenants were low income.

That didn't answer my question. And there are MILLIONS of them. So, you don’t understand basic biology, and you have no clue how many people you are speaking of.

How many other topics are you this ignorant about?

 

[Woodznutz]

As I mentioned before (several times) we start by mandating higher standards of building insulation including existing structures Most private and commercial buildings are under insulated.

What's the breakeven period for this new insulation?

Depends. I installed mine myself for about $300. The comfort I enjoy is payback enough with crunching numbers. Most homeowners are well able to do the job themselves at minimal cost.

My city is full of older buildings that have no attic insulation at all. I know this because I have been in many of them. Attics with steeply pitched roofs are used for storage thus no insulation on the floors, or the roof itself. They leak heat like a sieve but as most are rental houses and the tenants pay the bill the landlords don't give a shit. My daughter lives in such a house, paying ungodly rent, much of which is to pay an unnecessarily high heat bill. She also roasts in the summer as she is on the second floor.

 

[ding]

Jump in a small plane and fly over your region. You'll quickly see that urban areas are infinitesimally small compared to the farm, forest, and other undeveloped areas. Or just use Google Earth. Cultivated farmland in the big culprit.

That's like arguing 120 PARTS PER MILLION is infinitesimally small but they still crunch the numbers. It seems you want to dismiss urbanization without any investigation whatsoever.

 

[jc456]

If I answer honestly, you will call me a liar, so why bother?

I don’t hate you like you hate me! You have no objectivity, or class, but you’re allowed. Drive every electric car you want, eat all the veggies you like, I won’t ever tell you to be like me or to do as I do! No person is equal to anyone else!

 

[Woodznutz]

Neither of which should concern you. CO2 is the basic building block of life. If the morons pushing this crap got their wish and dropped the CO2 content of the atmosphere to 200ppm everything dies.

That's how anti science these religious nutjobs are.

Methane is such a vanishingly
small amount, it is of no concern, save in the fevered brains of the panic porn agenda.

Where landfill methane is captured, it is a substantial fuel source, which allows more fossil fuel to remain in the earth. The potential for biogas from food waste is staggering. Why there are so few programs to develop it is mindboggling. In my liberal run city, they would rather build bike paths than take advantage of the enormous amount of food waste, all the while advocating for clean energy. Also cynical is the fact that while bike riding doesn't use fossil fuels such riding is purely recreational.

 

[Woodznutz]

That's like arguing 120 PARTS PER MILLION is infinitesimally small but they still crunch the numbers. It seems you want to dismiss urbanization without any investigation whatsoever.

I would address all of it, if I were king of the world.

 

[Woodznutz]

I don’t hate you like you hate me! You have no objectivity, or class, but you’re allowed. Drive every electric car you want, eat all the veggies you like, I won’t ever tell you to be like me or to do as I do! No person is equal to anyone else!

I don't hate anyone but based on your responses to my posts you are a hard person to like. You're 'off the handle' most of the time.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Where landfill methane is captured, it is a substantial fuel source, which allows more fossil fuel to remain in the earth. The potential for biogas from food waste is staggering. Why there are so few programs to develop it is mindboggling. In my liberal run city, they would rather build bike paths than take advantage of the enormous amount of food waste, all the while advocating for clean energy. Also cynical is the fact that while bike riding doesn't use fossil fuels such riding is purely recreational.

The potential for biogas from food waste is staggering. Why there are so few programs to develop it is mindboggling.

Because it's very, very expensive.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Besides the Temp/weather itself, the effects are already costly.
Worldwide Rotisserie likely to show up as Record July... TOO.

The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat​

Warming oceans and heat domes are contributing to one of the hottest summers on record​

Relax, abu. Everything's gonna be okay. Umkay?

Anyway. So that you know, and because we really do all care about you here, be aware that we do have ''Climate Psychology Therapists'' now.

These climate psychology therapists call what you're experiencing ''climate anxiety.''

Psychology therapists contend that, for some people, it becomes an overwhelming sense of despair or anxiety.

Apparently, however, according to the folks over at PBS...there are now what are called ''climate cafes, or climate circles, that can be found by an easy online search, where people just get together often online, remotely, and just say what they’re feeling what they’re experiencing, what people have found helpful.''




''...For some, growing concern about climate change can become an overwhelming sense of despair that psychologists call climate anxiety. Climate psychology therapist Leslie Davenport joins John Yang to discuss.''