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

[Gary Forsmo]

Jim A. makes many positive choices.  We try to do some of the same
decisions.
We grew up in the late 30's, 40's & 50's when A/C was a rarity & a luxury
in homes & cars.  We survived.  Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Today we take advantage of ever-improving technology ... some of which is a
step backwards.
Example:  Using a finite area of land to build wind & solar farms.  They
reduce farmland that could be better served to produce crops.  Using
commercial building rooftops could be better utilized for producing energy
rather than farmland.

I'll get off my soapbox and store it away, again.  😂

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 10:01 PM <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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..
> >
> >
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> >
> >
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