Thanks for that link!Look up Passage weather it has real time sea temperature maps. the last tab has it .
Renewables and the environment.
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I'm thinking of moving to Florida......not
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Beryl sets off alarm bells among hurricane experts
This year, hurricane season has taken off with a ferocious, ominous start thanks to Beryl—the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded, with winds topping out at 165 mph. Beryl bulldozed the Caribbean, made its way through Mexico and then plowed into Texas. As of the time of publication, over...
The other day we got the remnants of Beryl along with tornado warnings. Luckily just periods of rain but no flooding. No place to hide anymore.I'm thinking of moving to Florida......not
Beryl sets off alarm bells among hurricane experts
This year, hurricane season has taken off with a ferocious, ominous start thanks to Beryl—the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded, with winds topping out at 165 mph. Beryl bulldozed the Caribbean, made its way through Mexico and then plowed into Texas. As of the time of publication, over...
There was an interesting story recently about Jeff Bezos moving from Seattle to Miami to save millions in taxes... So where could anyone safely build a bunker in Florida? Private submarines? Taller buildings?
Plenty of safe cozy sink holes?
This is true of many things. Modern buildings were and are designed for air conditioning in many areas, for previous climate conditions. Current modern building are designed with a lot of synthetics & composite materials chemicals for fast building with limited construction skills. Roofing, siding, walls, etc. are extremely flammable as are modern furnishings, drapes, carpeting, etc. As far as I know, designs of modern building haven't much adapted except in what used to be hurricane & tornado prone areas, flooding or earthquake zone. Those zones are expanding - insurance companies are shifting policies for those areas, along with new ones for forest fires. The Fort McMurray fire showed how fast moving fires can burn a modern house completely within 5 minutes. Hurricanes are now regularly affecting weather in Canada; we're getting tornado warnings quite regularly where I live. My house won't stand up to a tornado. But it's nicely located part way down a hill that offers good protection from the normal westerly wind direction. No help if the storms come in from the east.
Consider what stores attempted while trying to compensate for Covid. Most commercial box buildings are designed to display/sell products. They aren't very tornado or hurricane tolerant either.
Worse in the USA is their power grid is not only old, it's not very functional due to competition & corporate greed.
I can remember living in an old apartment in Niagara Falls that had 12 foot ceilings. Good air circulation with double hung windows and a vent window over the entrance door. We don't build for excess heat or cold since we're dependent on modern materials and energy to compensate for extremes.
Canadian professor & media Marshal McLuhan said:
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
In his book, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, Jeff Goodell has a section about how we've discarded old methods of dealing with heat with newer technologies. And how that's come back to bite us in the ass when modern tech fails. Example, many deaths in Long Term Care Homes because they were never designed for major power outages or pandemics.
crikey. article about the burns and fatalities occurring for those who fall onto the ground / sidewalks / parking lots, in the hot hot south west. in Phoenix their burn treatment centre has had 50 patients this year, 4 of which died from their burns / injuries. last year, they had 136 patients and 14 of them died...so almost a 10% fatality rate amongst them. CRIKEY!!!
www.nytimes.com
Burns From Scorching-Hot Sidewalks and Roads Are Rising, and Can Be Fatal
The risk of serious contact burns is increasing as temperatures soar and as more people move to the desert Southwest.
On the plus side more sleepy time
Impressive..........if true!
Go Ghina Go! GGG!
www.abc.net.au
Go Ghina Go! GGG!
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
www.abc.net.au
Where is north america's leadership on the matter?
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