https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
The article doesn’t make this point very coherently.
I also quoted two prominent researchers who think this pattern reflects a much feared slowdown in Atlantic ocean circulation, a scenario made famous by the film The Day After Tomorrow. Granted, even if they’re right, what’s happening here will be nothing like the movie. At most, the circulation may be slowing, not stopping abruptly. And with a warming globe overall, there will definitely be no new ice age.
That's bullocks. That's not how "global warming" works, which is why scientists are typically careful to call it "climate change." The temperature of a region is predominantly affected by ocean and air currents. Sunny Marseille in France with its Mediterranean climate is the same latitude as New England. Montreal gets bitter cold for 5 months of the year but London, a full 5deg further north, gets a few days of snow and a lot of rain.
These differences in regional weather at the same or similar latitudes are waaaaay bigger than the few degrees global average increase we see in world-is-ending predictions, and are entirely due to these ocean currents. If they slow down significantly or stop or change direction, it'd be a big freaking deal. If the English Midlands started getting winters like Winnipeg, Canada, that'd be a pretty big deal. While not a glacial period per se, it'd be worse than Europe's Little Ice Age, so I'm going to go ahead and call it what it is.
Being neatly concise in journalism seems unfortunately nearly unvalued.
I'd appreciate any media that valued a simple information/words metric.
In other words, I shouldn't have to skim read articles like this; the journalist should have efficiently managed the info already.
Not to say long-form journalism is bad, but that's a different style.
Yet it got 30 votes in the first hour.
Dacian has a better way that is actually cheaper than burning gas. Solar power used to directly heat a big thermal mass.
He moves generated electricity into big resistors within the concrete block & there is a controller that turn on / off those resistors. Concrete heats up by day & radiates heat at night.
Another cheap way is to heat a barrel of water using the resistance of wires running into that barrel.
http://electrodacus.com/ He also offers some great, cheap solar <-> lithium battery controllers.
Sweet, huh?
Here in Hungary I often see a sign saying that this beer stand or hot dog stand was funded by the EU & received about 60,000 euros. Somehow Europe does not have priorities straight or nobody in Europe have located Dacian (from Romania.. EU country) to give him more money than the average Hungarian hot dog stand receives.
So, he invented something that uas been commercially available for decades?
He made a controller that allows solar panels to directly heat the concrete. I'm not sure if he invented anything. He made a controller, open sourced it, and produced & sold them near cost.
We will see. I trust you noted on the map that the whole of Europe is also reaching higher temperatures than before. We do not know if a slowing Gulf stream will offset the rising temperatures due to global warming, or not. A big reason for uncertainty is that we don't have any long term records of measurements of how much energy is actually transferred by the stream - good measurements only go back less than 20 years or so which is not really enough.
eg. I'm a non-technical home owner. What do I need to do to save energy in the long term? How much will I spend now, how much will I start saving?
