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“Unexpected Rainfall event starts in the Sahara Desert: A Rare Weather Phenomenon…
“A unique rainfall event is about to unfold across the Sahara desert… The amount of rainfall might not seem large by normal standards, but a large part of the Sahara will get well over 500% of normal monthly rainfall in August and September… central regions will get over 1000% of the normal rainfall.”
“Mali on Friday declared a national disaster on Friday due to the devastating floods caused by torrential rains.
“This decision was announced in a statement released after an extraordinary Cabinet meeting chaired by Col. Assimi Goita, the president of the transition government of the West African state.”
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/mali-declares-national-disaster-amid-devastating-floods-3689804
“Cows block Nigeria’s capital as climate change displaces Herders…
“Abubakar and his cattle’s presence in the city centre is not out of choice but of necessity. His family are originally from Katsina State in northern Nigeria, where a changing climate turned grazing lands into barren desert.”
“Floods Like a Tsunami Destroy Homes Across Conakry [Guinea].
“The heavy rains devastaing Guinean capital on the night August 23 to 24, 2024, resulted in the death of one person and the disappearance of another, reports the African Press Agency. In Kobaya, streets have turned into torrents, making travel difficult and dangerous.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ1IzB2k4_Q
“At least 60 people have been killed after a dam burst because of heavy rainfall in war-torn Sudan.
“Search operations are currently underway, but there are fears that the death toll could be even higher. The Arbat dam has a capacity of 25 million cubic metres, and is the main source of drinking water for the coastal city of Port Sudan.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnpr2980po
“Ten people dead in northern Ethiopia landslide: State media…
“Eight people were seriously hurt in the disaster and were receiving treatment, the AMC said, quoting the local official. As many as 2,400 people have been “displaced by the disaster and are currently sheltered in local social institutions”, it added.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/ten-people-dead-in-northern-ethiopia-landslide-state-media
“The oceans are still very warm and tropical islands and coasts keep breaking records.
“Indian Ocean is not an exception, this month records have fallen everywhere. The KENYAN tourist resort town of Malindi also had its August hottest night on record with a Tmin of 25.5C [77.9F].”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827466929248043432
“Local media and several social networks reported that around 100 people have died in Yemen due to flooding caused by heavy and persistent rains in the country.
“In recent days, heavy rains have hit several regions in Yemen, causing major flooding in some areas and causing catastrophic devastation…”
https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/trending/floods-cause-chaos-in-sana-a-yemen.html
“Torrential Rains In Jazan Reconnect Local Wadi With The Sea After 50 Years…
“This remarkable transformation was captured by a local resident, highlighting the powerful impact of the recent heavy rainfall in the region.”
“Middle East heat is relentless with temperature routinely surpassing 50C every day (today 50.3 / 122.5F Semawah, Iraq).
“In few days the heat will increase further and temperatures on Tuesday can approach 52C again, which is exceptional for late August.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827403612227502453
“Sea surface temperatures hit 97.7°F (36.5°C) in the Persian Gulf this past week.
“One of the highest sea surface temperatures ever recorded on Earth.”
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1827823554488111381
“Climate shift sowing seeds of uncertainty in Pakistan’s fields.
“Increasingly severe droughts and erratic monsoons are jeopardizing food security, rural livelihoods, and the economy. With agriculture employing nearly 45% of the population and contributing 24% to GDP, the sector’s vulnerability to climate change is imminent.”
https://dailytimes.com.pk/1220836/climate-shift-sowing-seeds-of-uncertainty-in-pakistans-fields/
“Water mismanagement and overexploitation drive Pakistan towards absolute water scarcity.
“The groundwater level in Pakistan has been depleting at an alarming rate thanks to the mismanagement of water resources and the overexploitation of groundwater extraction. The fast-depleting groundwater table has made water scarce, even 400-500 feet under the ground in many cities.”
“Green activists protest chemical waste dumping into Buddha Nullah [Jamalpur, Bihar, India]…
“Green activists raised their voice against the chemical water being thrown into the Buddha Nullah near Jamalpur area here on Sunday. Environmentalists gathered together and held the placards of poor governance in their hands.”
“Record after record…. Exceptional heat in SRI LANKA with 38.7C [101.7F] today at Pottuvil which destroys its monthly record and it’s just 0.2C from its all time high and close to the Lankan August national record.
“Almost every tropical country is smashing all the 2023 Nino records.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827727296410911099
“More than 300,000 in emergency shelters after Bangladesh floods…
“Rescue teams, including joint forces of the army, air force and navy, are helping people forced from their homes and bringing aid to those who have lost everything, Disaster Management Minister Faruk-e-Azam said.”
“China activates Level-IV emergency response to flooding in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia.
“A year’s worth of rain fell in just one day in parts of Ningxia, northwest China, due to extreme rainstorms that struck the region in the past 24 hours.”
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1827680347842351187
“Northern China was hit by a storm today, with rainfall exceeding 100 mm in six provinces and many places breaking daily rainfall records.
“Shandong received 151 mm [six inches] of rainfall in 60 minutes, setting a new record for short-term heavy rain in the province.”
“Hundreds of stations across CHINA >35C ,dozens >40C [104F] and many had NIGHT minimum >30C, even >32C in Chongqing area.
“Heat is resembling that of the terrible 2022 summer and it will continued into September with unbearable hot conditions day and night.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827328158330188107
“Seoul’s record streak of tropical nights ends, but heatwave isn’t over…
“On the morning of Aug. 25, the temperature in Seoul dropped to 24.9 [77F] degrees Celsius, marking the first time in 35 days that the city’s temperature fell below 25 degrees… The previous longest stretch was 26 days in 2018.”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2024/08/26/43C4KVPZOFCNVIJRYVGB56IVAQ/
“EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN JAPAN – temperatures again close to 40C in Kumamoto Prefecture and more all time records broken:
“37.3 [99.1F] Kahoku all time high; 38.9 Kousa all time high; 38.4 Ueda monthly record. The Extreme Heat will go on for any foreseeable future.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827271064633672005
“Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?
“As Japan was baking in record-breaking temperatures last summer, supermarket chain Maruyasu introduced what it called the mōsho-wari, or “extreme heat discount,” to lure shoppers wary of stepping out of their homes into the scorching sun.”
“Typhoon Shanshan Approaches Japan, Bringing Heavy Rain and Winds…
“The powerful storm had sustained wind gusts of up to 120 miles per hour early Tuesday, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane… parts of western Japan may receive nearly two feet of rain within 24 hours. The agency warned of the potential for widespread floods and landslides.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/world/asia/japan-typhoon-shanshan.html
“Flash flood on Indonesia’s eastern Ternate Island sweeps away buildings and leaves 13 dead.
“The deluges cut off the main road and access to the village of Rua in North Maluku province, the hardest hit area, and buried dozens of houses and buildings under the mud.”
“Australia has recorded its hottest ever winter temperature, with Yampi Sound in the Kimberley region of Western Australia reaching 41.6C [106.9F] on Tuesday.
The record… exceeds the old national record of 41.2C which was reached at West Roebuck on 23 August 2020. The temperature is the new Australia-wide maximum temperature record for any winter month.”
“For those who GAF about tipping points, Antarctic sea-ice is having another moment.
“I’ll be watching to see if a new record is set this year, but it’s CODE UFB that it’s even a possibility.”
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1827691080948785329
“UN chief issues ‘SOS’ for Pacific Islands worst hit by warming ocean.
“United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday ocean temperatures are rising in the Pacific Islands at three times the rate worldwide, and its population was “uniquely exposed” to the impact of rising sea levels.”
“Brazil launches ‘war’ on wildfires devastating Sao Paulo state…
“Following a crisis meeting, President Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Marina Silva announced Sunday a “war against the fire” as emergency measures were put in place and federal police began investigations into the “atypical situation”.”
“SOUTH AMERICA BETWEEN COLD AND HEAT: Record heat doesn’t stop, just moved North – 36.1 [97F] Nueva Loja ECUADOR Amazonas.
“In COLOMBIA a very harsh and long heat wave is brewing in the South in the departments of Tolima, Huila and Cundinamarca the temperature can reach 40/42C next 2 weeks.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827825389047369952
“The community in the municipality of Plato (Magdalena, Colombia) is on alert following the heavy rains that have occurred since the night of Sunday, August 25, which caused flooding in several sectors of the population.
“Videos were posted on social media showing how the water currents engulfed dozens of homes…”
“Record heat continues in the Southern Caribbean and the South America Atlantic coast. Today GUYANA had its HOTTEST AUGUST NIGHT IN HISTORY with a Minimum temperature of 26.9C [80.4] at Georgetown.
“FRENCH GUIANA: Tmin 25.1C Cayenne AP- August record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1828200141196558629
“Caribbean islands hope UN court will end ‘debt cycle’ caused by climate crisis…
“The outcome of an international court case on climate change obligations could strengthen the legal position of Caribbean islands claiming damages from developed countries after natural disasters, lawyers say.”
“A Texas city is America’s second-fastest growing urban area – despite being too hot to go outside during summer and facing water shortages.
“During the pandemic, homebuyers flocked to Kyle, Texas where an aquifer, an underground water source, is currently shrinking, leaving more than 67,000 residents struggling for water.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13777989/texas-growing-city-hot-water-shortages.html
“Take a look at these 3 videos of Havasupai, taken less than an hour apart, in northern Arizona. Catastrophic flooding turned one of the state’s most beautiful spots into a danger zone.
“104 hikers and tribe members have been airlifted since Friday.”
https://x.com/trentonhooker/status/1827849265156379111
“Moab’s third flood event of 2024 was a doozy.
“Damage incurred throughout Grand County; City Councilor Luke Wojciechowski said it’s time to ask the state for help. A series of thunderstorms rolled through Grand County Friday night, bringing Moab its third flood event of the summer.”
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/moabs-third-flood-event-of-2024-was-a-doozy/
“A voluntary evening lockdown has been enacted in four Massachusetts towns amid a potentially fatal mosquito-born disease.
“The towns of Webster, Oxford, Sutton and Douglas made the decision following confirmation of the first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in Worcester County since 2020.”
“How wildfire season is changing Saskatchewan’s summer skies…
“Wildfire season, once a predictable pattern of occasional forest fires, has evolved into a more persistent and disruptive force, altering the province’s summer landscape in profound ways.”
https://westcentralonline.com/articles/how-wildfire-season-is-changing-saskatchewans-summer-skies
“Alaska landslide kills one person and injures three…
““In my 65 years in Ketchikan, I have never seen a slide of this magnitude. With the slides we have seen across the region, there is clearly a region-wide issue that we need to try to understand with the support of our state geologist,” Kiffer said.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/26/alaska-landslide-ketchikan
“New study shows Alaskan snow crab population collapse in Bering Sea due to climate change.
“Prior research has shown that the number of snow crabs in the Bering Sea has declined dramatically in recent years—some estimates have found population numbers dropping by 10 billion between 2018 and 2021. In this new effort, the research team found enough evidence to blame climate change with 98% confidence.”
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-alaskan-crab-population-collapse-bering.html
“Lapland/N Norway has …seen an incredibly warm summer:
“For example for famous tourist spot of Hammerfest (where your author himself enjoyed the midnight sun back in 1997 summer solstice) is currently hovering with a summer anomaly of +5C above normal!”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1827309507648594031
“Latvia’s agricultural sector has reported considerable damage caused by the storm that raged in July.
“The storm particularly affected gardeners, fruit and vegetable growers, and potato farmers, with prolonged water exposure leading to significant crop damage.”
“New Heat Record Broken: Hottest Temperature ever at Dawn in Budapest…
“On Saturday morning, the air in the capital only cooled down to 23 [73.4F] degrees Celsius on János Hill (the highest point of Budapest with a height of 528m), breaking the record for the highest minimum temperature in the capital by 0.2 degrees Celsius…”
https://hungarytoday.hu/new-heat-record-broken-hottest-temperature-ever-at-dawn-in-budapest/
“Farmers call for government action as severe drought in Serbia forces early harvests…
“This is the third year in a row that the region has been hit by such conditions and the impact on the yield is huge, with corn output expected to be three times lower than the usual this year.”
“Hundreds of Firefighters Battle Raging Wildfires in Crimea…
“The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations published video footage on Aug. 26 showing firefighters battling raging wildfires in the Crimean region of Feodosia. Emergency workers, specialized heavy equipment, and helicopters are battling fires day and night on the region’s hillsides.”
https://www.ntd.com/hundreds-of-firefighters-battle-raging-wildfires-in-crimea_1013118.html
“Giant hail in the Altai Republic [Russia] injured people and damaged cars…
“In the social networks, in the communities… people shared photos of its consequences – damaged cars and even injuries. The photo shows that the hail was indeed very large (some hailstones were the size of a chicken egg and even larger).”
“Climate change drives increase in Türkiye’s annual forest fires…
“Forest fires in Türkiye have increased significantly, reaching nearly 2,700 annually due to the impacts of climate change… Population growth is [another] significant factor, as it puts additional pressure on forested areas.”
“Türkiye struggles with severe floods after devastating forest fires.
“Türkiye is grappling with severe flooding following last week’s intense forest fires. The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency has evacuated 1,065 individuals stranded by heavy rainfall in several provinces. Heavy rains caused widespread flooding across many cities a day earlier.”
“The Athens metropolitan area is the latest area of Greece to be affected by water shortages, according to local sources.
“The problem is due to prolonged high temperatures combined with a decrease in annual rainfall. These conditions have resulted in surface levels of Lake Mornos dropping.”
https://greekreporter.com/2024/08/24/water-shortage-athens-greece/
“Storms continue to hit Teruel with hail, rain and wind [Spain]…
“Users have wanted to share some snapshots of the meteorological phenomenon on the social network X, reflecting, for example, the hail that has fallen in the town of Tramacastilla , in the Sierra de Albarracín region, where the ice balls reached up to 5 centimeters in diameter.”
“Morocco’s Cloud Seeding Plans Raise Concerns in Spain…
“According to a report from Spanish weather agency El Tiempo, Morocco has allocated nearly €10 million since 2023 to boost its cloud seeding program, aiming to generate artificial rain and alleviate the structural drought affecting the country.”
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2024/08/364756/moroccos-cloud-seeding-plans-raise-concerns-in-spain
“The entire Atlantic Ocean is *not rapidly cooling*… All weekend I have been receiving messages about global cooling in response to one misinformed headline.” – Zack Labe. [Mea Culpa; I posted that misleading New Scientist headline in a previous thread].
“Meanwhile the marine heatwave in the mid North Atlantic increases in intensity with the development of strong and locally severe categories.”
https://x.com/zlabe/status/1828042150535131422?s=46
“The mean global sea surface temperature averaged over the last three months remained the highest on record relative to any other May to July period…”
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 [graph by Zack Labe]
https://x.com/ZLabe/status/1827796285530808392
“Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change…
“…it’s not clear if or when such technologies can work, let alone who should perform or control these planetary interventions. Nor is it known if altering the skies or seas to cool one region might bring intense heat or destructive drought elsewhere.”
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I’m sure all of us GAF!
And yes it is UFB!
I usually struggle with my acronyms but these ones rolled right off my tongue.
Yes epic weather in Oz of late. Winter and a very hot spring have co existed across a very small dynamic range, ~500-700km.
Prof Eliot Jacobson does love his acronyms. 😂
I was baffled by UFB for ages and had to look it up. For the uninitiated: un-f******-believable!
Extreme Temps is reporting that the heat is going to persist for parts of Oz and that records are going to fall with huge margins of 4/5C. Talking of huge margins, that stat about consecutive tropical nights in Seoul really caught my eye. The new record of 35 absolutely trounces the previous record of 26 days (from 2018).
Oh no, and now this..
Earth’s Temperature Could Increase by 25 Degrees: Startling New Research Reveals That CO2 Has More Impact Than Previously Thought
By Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ResearchAugust 27, 2024
https://scitechdaily.com/earths-temperature-could-increase-by-25-degrees-startling-new-research-reveals-that-co2-has-more-impact-than-previously-thought/
Doubling the atmospheric CO2 levels could raise Earth’s average temperature by 7 to 14 degrees Celsius (13 to 25.2 degrees Fahrenheit), according to sediment analysis from the Pacific Ocean near California conducted by researchers from NIOZ and the Universities of Utrecht and Bristol.
The results were recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
Unique time series
“CO2 over the past 15 million years has never before been examined from a single location,” Witkowski said. The upper thousand meters of the drill core correspond to the past 18 million years.
From this record, the researchers were able to extract an indication of the past seawater temperature and an indication of ancient atmospheric CO2 levels, using a new approach.
….So, this research gives us a glimpse of what the future could hold if we take too few measures to reduce CO2 emissions and also implement few technological innovations to offset emissions,” Damsté said. “The clear warning from this research is: CO2 concentration is likely to have a stronger impact on temperature than we are currently taking into account!”
The details of their approach is fascinating.
I remember from my clash with the Watts Up With That Group was sensitivity was far overstated in their models. No doubt, they probably are still harping the same today.
Thanks, Vince. I thought Hansen’s paper suggesting a doubling of CO2 would lead to 4.8C warming was alarming enough. 😬
Yes I’ve become less phased by records. Little warnings going unheeded, with extreme records especially for heat being smashed by abnormal standard deviations. Since I’ve moved back to sub tropical NSW, in the last 7 years I’ve seen extreme record bushfires, record drought, record heat, two 1-100 year floods, the last exceeding the previous record by +2m. 24 hour totals above 1000ml over large areas in them both. If it was the Olympics WADA would be all over, whilst humans ignore the CO2 performance enhanced test results. All dismissed by “ we’ve always had floods and fire” or quoting a Dorothea MacKellar poem.
The cool patch in the Atlantic, though undetermined is what we could expect to see as high sea temperatures start influencing previously stable ocean currents and circulatory systems.
The scientist in means allows me to observe without emotion, anger or frustration, just total awe of what I’m witnessing. Humans are natural, therefore the process is natural. To all those amazing species, apologies but we’re just a slow motion asteroid.
Sometimes I think Trump should win the election and then inherit the chaos that are effects of human greed upon the biosphere. He embodies human greed.
Let’s try to keep the Trump-bashing to a minimum, Sissyfuss. If Facebook is anything to go by, my comments section risks becoming a raging firestorm of dissenting views in the lead-up to the US elections, and I don’t think my blood pressure can take it.
To your point, most election wins look like poisoned chalices to me these days. Our new PM, Keir Starmer, is telling the public today that there will be pain and unpopular decisions, and “levelling with them that Britain’s problems would only get worse before getting better.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-starmer-says-things-will-get-worse-before-they-get-better-2024-08-27/
The public will be peeved when “better” never comes, for what is really a post-growth economy now, and politics will lurch in some new direction, I imagine.
Let’s keep criticism of all politicians, regardless of their political delusions, to a minimum.
The politicians are not the problem, it’s the idiots that elect them to office. If someone doesn’t like their elected officials, it might be one’s neighbor that is the problem. No need to rant rave or criticize anyone. Boycotts of businesses & ostracizing of friends & family is one way to deal with those that vote against one’s best interest. This is what I’m doing everyday. Or we can continue doing nothing just as it has been done with environmental pollution.
The friend of my enemy is my enemy. 😉
I don’t recall seeing anything about the ENTIRE Atlantic cooling, just that an unusually cold area had formed in the southern part, somewhere off Africa. Apparently it didn’t last long, but no one could explain why it happened at all.
That landslide in Ketchikan caught my eye, all of the towns in SE Alaska follow the same pattern, a narrow strip of development right along the water, lots of stuff built out on piers, and then insanely steep mountains rising straight up behind the town. The Mendenhall valley north of downtown Juneau is a notable exception, but isn’t much safer due to glacial lake outbursts.
I recall seeing historical anecdotes that the natives here were both amused and mystified to see all those white folks building their towns in avalanche zones.
And, yeah, I had to look up GAF…
“I don’t recall seeing anything about the ENTIRE Atlantic cooling.”
Jerry, looking back, I did go to some lengths to qualify that headline: “The [equatorial] Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why [mid-latitudes still v hot]…”
There is much outrage on X about this article because of course it has been grist to the deniers’ mill – Jeff Berardelli, for example:
“This headline is either pure clickbait or Gizmodo is totally confused about the topic. Prob both. The article is NOT about the Atlantic as a whole, but a small part of the tropical Atlantic off Africa… a natural oscillation called the Atlantic Nino / Nina. Hard to excuse this.”
Pan, have you run across any good sources for on the ground news in Russia? I am interested to know how the people are handling their situation. I can find plenty of Chinese diaspora creating news about conditions in their homeland. But I have not found anything similar for Russia.
Nat .. not sure how much is geoblocked in your country, but RT news – english (Russia Today) covers general domestic news. If you get paranoid about getting ‘infected-by-propaganda’ reading a Russian newspaper site, just stay away from the war news articles.
A big country, but generally Putin and his cabinet remain majority popular. Putins biggest threat is from the Communist Party who are more hardliner hawkish on Ukraine. The dude who died in prison, Navalny?, only got 5% of the vote when he was allowed to run for office, (below quota needed) but it was his meetings with US and CIA officials in Germany, that put him in prison on returning to Russia. There is also a continuous trickle significant increase of West Europeans, Americans etc emigrating to Russia.
Like China, Russias climate policies are focussed on mitigation and adaptation, eg upgrading infrastructure to cope better with extreme events. Both Russia and China believe the West govts, IPCC etc focussing solely on “energy transition” and 1.5C vs 2.0C is just stupid, dumbed-down to distract. They asked themselves, what can we do to reduce the impact of the next extreme flood in this or that region? Are our dams up to coping with what’s coming? what can we do about preventing or reversing desertification? What can be done in cities, do we need to plan for population relocations? If so which ones?
So Russia, like some other countries, well know climate change is happening, and getting worse year on year, but it can’t be fixed or reversed, they’d rather focus on helping populations/regions adapt over time. Creates jobs on huge engineering projects, like building overflow flood channels etc. Eg.. China has been researching small, modular thorium salt reactors.. like their EVs, getting more efficient and cheaper over time., but still some years away from being commercial.
Countries which can undertake 5 and 10+-year projects, do a lot of it.. they plan, invest and spend for the long term, unlike most Western countries which are limited by election cycles.
I must admit, most Western countries don’t seem to support big engineering or “public works” projects anymore. Let alone planning to phase out or decommission old tech.
China talks about “new” tech, not “green” or “renewable” tech, they know so-called ‘green energy’ is a misnomer, so they just call it the “new technologies”.
And big Budgets on education, in all the STEM, pumping out engineers and climate scientists and landcare experts who can answer these sorts of questions, and research local solutions.
But Nat, this is a hard-core doomer site! LOL
Who cares about Russia etc ? as doomers know we will all go down together in a few years, as all 8 billion of us are equally to blame.
Nat, I do include quite a few Russian news sources – but on an ad hoc basis when they are reporting on local weather events that aren’t reported in the English-speaking press. So, for example:
https://www.vedomosti.ru/
https://vladivostok1.ru/
You’ll need to use Google-translate for those. There are loads of channels on YouTube offering ordinary Russians’ opinions on geopolitics etc, eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN4PxWNihm8
Foxholes provide more protection than prayer does.
https://militaryatheists.org/atheists-in-foxholes/
Don’t talk politics or religion. Well, I’ve never been one to follow rules.
How’s all the religions working out in record floods & record temperatures. Bet self-deception doesn’t protect us against NTHE.
Everyone remember to get their blood tested for microplastics & forever chemicals. Suicide or stupidity, some choose both?
Awww.. you are so mean on religion… I can’t remember who said it but the a wartime adage was “There are no atheists in the trenches”.
Truth.
And thanks for your other comment too. I’ve missed seeing you here. You have interesting things to say.
Thanks Rusty
“Truth. And thanks for your other comment too. I’ve missed seeing you here. You have interesting things to say.”
FWIW, I have been drifting away from participating in hardcore doomer sites,
but still read & skim through most days 🙂