Friday Funnies
Hot and Cold
I was recently reading a post from Thumbnail Green lamenting the loss of his beloved chicken from 47 degree temperatures. Now 47 degrees is a fairly common morning temperature low here in Las Vegas right now and one in which our chicken Basil has no problem handling. It took me a moment to adjust my settings to Australia summertime and Celsius.
Yes 47C or 117 F is a big problem for chickens. At the same time as many in America are complaining about a brutally cold winter Australia is setting record highs. But is the climate really changing or is it in the range of expected variation?
My first step is to assess my personal situation. This winter has been very mild in Las Vegas, with most daytime highs comfortably in the 60’s and sometimes the low 70’s (20 C). It’s rained a bit but is completely in the expected range. The haze that many were complaining of in early January seems to have largely cleared. There has not been a killer frost here as should be evident from the potted marigold, mum and pansies out front (and the grass growing below them):
Some winters we do not get a killer frost in Las Vegas. On warm years it’s usually safe to plant for cold tolerant early starters like collard greens by mid February. The weather in Las Vegas has been unremarkable and nice.
But what about those other places? What is killing the Aleppo pines? Why do they keep on making chemtrails in the shape of anarchy symbols? What about the snow that doesn’t melt and only blackens when put to a flame? Is HAARP microwaving everything and are the poles suddenly going to flip? Is a sunspot going to take out the power grid? Is this punishment for stripmining the Earth or is all this misery being inflicted to appease the Gods or the Demonic forces that rule the world?
Are we all going to die?
Pending home sales are at an all time low and consumer confidence is on a steady step down. Meanwhile a liquidity crisis is emerging in physical gold and precious metals markets due to hyperinflation in spot prices. Let’s just print more money!
So is the climate really changing? Many of the all time record high temperatures noted above were set and still stand from decades and sometimes over 100 years ago. The hottest temperature I have personally ever been in was 127 F (53 C) as spotted on the World’s Tallest Thermometer in Baker, California in July of 1997. Now Baker, for those who have never passed through that I-15 outpost, is the gateway to Death Valley, which still holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on the globe from 1913. There is satellite data from Iran and Libya claiming hotter temperatures, but that’s not a surface level apples to apples comparison.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth is - 128 F (-89 C) in Antarctica in 1983, with the coldest inhabitated place being a town in Siberia in Russia. The coldest temperatures recorded in the USA was -80 F (-62 C) in Prospect Creek, Alaska in 1971 with Rogers Pass, Montana at -70 F in 1954 the coldest in the lower 48. There were some brutally cold winters in the early 1990’s and I spent a weekend at a friend’s farm in Michigan helping her care for her horses at dawn. I’ve been in exactly -20 F (-29 C) on a few different occasions.
So is the climate really changing? Let me know what you think and why. This song made me a little misty eyed. I’d have to assume this family is not Amish, but rather Amish adjacent, or else they wouldn’t be on YouTube or have a digital clock on their wall.
I’m waiting on the springtime. Take me to the beach. But first I might have to try to melt some plasticized snow with a lighter. My daughter gets to be my Valentine and maybe my nieces too!
I hope you are all staying comfortable, wherever you are…
Mennonites?
In the larger scale of 250,000 years of weather, who knows what is normal? Hard to tell from a tiny 150 year snippet.
4th monkey and new supermarket were really funny.
Red pilled in 2015 on my own. Read everything in sight. Dropped into deep rabbit holes. Was alarmed by many and a multitude of possible scenarios.
For over 10 years now, I've watched and continued reading. Nothing has ever happened to substantiate most of the assertions and mythology of that prodigious reading.
I think a primary tactic on web is bizarre, weird theories and hypotheses passed around and many deliberately generated. They inflame people's imaginations. They cause a certain panic which, as "The Epoch Times" related in an article, freezes people in a "flight or fight" cage. They become paralyzed.
So, I've stopped believing 9/10 of what I read; discount much of what I've read in the past; and feel 100% more sane.