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

Wed Jun 25 15:40:55 PDT 2025

CA just built a huge solar & battery storage complex where there's NO water
for farming.
Winter wheat planters Nationwide can't make a living anymore @ $5/bushel!
Solar farms with sheep grazing/laying under them is working good.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM Gary Forsmo <gbforsmo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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