Canadian wildlife smoke is blanketing Chicago today. Everything has an eerie glow. The moon looks brown.
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Yeah, I’ve given up on the apiary gor the time being. Might give it a go again later, but losing the colonies year after year is demoralizing.
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Quite a bit clearer this morning, but still smells like someone was vaping a car air freshener. Visibility still under a mile.
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Red states are going to be pretty red this week
Next Wednesday, large parts of Texas will be hotter than 99% of the planet during the peak of the heatwave.
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People will die, and ERCOT will reap record profits. So, i guess all good?
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5.“My sister is a butler for a super wealthy family, and she told me a couple crazy stories. The family once got this super expensive rare breed cat, and a few months later, the wife tells my sister she can feel the cat isn’t quite happy in their house so she asks her to take their private jet to drop the cat off in their mansion on Lake Como, Italy so it could spend a holiday in the sun. That same woman would then sometimes berate my sister for buying soap in plastic dispensers instead of just soap bars because it’s bad for our planet. They bought this insanely huge super luxurious cabin in one the most expensive ski stations in Switzerland. They realized the cabin (more like a mansion really) right next to theirs was for sale and then bought that one as well just so they wouldn’t have close neighbors.”
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Pig beans are a thing now
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Yo Dawg, I heard you want pig beans in your pig beans…
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“All aboard the Snowpiercer”
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(AP reprint)
As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say. Already wildfires are consuming three times more of the United States and Canada each year than in the 1980s and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen.
While many people exposed to bad air may be asking themselves if this is a “new normal,” several scientists told The Associated Press they specifically reject any such idea because the phrase makes it sound like the world has changed to a new and steady pattern of extreme events.
“Is this a new normal? No, it’s a new abnormal,” University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann said. “It continues to get worse. If we continue to warm the planet, we don’t settle into some new state. It’s an ever-moving baseline of worse and worse.”
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Mr. Burns has entered the chat…
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