Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Trend for annual heating degree days in Grand Rapids, Michigan 1904-2023
The mean for annual heating degree days has dropped about 63 HDD from 1904-1963 at 6726 shown, to 6663 for 1963-2023, or 0.94%.
In the last 23 years, just 5 have been at or above the old mean shown, while 18 have been below. In the previous 23 years the pattern was much more even: 13 above the old mean shown and 10 below.
This is clearly a picture of recent moderating winters, but people forget that this comes on the heels of a prolonged period of much more severe winter cold extending 55 years from 1943-1997. During that period there were 40 winters above the old mean shown, and just 15 below it.
That cold period itself followed upon a previous period of previously well known warming where about 58% of the seasons in the record saw heating demand well below the old mean.
The Dust Bowl era. Maybe you've heard of it.
Higher mean heating degree day totals in the second half of the 20th century indicate its colder conditions compared with the eras book-ending it:
1904-1943: 6685 (40yrs)
1943-1997: 6883 (55yrs)
1997-2023: 6351 (27yrs).
Trend for annual mean average temperature in Grand Rapids, Michigan 1898-2023
The mean has risen 0.1 degrees F 1898-1963 at 48.2 shown, to 48.3 1963-2023, which is 0.2%.
The uptrend traverses about 0.9 degrees F over 125 years.
Planet's on FIRE lol.
Could easily be just heat island effect. The mean for average temperature is definitely warmer since 1997:
1997-2023: 49.4 (27yrs)
1943-1997: 47.5 (55yrs)
1898-1943: 48.4 (46yrs).
The relatively colder second half of the 20th century remains the noteworthy anchor of this graph's center.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Trend for annual precipitation in Grand Rapids, Michigan 1903-2023
Wetter!
The long term trend for the Oceanic Nino Index is thought to be predictive of this wetter outcome in the Upper Midwest. The index trend is cooler from about +1 degree F anomaly to -1 degree F anomaly since 1951.
Mean annual precipitation at KGRR has risen from 31.88 inches 1903-1951 to 36.81 inches 1951-2023.
Trend for Oceanic Nino Index 1951-2023
Long term trend is definitely cooler: La Niña.
Values for the first five measuring periods of the 2024 season are warmer, totaling +7.7: El Niño.
Monday, February 5, 2024
Mayor of Chicago deserves a medal lol
If the job gets any harder watch out fam! He may trade you in for a different color.
Sunday, February 4, 2024
This is your periodic reminder that the net worth of U.S. households is $151 trillion but there's only $2.3 trillion fiat currency in circulation anyway
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TNWBSHNO
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CURRCIR
Meanwhile all the gold and silver in the world hardly close the gap:
The former president of ABC News James Goldston was the Joseph Goebbels of January 6th The Movie
About 6% of the country at best tuned in for the Jan 6th theatrical production, compared with 71% for the Watergate hearings.
You can't put bitcoin in your pocket like gold and silver, and gold doesn't require 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually for its existence
Crock of shit this bitcoin is. Same for anything digital.
But crypto has a dirty little secret that is very relevant to the real world: it uses a lot of energy. How much energy? Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, currently consumes an estimated 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually — more than the entire country of Argentina, population 45 million. Producing that energy emits some 65 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually — comparable to the emissions of Greece — making crypto a significant contributor to global air pollution and climate change.
More.
Drudge promotes Kamala Harris because . . .
. . . her unfavorables are sky high and somebody better do something quick, might as well be me, lol. Timed for the bigger Sunday audience:
| PAPER: How Kamala Harris found her groove... |
43% of registered voters in the Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state poll have a VERY UNFAVORABLE view of her.
43% also have NO CONFIDENCE WHATSOEVER that she could fill Joe Biden's shoes.
Her numbers are worst with anyone aged 45+, with total negatives in the vicinity of 60%.
She's a huge drag on the ticket, which is why they keep her on a tight leash.
D.C. anarcho-tyranny proves fatal to ex-Trump U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission official Mike Gill
| UPDATE: Ex-Trump official shot in D.C. carjacking spree dies.. |
In a statement, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said the violence began Monday afternoon when an unidentified person got into a car and shot a male driver before running away. Gill's family said he was the man who was shot.
Police said the ordeal, which involved a Jeep Grand Cherokee, occurred in about three minutes. The attacker later tried and failed to steal a Mercedes-Benz, according to police. ...
The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Artell Cunningham, was fatally shot by police Tuesday in New Carrollton, Maryland, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown said in a statement.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
The Declaration of Independence's Anarcho-Tyranny of King George III holds up pretty well, requires but little updating for today
He Joe Biden has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Illegal Alien Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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