Tweets of the Day
Extremely intense fire updrafts have injected vast amounts of smoke & ash into upper atmosphere as high as 50,000 feet–20,000 above cruising altitude of jet airliners. Dense smoke throughout entire atmospheric column is blocking nearly all sunlight at surface. #CAwx #CAfire https://t.co/b5dIzzbDbz
— Dr. Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 9, 2020
Smoke is so dense it blocks sunlight and so high that it’s 20,000 above cruising altitude of jet airliners.
I can’t believe I just wrote that, but…well, here we are.
— Dr. Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 9, 2020
Orange Skies No Sun
Eli Harik wears a mask while gazing at the Bay Bridge and heavy orange skies due to nearby wildfires hanging over San Francisco on Wednesday, September 9 @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/B2wahjkeRw
— Jessica Christian (@jachristian) September 9, 2020
Zero Solar Production
zero solar production today. it’s noon and it might as well be midnight pic.twitter.com/ErBpqdub40
— eric toda (@toda) September 9, 2020
“It’s Noon and it may as well be Midnight.”
9:00AM Unreal
The Golden Gate Bridge.
Almost 9 in the morning.
It’s pitch black outside.
Unreal. pic.twitter.com/US2aB9uXOw— Drew Tuma (@DrewTumaABC7) September 9, 2020
Satellite Images
The wildfire situation in California and Oregon has now escalated to the point that I can no longer keep track of the countless massive, fast-moving, and potentially very dangerous fires. The geographic scale and intensity of what is transpiring is truly jarring. #CAwx #ORwx https://t.co/d3yag3qXRJ
— Dr. Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 8, 2020
Wow.
Best wishes to all impacted.
Mish
So let me get this straight, G_dless liberals push their BS into high gear and then an historic smoke cloud chokes the life out of the state. Probably a coincidence. If this keeps up very long their crops are going to die.
I do not think anyone believes the climate is not changing. It has and always will be changing (can we say ice age?). The question is whether paying a bunch of taxes to a bunch of corrupt politicians is really going to prevent the climate from changing? We will be naturally moving to more sustainable process it is what happens it does not have to be forced down our throats it will occur as economics and our own cultural will allow. Right now we have a tremendous drain on our allocation of resources (people). With all the money printing many “brains” move to this area (Wall Street or legal system) of our economy instead of science or technology to help figure out what we can do to help develop better processes to improve life and reduce our impacts on the world. Peace out!
It was like living on another planet in CA yesterday. The pictures don’t do it justice. It was dark orange outside all day like you can’t imagine. Today is not orange but it’s very smoky in the Bay Area. Climate change has hit hard and it’s coming to everyone soon enough. CA is dryer and hotter with longer dry seasons. Real estate in Florida is already getting impacted by ground water rising in many places -the ground is getting liquefied. It all gets worse from here and don’t take food production for granted. Start paying attention and fighting for your life and your children’s. You don’t have time to waste and don’t elect idiots who reject reality.
Fires existed well before men and Global Warming has nothing to do with the fires.
Nature will do what men refuse to do themselves.
I was in the Black Forest a few years ago on a vacation. I hiked several miles and was amazed by the level of forest management. There were numerous intersecting roads (fire and logging breaks) and very little undergrowth. When trees were too close they were marked for harvesting. That lesson could be well learned here.
For the liberals here in California, they never let a good crisis go to waste. That is why these crisis never end.
It would be interesting to compare western Oregon’s situation this season with the Tillamook burns. … Looks like Oregon right now is about at the magnitude of the 1st Tillamook burn (1933). That 1933 fire was a really big deal.
We have been here before. VERY good book! The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power
https://www.amazon.com/Fate-Rome-Climate-Disease-Empire/dp/0691192065/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+fate+of+rome&link_code=qs&qid=1599751847&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1&tag=mozilla-20
mish, thanks for the good wishes. we are out here in middle of this stuff in norcal. it’s brutal, but i like to keep things in perspective. i’ve lived all over the place from hurricane alley to deserts to biggest cities in world. here is a great take on reality of what has been history of west. studied this stuff 40 years ago in masters program, too.link to mercurynews.com
But then there is this..
I just read in a major paper that the planet has also lost 2/3rds of all wildlife in the last 50 years. Not new news but if 2/3rds of the food chain is gone in a period where human population has exploded…
Just in time, we are now able to grow cultured meat in factories and grow plants without soil and under LED lighting. Soon, we will have meat on the hoof, chicken and fish grown this way, which could mean drastic reduction in traditional meat generation process.
If scaled, to an increasing extent, it will reduce decimation of animals and hopefully will bring back some species on the edge with proper conservation. Time will tell.
Soon, the Tooth Fairy will make Magic Great Again!
And all because illiterate idiots “invests” money Dear Leader, and his central bank, stole from productive people in her!
Ain’t progressivism grand!
And it will only cost twice as much as real meat.
Absolutely irrelevant compared to the 0.1 °C rise in temperature over the last decade, we’re doomed without solar powered aquatic SUVs.
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And you believed that? 2/3rds?!?
Get a globe. Close your eyes. Spin it around. Poke it.
2/3rds of the “wildlife” is gone compared to 1970 at where you’ve poked the globe?
Felix_Mish is correct to be skeptical. Exactly what species has gone extinct? Can anyone document even five of them?
My Dad was fond of saying that “27% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
A few big problems are causing all of this
I don’t suggest ripping out the chaparrel like Trump suggests but we’re experiencing excessive heat and the U.S. must take global warming seriously. It will only get worse. Also there’s too much development in areas that can’t properly support it. We’re paying the cost in flood zones and fire prone areas.
Extreme heat is here, and it’s deadly link to hcn.org
Only one “big problem” is making this a “big problem”: People lacking the opportunity to get the heck out of a temporary fire and smoke zone, until the fires are over. And/or lacking housing decent enough to have air suitable for a fire and smoke zone.
IOW, people are too poor to adapt to the climate they live in. Not much different from some hypothetical Canadian who couldn’t afford war clothes to see him through the winter.
Hence the solution is: Stop making people too poor to afford housing suitable for occasionally smoke filled air, and simultaneously too poor to to have a second home somewhere less smoky. Solved.
In the mind of a liberal, everything that happens in nature is caused by global warming. What evidence is there that global warming had anything to do with these fires? Fires need a spark and if it doesn’t rain for months, everything dead is highly flammable. Whether it’s 90 degrees or 95.
That is sort of what a serious cataract makes things appear.
It’s looking like the end of days out there…best to be prepared for anything