JazzyFresh
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Nope and yes. My 2009 Camry and 96 tacoma are paid off. Money is the least if my worries in life. I make what I need to live comfortable and have no debt.
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Ok. Just saying if the top 10% in the world only have a net worth around 90,000 then it's not hard to be in that 10%. I don't make much money, never went to college, am not very ambitious, and live paycheck to paycheck but I bet I have a net worth over 90,000 since I think net worth includes all your assets (not positive on that though)
Just my home equity alone puts me over 90,000 net worth. That's without including my vehicles, 401k and stuff like that.
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Living comfortably without debt is a solid scenario for accumulating a sizable nest egg for retirement. It’s certainly the risk adverse and fiscally conservative approach. Hope that’s what you’re working toward and why you don’t have any financial worries.
yah. sounds like a homebody, right???
I think you missed the point about the jet-setters' carbon footprint, en route from one posh babylonic child-sex trafficking hotspot to another in their private jets.
A homeboy at least has the right to state the obvious.
nobody needs to believe the Clinitons, or Al Gore are good judges of science. Nor anyone in their pay, for that matter.
Andrew Wilkow has this little mantra..... socialism is for the dupes, not for the socialists. If you don't have a private jet, and six post vacation mansions scattered around the world, and don't have some kind of UN badge, and don't send your kids to a very expensive private academy that employs many armed guards brandishing real assault rifles, and if you don't have a team of top notch CPAs/tax experts creating more dodges for you than owed taxes,, and several well-paid lobbyists on staff to push your little idyllic legislative agenda, and if you're not invited to at least one private islands somewhere within the yeand don't make it to Napa Valley or the Grove each July, and Tahoe in August, and the Black Forest in October, or Phuket om Febriary, you hardly count as a real "socialist".
But that's OK, every grand scheme needs a LOT OF REALLY DEDICATED DUPES.
Marxism or Communism, or any brand of socialism or fascism, are just convenient lies to be used to run the tables politically. Nobody who is really anybody believes any of them. They hire folks to do the staged plays. Community organizers like Barry Obama, low-rent dupes to manage little recruitment websites, thugs to beat up on one another at "demonstrations".
The one essential result is to maintain the cash cows..... the cartels or niche operations that can NOT be efficient if there's too much competition. That's what governments are for. Write up regulations enough to keep the upstarts outta the game. Lock up resources until "The Right People" wanna exploit them.Global Warming is great. "The Right People" have a plan. They've cut up the carbon pie and are going to make many fortunes selling carbon dioxide "credits", for not burning their stuff.
The population of planet earth is going to be reduced to less than 1B, totally compliant serfs .
And anybody who questions the scheme will be a totally "deplorable" denier with no place in the game.
Not that the world isn't getting warmer, or the ice melting, mind you.... or that the plan actually involves doing anything about that.
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Cold Winter Forecast
I heard this on a SLC news TV channel......
Hadn't heard it before. El Nino is down below defined criteria, but the relevant SST still above normal, and other North Pacific areas above normal, and Alaska, and other near-Arctoc areas jave been having unprecedented heat events, or way above normal heat in July at least.
So to get a basis for a forecast "Cold Winter" ahead, I imagine some meterologists are looking at signs of a bimodal oscillation event over Hudson Bay..... a common harbinger of the Artic Express that dives over the plains and burrows south to Florida. But in those events, the West gets a persistent big High Pressure and aside from inversions, doesn't get much storm activity and while the valleys pool cold air, the mountains are warmer than usual.....
So now that I've laid out the hypothesis, I'll go see what the real scientists are saying....
I heard this on a SLC news TV channel......
Hadn't heard it before. El Nino is down below defined criteria, but the relevant SST still above normal, and other North Pacific areas above normal, and Alaska, and other near-Arctoc areas jave been having unprecedented heat events, or way above normal heat in July at least.
So to get a basis for a forecast "Cold Winter" ahead, I imagine some meterologists are looking at signs of a bimodal oscillation event over Hudson Bay..... a common harbinger of the Artic Express that dives over the plains and burrows south to Florida. But in those events, the West gets a persistent big High Pressure and aside from inversions, doesn't get much storm activity and while the valleys pool cold air, the mountains are warmer than usual.....
So now that I've laid out the hypothesis, I'll go see what the real scientists are saying....
oh......
The "news" comes from the compelling reliable and unquestioningly Scientific "Farmers Almanac" for 2020.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...inter-weather-prediction-michigan/2130801001/
And all the TV news programs around the country are parroting it.
The "news" comes from the compelling reliable and unquestioningly Scientific "Farmers Almanac" for 2020.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...inter-weather-prediction-michigan/2130801001/
And all the TV news programs around the country are parroting it.
The "2020 Farmer's Almanac" gets some support in the NOAA 3-month forecast.....
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=4
looking at the proffered forecast maps, it does indeed look like the persistent low over the Hudsan bay, but maybe centered a little south and west of the bay. New England looks like warmer, as well as Alaska and the American Southwest. It looks like the forecast is for drought in Californaia central valley and the Sierras, with most Great Basin storms being Alberta clippers.
There has been a persistent, stable trough over the northern Pacific, north of Hawaii and south of Adak Island (Alaska's westernmost island where we maintain critical weather stations and other government activities.... It's where Pacific Storms usually form, but if they move north, Alaska warms up and gets snow, and the system then would sink over the northern plains.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=4
looking at the proffered forecast maps, it does indeed look like the persistent low over the Hudsan bay, but maybe centered a little south and west of the bay. New England looks like warmer, as well as Alaska and the American Southwest. It looks like the forecast is for drought in Californaia central valley and the Sierras, with most Great Basin storms being Alberta clippers.
There has been a persistent, stable trough over the northern Pacific, north of Hawaii and south of Adak Island (Alaska's westernmost island where we maintain critical weather stations and other government activities.... It's where Pacific Storms usually form, but if they move north, Alaska warms up and gets snow, and the system then would sink over the northern plains.
SSTs.
A year ago I was right about the coming wet year across the US, saying 1C+ is huge. Climatically huge. So I'm gonna look around today and see if the data still says 1C+ worldwide.
So here is a recent product.
https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/Global/Ocean_Temp/Anomaly.html
At a quick visual estimate of the graph, it doesn't look like last year. No El Nino.
There is a large central Pacific area that is graphed as above normal, with the reference period just since satellite data is available, still nearly 1C+ above what little data we have from circa 1880.
SST data reflects only the top few centimeters of the oceans. Lower temps generally correlate to upwelling areas and higher temps correlate to areas of subsidence, and positively correlate with transient sea level stats.
People more generally are aware of rotational currents like the Gulf Stream or the Pacific circulation bringing cooler water down to California from Alaska, and other currents long relied upon for favorable sailing routes. The vertical currents are determined by salinity conditions, evaporation regionally exceeding rainfall. Cooler waters rising along the Pacific equator are what causes La Nina. El Nino is when those mixing currents reverse. The atmospheric winds shift generally with the SSTs and change the formation of storms.
But what we're looking at is long-term climate changing trends, with rising SSTs over the decades.
Long-term, the melting of polar ice is a huge "tipping point" sort of thing. But it is actually orders of magnitude less important that solar changes or precession of the earth's rotation around its axis, changing angles of sunlight slightly. And less important, possibly, than space environment variations and earth heat processes.
I have been looking for evidence of changing heat flux from the interior of the earth as a possible factor.....
A year ago I was right about the coming wet year across the US, saying 1C+ is huge. Climatically huge. So I'm gonna look around today and see if the data still says 1C+ worldwide.
So here is a recent product.
https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/Global/Ocean_Temp/Anomaly.html
At a quick visual estimate of the graph, it doesn't look like last year. No El Nino.
There is a large central Pacific area that is graphed as above normal, with the reference period just since satellite data is available, still nearly 1C+ above what little data we have from circa 1880.
SST data reflects only the top few centimeters of the oceans. Lower temps generally correlate to upwelling areas and higher temps correlate to areas of subsidence, and positively correlate with transient sea level stats.
People more generally are aware of rotational currents like the Gulf Stream or the Pacific circulation bringing cooler water down to California from Alaska, and other currents long relied upon for favorable sailing routes. The vertical currents are determined by salinity conditions, evaporation regionally exceeding rainfall. Cooler waters rising along the Pacific equator are what causes La Nina. El Nino is when those mixing currents reverse. The atmospheric winds shift generally with the SSTs and change the formation of storms.
But what we're looking at is long-term climate changing trends, with rising SSTs over the decades.
Long-term, the melting of polar ice is a huge "tipping point" sort of thing. But it is actually orders of magnitude less important that solar changes or precession of the earth's rotation around its axis, changing angles of sunlight slightly. And less important, possibly, than space environment variations and earth heat processes.
I have been looking for evidence of changing heat flux from the interior of the earth as a possible factor.....
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So here's 2018, a year ago....
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/2018.html
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2018/anomnight.8.30.2018.gif
next to the latest map...
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2019/anomnight.7.29.2019.gif
In these products, it looks to me like the oceans are even warmer this year than last. Can't help but see there are some data products that don't line up well. I consider this source the most direct and best.
I think these charts outweigh The Farmers Almanac. I'm now thinking this coming winter will also be wet..... maybe not El Nino pattern, but "above normal" even for the West and particularly for the eastern two thirds of the continent.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/2018.html
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2018/anomnight.8.30.2018.gif
next to the latest map...
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2019/anomnight.7.29.2019.gif
In these products, it looks to me like the oceans are even warmer this year than last. Can't help but see there are some data products that don't line up well. I consider this source the most direct and best.
I think these charts outweigh The Farmers Almanac. I'm now thinking this coming winter will also be wet..... maybe not El Nino pattern, but "above normal" even for the West and particularly for the eastern two thirds of the continent.
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