OT: Sens Lounge - Golf season edition

[2CHAINZ]

But why does every regular weather front now warrant 'emergency' status? Heavy rain and lightning has always been a thing. Only the past couple years we seem to treat it like some kind of 'event'.

tax

 

[Stylizer1]

But why does every regular weather front now warrant 'emergency' status? Heavy rain and lightning has always been a thing. Only the past couple years we seem to treat it like some kind of 'event'.

They are trying to make things appear to be worse than they are.



1950s – Prolonged severe drought and heat wave occurred in the early 1950s throughout the central and southern United States. Every year from 1952 to 1955 featured major heat waves across North America. In some areas it was drier than during the Dust Bowl and the heat wave in most areas was within the top five on record. The heat was particularly severe in 1954 with 22 days of temperatures exceeding 38 °C (100 °F) covering significant parts of eleven states. On 14 July, the thermometer reached 47 °C (117 °F) at East St. Louis, Illinois, which remains the record highest temperature for that state.[11][12][13]


1980 – estimated 1,000 people died in the 1980 United States heat wave and drought, which impacted the central and eastern United States. Temperatures were highest in the southern plains. From June through September, temperatures remained above 32 °C (90 °F) all but two days in Kansas City, Missouri. The Dallas/Fort Worth area experienced 42 consecutive days with high temperatures above 38 °C (100 °F), with temperatures reaching 47 °C (117 °F) at Wichita Falls, Texas on 28 June. Economic losses were $20 billion (1980 dollars).[14]


Climate Change 1948:

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

tax

Yes, but it goes deeper than that. You have the luxury of having existed in the 'before times'. When a thunderstorm was a thunderstorm, and heatwave was a heatwave. Weather is a natural part of life - a cycle of the ecosystem. Destruction and growth go hand in hand in the natural world.

Now look to the 10 year old kid who's held a 'device' in his hand his entire natural life.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

 

[Beech]

to our Italian Friends

Sweden 5, Italy 0

Soccer/football/calcio..... not hockey

this after losing to North Macedonia 1:0 in the qualifying for 2022. And being knocked out by, SWEDEN in 2018 qualifying.

OOOHHH......

Did I mention it is football and not hockey!

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Just bought my daughter some FOB tix....

 

[2CHAINZ]

to our Italian Friends

Sweden 5, Italy 0

Soccer/football/calcio..... not hockey

this after losing to North Macedonia 1:0 in the qualifying for 2022. And being knocked out by, SWEDEN in 2018 qualifying.

OOOHHH......

Did I mention it is football and not hockey!

Defending Euro champs buddy also 4 world cups did I mention it's football not hockey?

 

[Mingus Dew]

Yes, but it goes deeper than that. You have the luxury of having existed in the 'before times'. When a thunderstorm was a thunderstorm, and heatwave was a heatwave. Weather is a natural part of life - a cycle of the ecosystem. Destruction and growth go hand in hand in the natural world.

Now look to the 10 year old kid who's held a 'device' in his hand his entire natural life.

I’m not sure why we are still doing this.

These weather events are both more severe and more frequent than they have been in recent human history. Yes we have had heatwaves and thunderstorms before but they are happening way more often and they are stronger. Couple that with the explosion of the internet and social media and you’re also likely to get more warnings and information pushed to you because the technology now exists to do that on a population-wide scale.

The water in the Florida Keys hit 100 degrees F last week. We are f***ed and it’s gonna hit in our lifetimes (assuming you’re a millennial like me).

The idea that this is all a conspiracy to trick people into thinking that global warming and climate disasters aren’t real is one of the reasons we’re so f***ed.

 

[Beech]

Defending Euro champs buddy also 4 world cups did I mention it's football not hockey?

Okay, but you have to get going!!!

I mean 5:0... the Swedes and Asllani hardly figured!!!!!

The government needs to be overthrown. You know that!!! Get rid of Meloni and bring sanity back.. Bring Berlusconi back.... Ohh wait, he passed away last month. You guys are screwed.

Viva l'Italie

 

[OD99]

It's too bad she hit that tee ball OB then lipped out for bogey early in back 9. Followed it up by missing a kick-in par putt on following hole.

Wheels came off a bit but she scrambled well is still in the hunt for tomorrow and has the firepower to catch up. Not many ladies between her and the leader.

 

[Golden_Jet]

I’m not sure why we are still doing this.

These weather events are both more severe and more frequent than they have been in recent human history. Yes we have had heatwaves and thunderstorms before but they are happening way more often and they are stronger. Couple that with the explosion of the internet and social media and you’re also likely to get more warnings and information pushed to you because the technology now exists to do that on a population-wide scale.

The water in the Florida Keys hit 100 degrees F last week. We are f***ed and it’s gonna hit in our lifetimes (assuming you’re a millennial like me).

The idea that this is all a conspiracy to trick people into thinking that global warming and climate disasters aren’t real is one of the reasons we’re so f***ed.

Crap 100F is hot tub like,
Hot tubs usually 100-103F

 

[Mingus Dew]

Crap 100F is hot tub like,
Hot tubs usually 100-103F

Yep. One of the coolest ecosystems in North America is boiling alive.

 

[bicboi64]

Stay safe fellas. I got hit by a flu on my gf's bday weekend. Aside from having to make it up to her, I also have to miss a UFC with the lads. Right when the weather is getting good

 

[Stylizer1]

I’m not sure why we are still doing this.

These weather events are both more severe and more frequent than they have been in recent human history. Yes we have had heatwaves and thunderstorms before but they are happening way more often and they are stronger. Couple that with the explosion of the internet and social media and you’re also likely to get more warnings and information pushed to you because the technology now exists to do that on a population-wide scale.

The water in the Florida Keys hit 100 degrees F last week. We are f***ed and it’s gonna hit in our lifetimes (assuming you’re a millennial like me).

The idea that this is all a conspiracy to trick people into thinking that global warming and climate disasters aren’t real is one of the reasons we’re so f***ed.

I was standing in the Pacific Ocean on Monday and it was freezing.

Are Florida ocean waters really 100 degrees? Not quite. We explain

The news from earlier this week was that water temperatures in Florida were 101 degrees, but were they and where?

www.local10.com

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

The water in the Florida Keys hit 100 degrees F last week. We are f***ed and it’s gonna hit in our lifetimes (assuming you’re a millennial like me).

Really not interested in going down this road, but you should expand on factoids like this or you can come off as sensationalizing things(for what purpose, who knows). A single (1) buoy took a surface temperature reading of 101.1°F.

But that really has nothing to do with my grind about the abuse of the Canadian emergency alert system.

 

[Stylizer1]

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate - NASA Science

Small cyclical variations in the shape of Earth's orbit, its wobble and the angle its axis is tilted play key roles in influencing Earth's climate over timespans of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

climate.nasa.gov

 

[Ice-Tray]

I mean, regardless we should be trying to limit greenhouse gases and being better to the planet right? Stop polluting as much, stop clear cutting as much, stop filing the ocean with plastic, over fishing, etc…. Right?

To me it’s just a bunch of suckers mucking around arguing and posting about climate change and whether it’s this or that. Trying to be clever over minutea and getting sucked into alternative media as though in fact everything is all good it just the way things go.

Just shut the f*** up and be better to the planet and stop killing everything no? Whether it’s this label or that label or no label, we are very clearly destroying the environment on the planet from several angles.

Only people with vested interests, and those easily duped, argue against making changes to help protect and revitalize the environment we live in.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Only people with vested interests, and those easily duped, argue against making changes to help protect and revitalize the environment we live in.

The Top 10 Publicly Traded Companies Fighting Climate Change in 2023​

The ones who make you sick are selling you the cure.

 

[maclean]

Swear to God whoever runs the emergency alerts system gets payed by the notice. How did humanity survive millenia without a horn going off in their pocket everytime there may or may not be lighting in their area?

I was shopping at Metro last week and all the phones started going off at the same time. Couple drips of water over an hour and was a beautiful day outside of that. It's getting ridiculous

You have to look at the fact that lots of people are clamouring for this information though. A huge storm hits and they're all "why did nobody warn us?" "why doesn't somebody do something?" As people become more and more affluent, they are more and more concerned with safeguarding what they have and they turn to the authorities to provide this peace of mind for them.

 

[JD1]

The Top 10 Publicly Traded Companies Fighting Climate Change in 2023​

The ones who make you sick are selling you the cure.

There's a lot of climate change articles that get written that are on message but void of facts. If you repeat the narrative enough it'll be believed

Here's the first sentence in the article you linked

There’s no denying the facts

It then says this about Tesla

The company sources many of its raw materials through an “environmentally responsible and humane supply chain”

But when you research cobalt mining in the Congo, which has half the known cobalt reserves in the world, the first hit on Google gives you this

People are working in subhuman, grinding, degrading conditions. They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain

Child labour working in deplorable conditions so westerners can buy electric vehicles and feel good for having done their bit for the environment

 

[Mingus Dew]

Really not interested in going down this road, but you should expand on factoids like this or you can come off as sensationalizing things(for what purpose, who knows). A single (1) buoy took a surface temperature reading of 101.1°F.

But that really has nothing to do with my grind about the abuse of the Canadian emergency alert system.

Just seems like emergency alerts are being pushed more often because there are more emergencies, I guess.

I grew up in Ottawa and we had the one microburst when I was in high school (?) I think. But the fires and tornadoes that have been happening recently are pretty crazy. Everyone is so online it’s bound to translate into more alerts.

You are correct, it was a surface temp reading by a single buoy. It’s still a pretty important threshold and should not be hand waived. It’s been coupled with pretty severe coral bleaching in the area and a justified fear that many of the reefs will not survive the Summer.

I was standing in the Pacific Ocean on Monday and it was freezing.

Are Florida ocean waters really 100 degrees? Not quite. We explain

The news from earlier this week was that water temperatures in Florida were 101 degrees, but were they and where?

www.local10.com

Poor Public Enemy lol.

 

[Mingus Dew]

There's a lot of climate change articles that get written that are on message but void of facts. If you repeat the narrative enough it'll be believed

Here's the first sentence in the article you linked

There’s no denying the facts

It then says this about Tesla

The company sources many of its raw materials through an “environmentally responsible and humane supply chain”

But when you research cobalt mining in the Congo, which has half the known cobalt reserves in the world, the first hit on Google gives you this

People are working in subhuman, grinding, degrading conditions. They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain

Child labour working in deplorable conditions so westerners can buy electric vehicles and feel good for having done their bit for the environment

Tesla is a pretty deplorable company across the board and Musk is the worst of it.

 

[Stylizer1]

Tesla is a pretty deplorable company across the board and Musk is the worst of it.

Aren't they all at some point?

 

[Mingus Dew]

Aren't they all at some point?

Fair point.

 

[thinkwild]

The Top 10 Publicly Traded Companies Fighting Climate Change in 2023​

The ones who make you sick are selling you the cure.

I agree with you about those emergency alerts.

We will need a lot more companies to start making money in the new economy. We cant just give govt a bunch of carbon tax money and say – now fix it. Only business can make these changes. The gov’t, us, can only set the behavioral incentives in the economy to spur business in that direction by allowing them to make a lot of money if they move in a way that also helps society. That’s a good thing.

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate - NASA Science

Small cyclical variations in the shape of Earth's orbit, its wobble and the angle its axis is tilted play key roles in influencing Earth's climate over timespans of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

climate.nasa.gov

There are a lot of things that affect climate change from the earths tilt, the shape of it’s orbit, volcanic gases in the air, melting glaciers affecting the earths wobble, heat trapping gases in the atmosphere and more. You know how we know that? Climate scientists taught us. And what they are saying is yes, all these things cause climate change, but right now, they should all be putting us on a cooling cycle. We should be heading into an ice age. Where our scientists might come up with ideas like- lets start pumping heat trapping gases into the atmosphere to try and maintain a stable climate. But now we may have gone too far.