Message of the Day – An Observation

From a McHenry County reader;

Ice fishing on Crystal Lake, Photo credit: Mackenzie Walter.

“All I know is that under Trump, we had better weather.”


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Message of the Day – An Observation — 20 Comments

  1. I’m surprized he hasn’t tried to take credit for that like he did for the Obama/Biden economy.

    More seriously, thanks to Trump, we have lost 4 precious years on the fight against Global Climate Change.

    There will be devastating effects of this that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.

    Here are just three of the major things are going to happen:

    (1) Sea Rise. For each degree Centegrade that we gain, sea levels will increase by roughly 7 feet. That is the height of the ceiling in the typical house. Right now we can expect at least a 2 C rise and possibly as much as 4 C . Many of our most heavily populated areas and most valuable properties are located within a few feet of sea level. Coastal plains and river deltas were favorite places for cities due to their advantages in transportation, arability of land, and access to fresh water. About one third of the world population lives in these areas including the entire US coastline, especially on the East Coast. We will lose half of the state of Florida with a 4 C temperature rise along with the entire Florida coast, Charleston and Savannah, Atlantic City, and much of downtown Baltimore, New York City and Boston, plus everything along the coast in between. New Orleans will no longer be viable either.

    (2) Crop growing. The crop growing areas that we now use in the Midwest will move North, where there is less moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and where soils may not be as good. This will drastically affect not only the food supply in the US, but all over the world. The Ukraine will benefit and supplant the US as the world’s breadbasket. In order to prevent flooding of the Central California growing areas we will need to seal up the entrance to San Franciso Bay at the Golden Gate.

    (3) Population dislocation. Up to one fifth of the world’s population may be forced to recolate. That includes the entire population of Bangledesh. Due to religious differences between the Muslim Bangladeshi and the Hindu India and Buddhist Myanmar, those refugees will probably have to go somewhere else, such as Europe and the United States.

    All of this is going to be incredibly expensive and will break the economies of most of the world including ours.

    So if you are truly a “conservative” you ought to be in favor of conservation efforts to combat this scenario.

    This, like mask wearing in a pandemic, should not be something where we divide ourselves along partisan/ideological lines. It will affect us all.

    https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

    https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/GlobalWarmingEffects.php

    https://www.nrdc.org/stories/are-effects-global-warming-really-bad

  2. They still put up hockey nets towards the west end of the Lake, and/or is the Park District also doing at Main Beach?

    Used to skate there, now go to Cary’s and Oakwood Hills.

  3. Sometime in the mid-nineties, we had only 10 years….

    In 2000’s, we had only 10 years…..

    2010’s?

    We had only 10 years!

    And now another 4!

    Mock question to the House Managers from Ted Cruz:

    “Can we keep Keystone XLmgoing if we put Hunter Biden on the Board?

    ✌️😎

  4. A lot of things were better in early November 2020 vs the end of the miserable 8 years of the Obama regime. Yes, it was a regime.

    Now, we have a dope in the white house with his far, far left radical sidekick. A dope who is already destroying jobs and giving leeway to illegal aliens and thug aliens that need to be sent back to their origin nations.

  5. @ bred The improvement in the economy during the Trump years was consistent with the natural growth that could be expected from where it was at when he took office.

    A guy who skips his national security briefings because he is semi literate and has the attention span of a gnat, and then spends the day watching Fox News, tweeting, and playing golf, was not masterminding the growth of the economy or anything else, as we learned once the pandemic hit.

    He ignored it because he didn’t know what to do.

    Trump can’t manage himself out of a wet paper bag.

    We have all just spent 4 years in Trump University.

    Some of us haven’t graduated.

  6. Because Science says:

    “The improvement in the economy during the Trump years was consistent with the natural growth…”

    Looks like Because is a dope who watches main stream media so-called news locally in Chicago area or nationally.

    Trump policies and decisions over 4 years most generally favored the U.S. and its citizens. The buffoon in the white house today hurts all of we Americans. Say Because, remember to turn on the record player tonight and next week to help your children per Biden’s advice.

  7. I’m old enough to remember when it was called “Global Warming.”

    For these so called “Climate Changers,” I say go take a hike out in this weather.

    Oh, and the climate will change in about 60 days and every 90 days after.

    So, I guess your a$$ is covered no matter what.

    Because Science, your “science” and your computer model is haufen mist IMNSHO.

  8. @NO You are confusing “weather” with Climate.

    Weather is short term and local.

    Climate is long term and general.

    @bred It is still global warming. However because you are adding more energy to the system, the patterns of cold and warm ocean currents and air masses that are affected by those currents, may shift around in unpredicatable ways. Therefore, the term “Climate Change” was adopted so moronic global warming deniers couldn’t point to what was happening in their particular area at one particular time and say “See, it’s snowing outside”.

    This may cause it to actually get colder in some areas, and warmer in others than is currently the case.

    For example, the route of the Gulf Stream could be altered by melting glaciers and a melting polar ice cap so that it doesn’t go as close to England, Ireland and Western Europe as it does at present. If this were to happen, those areas, which are actually quite far North, would become colder as the ocean around them would be colder thus affecting the air patterns.

    We have warmed about one degree Celcius since 1880. This may not seem like much but the last Ice Age when our area was covered by a sheet of ice one mile high was only about ten degrees Celcius colder than it is now at the global average level.

    Our current average global temperatures are similar to what is called the “European Warm Period” when they were able to grow grapes in England. That might sound nice for English vintners, but it is not stopping there and we don’t know what will happen if it keeps going up, which it will do based on the amount of CO2 we have already put into the air which is going to stay there for a long long time.

    Possibly we can develop “air scrubbers” which can remove the excess CO2, but again, at great cost, and in the meantime the costs of shoring up coastal areas and making up for lost crop production would be enormous. Why do “conservatives” who are usually against higher taxes, not see this?

  9. Climate change has been going on for millions, or is it billions, of years, yet we’re still here!

  10. I have to question the BecauseScience scientific rhetoric, as Tulsa Oklahoma is having it’s coldest day in 116 years.

    Dallas, Houston and other cities are having rolling blackouts due to the grid not able to keep up with demand, IN THE WINTER.

    Where will the electric power come from when all the coal plants are closed?

    Hot air from politicians?

    Didn’t the original climate change people predict the planet was cooling before they changed their minds?

  11. @Paul Revere,,,,,,,,,,All the hot air will come from A.H.s like BecauseScience.

  12. The earth goes through a 400,000 or more years of cycle whereby its orbit and axis inclination change with regard to the Sun.

    These changes give us ice ages and then warming then ice ages, etc.

  13. One possible reason it is colder atm is that we seem to be experiencing large polar vortexes.

    This may be because the jet stream that normally keeps the cold polar air dome to the North is wobbling due to the temperature gradient between the more Northern and more Southern latitudes being reduced.

    The Poles will warm more quickly than areas further South.

    This lessens the temperature differential between those areas which is what keeps the jet stream that goes around the Artic in a more or less circular pattern where it usually is.

    When the pole warms comparatively faster than the areas below it, there is less force to keep the jet stream in place and it wobbles and dips down, bringing the colder polar air with it.

    Scientists are still undecided on this but things like this are the reason it is being called “Global Climate Change” rather then simply “Global Warming”.

    But of course, the best thing is just to look out your window at random times.

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