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Life on earth began about as soon as the surface cooled enough to allow liquid water, so it seems a pretty quick process. Intelligent life on the other hand took a little longer, many would say it still not yet here.

Think Orwell had something to say about those who control the past... Frankly, storage these days is so cheap that there is no excuse for deleting data. Anyone who does so should be suspected of ulterior motives.

Maybe a link to a site that explains these charts, pretty please?

Not sure I'd put much weight on a deBlasio promise. If India is any guide, I'd keep my mask on well beyond that date.

Would someone please post a link to site where this spaghetti chart is explained? As is, it is possibly casting pearls before swine. I at least will admit that I'm baffled, but where can I get less so?

Seems short sighted to let the virus evolve in the poorer countries, the vaccines we have are not magic bullets, they protect against some variants, not against all. It just seems that neither common sense nor charity are getting much traction in the official reaction to the epidemic.

Think it will be like a drivers license, you'll need it if you want to use air transport and and maybe also rail and bus transport, as well as attending mass performances like concerts. So not 'compulsory', but pretty close.

Honestly I'd not hesitate to act. The country is going to be swimming in vaccines by the end of the month, multiple suppliers all revving up production. I'd expect vaccination to be compulsory by the end of May, in order to help restore normal activity.

Agree fully, a useful product has been eliminated for no good reason. Does no one at the NWS care?

My handicap was 2, as in 'factor of'. Breaking 100 was just out of the question. I'd even have paid for the celebration, had the concept been current.

Great time to walk with your lady friend. Don't miss it!!

So what is your implication, that we will see rising arctic ice levels from here on out?

Just wish there was a little more humility all around. With a reliable instrument record dating back two centuries at most, we have no real experience in the inherent variability of the environment. It would help if there were longer term records of first frosts and such, but afaik, nobody thought that was important until recently. Hence we get excited whenever our short experience base gets exceeded. Great for papers, not necessarily so for actual understanding. icne

Texas decided to stay off the federal infrastructure, so there is no meaningful power transfer possible between Texas and the rest of the USA. Someone would need to pay for the needed gigawatt power links from the rest of the country, if that was indeed available. That said, I think it disgustingly irresponsible to sell power without some minimal reliability standard. In Texas, that apparently was the norm.

The Texas outages were largely the result of there being no legal disincentive for providing unreliable power, just so long as it was cheaper. So no one winterized their turbines, feed water pumps or gas extraction stations, not cost effective. Result was gas powered capacity shut down for lack of gas, nuclear plant offline because the feed water pump sensors froze, coal plants shut because the coal was frozen in and wind turbines dead because they were frozen. Bad regulations caused this debacle, not 'green energy'.

TWC is an IBM company and IBM was loudly advertising their powerful AI based forecasting prowess. So this forecast is perhaps a reality check, there is still lots of room for improvement in this space.

A bold assertion indeed. Not a projection that I can put much stock in. Given how erratic this winter has been, we'll probably wind up with a blizzard in May.

The updated NSIDC trend lines support your supposition. Also the Arctic is considerably warmer than usual this year.. https://cryospherecomputing.tk/

The data on that link also stop at Feb 19th and the scan map shows that one sector was unscanned, which was the cause of the sudden downturn. Maybe a data processing issue with the satellite or the ground station?

Slant sticking again in Central Park?

No expert, but the data at : https://cryospherecomputing.tk/NRT2.html show some sort of glitch since Feb 19th. Is there a better source? Separately, I do agree that the recent ice trends have been suggestive of an early peak, but we do need a better confirm.

Thank you for this helpful link. I'm obviously a dinosaur, but I thought it a mistake to ditch the old style weather maps with the fronts indicated. I don't find the maps with colored blobs of hi and lo pressure as informative.

Is it just me, seeing leak paths all over the place here? Guess I was too long at the fair in suburbia...

Agree entirely, but this is just stupid, not politics. A f***g nuclear plant going off stream because the cooling water pumps were frozen??? Just brain dead greed imho.