Bitter Cold Means Chaos as Global Energy Systems Show Strain – Bloomberg

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Bitter Cold Means Chaos as Global Energy Systems Show Strain – Bloomberg

reezing weather that’s sweeping the northern hemisphere is causing chaos in energy markets and damaging infrastructure with households from Japan to Pakistan and rance being asked to curb their electricity use.

In Asia, extreme cold prompted record-high power demand and a scramble for natural gas to keep the lights on in China, Japan and South Korea. In Sweden, a utility is paying for hotels for its customers after heavy snow brought down sections of the power grid cutting supplies while rench households were advised to delay doing their laundry to save energy.

Upcoming Holidays – January 16, 21

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We all know that it’s 9 weeks until the first day of spring. Also upcoming …

  • Next Saturday is National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 – Jan 23
  • Three Saturdays until Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 – Feb 6
  • Six Saturdays until Snow Moon 🌕 – Feb 27
  • Nine Saturdays until Spring 🌷 – March 21
  • 12 Saturdays until 8 PM Dusk 🌆 – Apr 10
  • 15 Saturdays until May 🕊 – May 1
  • 20 Saturdays until 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ – Jun 5
  • Six months – Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 – Friday Jul 16
  • 27 Saturdays until Sturgeon Moon 🌕 – Jul 24
  • 31 Saturdays until World Mosquito Day 🐞 – Aug 21
  • 34 Saturdays until September 11th 🇺🇸 – Sep 11
  • 35 Saturdays until 7 PM Sunset 🌆 – Sep 18
  • 37 Saturdays until Average High is 65 🍂 – Oct 2
  • 42 Saturdays until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ – Nov 6
  • 43 Saturdays until Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 – Nov 13
  • 44 Saturdays until Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 – Nov 20
  • 45 Saturdays until Small Business Saturday 🛍️ – Nov 27
  • 46 Saturdays until Average High is 40 🌨 – Dec 4
  • 11 months – Tea Party Day 🐍 – Thursday Dec 16
  • 48 Saturdays until Bake Cookies Day 🍪 – Dec 18
  • 49 Saturdays until Christmas 🎅 – Dec 25

Tom Ball Mountain

Sometimes I get the weirdest spam emails

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Sometimes I get the weirdest spam emails. The latest was on “student bullying” that was some kind of link boosting scheme that promised that I would be helping a fictional classroom if I were to link to it.

Then I get these random emails about featured guest posts all the time, and then emails about offering web services to improve my blog. Thank you, but no thank you.

I was hoping to find a WMS feed containing LANDSTAT 1 data, but apparently none exists — probably due to control-point issues with the old LANDSTAT data, as you can see if you explore the old LANDSTAT 1 image I uploaded earlier today

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I was hoping to find a WMS feed containing LANDSTAT 1 data, but apparently none exists — probably due to control-point issues with the old LANDSTAT data, as you can see if you explore the old LANDSTAT 1 image I uploaded earlier today. Simply said, it’s difficult to stitch together the different Rows/Lines of early pre-2000 LANDSTAT 7 images. Also, it might just be too much data to upload and maintain for NASA.

Maybe some point in the future NASA/USGS will post them. I can certainly download the individual images from Earth Explorer and process them using QGIS, but a WMS feed would have been nice for uploading to the blog. It nice that they are GeoReferenced on Earth Explorer but it’s obvious that there are some minor issues with control points being off.

EP 150 – Mother Nature the Wildlife Manager

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EP 150 – Mother Nature the Wildlife Manager

1/16/21

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/117843019
Episode: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/hunttalk/21011420-20HT20Podcast20-20AZ202021.mp3?dest-id=285647

In this episode of Leupold’s Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares a mic with seasonal guests Jim Heffelfinger and Johnathan O’Dell. As scientists and biologists, they manage wildlife at the mercy of Mother Nature. Topics covered include drought impacts, disease impacts on big and small game, hunting the Pleistocene, nutrition cycles, waterfowl diseases, too many quail, season setting, man made water sources, predation in drought years, desert adaptations, rabbit and hares, and many more topics about hunting and wildlife in the desert.