Not enough to make a snow-MOUSE!!! Let alone a Snow - woman . . .
Hmmmm
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Oh yeah - the West Coast would be the place to be. In the wind shadow - - yup!
Poor Wellington - all these bunched air flows - its like getting snap-frozen!
Watch out NZ - its going to be a fun ride!
https://spring-is-on-pause-cold-air-from-belly-of-the-polar-region-on-the-way
So technically - Globally and long- term climate - we are heading into a mini-ice age! I will not be around to see that happening . . .
Probably just as well - I like my balmy summer nights - bbq outside - etc . . .
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Well, as we said before - It can snow here any time of the year! Spoke to a guide on the Milford Track and he said he had 15 years - out of 20 - White Christmas's on the top of the Pass!!! - If you walked it - you know what I am talking about!!!
Anyhow - seems we might get a bit cold and wet these few days coming up!!!
And yes - that is MINUS 61C in Antarctica - in SPRING!!!!
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It is kinda sad really - on so many levels.
In case you missed it -
I have been reflecting on this for a day or two.
To Rose Cook I want to say - Who is the real bully here??? I have no problem with people wanting or creating change by leading by example - inspiring to follow. Put it out there along the lines - look this is how I want to and choose to live - if that inspires you, all well and good - and if not - well its your choice. . . .
Instead changes are being forced onto society just because someone has a bee in their bonnet! It works along the lines off: I am afraid MY life is getting worse and it is YOUR fault - and YOU need to change your behavior in order for MY life to become bearable or better and if YOU do not - then YOU are a very bad person!! So Rose -- who made you the king of the sandpit???? In taking this line of approach, you no longer want my respect - rather you want my submission to your particular whims. That is a being a bully on your part!! Again - who made you the king of the sandpit???
You say: Our young people are genuinely terrified about the world they are inheriting. That is what matters. -
I say to you that every young generation is/was terrified about the world they enter! Do you remember the Cold War? 9/11? / Covid - or AIDS / not to mention the nuclear threat during the 60-70's to name a few ??? What matters is not that these issues exist for there will always be something that will scare the youth of the day - rather what matters is HOW we respond to them!
There is this saying - "You catch more flies with honey then with vinegar"
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hmmmm - I had previously posted about the door to the Freezer room being left open - and - yup; you guessed it - once that happens then it gets cold in good ol' New Zealand.
Our little paradise New Zealand - is often called Godzone (or phonetic as I think of 'Gods-own')! If you think about it - it has literally everything you can find elsewhere on the planet. Fjords / Sandy Deserts / Rain forests / Alpine regions / Flat plateaus/ long deep cave systems/ braided rivers to stunning narrow gorges/ Glaciers that retreat and grow (long-term weather depending), a Lake district, Geothermal activity (speak mudpools and geysers Ala Yellowstone Nat. park), stunning white (AND Black) sandy beaches - some so remote you can sit there all day long and be a hermit, natural hot mineral rich clear water springs, and yes - some very large powerful earthquakes etc.
In terms of weather you can have every possible scenario - from month long droughts to monsoon type of rain, from heat-waves to snow - blizzards, crazy Foehn-type winds (with wind speeds from 110 - 300km/hr) vs long days of calm. At any given day you can go from hot Fan-bake (+30c) to ice cold-snap freeze (5c) in less then an hour! Houses used to be built on piles for the simple reason that anywhere - anytime, some 100-150 mm of rain falling inside 10 hours can happen.
The above picture is from windy.com and as you can see - the air comes of the big chiller room aiming straight at NZ!! Luckily for those further north - by the time it gets past the central plateau it will have sufficiently warmed up, to the point where we call anyone living north of Auckland - "living in the the winter-less north".
PS - did you notice the MINUS 63 Celsius in Antarctica???? :P
That cold air-mass can reach Brisbane (warming itself from the Tasman Sea) cooling them down to a "BALMY" 15 C !! It never reaches much further north - and we have friends in Darwin who say it is 30C year round - they just have a dry vs wet season!!! Ooooooh; to live in the Cook Islands where is a balmy 24 during a COLD day!!! :)
Anyhow - If you think you can design a landmass that can outdo NZ - feel free to get creative! I happen to think that the Ol' Dude up there out-did himself and had a bit of fun with NZ and he just made it -- perfect!!
Truly God-zone!!!
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Sometimes I think the more we know the dumber we become - or at least make bad choices! There is also a certain amount of arrogance at play here.
Being endowed with knowledge does not make you automatically smart. And to pretend otherwise just makes you a wisecrack and arrogant.
Communism sees the world as in imperfect place that only they can "fix" with central structure and thought! As is often the case - once bureaucrats make decisions there is a hit and miss on desired outcomes - and so often accompanied by unintended consequences!!
Case in point - the Chinese (communist) leadership were afraid of uncontrolled population growth - so in their great wisdom they decided to "control" the issue, eventually leading to the 'one child' policy. On the surface a good idea. The unintended consequences are as follows:
The other unintended thing is - estimated that by 2030 - yes that is only 8 years from now - (hahaha apart from AOC's claim that the earth/humanity will cease to exist by then - sorry had to toss that in here) China's population will have a great imbalance in ages - meaning that it will have more people aged 60 or older then the rest of the combined people which - once many of the older folks die away - that by 2050 the population of China will have halved - approximately. That's still some 600 million mouths to feed . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
I hear you - less people for the planet is a good thing -yeah - nah.
The world would be wise to start diversifying its manufacturing business - and spread it all over the world. As far as I know, there is no social service pension at play inside China - meaning - as the saying goes - "No work No rice bowl"!! You either rely on the ever diminishing children / young people to look after you in your old age - or - you starve or work until you die! What will that do to the society????
The dude in this Video has it right - as had the Tom Clancy Novel - I am convinced that they will at some stage make a land grab from parts of Siberia!!! They will follow Putin's lead and settle some of their folks - then claim it as "their ancestral land"" and defend it with everything they got!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI&ab_channel=ChrisWilliamson
Brace yourself - for I fear that a few non-wise choices are being made!
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Ps - My wife says: - "Knowledge is knowing that Tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is knowing you do not add it to your fruit-salad!!!" :)
yup - a rare occurrence - snow in Christchurch!!
Mamabear just had to release her inner child before heading off to work . . . .
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Well - not really a rhetorical - urm - sensible question!
The answer is blindingly obvious - you get COLD - right?!
https://www.weather-news-in-NZ
Snapshot from today's windy.com - you can see the cold freezing air coming from deep inside Antarctica - and yes - it is minus 40 C.
So - no real surprises there!!! Time to break out the Gluhwein and light a fire and get the sheepskin rug ready and - hmm yeah maybe some soft music and smelly candles and - Hey Mamabear - wanna . . . . . . ^.-
Never let a opportunity go to waste!!!
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Ok - our "Stuff.co.nz" site is a def left leaning news media - so far left that it is almost lying down . . .
It just copies blindly many left leaning news "worthy" stories without giving it so much as an editorial check - - -no wonder then that many people no longer trust them (or any other main news organizations) to report honestly!! AND most importantly - it has closed its editorial mind on this issue - no questions are allowed to query the "human induced bad weather events" that make your life so miserable! Skeptics and deniers are banned from its news life cycle! Go figure!! Surely a healthy robust debate on its merits is the rock-bed foundation of a good healthy developing scientific debate!! Alas - no longer
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news-cactus dies
Sure -- its demise is a sad thing - and especially so seeing it was a semi famous photogenic being!! This story appeared under the "Climate change" section!
It goes on to suggest that climate change is "probably" not to blame --- THEN uses a "but" and uses a lengthy paragraph trying to prove that very point of changes in climate!
Well - NEWSFLASH - this type of Cacti has an average lifespan of 150 years; so for it to have lasted just past an estimated 210 years or so - it has done exceptionally well.
A quick wiki search on this type of cacti will tell you the same - - - - It has died of OLD AGE - a natural occurring phenomena!! Nothing to do with Climate.
If only they had edited that story and included a paragraph on its expected life cycle to give some 'Balance" to the story . . . . .
The only good news in this story was of the continuing benefit to the immediate close environment (bugs etc) it does provide from its post-demise!!
'Comments' section on the Stuff site - not available - wonder why?? Maybe they fear that someone like me might say something that they find - what - shocking?!?!?! Upsetting?? Balancing?? Truthful?? Or Factual without the emotions - ah yes - that might be it!!!
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Lots to learn - Much to learn you have!!!
Did you notice the 1.59 milli-second shortning????
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/scientists-baffled-as-earth-spins-faster
below the full text - just in case
Scientists baffled as Earth spins faster than usual, making days shorter
2 Aug, 2022 06:34 AM
Scientist have discovered the earth is spinning faster than normal.
Scientists have been left baffled after discovering the Earth is spinning faster than normal - making days shorter than usual.
New measurements by the UK's National Physical Laboratory show that the Earth is currently spinning faster than it was half a century ago.
On June 29, the Earth's full rotation took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours - the shortest day ever recorded.
Scientists have warned that, if the rotation rate continues to speed up, we may need to remove a second from our atomic clocks.
"If Earth's fast rotation continues, it could lead to the introduction of the first-ever negative leap second," astrophysicist Graham Jones reported via TimeandDate.com.
"This would be required to keep civil time - which is based on the super-steady beat of atomic clocks - in step with solar time, which is based on the movement of the Sun across the sky.
"A negative leap second would mean that our clocks skip one second, which could potentially create problems for IT systems."
Researchers at Meta said a leap second would have colossal effects on technology and become a "major source of pain" for hardware infrastructures.
"The impact of a negative leap second has never been tested on a large scale; it could have a devastating effect on the software relying on timers or schedulers," a blog post on the topic, authored by researchers Oleg Obleukhov and Ahmad Byagowi, claimed.
"In any case, every leap second is a major source of pain for people who manage hardware infrastructures."
Scientists Leonid Zotov, Christian Bizouard and Nikolay Sidorenkov claim the irregular rotations are the result of something called the Chandler Wobble, an irregular movement of Earth's geographical poles across the surface of the globe.
"The normal amplitude of the Chandler wobble is about 3m to 4m at Earth's surface," Zotov told TimeandDate, "but from 2017 to 2020 it disappeared".
Some (who are these ?? SOME?? experts) experts believe the melting and refreezing of ice caps on the world's tallest mountains could be contributing to the irregular speed.
"Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed," TimeandDate reported.
Some experts believe the melting and refreezing of ice caps on the world's tallest mountains could be contributing to the irregular speed.
"On June 29, 2022, Earth completed one spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. This is the latest in a series of speed records for Earth since 2020."
Zotov told TimeandDate that there's a "70 per cent chance" the planet has already reached the minimum length of a day, meaning we will likely never have to use a negative leap second.
However, Zoltov admitted there is no way to know for certain yet with current technology.
The negative second effect and its potential consequences echo back to Y2K theories, where many believed computers would not be able to handle the clocks ticking over into the new millennium.
Although Y2K ultimately proved to be no more than a mere hiccup in our heavily computerized civilization, another programming limitation was detected in 2014.
A vast majority of computer servers use the same system that stores the date and time in a 32-bit integer that counts the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 — often referred to as the Epoch time.
On March 19, 2038, at precisely 03:14:07 (coordinated universal time) the clocks will reach the largest number representable by a 32 bit integer.
As things are, it is most likely that many computers will not be able to tell the difference between the years 2038 and 1970.
However, by the year 2038, many 32-bit systems will likely have worn out or been replaced.
Infrastructure is likely to be the biggest headache to fix, but planning the change far enough in advance should remove most major problems relating to time and date issues with computers.
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Hey - future Monarch of mine - If I recall correctly - you had the pleasure of being down "to the Ice" as we locals here say- i.e. to Antarctica - right?!?!
Next time you wanna say something about climate change - ponder this image taken of today's i-net!!
Do tell me, HOW LONG it would take for that continent to thaw out!!!
How many T H O U S A N D S of years will it take?????
Get real . . . .
Interesting too is the freezing point in the Andes - right up into the Tropics!!! Ponder that for a moment . . . .
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DAMN IT
Do something local and look after the planet.
As my Grandmother once said - look after the little things and the big things will look after themselves!!
It is not that hard - pick up your own rubbish - do not leave it for someone else . . . .
-------> https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/129249667/upsetting-scenes-as-trash-returns-to-previously-cleared-paradise-henderson-island
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Yup - I am ignoring it to the extent that I am NOT afraid of any future global climate change . . .
Ok - now that you have taken potshots and vilified me - let me explain - if you are still able to hear me out!
---------> https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300636133/new-research-shows-how-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-retreated-over-10000-years
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Anyhow - this article talks about RAPID changes. Well - ok in Terms of Earth time - it does seem rather fast!! In HUMAN terms -
snip -- The first lesson is more of a warning. The period of ice loss from 10,000 to 5000 years ago was rapid, occurring at a similar rate to the most dramatically changing parts of the Antarctic ice sheet today.
So that is from 10 000 to 5 000 years eg, from 8000 BC TO 3000 BC- O K A Y
Where was our glorious humanity some 5000 years back -
hmmmmmm let me see - (consults google/wikipedia - need to get this RIGHT!!)
oh yeah - we were still in our S T O N E A G E ! ! ! ! !
Humanity was still being mostly hunter/gatherers!!!!!
No Greeks / Egyptian / Chinese / Mayan societies. No Temples / No waterworks / No farming / NO RELIGION per say / no o o o o o o etc etc
So why should I be worried that it might take 5000 years to flood me out!?!?!?!?!
All this even though they do not know why Antarctica is consistently getting COLDER and freezing more ice - these last 30 years . . .
Do you think that that neanderthal (yeah that one - 50th to the left of that beautiful mountain) thought of YOU when he decided to eat cold meat because lighting a fire would "destroy" your future environment????
I get the impression that this is just a "future funding keep my job secure" news article!!!
F I V E T H O U S A N D Y E A R S - - - - - Dude - like really . . . .
think about that number - 5000 years - what have we seen since 3000 BC?????
Get real!!!!
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Ahhh yes - sometimes you just gotta laugh.
For a very long time now I wanted to see the Seven sisters - and so far they have been rather elusive!! Light pollution not withstanding - one day - yeah ONE day.
Here is a clue - and still I am missing out on seeing them - OR I have seen them and just not realizing it?!?!?!
Note: Orion is doing a head-stand - as seen from the southern hemisphere!!!
Anyhow - our Family has always had more then a passing interest in all things celestial!! One of those is - where exactly does our solar system sit / fit into the milky way?????
Google to the rescue!!!!!! What did we do before google came along you ask - well - ok - that's a story for another time!!!
Meanwhile I found a few interesting sites / pictures that highlighted the vastness of time and space. It makes you realize how insignificant our lives and all complicated issues are - really!!!
I do remember going to the observatory at St. Johns / Tekapo / NZ and they pointed the telescope right into the middle of the southern cross - and hey presto - what looked like empty space had about some 100's or so bright dots . . . . which would kind of validate this image!!
Yeah-yeah I know - you are just wondering where Donald Trump fits into this - right???
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While doing the research, I also found this site ---> https://www.basicknowledge101.com/subjects/space.html
Which - is quite informative! It does give a Timeline of the entire universe - with the last few paragraphs just focused on Earth (and may I say some Bias's included in that alone!) . THE last paragraph deals with -- well let me copy and paste . . .
Horrible Moments in History - 410 A.D. Barbarians sacked Rome - 1348 Peak year of the Black Death - 1644 China's Ming Dynasty collapsed and the Thirty Years' War raged in Europe - 1816 The Year Without A Summer, when a volcanic eruption in Indonesia blocked out the sun - 1838 Trail of Tears - 1862 The darkest year of the Civil War - 1919 The Spanish flu pandemic - 1929 The Wall Street stock market crash - 1944 The Holocaust was at its height - 1968 Assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy - 1962 The Cuban missile crisis - 2001 The 9/11 attacks - 2016 Donald Trump becomes president - 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
Yeah - I mean they are all undoubtedly not great moments in our human history. Still, of ALL the nastier characters that ruled / walked on Earth the author / owner of this particular website just HAD to include Donald Trump!!! Talk about TDS!!!!! Why not Genghis Khan / Saddam Hussein/ Mugabe / Pol Pot / - and possibly one certain Putin ex Russia?! - who I would have thought - would have much better qualifications as "horrible moments" in our history!! - yeah right - "Orange Man" is here and now and the others (well - with the exception of Putin) do no longer affect you personally!!
The other point one can make is as follows: Why mention the "horrible" things in the first place - when one could have written about "good" things happening in our History???? Advancement of Medicinal knowledge - leading to less premature deaths for example . . . .
All this led me to the ponder - ALL this VAST knowledge!!!!!
From Genesis 2 ----> 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
It has been some time since I read that - - so silly me has shortened that to just the tree of knowledge!! Period!! That would certainly have put a different spin on things!! I never believed for one moment that Science and Religion (or Creation vs Evolution ) are mutually exclusive! Rather I do believe that they compliment each other - IF you accept that Science tells us HOW things have evolved and Religion tells us WHY!!! How and why are different things even if they do lead to the same conclusive place!
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It is interesting (and yes - I am no scholar - just some old random dude), that the command for NOT eating from THIS particular tree came BEFORE Eve had been formed. --- OK so I am NOT going to go into Eve and snake and apples . . . .
Rather - I wonder why THAT tree was doing there in the first place?!?! You will also have noticed that the fig-leaves came AFTER they had eaten an apple . . . . hmmmmm what does that tell us??? right - pass the kiwi fruit?!?!?!
Genesis 3 ---> 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
As said before - no scholar here - so - a simple question for you - are humans the ONLY kind of species that had eaten some of the "proverbial" apple????? Indeed are they the only living thing that had its use forbidden?
I'd say not! Have you ever seen the guilty look on your dog when he got found out, having done something, he should not have???? Does doing wrong equal doing evil??? Or is that just a question of 'morality'?????
If morality is that thing that you do when no-one is looking - does that make Donald and Eve equally guilty??
Another question -- Will we ever be able to get BACK into the famous Garden???
Further - there is this whole 'I am your only God' (as in SINGULAR) theme running through the bible and then he says about becoming like "us" (as in PLURAL) so figure that one out!!!!
And lastly - not to put a finer point on this - Lord - like really - WHY OH WHY did you put those damn tress there in the first place??????
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