This is nuclear waste in the US, not the green goo everyone is preconditioned to think from the Simpsons it is held in concrete casks on site. In the US we also fail to recycle our used waste like Europe. US nuclear waste from all US power plants to date can fit on a football field 10ft deep if I recall correctly. *Disregard or regard the lady at your own choice. https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-what-can-oui-learn
Lastly if you are anti nuclear just understand you are on the same side as Robert F. Kennedy Jr and think about that deeply.
This guy thinks he’s dunking on Greta Thunberg but he’s just showing he’s got poor reading comprehension.
found the answers to my question. higher temps at night is what will fuck up the crops and we're headed that way
"In order to get legislation passes, the Democrats have to leave out the actual purpose of the bills from the titles so shit eating republicans don't freak out" -Super Smart Tech Bro who got lucky with Facebook & now invests in Green Energy
I had hoped the gulf stream would still be effective during my unborn grandchildren lives ended. Well, probably won't even make it past my kiddos get old
We have forecasts for near record highs in the coming days. We do that a lot now. Welcome to Heat Dome!
I can say that head dome sucks. Best of luck. We finally start getting some relief today with temps forecasted to drop a degree a day over the next 10 days.
Okay, scratch that. That was last night when I went to bed. Now it is saying 97-101 every day in 10 day. I want to die.
Also have a peak forecasted humidity of 94% today, yet it has not rained for several days. Luckily we're not getting heat wave temps. But dew points are projected to get into the 70s by tonight.
these floods in India... good Lord https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/14/india-floods-himachal-pradesh-monsoon/ Delhi, a city of 32 million people, is rationing drinking water.
Got 6.25 inches of rain at my house yesterday in about a span of 6 hours. And for about half that time it was barely raining if any at all
Death Valley Expected to Record Highest Temp Ever on Earth as Climate Crisis Roars "To be extremely clear: this is not normal," said the Union of Concerned Scientists as nearly 120 million people in the U.S. faced extreme weather alerts. JULIA CONLEY Jul 14, 2023 2could reach 131°F on Sunday. If the National Weather Service's projection is correct, the desert region will endure the hottest temperature in the planet's recorded history. The desert set the present global temperature record in 2020, reaching 130°F. Climatologists say an often-cited heat record of 134°F, allegedly observed in Death Valley in 2013, was likely not a credible recording. The agency warned of the potential new record one day after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)said that last month was the hottest June since scientists began keeping heat records in the 1880s. Spoiler On Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization announced that last week was the planet's hottest on record. "With extreme heat on the rise because of climate change, it is critical that policymakers and regulators take steps to ensure our communities are protected." In the United States, a heat dome—in which an area of high pressure traps heat underneath it—now stretches from the West Coast to the Southeast. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) included Death Valley in its map of regions currently facing extreme heat on Friday, but people in the area are just some of the more than 118 million in the U.S. who are currently subject to "extreme weather alerts," the group said. "To be extremely clear: this is not normal," said UCS. "Decades of dependence on fossil fuels, decades of deception and obstruction on the part of the fossil fuel industry, and decades of inaction by policymakers who have been in their thrall have landed us where we are today. This has to stop." With nearly 120 million people at risk of wildfires, flooding, extreme heat, or tropical storms, the UCS has dubbed the time between roughly May and October as "Danger Season" and warned that "climate change impacts in the United States are at their peak and increasingly likely to collide with one another" in the next several months. During this danger season, said the group, 43% of extreme heat alerts have been made more likely by the climate crisis and the continued extraction of fossil fuels. "With extreme heat on the rise because of climate change, it is critical that policymakers and regulators take steps to ensure our communities are protected and our infrastructure is more resilient to extreme weather; that fossil fuels are quickly and sharply phased down while we rapidly transition to clean energy; and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for the damage their products have caused," said UCS. California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot added that the climate emergency is "supercharging" heatwaves and making wildfires more frequent and extreme in the state. "As we get deeper into the summer and vegetation that grew up during the wet spring dries out, we are seeing an uptick in wildfire activity," he said in a statement.
Several roads were shut down due to flooding that I never heard being shut down before. One of those roads I take going home from work and under normal heavy rains it doesn’t even do as much as puddle up in the part that flooded The lake by my alma mater that normally runs a few feet below the trunk of the trees nearest the water line had limbs submerged. And these are fairly large trees, probably oak trees or something similar, that are many decades (if not centuries) older than me.
Got another 6 inches of rain overnight, bringing our three day total entering Sunday morning to 12.75”. Luckily no more rain in the forecast for today or tomorrow