Extreme weather

[faberryman]

There you go again resorting to personal attacks.

It is just a fact that you are intellectually lazy. You have admitted you'd rather blow your brains out than do a de minimus amount of background reading, and you consistently ask people to explain things to you rather than read the material linked to. You think it is everyone else's obligation to educate you, instead of your own.

[Alan Klein]

It is just a fact that you are intellectually lazy. You have admitted you'd rather blow your brains out than do a de minimus amount of background reading, and you consistently ask people to explain things to you rather than read the material linked to. You think it is everyone else's obligation to educate you, instead of your own.

Nice try.  There's a requirement here that links have to be explained.  I'm not going to go off to read every link you post because you're too intellectually lazy or incapable of summarizing the article in your post.  Don;t be so lazy yourself and do what the rules request of you. 

[Peter McLennan]

It is just a fact that you are intellectually lazy. You think it is everyone else's obligation to educate you, instead of your own.

And, if you do provide links to educating material, you're accused of "condescension".

Pot/Kettle, etc.

[Alan Klein]

And, if you do provide links to educating material, you're accused of "condescension".

Pot/Kettle, etc.

I never accused anyone of condescension.  Sometime the articles are very informed and a read the whole thing voraciously.  Other time, I can't be bothered.  Do you read every link that everyone publishes?  In any case, the original comment I made about blowing my brains out was a joke.  Apparently, some people here have no sense of humor. 

[Peter McLennan]

I never accused anyone of condescension.

No, but you thanked those who did.

Nice deflection, though.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

No, but you thanked those who did.

Oh, please. You are peddling googling as "education"? It takes more than a wiki article on statistics to understand advanced concepts and graphs. Otherwise, everyone would be an expert. Unfortunately, many think they are after googling.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/08/californians-close-to-wildfires-are-more-likely-to-vote-green?cid1=cust/dailypicks1/n/bl/n/20191111n/owned/n/n/dailypicks1/n/n/NA/341210/n

Out of sight, out of mind

[Frans Waterlander]

When I lived in Felton in the Santa Cruz, California mountains in the 80's, we had a 115,000 acre fire there (the Lexington reservoir fire). Yes, it was big, but really no big deal in those days. Now they have two fires that add up to about 100,000 acres and the left goes bananas. I guess one acre in the 80's is different from one acre now, according to radical "logic".

[Alan Klein]

Record temperatures, colds that is.
https://www.mlive.com/weather/2019/11/record-cold-on-the-way-this-afternoon-and-tonight-one-hundred-year-old-record-to-fall.html

[Alan Klein]

America's largest solar panel supplier and installer sold off.  Can't make profit as government subsidies decline.  Of course, if the Democrats win in 2020, they'll bail them out and waste more of the taxpayer's money. 

"But that side will also face challenges. U.S. government support for solar panels is set to decline in 2020, when the investment tax credit for solar panels drops to 26% from 30%, and continues declining in the years afterward. Werner is confident that solar deployers can cut costs enough to make solar profitable even as support declines, but Zino thinks it’s a serious hurdle.

“My guess is they’re going to have a very difficult time if we don’t get an extension of the tax credit,” he said."
https://www.barrons.com/articles/sunpower-stock-may-struggle-to-shine-after-spinoff-51573557301

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

America's largest solar panel supplier and installer sold off.  Can't make profit as government subsidies decline.  Of course, if the Democrats win in 2020, they'll bail them out and waste more of the taxpayer's money. 

"But that side will also face challenges. U.S. government support for solar panels is set to decline in 2020, when the investment tax credit for solar panels drops to 26% from 30%, and continues declining in the years afterward. Werner is confident that solar deployers can cut costs enough to make solar profitable even as support declines, but Zino thinks it’s a serious hurdle.

“My guess is they’re going to have a very difficult time if we don’t get an extension of the tax credit,” he said."
https://www.barrons.com/articles/sunpower-stock-may-struggle-to-shine-after-spinoff-51573557301

It's simple, the USA have let the opportunity slip through their fingers. It's now cheaper to buy Chinese panels, except for the USA, due to the Trade war and import duties. It also wastes a lot of job opportunities in the installation sector.

Cheers,
Bart

[Alan Klein]

There's no money in solar panels.   Even the Chinese are having their problems. Government shouldn't pick winners and losers in business.  They know nothing about it.   Leave it up to private people to risk their money not the public through their taxes.  Who would want to be in a business where the industry depends on tax rebates? In any case. I'm wearing a shirt made in Bangladesh.   You probably are too.  Should American workers compete with Bangladeshis? Should the Dutch? You want to earn 3 dollars an hour?

[D Fuller]

Alan, as I interpret the patterns in the chart, the summers in the northern hemisphere are getting hotter (see the dark red section past 3 degrees on the last chart on the right).
The winters are no picnic either. In Toronto, next week the night temperatures will drop to -14C.

That was perfectly understandable to me, and I’ve never talken a statistics course, college or otherwise.

[Peter McLennan]

Government shouldn't pick winners and losers in business. 

So, is it okay that they subsidize farmers?  Fossil fuels?

[Alan Klein]

So, is it okay that they subsidize farmers?  Fossil fuels?

Only under special circumstances such as war or conflict.  A natural catastrophe.  But not regular business because the government thinks its a good idea.

[Alan Klein]

Why is the flooding in Venice being blamed on climate change?
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/13/778812333/venice-is-on-its-knees-mayor-blames-worst-tides-in-50-years-on-climate-change

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Why is the flooding in Venice being blamed on climate change?...

Why not? Everything else is. Forest fires? Check. When it is warm - global warming. When it is cold - global warming.

[LesPalenik]

Why not? Everything else is. Forest fires? Check. When it is warm - global warming. When it is cold - global warming.

When it gets cold here, it must be getting hot in some other place. Like Jimmy Buffet says: It's five degrees somewhere.

[Alan Klein]

All the snowbirds where I live in New Jersey where its 23 degrees F today are heading for Florida.  They're not waiting for global warming. 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

All the snowbirds where I live in New Jersey where its 23 degrees F today are heading for Florida.  They're not waiting for global warming.

Which 'proves' that all that's needed to figure it out is a birds size brain.