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

[Keith Park]

 Well we did have a cold winter and froze to death for most of the spring
before things got hot, springs in the northeast are actually getting colder
but Fall's are definitely warmer than they used to be,
And when I was growing up Canada wasn’t on fire most of the time in the
summer.  I cant help but think that really adds to warming even more than
our individual footprint but we do need to be better stewards
Of this precious planet.

Keith


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

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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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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