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stackofwits t1_jbqi052 wrote

“Cold phase” is universally recognized scientific language regarding La Niña and is not misleading. What you are talking about are the teleconnections associated with ENSO.

SOURCES:
I’m an atmospheric scientist and taught a lecture on ENSO on Monday of this week for the tenth time.
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Climate.gov
NOAA
National Geographic

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Curiosities t1_jbqhtfu wrote

My boyfriend's grandfather died back in early 2020 at around 100. He was a camp survivor and lost much of his family there. We met briefly, before he retired and moved, but it really does drive home how things are still within living history. At some point, his grandfather recorded his story for the Shoah Foundation.

With all of the antivax stuff in the news, it made me think of my teacher disabled by polio, and out of sight, out of mind, because no one under 40, basically, remembers what that looked like. So they are more susceptible to anti-science.

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KitsyBlue t1_jbqgbz2 wrote

I'd gladly put the 900$ a month I pay towards upkeep if I could say goodbye to a landlord.

That's why I'm trying to get out of renting. Oh, wait though. It's a shame that the housing market is getting fucked price wise because rental companies and investors are buying up all the fucking supply, driving costs to unsustainable levels so they can go another day producing nothing of value to society.

Can't imagine why people have a negative opinion of them. They're like SNES mini scalpers, except I can live without an SNES mini. They contribute as much to society as one, too.

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FindTheRemnant t1_jbqe3vd wrote

Western droughts? https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/california-rain-totals/

Hurricanes?

"2022 was a fairly average hurricane season with an average number of named storms, a slightly above-average number of hurricanes, a slightly below-average number of major hurricanes (category 3 or higher on the 5-level Saffir–Simpson wind speed scale), and a near-normal accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Atlantic_hurricane_season

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