Luzinski's Gut wrote:Met with the meteorologist from the Weather Channel today, the polar ice cap will be permanently gone by 2030 at the very latest, probably by 2020.

Climate is drastically changing because of excess heat. Creating massive high ridges in Alaska and Canada and huge, deep, strong troughs in the US. Rainfall is becoming more concentrated in single events - total rainfall is about the same annually but it's coming in shorter, more intense bursts. Same with snowfall. Winters becoming shorter, drought conditions are going to increase in many areas. Tree species already changing in many areas, northern maple/pine forests likely to shift to oak/hickory.

Tornado outbreaks in the winter in upper Midwest are becoming more common. Heat waves in Alaska and Canada more common - five days of 90+ degree temps in Alaska this summer alone. Winds are shifting north of the equator, starting to see more storm systems move east to west in the US and Europe, never happened before 2008.

Ocean temperatures have risen 1.5 degrees over last decade. Polar ice hit a tipping point in 2007 and went into a death spiral. Will never return.

Dude is completely apolitical and non-biased as anyone I've ever met. PSU grad, was burned as an Accu-Weather forecaster in early career and made him objective as possible...

Said we have to adapt and become resilient as the climate and weather change. Cannot reverse anything...no way to reverse anything.

Sobering shit.

jamiethekiller wrote:yea. i've absolutely murdered the ball this year, too. just makes it that much worse. the only thing i can hang my hat on is that i pitched an awesome game. all pop ups and ground balls. things just have a way of finding holes that fielders can't get to.

the homerun limit(3) killed us as well. we hit 10 homeruns in the past 3 games(1 was for an out). once we hit our HR limit everyone started to adjust swings for fear of hitting into an out. if we played that team on the other field without a fence it would of been a slaughter rule game.