Readit NewsDon't let these advancements in solar make you think things are getting better. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage, not just increase solar usage.
https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/b3b696c0-226d-0137-f265-1d2...
https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/
has the same data in a format where you can adjust the time period of the graph; Late 2019 to May 2022 looks like the steepest curve in the data (goes back to 2/1953) by a long shot. Despite being a home owner (or maybe because of it - I haven't thought about this stuff in a long time) I'm a philistine on the topic but charts and statistics like this make it pretty clear why so many people have essentially given up on buying a home.
It would be quite educational to attribute in more detail the impact of these two factors. The degree of "El Nino" influence is presumably known, and if its strength is not related with global warming in complicated and unknown ways it would be good to overlay it as a distinct effect.
Being clear about what is happening and why (to the extend that it is known and understood) is important, on at least two counts:
There is already a segment of the population that drifts into panic and depression as a result of all the viral social media climate change echo chambers. Panic is not the way to address our sustainability challenges that are deep-seated and systemic. The flip side of short-term focused panic is switching off into apathy, or even cry-wolf type incredulity - if a few years down the line these extremes are temporarily subdued.
The other segment of the population that can be affected by a clear and well founded explanation of what is happening are those sitting on the fence about climate change or feeling skeptical for legitimate reasons. Obviously nothing will convince nut-cases or deeply compromised individuals that have large personal stake in the status-quo (and they are many).
A brief web search suggests this presumption is incorrect and that climate change is having an effect on the cycle, rendering this division somewhat meaningless - the old El Nino is "gone," in a sense, and only the climate change effected one remains.
from: https://research.noaa.gov/2020/11/09/new-research-volume-exp...
“No two El Niños or La Niñas are perfectly alike,” Capotondi said. “We’ve seen how diverse ENSO events can be. This diversity adds another degree of complexity for understanding how climate change will influence future ENSO events.”
So how are ENSO impacts likely to evolve in the coming decades?
“Extreme El Niño and La Niña events may increase in frequency from about one every 20 years to one every 10 years by the end of the 21st century under aggressive greenhouse gas emission scenarios,” McPhaden said. “The strongest events may also become even stronger than they are today.”
and here is the full book: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/978...
I was taught ticks usually are in long grass. No idea where they usually are since I've only seen it once and I was walking through a field with ankle high grass.
How does that compare to a notoriously unfriendly nation like Germany?
In any case, my understanding is virtually any nation in Central and South America requires identification to vote. If the third-world poverty stricken nations make it work there is no reason the rich United States cannot.