The words that kept coming were primal, primordial, elemental.
I was lucky enough to catch “The Odyssey” in an Imax today, and it was epic.
A lot of reasons this will win a lot of awards, and more importantly, still be watched for many years – but one big one is the musical score, which is overwhelming and stunning.
Fact check: Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Fox News is not buying the Trump administration’s claims that the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz instead of Iran.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright spoke to the network’s Bret Baier Thursday evening and didn’t have a good answer when Baier asked him about the strait.
“Mr. Secretary, you can concede, can’t you, that the U.S. doesn’t have total control over the Strait of Hormuz?” Baier asked.
“Look, Iran is attempting to hold the world economy hostage and to terrorize their neighbors. They built up a giant arsenal. So are they causing difficulties in the region? Absolutely. But they have a losing strategy. At the end, that will lead to the collapse of this regime in Iran as their economy gets strangled,” Wright responded. “But are they causing some difficulties for their neighbors and the world economy? Absolutely. But their ability to cause difficulties are declining. Our ability to escort and bring products out of that region is growing. They have sort of one card and it’s shrinking in size.”
“That does not sound like total control,” Baier said.
Continue reading “Even Fox News Choking on Chris Wright’s Iran/Energy Lies”Above, Romanian nuclear plant now closed completely due to drought dry Danube. Nuclear power plants are generally reliable, except when they are not.
Meanwhile, blazing sun continues to beat down on all of Europe in yet another oppressive heat dome. (hint, hint)
Oh, well, at least the plants using sea water will still function…Doh!
Below, climate warmed waters with an altogether unhealthy explosion of jellyfish have clogged French nuclear reactors.
A “massive influx” of jellyfish has forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant and reduce output at a fourth, curbing power supply at a time when extremely hot weather is boosting demand.
That’s taken some 3.2 gigawatts of capacity offline, with parts of the country forecast to see temperatures near 40C in the coming days.
A series of heat waves have scorched Europe this summer. Unusually high temperatures off the coast of France can cause jellyfish populations to “bloom.” Pumping stations for coastal nuclear plants like Gravelines usually draw in seawater for cooling, sometimes exposing them to marine life.
Three things that always come out: the Sun, the Moon, and the Truth.
– attributed to Gautama Buddha
That won’t keep tyrants from perennially hating , fearing, and denying that there can be physics or fact that are not subject to their decrees.
PBS News hour has one of my favorite Arctic experts, Twila Moon, to talk about the importance of monitoring the polar latitudes. I first met Twila in Iceland for a conference in 2014, I think, since then I interviewed her numerous times.
MAGA will never understand science, or its importance for citizens and decision makers, and I continue to be inspired by the dedication of scientists to continue communicating critical observations.
CBS News’ Meg Oliver said she encountered several washed-out roads and detours along a five-hour drive across Indiana on Wednesday that was supposed to take three. Even the region’s major interstate highway, I-70, was partly shut down after a section of it buckled under the weight of pounding rain.
And the destruction hasn’t been limited to Indiana: Wednesday’s flash flooding swept as far south as Knoxville, Tennessee, where fire trucks blocked off waterlogged streets. It came on the heels of an initial bout of severe weather that blasted parts of Ohio a day earlier. That storm left a trail of damage described as “historic” by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
NWITimes:
In Munster, scammers have been going door-to-door asking residents and businesses for money to “bring in” the National Guard, according to the town on Facebook.
“This is a scam,” the Town of Munster said. “Please do not give money or personal/financial information to anyone making this claim.”
The Indiana National Guard is deployed and funded by the state, not donations from residents.
Hilarious when you put it that way.
Don’t know this person but I bet he’s fun at parties.
Chicago TV station, picking up the pieces in their own studio following yesterday’s Derecho thunderstorms, asks the question a lot of folks in Illinois would like to answer – “Is this the New Normal?”
In addition, the reporter mentions conspiracy theories among those who wonder if evil forces are controlling destructive weather fronts to punish God fearing conservatives. To his credit, he avoids laughing out loud and gives the sensible sensible and correct answer. (No, you idiots)
Forecasters said a wind gust of 99 mph (159 kph) was recorded in Gary, Indiana. Elsewhere there were numerous reports of gusts of 80 mph (128 kph) or more at personal weather stations.
Continue reading “Storm Slammed Heartland Asks, Is this The New Normal?”Above, shocking report on weather conditions and impacts on Agriculture in the UK.
Temperatures are set to soar this week across large swaths of Europe, offering little respite from heat waves that have battered the continent in quick succession this summer. Forecasters have warned that the relentless heat, combined with persistently dry conditions, could worsen the already severe threat of wildfires.
It is the fifth heat wave to hit Europe since May, with a high pressure system known as a heat dome intensifying across the continent. The extreme heat has fueled a string of dangerous wildfires, dried rivers and sent residents flocking to cooler spots as scientists warn that Europe is warming faster than any other continent.
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Excerpting a longer article here which describes several factors that make Europe more prone to faster warming and recurrent heat and drought.
Especially interesting that a melting Greenland is causing changes in the North Atlantic that appear to be bending the jet stream in a way that favors heat spells.
The most foundational reason Europe outpaces the global average is geographic and physical. The global mean temperature is calculated across both ocean and land surfaces, and water is a powerful heat sink — absorbing energy to depth, releasing it slowly through evaporation, and thermally buffering the land masses it surrounds. Because roughly 71% of Earth’s surface is ocean, the global average is heavily weighted toward surfaces that warm more slowly than land under equivalent greenhouse gas forcing. Land warms approximately 1.5 to 2 times faster than the ocean surface under the same forcing, because soil and rock cannot store heat to depth and cannot cool themselves through continuous evaporation the way open water can.
Continue reading “As Europe Goes Under another Heat Dome, Spectre of Food Rationing in UK”She’s thinking the same thing I am.
This looks a lot like a ploy to create a provocation.
What kind of a monster does this? And what kind of a Party is so monstrous that it harbors people like this?
