What's cooking?  People!  It's what's for Dinner! lol.  Slow cooked while sitting in traffic on the way back from work after spending all day at the office when the HVAC went out.  Tender and juicy Rack of Homo Sap and Long Pig Ribs.  Fortunately here on the Last Great Frontier, we're still in the 70s the last cupla days of cloudless sunshine.

Acclimatized as I am to cold though, even 75 feels uncomfortable, but at least when I run my fan it's enough to stay cool.  Down in the lower 48, turn the fan on with a 100+F day, and basically you turn your living room into a convection oven or air fryer.

You can add to pandemics and famine Heat Stroke as one of the Death Vectors that will help cull the population as we run short on Juice to keep the AC compressors going full tilt.  This will hit Old folks and kids the hardest because your sweat glands don't fully develop until puberty and they are among the first endocrine glands to start failing as you age.  Also poor people obviously since they are least likely to have AC.

On the positive side, we can save gas and electricity by switching to solar ovens.   

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/air-conditioning-climate-change-emissions/

RE

The oven is getting hotter faster than expected.  Scientists don't know why. Who cooda node?

Maybe it has something to do with all the waste heat produced by AI Data Centers and white desert sands covered with black solar panels?

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/16/climate-change-records-surprise-scientists

2023, 2024 climate change records defy scientific explanation

RE

Quote from: RE on Dec 17, 2024, 01:25 AM

The oven is getting hotter faster than expected.  Scientists don't know why. Who cooda node?

Maybe it has something to do with all the waste heat produced by AI Data Centers and white desert sands covered with black solar panels?

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/16/climate-change-records-surprise-scientists

2023, 2024 climate change records defy scientific explanation

RE

It correlates to CO2 concentrations in the air which continues to accelerate.  Which anyone with a brain should know.  Heat from human activity radiates away quickly and is small compared to solar heat.  The sun gives 173.5 billion MW of energy to the earth.  Human activity provides about 19 million megawatts MW of power globally.  That is based on 2022 energy consumption data.

This ratio of power is approximately 9,130 to 1. The energy from the Sun reaching the Earth each day is about 9,130 times greater than the total power generated by human activity.

Atmospheric CO2

November 2024     423.85 ppm
November 2023     420.46 ppm
Annual change:  +0.81%      <--- From one year ago.

We are closing in on a 1% change in CO2 concentration per year.  Evidence is beginning to suggest this is a problem.

Carbon Fee and Dividend should become the law of the land.