It's Good News Friday! (CLIMATE CHANGE)

Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 3 days in a row

Shell Backtracks on Greenwashing, Renews Commitment to Drill, Baby, Drill!

Climate change is 'out of control' says UN, as hottest days recorded since 1850

Pfft, fake news. Next ice age is around the corner.

Now why isn't my AC working.

In a US first, fossil fuel power plant workers will be retrained for offshore wind

It's a unionized facility, so I'm sure that's why they're getting retrained and not simply laid-off.

https://twitter.com/doctorvive/status/1678390110620901377?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

yeah, no.

no, yeah.
I feel for my colleagues in their bake boxes of mailtrucks

There's a pretty big difference between that mailbox and a mail truck, though. For starters, that mailbox spends all of it's time outside, and judging by the house in the background, that's a relatively new McMansion subdivision, so you've got wide, asphalt roads, no trees to speak of, and we've experienced the hottest days on record for over a week now. Have you ever heard of a Russian stove? Its basically a big oven made out of bricks that's designed to get hot and stay hot for long periods of time. While it doesn't have a wood box, that mailbox isn't all that different from a Russian oven.

Variations on such designs have been used to passively heat and cool homes for millennia. They run into problems, as you can imagine when you deal with extreme conditions such as unusually hot or cold weather. I doubt if it's dropped below 90F at night in Texas for a while now, so when the sun comes up, that thing is probably at least 90F in its core temps. It'll only get hotter as the day goes on. It absolutely could be used as an oven under these conditions. Was that loaf of bread actually baked in it? Probably not. Could someone bake bread in one of those things if they wanted to? Sure. Can't say how long it'd take, but if you can use nothing more than aluminum foil, some cardboard and a dutch oven to cook with the sun, you can almost certainly cook in that kind of mailbox.

The mailbox oven is a gag that went viral. A black mailbox without the brick outhouse would be a more efficient solar oven.

Go stick your head in one and report back.

Bick, they drive air-conditioned Mercedes mini-vans here in the south. Times are changing.

So was the idea of Ronald Reagan as President back when Laugh-In first aired.

Can't, because unlike you, my head doesn't come to a point. I do, however, have a black mailbox that is exposed to the outside air. It doesn't get that warm on the inside, because the metal sides merely conduct heat, they don't hold on to it. So, at night, when it cools down outside, the mailbox itself, cools down, since it's not insulated from the outside. The brick one? That's good and insulated. It'll absorb and retain heat for hours thanks to all the mass of the bricks (something that a metal mailbox doesn't have).

It will follow ambient temperature by a few hours.

Is your uninsulated brick house an oven?

Critical thinking. You don't have it. And you shouldn't be reading my posts.

Right, and if those "few hours" happen to coincide with the hours of darkness, and the coldest it gets by the time the sun starts to poke its head above the horizon, is 90F, that thing is still going to be warm when the sun comes up.

I live in a beer can, asshole. I have also been incredibly poor. So poor, that the only "air conditioning" I could afford in the summer was opening the windows in the evening to let the cooler (though not necessarily cold) air into the house, then closing the windows before sunrise and hoping that this thinly insulated place would keep enough of the cold in that I wasn't dying from heat exhaustion before noon. Given that you're near at Atlanta, why don't you go stand next to some of the buildings there some evening soon and tell us if you can feel the heat radiating off the brick buildings once the sun goes down?

How would you know?

Well, maybe you should just stop posting here, then.
That way you don't ever have to worry about my reading any shit you write again.

Nya...thpttttdt! Made you look.

That's what I drive on my route
And good. While I like the Grumman LLV's package staging, it's older than garamet at this point, may she troll K1A and Lesbian Shoes from the beyond.

I like how they replaced the Mercedes logos with the postal eagle.

https://twitter.com/think_or_swim/status/1683556231481286656?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

This is getting much worse and much faster than even pessimists expected. And still no sign of TPTB lifting a finger. I'm about ready to start doomsday prepping. How long until this has a serious effect on food security?

In many parts of the world, it already is. Consider yourself lucky that it hasn’t happened to you yet. I would probably start familiarizing yourself with growing your own food in the very near future, if I were you.

Are you doing that?

I’m working on it.

I only got my spring onions and breakfast radishes to grow well this year. Chilis were a total disaster, as was the mooli. Butternut squashes are throwing up a lot of flowers but the plants have gotten a virus or some sort of infection as the leaves are going necrotic, so not holding out much hope.

Pepper plants are perennials, if you bring them inside during cold weather. The same is true of tomatoes.

Weather's been very changeable here - chillis did well inside after germination but transferred out (even to a greenhouse), they failed. Just very spindly. Totally different to last year. Climate change is gonna wreck regular growing seasons, even for expert farmers.

https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1684599108370092033?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Record-Breaking Heat Has People Baking Cookies In Their Cars

Which part of this article from 20 years ago featuring the input of an astrophysicist with her tongue so deep up the ass of industry that she argues CFCs are fine are you putting forward as interesting and worthy of discussion?