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Over Easy posted:Well that's loving weird Nah it's cool. Instead of storms starting in Africa and loving us up, now storms start in Georgia and gently caress the UK up.
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Aug 18, 2019 04:47
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Minrad posted:fahrenheit is a bigger number so you can be more excited when number go up Celsius goes into negative numbers tho, and thats sci-fi as hell
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Aug 18, 2019 06:15
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PostNouveau posted:Nah it's cool. Instead of storms starting in Africa and loving us up, now storms start in Georgia and gently caress the UK up. yes! Kurtofan posted:Celsius goes into negative numbers tho, and thats sci-fi as hell ???
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Aug 18, 2019 06:27
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Kurtofan posted:Celsius goes into negative numbers tho, and thats sci-fi as hell ...where do you live?
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Aug 18, 2019 06:32
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Negative Celsius isn't all that weird Negative Kelvin on the other hand, that's some weird poo poo
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Aug 18, 2019 06:34
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negative F exists
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Aug 18, 2019 06:35
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Negative Kelvin on the other hand, that's some weird poo poo Yeah: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130104143516.htm
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Aug 18, 2019 06:41
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This is the stupidest thread on this entire site
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Aug 18, 2019 07:23
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puve posted:This is the stupidest thread on this entire site Well yea, you post here. 
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Aug 18, 2019 07:49
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You should check the ? button next to your posts instead of the quote button under mine
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Aug 18, 2019 07:54
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Kurtofan posted:Celsius goes into negative numbers tho, and thats sci-fi as hell You are staggeringly dumb
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Aug 18, 2019 08:00
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SKULL.GIF posted:You are staggeringly dumb Dont fight.
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Aug 18, 2019 08:05
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The forecast for today is  with a chance of 
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Aug 18, 2019 08:24
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I bet in the alternate timelines where IPCC targets are set in F instead of C we mitigate harder because big number scarier.
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Aug 18, 2019 08:29
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Who needs numbers anyway when we have so many shades of purple to choose from
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Aug 18, 2019 08:31
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would be v on brand for this timeline if using F instead of C for temperature changes was enough to spook the world into tackling climate change. earth dead because we used the wrong units lol
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Aug 18, 2019 10:42
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Kurtofan posted:Celsius goes into negative numbers tho, and thats sci-fi as hell Fun fact: -40 degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same temperature.
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Aug 18, 2019 14:05
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Lesser known fun fact: 575 Fahrenheit is about 575 Kelvin.
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Aug 18, 2019 14:14
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i hope a hurricane destroys something soon
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attempting to turn the topic away from C vs F, here's a post about chennai. it's raining there now. from last week: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/chennai-likely-to-get-above-normal-rainfall-next-week/articleshow/70579807.cms quote:The city has received 251.3mm rain since June 1 as against the normal rain of 206.8mm so far, a surplus of 22%. from 3 days ago: http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2019/aug/15/evening-rains-would-be-a-daily-affair-for-chennai-till-month-end-2019029.html  this article's got a post-mortem, kinda, on the drought: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/water/chennai-water-crisis-a-wake-up-call-for-indian-cities-66024 they're planning a lot of desalination plants but there's the worry that the drought will lift and the usual high amount of rainfall will return right when they finish building the things. here's a graph of the last year of reservoir storage, which i guess will be improving in august:  edit: there are also single-digit death tolls from heavy flooding in north india, apparently oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 14:36 on Aug 18, 2019 |
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Aug 18, 2019 14:21
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is there no way to increase reservoir capacity and better smooth out the curve of the storm season instead of going the desalination route? was it this thread where they mentioned that like, New York City had ten times the amount of water reserves that chennai does?
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edit: before you hit page down just know that i was bored i think that in general it just costs a lot of money to build reservoirs. the big thing that nyc, la, phoenix, etc have that i don't think chennai does is interbasin transfers. going and grabbing another watershed's water is kind of the key to water security - it means you can have water storage way the hell away from the city, it's basically diversifying your holdings in terms of hoping the rain falls where you can use it. the trains that brought water from the Kaveri River watershed probably show what they need to do - apparently they built a quick 3 km pipeline to get water from the trains to the treatment plants, but i hope they're considering a more substantial underground pipeline along the same route. it seems like this water train solution was some pretty impressive on-the-spot engineering edit: i just realized that graph is only 11 months. what the gently caress also edit: there is an interbasin transfer serving chennai. according to that link they moved 3.7 billion cubic feet in a year - for comparison, the yearly delivery from Northern California to SoCal given here converts to 105 billion cubic feet, and this site says NYC's transfer capacity is 1.3 billion gallons a day which works out to 63 billion cubic feet per year in interbasin transfers. new york is about the population of greater chennai, so that's a good direct comparison. chennai can usually make up the difference* with local water supply sources, because it's usually actually pretty wet there, but then you get a drought and there's no buffer *although they don't have to make up the whole difference, since Chennai's daily demand given here works out to 594 million gallons/day, so they're more than twice as efficient as new yorkers so in conclusion and it's possible the desal plants are a panic move. it probably costs more than a traditional system, though it has the advantage of not depending on rainfall. it's fair to point out somewhere in here, also, that all of this dam/reservoir/pipeline water supply poo poo is an ecological disaster, and desal is less so. but usually the 20th century concrete solution ends up being the way to go, for better and worse oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 16:36 on Aug 18, 2019 |
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Cool post thanks Yeah the ecological impact of this poo poo is going to be disastrous just by virtue of the number of people and quantity of land involved. I know desal is expensive as hell so the potential uh, allure for more traditional solutions would be there. Amazing how climate change hits from both sides, you redistribute the water just a lil bit on a planetary scale and boom, shortages and surpluses that threaten millions
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redleader posted:would be v on brand for this timeline if using F instead of C for temperature changes was enough to spook the world into tackling climate change. earth dead because we used the wrong units lol in one of these climate threads someone mentioned how you can scare americans about climate change by pointing out that "3 degrees C is 37 degrees F" and it still makes me giggle sometimes
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Al! posted:i hope a hurricane destroys something soon good news https://twitter.com/JustinBrannan/status/1163653835241459713?s=19
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:in one of these climate threads someone mentioned how you can scare americans about climate change by pointing out that "3 degrees C is 37 degrees F" and it still makes me giggle sometimes lmfao
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Al! posted:i hope a hurricane destroys something soon https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1163793840593092609
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it really is kind of insane that we are already almost to september with only 2 named atlantic storms makes me think we are going to be hosed hard in the next few months
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wildfire season in california's been light so far too and everybody's waiting for the other shoe to drop i read the claim that the wet year in 2016-17 is paying dividends this year in decreased burniness, which was interesting. i forget how they said this worked but it's an interesting interannual effect if so
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oystertoadfish posted:wildfire season in california's been light so far too and everybody's waiting for the other shoe to drop it's not even fall yet fire season peaks right before snowmelt/rainy season
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what is the current El Niņo and La Niņa status? are we in the bad one?
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oystertoadfish posted:wildfire season in california's been light so far too and everybody's waiting for the other shoe to drop This year was a very wet year for socal so once all that growth dries out it's going to cause problems.
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Irradiation posted:This year was a very wet year for socal so once all that growth dries out it's going to cause problems. how would you rate that wetness, from the standpoint of water
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Aug 20, 2019 21:24
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water was 130% wetter in california this year
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Aug 20, 2019 21:38
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A herd of wild mattresses, majestically charge through the plains.
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Aug 20, 2019 21:55
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so these are air mattresses, not actual mattresses because if they were, that fence and/or video taker would have been in a WORLD of hurt
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love to sit on strange mattresses outside.
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PostNouveau posted:A herd of wild mattresses, majestically charge through the plains. Invasive species in the pool area
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