Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?

[Chicks]

Hurricane Kay adds to 'most unusual and extreme weather week' for California

https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-kay...183553133.html

Extremely hot here all week - hit 115 degrees two days in a row, breaking records. MAGAMorons, including our resident idiot, still sayin' Global Warming ain't real. Knuckle-dragging morons.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Hurricane Kay adds to 'most unusual and extreme weather week' for California

https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-kay...183553133.html

Extremely hot here all week - hit 115 degrees two days in a row, breaking records. MAGAMorons, including our resident idiot, still sayin' Global Warming ain't real. Knuckle-dragging morons.

Name-calling again? Chicks at his best.

I thought is was climate change, not global warming. Or do you call it global warming only when there's a heat wave?

I've said it many, many times, but you post so much condescending crap that you probably overlooked it (and in case I'm the "resident idiot" that you're referring to, which seems likely 'cuz it appears that I live rent-free in your head): Climate change exists. In its billions of years of history, the Earth has undergone huge changes in climate many times. It's the "man-made" element of climate change that I have doubts about.

By the way, sorry for your discomfort, and for the fact that you're state's actions on power generation have left you with an overtaxed energy grid. It's been very seasonable here, maybe even a bit cool, for early September. Lovely sleeping weather these past few nights as well. Warming up a bit today in advance of a cold front and some potential rainy weather this weekend.

[RickeyM]

whell, I think you're the one living rent free in someones head

[Chicks]

No, Whell, you f’ing Neanderthal, our grid held up just fine. CA is far more advanced than you MAGAMorons will ever understand.

https://www.wired.com/story/californ...-batteries/amp

[whell]

Originally Posted by Chicks

No, Whell, you f’ing Neanderthal, our grid held up just fine. CA is far more advanced than you MAGAMorons will ever understand.

https://www.wired.com/story/californ...-batteries/amp

Name-calling: it's so you!

Imposing an "energy emergency" is your idea of "held up just fine"? That's funny! I guess your idea of "advanced" is having your state's energy authority sending out texts to state residents pleading with them to conserve energy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/cali...ains-grid.html

[Chicks]

Yes, you ignorant buffoon. The good people of this state responded to the unprecedented demand for energy, caused by man-made global warming, by heeding the call to consume less energy during peak hours. Simple enough for thinking folks to understand. Pre-cool the house before 4pm. It stayed cool enough until 9pm, when the AC could be cranked back down to 78. Whole house fan on any time the outdoor temps went below 72, which was most mornings.

Of course, the MAGAMorons, like my neighbor, continued to run their ACs 24X7, set at 72. I'm sure you would have done the same, as you clearly care nothing about anyone but yourself.

Oh, and our senators didn't run to Cancun during the crisis, and no one tried to kidnap our governor. It's called civilization. Try it some time.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Yes, you ignorant buffoon. The good people of this state responded to the unprecedented demand for energy, caused by man-made global warming, by heeding the call to consume less energy during peak hours. Simple enough for thinking folks to understand. Pre-cool the house before 4pm. It stayed cool enough until 9pm, when the AC could be cranked back down to 78. Whole house fan on any time the outdoor temps went below 72, which was most mornings.

Of course, the MAGAMorons, like my neighbor, continued to run their ACs 24X7, set at 72. I'm sure you would have done the same, as you clearly care nothing about anyone but yourself.

Oh, and our senators didn't run to Cancun during the crisis, and no one tried to kidnap our governor. It's called civilization. Try it some time.

It's nice and civilized where I'm at, at least for now. I'm not in a state that jumped out of a plane without a parachute with an empty-suit governor who put an artificial timeline on 100% clean energy by 2045 with no clear path to achieve it (though Whitmer has her own war on energy with an underwater pipeline that her admin keeps playing politics with). And speaking of folks who only think of themselves, California has a history of virtue - signalling to the environmental extremists, and then when it comes time to act, they do nothing. Looks like that history is repeating itself.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/...rs%20by%202035

While the state pats itself on the back for achieving its renewable energy goals, the recent peak energy demand demonstrates that the grid has trouble accommodating peak energy demand. Just last year, the Cal Energy Commission voiced concerns that the state's grid couldn't handle peak demand. Looks like they were right.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/califor...es-11634376600

But, if you sound like you're perfectly fine with that Newsome and company playing politics with the state's energy infrastructure. Good luck to you.

[Chicks]

Megadrought in the American south-west: a climate disaster unseen in 1,200 years

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...imate-disaster

Plenty of MAGAMorons live in the American Southwest. Hopefully a few of them are smarter than Whell.

[Chicks]

World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report
Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...climate-report

The evidence is overwhelming. Only a MAGAMoron is dumb enough to ignore it.

[Chicks]

US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling
It's often cheaper to build and run solar than to buy gas for an existing plant.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022...-keep-falling/

In terms of large, utility-scale solar installs, the US added over 12.5 gigawatts of new capacity last year, bringing the total installed capacity to over 50 gigawatts. Texas led the way, with about a third of the total capacity added (3.9 GW) going online in the Lone Star State. Combined with residential and other distributed solar installations, solar alone accounted for 45 percent of the new generating capacity added to the grid last year.

This must drive the MAGAMorons crazy, lol.