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Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Donโ€™t Know Why โ€“ Bloomberg

Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Donโ€™t Know Why โ€“ Bloomberg

There are dozens of climate models, and for decades theyโ€™ve agreed on what it would take to heat the planet by about 3Celsius. Itโ€™s an outcome that would be disastrousโ€”flooded cities, agricultural failures, deadly heatโ€”but thereโ€™s been a grim steadiness in the consensus among these complicated climate simulations.

Then last year, unnoticed in plain view, some of the models started running very hot. The scientists who hone these systems used the same assumptions about greenhouse-gas emissions as before and came back with far worse outcomes. Some produced projections in excess of 5C, a nightmare scenario.

I am pretty sure it was the slogan of Bernie Sanders or maybe  Ron Paul "It's Happening [now]!" Or something like that. The future is now as they say.

The History of CTRL ALT DELETE

The History of CTRL ALT DELETE

In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl alt del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Hereโ€™s the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place.

Fortunately Linux doesn't use anything as silly as control-alt-delete, although it does use control-alt-f1, etc. to change between virtual terminal command lines.

February 7, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Yeah, itโ€™s Friday! Next Friday is Valentines Day โค๏ธ. Rain, mist and 36 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride โ€“ CDTA. โ˜” There is a northeast breeze at 5 mph. ๐Ÿƒ. There is a inch of snow and ice on the ground. โ˜ƒ Going to rain all day until it turns to snow and then gets real cold. Hello, February. ๏ธTemperatures will drop below freezing at around 2 pm. โ˜ƒ๏ธ

I decided to walk down to the express bus ๐Ÿš but it was raining or misting fairly hard. Not a nice day to be outside and it only is going to get worse. Reminds me of that one night I camped up on the Boereas River and NY 28 several years ago in December. โ›บ Icy snow and rain. That was before I had the propane heater and only a very smokey campfire to keep warm.

I knocked the remaining snow and ice off Big Red ๐Ÿš˜ in hopes things wonโ€™t be too much of a frozen mess come Saturday. Still not sure if Iโ€™m going to drive anywhere tomorrow, itโ€™s going to be pretty bitterly cold with the wind but a fair amount of sun โ˜€. I might just stay home and walk down to the library ๐Ÿ“š.

Today will rain and sleet before 2pm, then rain and snow between 2pm and 3pm, then snow likely after 3pm. Temperature falling to around 27 by 5pm. โ˜”โ›„ Windy, with a northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 19 to 29 mph. Winds could gust as high as 49 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 48 was set in 2005. 12.4 inches of snow fell back in 1983.โ„

I totally expect a miserable and slow icy commute home this evening ๐Ÿ’ฆ but maybe theyโ€™ll close the office early or theyโ€™ll get a lot of salt on the roads to prevent icing. The good news is that I live in the city so not so far to go. If itโ€™s bad and I donโ€™t see the local coming Iโ€™ll take the local home. ๐Ÿš

Solar noon ๐ŸŒž is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 32ยฐ from the due south horizon (-38.9ยฐ vs. 6/21). The golden hour ๐Ÿ… starts at 4:36 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (243ยฐ). ๐Ÿ“ธ The sunset is in the west-southwest (250ยฐ) starting at 5:13 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 5:45 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. ๐ŸŒ‡ At dusk youโ€™ll see the Waxing Gibbous ๐ŸŒ– Moon in the east (80ยฐ) at an altitude of 24ยฐ from the horizon, 232,013 miles away. ๐Ÿš€ The best time to look at the stars is after 6:19 pm. At sunset, look for snow showers ๐ŸŒจ and temperatures around 27 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 11. โ˜ƒ๏ธBlustery, ๐ŸŒฌ with a stiff breeze at 30 mph the west-northwest with gusts up to 52mph. Going to be frigid, especially downtown. I turned my heat up a few degrees before leaving home to ensure my apartment isnโ€™t too cold by the time I get home on what will be the most blustery of evenings. Today will have 10 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy ๐ŸŒง, with a low of 16 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 4 at 6am; Windy, with a west wind 24 to 29 mph decreasing to 17 to 22 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1950.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny ๐ŸŒž, with a high of 29 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees below normal. West wind 10 to 17 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 52 was set in 1925. 14 inches of snow fell back in 1895.โ„

Looking ahead to Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 31. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. โ˜€ Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒผOnly 41 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒผ

As previously noted, next Friday is Valentines Day โค๏ธ when the sun will be setting at 5:25 pm with dusk at 5:54 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 37 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1946.

Frozen Swamp Above the Gulf

I have been monitoring the CDTA real time feed to see how much the electric buses are running

I have been monitoring the CDTA real time feed to see how much the electric buses are running. ๐Ÿš โšก

It seems that the first electric bus entered revenue service (1900) at before 6:30 am today and all four (1900-1903) are in service now. The last one that was in service last night was the 1903 which was running until around 7 pm although until after rush hour at 6 pm so was 1901 and 1902. I am curious to see how late the fleet will stay out on the road, probably all day.