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-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully. I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.
In what country do people encounter -40 degrees
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There were a bunch of headlines last week about DOGE firing half of NOAA then rehiring them. I don’t think you should consider anywhere sacrosanct.
To be fair there have been a bunch of headlines about a great many things, like office closures without mentioning the minor detail that the offices haven’t been used in years, the workforce is remote, and there is no impact on service delivery or staffing. Doesn’t stop journalists from dancing around the implication if it makes the orange man and mars man look bad though.
https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr...
Are these the journalists you have an issue with for reporting on it?
https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-do...
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What significance does 0°F have to a human?
0°F was the outside temperature with 40 mph winds (60mph gusts) the time I had to venture to the middle of an empty field to break the ice on water tank with a hatchet so cows could get water.
I guess it depends on the cows
Interesting article. We are past the usual -20 or lower six weeks where I am so feels like a typical year. If I choose a random northern place like Rankin Inlet NU it is still cold up there with a low of -33 tonight. It is a sign of the times when I think huh, climate.gov… is that a reputable source?
Probably is. NOAA and other gov sources help us predict things like clear air turbulence related to the jet stream. One probably doesn’t want to politicize those kinds of predictions too much or risk scraping passengers and their dinners from ceilings.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/25/second-trump-term-0...
Based on the way things have been going, that seems to be the goal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_under_the_second_presiden...
Ultimately the Earth will warm up, the ice caps melt, the coasts lose as the seas rise 10m
And potentially organized human life collapses
We are killing for guzzoline.
The world is running out of water.
Now there's the water wars.
Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause.
My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.
This part seems really handwavey. Could someone explain what they mean with "warmer part of the year" if not air temperature? Increased warming through more sunlight?
Doing climate research in Fahrenheit in 2025 gives me second hand embarrassment.
Why? Celsius is just as arbitrary a choice as Fahrenheit. It brings nothing extra to the table. You might as well complain that tapered pipe threads are in US inches or that astronomers use AUs and light seconds rather than meters.
Interesting article. We are past the usual -20 or lower six weeks where I am so feels like a typical year. If I choose a random northern place like Rankin Inlet NU it is still cold up there with a low of -33 tonight. It is a sign of the times when I think huh, climate.gov… is that a reputable source?
Probably is. NOAA and other gov sources help us predict things like clear air turbulence related to the jet stream. One probably doesn’t want to politicize those kinds of predictions too much or risk scraping passengers and their dinners from ceilings.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2025/03/21/wea...