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AndrewHenry

@AndrewHenry@mastodon.energy

Canadian. Local paper occasionally publishes pieces I write about climate, energy, and Passive House. Also interested in disability issues, for reasons. Nordic skier who played Rugby. Happiest out skiing on a sunny and cold mid-February day.

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AndrewHenry, to climate
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Debris flows are more likely after wildfires as the vegetation that kept the slope in place has burned.

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"There is debris flow risk due to forecast rain," reads a tweet from the B.C. Transport Ministry.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/highway-access-restored-fraser-canyon-wildfire-1.6950959

ct_bergstrom, to random
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Figure 3. The majority of large ungulates still lack wifi connectivity.

AndrewHenry,
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@ct_bergstrom

Non charismatic mega fauna.

AndrewHenry, to random
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the extreme heat has created an unusual gap between the end of the berry-picking season and the start of the apple season, meaning some employees may wait weeks without pay before they can resume work.

“Usually they’ll go from cherries and berries and they’ll wait a week and they go into apples,” said Velasquez, “But if you add climate change, they might wait 19 days to be transferred.”

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https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/29/Extreme-Weather-Migrant-Farmworkers/

AndrewHenry, to random
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Chatting with a family friend who is a nurse. They work at a camp in the summer.

They said a family whose kids attempt camp had three of their children end up with diabetes after Covid.


AndrewHenry, to random
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"It comes back to the government not treating [those in] the teaching profession as professionals," said Steven Le Sueur, president of the Quebec Professional Association of Teachers, a union with more than 8,000 members.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-teachers-staffing-shortage-1.6945060

AndrewHenry,
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@msquebanh

It is bad governance in that it is malicious and not just incompetent.

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"Starve the beast" is a political strategy employed by American conservatives to limit government spending by cutting taxes, to deprive the federal government of revenue in a deliberate effort to force it to reduce spending. The term "the beast", in this context, refers to the United States federal government and the programs it funds

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

AndrewHenry,
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@msquebanh

It has been an effective strategy.

I accompanied someone to emergency at an Ottawa hospital. We were in the waiting room a long time with the forecasted wait time to be something like half a day.

While waiting, a youngish white man who was accompanying an Inuit woman while she waited got frustrated and in loud conversation said we wouldn’t have to wait as long if healthcare was privatized.

He had no idea that he wouldn’t be able to afford private healthcare.

AndrewHenry, to random
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-hospital-covid19-protocol-patient-positive-1.6943985

petergleick, to random
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We're gonna need a bigger truck.

(CalTrans near San Diego)

AndrewHenry,
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@petergleick

“A small boulder the size of a large boulder”

AndrewHenry, to random
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sherbrooke-food-delivery-electric-bike-1.6939724

AndrewHenry, to climate
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This minister would be the last person to be called an environmentalist. Maybe a realization of how bad things are has set in.

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"It's a matter of being consistent and if we want to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, consumer habits need to change significantly," he said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pierre-fitzgibbon-cars-quebec-1.6938500

AndrewHenry,
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@jfmezei

Quebec has certainly embraced pick-ups and SUV’s.

Was on a family road trip a few years back and we took the ferry from Charlevoix to Rivière-du-Loup. We stayed in a motel on the Charlevoix side so that we could get the first morning ferry. I asked the receptionist/proprietor what the wifi password was and he said it was “DodgeRam”.

AndrewHenry, to random
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"It's good to hear a fossil fuel CEO being honest about their intentions — squeezing every last drop of oil out of the ground, even if it means cooking our climate and harming communities in the process," said Greenpeace Canada climate campaign head Laura Ullman.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-too-focused-on-energy-transition-rich-kruger-says-1.6937360

heidilifeldman, to Ottawa
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Does anybody have recommendations for a cool place to stay in for a couple of nights? Looking for great service (if a hotel) and some charm. Could be a vacation rental.

AndrewHenry,
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@heidilifeldman

The Chateau Laurier

sundogplanets, to random
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First talk by D. Turnshek: "Persuasive measurements for environmental justice" starting with Pittsburgh - lots of light-as-art installations that increase light pollution, she's done soooo much education about it.

Have Allegheny observatory (30" refractor!!) makes it easier to teach people. But, always in danger of being overrun - showed lots of abandoned observatories in urban areas.

Got dark sky rules! But now new mayor and needs to build a new relationship

AndrewHenry,
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@sundogplanets Thanks for tooting about all the sessions.

I hosted a couple of dark sky presentations locally, so this is a topic I was keen to follow along on.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Earth science fail! I always thought clothes dryers blew hot air because the warmer temperatures made the water in the clothes evaporate faster.🤦🏿‍♂️

I never even thought about it.

Warmer air can hold so much more water than cooler air. So warming the air puts it further away from its maximum saturation point for evaporation, which speeds up the drying. Clothes temperature has little to do with it.

Just realizing this after reading some climate change / wet bulb temperature / flooding stuff.

AndrewHenry,
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@mekkaokereke

With this new knowledge you now are prepared to delve into building science.

If you live in a cold climate with a little thought you can figure out why interior air can have very low relative humidity even though exterior air has high relative humidity.

https://extension.psu.edu/psychrometric-chart-use

AndrewHenry,
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@mekkaokereke @bodhipaksa

Next level head exploding are heat pump dryers.

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Rather than releasing warm, humid air through a dryer vent to the exterior of the home as a conventional dryer does, a heat pump dryer sends it through an evaporator to remove the moisture without losing too much heat. Making use of a refrigerant as part of this process means less electricity is used to generate heat.

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https://www.energystar.gov/products/heat_pump_dryer

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Hail storms, slim margins and regulations leave Colorado farmers with an uphill battle.

Read: https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/06/farmers-wheat-harvest-hail-storms-crops/?utm_content=buffer0d973&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

Farming equipment collects wheat
A man drives farming equipment
Two men work in a field while it rains

AndrewHenry,
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@coloradosun

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Heavy rains also trample standing wheat.

“But I’d rather have it wet than be in a drought any day,” Lewton said. “Having a crop get pummeled by hail is like watching a loved one have a heart attack. It’s ugly and painful but over quickly and you’re glad they didn’t suffer. You’re both able to move forward. But with a crop in drought, you watch something you love die a little bit every day and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

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@DeniseGutzmer

AndrewHenry, to climate
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Quebec sat on it’s laurels bragging about how it’s electricity system was already renewable while it’s leaders neglected to consider that everything needed to be electrified.

Quebec is now frantically flailing about grasping at straws in order to plug a looming generation shortfall.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-nuclear-reactor-gentilly-2-1.6932355

AndrewHenry, to Ottawa
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It's Thursday in which means it is time for another severe thunderstorm watch.

ZLabe, to random
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Well then.

More sea ice figures at: https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/. Data from: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.

AndrewHenry,
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@ZLabe

“You’re going the wrong way.”

  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
MnemosyneSinger, to random

"How do you do, fellow protestors?"

AndrewHenry,
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@danneau @MnemosyneSinger

I saw the video of that incident. It was kind of funny. The young protesters were pointing out the youngish poorly disguised cops boots and the cop pretending he wasyuntil he realized the jig was up, and then he walked away sheepishly to join the police line.

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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in case you’re wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in, today’s important WaPo piece on climate features expert quotes from one scientist who happens to be the “climate research lead” at “the payments company Stripe”

AndrewHenry,
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@GreenFire @seachanger

They and others were big on soil carbon credits and as you mentioned they developed various accounting procedures for ‘tracking’ the carbon. Trouble is you pretty much have to be God to believe that all the complexity in soil and the carbon in it can be accounted for.

Scratching under the surface starts to reveal issues with whether captured carbon is accurately accounted for.

Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg Green wrote about these issues.

AndrewHenry,
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@GreenFire @seachanger

If you are interested at all in the issues with big Ag I recommend getting Chris Jones’s book The Swine Republic.

It would be something to think that soil carbon is being sequestered once you understand the cess pit that is Big Ag and it’s practices.

Chris Jones : @DeSoto55

https://icecubepress.com/2023/04/10/the-swine-republic-2/#:~:text=In%20The%20Swine%20Republic%2C%20Chris,rest%20of%20the%20farmed%20Midwest.

AndrewHenry,
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@GreenFire @seachanger @DeSoto55

Apropos of this discussion this David Roberts podcast with Joe Romm on voluntary carbon market offsets just dropped.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/voluntary-carbon-offsets-are-headed

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