Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics #weather Ottawa ice used as climate defence

Everybody in Canada loves the mild winter. The physics is that extreme cold spilling out of the Arctic has created and pushed down Pacific storms, giving us that nice, dry Pacific air. In Huntsville, there are no snowmobiles on the ice.

That view was echoed by Canada’s environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, who said Tuesday, “This is yet another example of how our climate is changing in Canada.”

Climate efforts tailing off

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/14/is-the-eco-bubble-about-to-burst/

This is not rightwinger stuff, it’s economics. Great quote:

Economist Herbert Stein once said that ‘if something cannot go on forever, it will stop’. Today, there is growing evidence that ‘Stein’s law’ is coming for the renewables industry, particularly for wind and solar power.

It could have used some physics….

#physics #weather Erratic weather Extreme cold coming down for 1 day at Toronto. Then the Pacific air pushes it out.

Severe wind shear Western states get cold, Toronto gets summer. What will the media report?

Physics Phable - A story of terrible pollution written by ChatFizz
Once upon a time, long ago, there was a new world. It had an atmosphere of nitrogen, co2 and some methane, with lots of water. It cooled rapidly using convection through the atmosphere (they knew how to do things in those days).
Soon bacteria popped up all over the place. They were happy and built huge bacteria cities. But, they they just ate sulphur and methane, which was very low energy, so they were slooooow. No internet.
Then some very bright engineers said “We can do better than this.” They used quantum mechanics and found a way to zap co2 with sun photons, and split the molecule. That gave carbon which they combined with water, and ate it. The waste O2, they just poured into the atmosphere with giant chimneys – Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
Oh, the horror! One o2 could fry a happy anaerobic bacterium. Soon, there were massive protests - Stop the Oxygen! Some correlated the rise of o2 with temperature - ha.
The big Oxygen companies didn’t care, they kept pouring it out, and enjoyed 10 times the energy. When it came to their own lives, they used something called ‘evolution’ and put on layers to stop the ox burn.
The world changed. Plants sucked in the bacteria and went wild with ox. The earth was at 20% ox, but many plants on land wanted more. When they got to 25%, one lightning stroke would burn an entire forest in a poof. They went back to 20%. Soon, animals ate the plants, and humans ate the animals.
The End.

#physics #weather NOAA Haywood plot This plot continues to go down.

#physics #weather NOAA World temp plot Remember that all the predictions of doom came from putting a straight line on that first rise. Each one of those other peaks came from some action in the Pacific. I don’t see anything there now, so the temperatures will continue to go down.

#physics #earthquake PGV from Turkey My contention with convention is that PGV has all the importance with respect to damage. You can see incredible PGV at quite a distance. The only way you can survive this is a stiff building with deep helical piles. Convention would state the use of flexible structures.

#physics #weather Weather Balloons Lots sent every day, but they burst after 2 hours, and the radio package drifts down. Some people think they can sneak in their stuff, in the crowd.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/weather-balloons-hundreds-turns/story?id=97082985

Weather balloons showed long ago that all significant heat energy is transferred from the surface to the stratosphere by convection, but nasa said differently and everybody just shut the heck up.

*Bing is in love**

#physics #weather Pacific Storm Factory It’s still at full blast, but the storms are not hitting callie. That change in the Gulf Stream is affecting the whole N. Hemi.

#physics #weather Pacific Cold Phase The influencers without physics, have the cold ending ‘any day now’. You can see their forecast zooming up. NZ and Australia can put away their sandbags. Good times are back again! Tourists will come!
That’s their hypothesis, and they’ll never call it that. To cast a hypothesis means you can live with failure, and these people can’t. My hypothesis has the cold phase going on for at least 20 years. When will they throw in the towel? Maybe never.

Expect more accidents

Street racing crash Right near us. They took out 3 poles and one transformer, and walked out of the car.

A black girl from Ghana, part of our extended family has been using hair product since she could first slap it on. Her first baby has so many things wrong with it that the doctors are perplexed. We wait to see if this is a one in a million thing, or the start of a new health crisis. I am worried.

cheap phone Just got this. Wife plays these phone games and required one old phone to do ‘housekeeping’. She burned out all my old phones. Got this.
I am amazed that it is as good as my Pixel 4, and her S20. The buttons don’t fall out! Nice screen for the games. Nice photos. I can’t find a thing wrong yet. Maybe it turns into a spy balloon?

Influencer: El Nino will come back for Australia this year. End of the rains.

Engineer: About that… Pow!