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Taken on Thursday August 20, 2020 at Watkins Glen State Park.
Agriculture replaces fossil fuels as largest human source of sulfur in the environment | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder
A majority of the research that examines excess nutrient use in agriculture has been in respect to nitrogen and phosphorus. Scientists have known for a long time that these two chemicals can cause detrimental effects on the environment, including increased greenhouse gas emissions and algae blooms in downstream waters.
Sulfur has long been applied to agricultural lands to improve the production and health of crops, serving as both a fertilizer and pesticide.
“We're moving it through our environment and ecosystems at a much faster rate than it would otherwise,” said Hinckley.
Some agricultural industries around the world have even been putting more sulfur directly on their fields. So far, only isolated studies have given scientists a glimpse into the effects of excess sulfur on soil health and surrounding waters.
This is an odd story - you wouldn't think much elemental sulfur would get into the air without combustion. I could certainly see acidification of streams down stream from an over applied farm field without buffer being a concern - as it is with acid mine discharge but I struggle to understand how it would create sulfur dioxide except where burning the fields is a normal part of healthy agricultural practice in some grass lands.
How the New York Stock Exchange Gave Abbie Hoffman His Start in Guerrilla Theater | History | Smithsonian Magazine
Abbie Hoffman was just a protester with something to prove the morning of August 24, 1967. But by the time he’d finished his stunt in the New York Stock Exchange, he and his collaborators were well on their way to becoming media celebrities. They were mocked and admired for the trick they’d played on Wall Street, showering the traders with dollar bills—and it cemented Hoffman’s reputation for a new form of political agitation: guerrilla theater, a form of protest that harnessed absurdity and humor to make a point.
August 24, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️! If you don’t like the muggy weather then there is hope. 🌞Two weeks to Labor Day 👨🏭. Partly sunny and 74 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 67 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 8 pm. 😓
Its warming up quick this morning.☀️ It’s going to be a really hot one. I’m honestly not looking forward to the midday, Zoom meeting today due to the heat working from my truck. 💻 I guess I could go down to the park with the laptop and work in the shade but I feel like it’s easier in the truck when I can keep the laptop plugged in. 🔌
Today will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 88 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 10am. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1947.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 58.3° from the due south horizon (-12.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:06 pm with the sun in the west (279°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (286°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:44 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 8:12 pm, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (216°) at an altitude of 25° from the horizon, 227,479 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:49 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 83 degrees. The dew point will be 68 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌌 , with a low of 66 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 6pm. Southwest wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 35 occurred back in 1940.
Back in 1967, the Yippies of Abbie Hoffman’s Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills 💵💵💲💲💲from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them. As they say, it’s all about the money.
Cool with showers this weekend. 🌦️Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 64 at 11am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Maximum dew point of 56 at 8am. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.
As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Labor Day 👨🏭 when the sun will be setting at 7:18 pm with dusk at 7:47 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 73 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 76 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1945.
