[T3] So you think it was HOT in Ticonderoga...

[jadney at vwtype3.org]

Wish I had a better report, but here in southern Wisconsin it was 93 F w/77% 
humidity last weekend, putting the heat index well above 100. It was brutal 
outside and completely out of character for June in Wisconsin. Nevertheless, 
any long time resident can see that this has been the trend for the past 40 
years. I look forward to the next Invasion in Eau Claire, but it's just a couple 
hours farther north, and that's insignificant on the global scale.  

When Melissa and I first moved into this house, about 45 years ago, there 
were summers when we never even turned our air conditioner on. We have 
really nice oak trees in this neighborhood that provide a lot of really nice 
shade. The trees are still here, but they are no longer enough. I've probably 
had the AC on for more hours so far this year than our total AC hours for the 
first 10 years we lived here.  

I know that there are people out there who still believe that global warming is 
not real, or who feel that political loyalty requires their denial. If you fall into 
one of these categories, please look around, and see the handwriting on the 
wall. The temperature and wildfire statistics are there for anyone to see.  

Welcome to our new reality. Note that the new reality is that it's not just 
hotter this year, it's going to keep getting hotter each year. There's reason to 
believe that next year and the years after will be even hotter.

What can each of us do about it? Here are a few things I do:

I try to minimize my consumption of fossil fuels, gasoline, diesel fuel, and 
natural gas. I do this by being cautious in my thermostat settings and running 
errands in batches; Wednesday is my shopping day, so tomorrow I'll make at 
least 4 stops in one warmup of the car. For some errands on other days, I 
may take the bus or ride my bike. My daily driver gets 40 mi/gal and I have to 
fill its tank about once a month.  

I try to buy locally produced food as often as I can. I go to the local farmers' 
market once a week in our Wisconsin growing season. This supports local 
farmers and reduces the amount of fuel that's needed to get my food from 
farm to table. In the winter, I still watch for more local suppliers, which may 
mean buying produce from Arizona over that from Brazil. I try to buy from 
sustainable producers.

I pay my local Gas & Electric company a little extra to support solar and wind 
farms.

I donate to charities that support these goals.

I give to politicians who support these goals. I question why mature fossil fuel 
companies still "need" continuing tax benefits, which some politicians 
support while complaining that we can't afford to give similar support to 
renewable energy startups.

I support population control, because population is the multiplier for 
everything. Yes, declining population would have its challenges, but that's 
insignificant compared to the problems that ever increasing population will 
bring. If you've ever wondered about that farmland that all seemed to turn 
into houses over the past few years, that's population.

Jim

On 24 Jun 2025 at 21:01, Keith Park wrote:

> Last year's invasion was Hot, and wet, but Yesterday in Ti was an all-time
> RECORD Hot:
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> The @nysmesonet's Ticonderoga site recently had a reading of 93.1/80.7,
> which worked out to a heat index of 113.7F. This breaks the all-time network
> record of 111.3F recorded at the Dover Plains station several years ago.
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> That's an 81 degree dewpoint in TICONDEROGA, that NEVER happens!  That's bad
> day in Alabama stuff.  so Im glad we didn't have the invasion THIS Year.
> And BTW, it never stopped raining on the weekends,  we've had 32 in a row
> here so far,
> 
> So it will feel good to head to Wisconsin next summer if it doesn't stop
> raining in the northeast..
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> Keith
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