Good stuff again this week. I tell people constantly that there will be those moronic deniers who will literally be burning and/or drowning who will still be calling climate change a hoax. Same as the people who gasped their dying breaths while denying COVID was real.
People can really suck. Thankfully, they can also be very good. More of those types, please!
I inadvertently erased part of my comment. The UFO (or UAP) saga drags on despite no one ever bringing up the improbability (I’d say impossibility) of interstellar travel. Or teaching about it.
Thanks for the heads up on Heat Wave/Climate Change denial story. I had just sent you a remarkably daft story from one of Arizona's "faux news" (really faux) trying to tell us that July in Phoenix wasn't really as hot as news reports were saying. And the evidence? A state weather service expert who really just said that the first 6 months were a bit below average. But what's that got to do with reports of July temps? But that's what the reporter was using to deny July heat temps. The reporter followed up with an Arizona State University scientist (legit) who pointed out, quite rightly, that Phoenix city temps have been rising continually over the past 60 or 70 years more as a result of the heat island effect of tall buildings grouped closer and closer as Phoenix went from 106,000 people to 1.6 million, trees were cut, roads were built all over etc. than from climate warming alone. Of course in reality this is not to gainsay climate change but rather to note that a 10- or 20-fold increase in population and concrete structures is going to be a dominant factor in rising average temperatures.
Good stuff again this week. I tell people constantly that there will be those moronic deniers who will literally be burning and/or drowning who will still be calling climate change a hoax. Same as the people who gasped their dying breaths while denying COVID was real.
People can really suck. Thankfully, they can also be very good. More of those types, please!
Bears in eagle’s nests? That’s a new one for me.
Great roundup!
I inadvertently erased part of my comment. The UFO (or UAP) saga drags on despite no one ever bringing up the improbability (I’d say impossibility) of interstellar travel. Or teaching about it.
Good stuff, Kiddo.
As far as climate change deniers go, I always mention that I hope they are heavily invested in coastal property.
Thanks for the heads up on Heat Wave/Climate Change denial story. I had just sent you a remarkably daft story from one of Arizona's "faux news" (really faux) trying to tell us that July in Phoenix wasn't really as hot as news reports were saying. And the evidence? A state weather service expert who really just said that the first 6 months were a bit below average. But what's that got to do with reports of July temps? But that's what the reporter was using to deny July heat temps. The reporter followed up with an Arizona State University scientist (legit) who pointed out, quite rightly, that Phoenix city temps have been rising continually over the past 60 or 70 years more as a result of the heat island effect of tall buildings grouped closer and closer as Phoenix went from 106,000 people to 1.6 million, trees were cut, roads were built all over etc. than from climate warming alone. Of course in reality this is not to gainsay climate change but rather to note that a 10- or 20-fold increase in population and concrete structures is going to be a dominant factor in rising average temperatures.