By: Linda Featheringill
@Jay S: Blocked weather systems: Yes, they’ve happened before and will happen again. However, as global warming progresses, when heat is trapped in an area the temperatures can climb higher than they...
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If we were to use the same amount of land that we farm and live on (18 per cent is arable) and used solar cells we could generate an average daily electrical power (counting zero for night in the...
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@Jay S: 35 Is that like a high pressure dome? NOAA has a nice diagram of one on their site.
View ArticleBy: El Cid
Some look to the near future and see global food riots, because they’re gloomy; others look to near future and see global food raves!
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@Linda Featheringill: #42 Referring to average highs in Oklahoma: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/cl.....p?id=lwto2 [It’s just a table. Don’t bother if you don’t care. It’s all right.]
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another banner day for Al-Qaida today, with summary executions in Alleppo today. smell the freedom!
View ArticleBy: trollhattan
@John Cole, A few months back you asked the collective what topics should the front pagers be looking at that you weren’t focusing on already, and I think I responded climate change and the Farm Bill...
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@Spatula: But it’s Obama’s fault. Pate density is quite high in red states.
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@danah gaz (fka gaz): Actually, that was Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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@some guy: Was Al Qa’ida involved? Or is that “Al Qa’ida” as a generic term?
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Hey while we are at it, let’s normalize relations with Cuba and buy their sugar to use for ethanol.
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You don’t understand, John, we’re as dependent on corn as the Irish were on potatoes. If this drought keeps up a couple more years we’ll all have to emigrate to China. In a hundred years they’ll...
View ArticleBy: Hypatia's Momma
@Linda Featheringill: In Oklahoma, average highs for July and August is about 95 degrees F. [Forgot where I got that number.] So when the temps there are 10-15 degrees higher than that for days on end,...
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@Heliopause: If we could get the red staters to move and leave the liberals here that would be best. Those guys will be quite comfortable in China except for not being able to own guns.
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@Quicksand: millionaires in Florida are dying for your support
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@Michael: The US gov has actively been on the side of the companies in crushing private sector unions since 1980. (It’s been crushing farm worker unions since the 1940s.)
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What if the US government gave labor the same treatment as anti-abortion activists give abortion rights, slowly making more and more illegal until their activities are so hampered that people just...
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@Jesse Ewiak: Watching them discuss why government needs to intervene in the crop commodity markets is so cute. Being a libertarian means being able to congratulate yourself on being such a deep and...
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