yeah, yeah--everyone older than I am will die an unnatural death except they won't because they will die a New Natural death--What? Thirsty? But Damn the economy is Humming along!
Unfortunate yet completely expected. At some point the north pole narrative, created as a distraction to hide the true location, won't work any more...
The extent of #Arctic sea ice is still a record low and is currently more than 400,000 square kilometers less than the prior record for today's date. This previous record was set in 2016. The data here is from JAXA's Arctic Data archive System.
I recall times many years ago when I would get up to go to work on a winter morning and it would be so cold that I could not stop shivering. I would light the oven to warm up and watch some local country variety show on TV because it was the only channel that I got ... I read a lot more books. That was the norm for me way back when. Now-a-days though it's all about central heat and air. 250+ TV channels, and streaming. Of course, back in the day, we didn't have home computers, internet, cable, satellite TV, or cellphones. Hmmm ... I did have a digital watch and thought it was fancy.
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan
Years ago my late mother discovered a company called Brentford Nylons and bought bedding for the whole house. My boxroom had no heating and icicles on the inside. My teeth chattered. Now I’m in a central heated home and my teeth chatter for some, as yet, unknown reason. I’ll take today over all those years ago. Also, I don’t miss the fucking beatings…… 🤓 seasons greetings all! 💪👍
I felt privileged owning an electrical typewriter in the 80s! It was much easier to type with (less force needed) and it was even possible to correct your text. But only the last two lines. And of course you had to use this blue paper to have a copy. And when the tape cassette was empty, and you didn't have one in store you had to stop working.
During the 80s, I was in the Army and usually had an electric typewriter. It was different from the 70s when we only had manual typewriter, except for the battalion commander's secretary. In the 80 that secretary had a memory typewriter. There were copy machines, though usually one at the battalion headquarters that was strictly regulated. Those were the days of carbon paper. Hmmm ... I wonder if they still produce carbon paper.
those memories are only appreciated by older people,,I believe. When we finally had a color TV, it didn't have a remote control. As we lived close to the airport, we were forced to jump up to turn up the volume, then jump again when the airplane had landed. Quite sporty! As I see it, there was no harm in jumping, but I'm sure, younger people, who grew up with handling everything by remote control, would be exasperated
Today's young people will probably reminisce in the future about the days when people had to actually have something in their hand to make a phone call or look up something on the internet.
Very large portions of the #Arctic observed temperatures more than 5°C above the 1981-2010 reference period last month! This was especially prominent across Siberia and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
#ClimateDiary An Eastbourne friend just told us about how he went to hear Simon Reeve at the Congress theatre on Friday. He showed us this image he had taken from Reeve’s talk: “this amount of ice melts every HOUR. You could hear a pin drop in the audience. When you see it like that it really brings it home.”
Well done Simon Reeve for talking about climate change in the Eastbourne Congress theatre (not a climate activist crowd, more the opposite) - and for using an image that works.
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