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Exxon scientists accurately predicted global warming from burning fossil fuels. : NPR

Decades of research by scientists at Exxon accurately predicted how much global warming would occur from burning fossil fuels, according to a new study in the journal Science.

The findings clash with an enormously successful campaign that Exxon spearheaded and funded for more than 30 years which cast doubt on human-driven climate change and the science underpinning it. That narrative helped delay federal and international action on climate change, even as the impacts of climate change worsened.

Over the last few years, journalists and researchers revealed that Exxon did in-house research that showed it knew that human-caused climate change is real. The new study looked at Exxon's research and compared it to the warming that has actually happened.

2020 Population within the Catskill park

2020 Population within the Catskill Park
County Municipality Population in Park Persons, sq/mi Area in Park
Ulster County Woodstock town 8,194 121 67.8
Ulster County Olive town 5,521 85 65.1
Ulster County Hurley town 4,838 161 30.1
Greene County Hunter town 4,519 50 90.1
Ulster County Shandaken town 4,115 34 119.7
Sullivan County Rockland town 2,675 36 75.1
Ulster County Ulster town 2,614 303 8.6
Sullivan County Neversink town 2,362 38 61.9
Ulster County Saugerties town 2,358 469 5.0
Greene County Jewett town 1,901 38 50.5
Ulster County Kingston town 1,533 198 7.7
Greene County Lexington town 1,523 20 74.4
Greene County Catskill town 1,373 272 5.1
Greene County Windham town 1,299 60 21.8
Ulster County Denning town 1,258 12 105.7
Delaware County Colchester town 1,205 14 86.2
Ulster County Rochester town 1,205 60 20.2
Delaware County Middletown town 946 27 35.6
Ulster County Wawarsing town 830 43 19.3
Greene County Cairo town 761 83 9.2
Ulster County Hardenburgh town 528 7 80.9
Greene County Ashland town 418 83 5.0
Delaware County Andes town 239 6 37.9
Greene County Durham town 129 284 0.5
Greene County Halcott town 100 27 3.7
Greene County Prattsville town 85 323 0.3

January 12, 2023 Morning

Good morning! Dark and cloudy at the freezing point for my morning. ☁ Damp with coming rain showers. β˜” There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. πŸƒ. Probably the darkest morning I can remember for the morning walk except for Election Day last year when I was up early to see the lunar eclipse.

Out for the morning walk 🚢 on this dark morning. I think part of the reason it’s so dark out is I’m actually on time ⌚ for once for the walk. I was running slow getting up and had a quick breakfast which helped. At the end of the day yesterday I ended up with 19,500 steps or about nine miles which isn’t bad for a weekday. πŸ‘£ My goal these days is walk an average of seven miles a day or fifty miles a week.

Today will rain and snow likely before 1pm, then a chance of rain after 2pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 42 degrees at 4pm. Already a few flurries around. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 6th. South wind 7 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 31 degrees. The record high of 67 was set in 2020. 12.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.7Β° from the due south horizon (-45.1Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 3:59 pm with the sun in the southwest (233Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-southwest (241Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:44 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:14 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ The best time to look at the stars is after 5:50 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 41 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 10 mph with gusts up to 21mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 31 seconds over today.

Tonight will rain.🌧️ Temperature rising to around 49 by 5am. South wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1968.

I’ve been noticing that the solar isn’t charging the batteries πŸ”‹ as well on my truck as it should. It might be the cloudy weather but from the meter it looks like I have a phantom πŸ‘» load somewhere. Panel itself is sending quite a bit of power to the batteries – a few kilowatt hours since camping in December but it seems like the batteries are always a bit low.

Cold start to the Kings πŸ‘‘ weekend but improving as the days go on. Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 35. Dirty eight and sunny for Martin Luther King Day. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Ground Hog Day 🐻 when the sun will be setting at 5:11 pm with dusk at 5:39 pm. On that day in 2022, we had snow, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 27 and 20 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1981.

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