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The FowlWeather Podcast
Ep. 96 – Fake News All Over Again: Reward Bands, Flooded Corn, and What Makes a Duck Migrate

The FowlWeather Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 35:31


The misinformation machine is at it again and blurting out words from the many corners of the coffee shop. Blurting out words without even trying. In this episode we detail how reward banding really works and how those data are used, the legals on flooded corn, and we once again revisit the idea of calendar vs. weather migrators. It's all so easy, but y'all keep the conspiracy train running, making it all so much more difficult than it should be. A taste about how duck population models works and we also hit on the first hints of a La Nina, that and more, all today on the FowlWeather Podcast.

Rokcast
Western States Winter Update

Rokcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 50:34


Robby hosts RokStaffer Josh Boyd for a Western States Winter Update.  Josh is a professional Hydrologist and keeps a close eye on snowpack across the West. He's a frequent guest on the Rokcast because he is a great resource when determining how the weather affects our big game animals, especially mule deer. Today, Josh will be giving a West-wide Snowpack update and talk about other water issues like Snow Water Equivalent, Soil Moisture vs. the Drought Monitor, a dying La Nina and more. Please welcome Josh back to the Rokcast for your Western States Winter Update See snowpack map here: Snowpack and Precipitation Index Maps | Natural Resources Conservation Service Snowpack Maps (usda.gov) Rokcast is powered by onX Hunt. For 20% off, use Promo Code “Rokcast” at onX Hunt here https://www.onxmaps.com/hunt/app You can find Robby's books, Hunting Big Mule Deer and The Stories on Amazon here or signed copies from the Rokslide store here     

Field Posts
E234: Look Ahead to Spring Planting Weather

Field Posts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 34:27


We're officially on the cusp of spring, and farmers in the warmer regions are already in the planter, while those further north are raring to get the 2025 season started. But some snap cold weather in February and some roaring blizzards on March's doorstep have us wondering if winter might stick around a bit longer.Luckily for us, DTN's Ag Meteorologist John Baranick is joining us today, not only to talk through the very latest weather and forecasts, but also to look ahead for the next six to eight weeks to share insight on what might be ahead through the course of this year's planting season. We'll dive deep into precipitation and temperature outlooks in key regions, especially as influenced by the shifting La Nina pattern. We'll take a look at the drought monitor map as we discuss forage outlooks in the west and conditions along the Pacific, and check in on the near term severe weather picture. Then we'll turn our attention abroad, taking a close look at Latin America as the major crop seasons wrap up there, and spending some time on conditions in Eastern Europe that might still prove to throw a wrench in global wheat markets. Then we'll gaze into the long term forecasts for a sneak peak at what we might expect for summer weather.

The Dirt: an eKonomics podKast
Preparing for Planting: What the Weather Says

The Dirt: an eKonomics podKast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 21:08


What's up with the weather? From western wildfires to southern snow, we go all in on the weather to help you prepare for a successful growing season.   Mike Howell kicks off season four with crowd favorite, Principal Atmospheric Scientist and Nutrien Senior Science Fellow, Eric Snodgrass, to explore how winter and spring weather will affect the upcoming planting and growing season. Where can growers expect drought, flooding or other unexpected conditions? What patterns are appearing? What does La Niña tell us about growing conditions? Uncover everything you need to know about the weather in this exciting episode.   Check out ag-wx.com for all of Eric's recent weather content.   Looking for the latest in crop nutrition research? Visit nutrien-ekonomics.com   Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NutrieneKonomics

Spectrum Commodities Wheat & Cattle Markets Analysis

Grains drifted lower waiting for this morning's Ag Outlook Forum report; acreage report higher than expected for corn and wheat, lower for soybeans; La Nina fades into neutral ENSO.

The Commstock Report Podcast
Tipping The La Nina Scale With Laura Edwards

The Commstock Report Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 14:55


Send us a textStay Connectedhttps://www.commstock.com/https://www.facebook.com/CommStockInvestments/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClP8BeFK278ZJ05NNoFk5Fghttps://www.linkedin.com/company/commstock-investments/

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News
Asteroid 2024 YR4 Threat, Lunar Canyon Formation, and NASA Astronauts' Early Homecoming: S28E24

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 23:09


SpaceTime Series 28 Episode 24The Astronomy, Space and Science News PodcastAsteroid Impact Odds, Lunar Grand Canyons, and NASA's Stranded AstronautsIn this episode of SpaceTime, we discuss the alarming increase in the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth, now estimated at 3.1% for December 22, 2032. This asteroid, measuring between 40 to 90 meters, poses a significant threat, and we delve into the implications of planetary defense strategies that could be employed to mitigate this risk.The Origins of the Moon's Grand CanyonsWe also explore new research that suggests the Moon's massive canyons, Vallis Schrodinger and Valles Plank, were carved out by asteroid impacts in a mere 10 minutes. This groundbreaking study provides insights into the Moon's geological history and will have important implications for future lunar missions, particularly the upcoming Artemis program.NASA's Stranded AstronautsAdditionally, we cover the latest developments regarding NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wiltmore, who have been stranded aboard the International Space Station since June 2024. With the potential for an earlier return home due to a change in SpaceX's Crew 10 mission schedule, we discuss the challenges they faced during their extended stay in orbit.00:00 Space Time Series 28 Episode 24 for broadcast on 24 February 202500:49 Increased odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 impact06:30 Implications for planetary defense strategies12:15 The formation of lunar canyons from asteroid impacts18:00 Insights from the Schrodinger impact basin study22:45 NASA astronauts' potential early return to Earth27:00 Overview of La Nina's arrival in the eastern Pacific30:15 The implications of losing the sense of tastewww.spacetimewithstuartgary.comwww.bitesz.com

Weather Wise
E6: Snow piles, La Nina, and the groundhog

Weather Wise

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 8:33


The first days of February have continued to prove mild, although some of the area snow piles have proven stubborn to melt. Especially coming out of the frigid and snowy pattern that encased much of mid and late January, the groundhog's prediction of 6 more weeks of winter leaves a lot of time left for big changes. Chief Meteorologist Rich Wirdzek examines the emerging trends that may lead to another blast of cold air and chance for more snow later in the month. 

The John Batchelor Show
#OzWatch: La Nina returns again withswings between heat, wet, wind, hail. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 8:35


#OzWatch: La Nina returns again withswings between heat, wet, wind, hail. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/18/australias-wild-weather-continues-with-more-storms-forecast-for-nsw-and-cyclone-forming-off-wa 1867 Melbourne

Kenny & JT
Kenny & JT Show Thursday Opener

Kenny & JT

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 24:02


The Kenny & JT Show is underway on a snowy, sloppy Thursday. Is it El Nino or La Nina? We spend this time to to remember “Mr. Baseball” Bob Uecker who passed away today.

The Morning Cruise Replay
The Morning Cruise Replay - Making The Time

The Morning Cruise Replay

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025


We're 2 weeks into the new year but Carmen wanted to make sure we made time to listen to a new song from Brandon Lake. Bill wanted our attention for a 3-minute sermon from Tim Keller.  Dave made time last night to watch the Manningcast version of Monday Night Football for the first time last night.  Bill followed up on the conversation from yesterday with the Go Bag as he had the wrong timeframe for his daughter's pregnancy.  Carmen is loving this time of year with La Nina...

Texas Ag Today
Texas Ag Today - January 13, 2025

Texas Ag Today

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 23:06


*Snowfall is beneficial for Texas pastures and rangeland.  *Many Texans continues to feel the effects of La Nina.  *The Texas wheat crop should benefit from last week's snow and rain. *Texas High Plains corn producers are gearing up to fight the corn leaf hopper.  *EPA is now accepting comments on proposed changes to the registration for an insecticide.  *Bermuda grass plays a huge role in Texas beef production.  *Planting time is just around the corner in Deep South Texas.  *Disease of the suspensory apparatus us common in performance horses.  

The John Batchelor Show
#OzWatch: La Nina returns again, cooler, wetter, early Fall. Is it the Jet Stream? Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSocietyz

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 12:49


#OzWatch: La Nina returns again, cooler, wetter, early Fall. Is it the Jet Stream? Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety. 1873 Explorer camp

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON
Salentine Is The New Fairest And Whey Sales Are Booming - Windecker

MID-WEST FARM REPORT - MADISON

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 50:00


UW Corn Specialist Hurkat Kuar is 5 months into her new position as Wisconsin's UW-Extension Corn Specialist. She's a native of India, but she's very happy to be in Wisconsin serving farmers. She talks to Jill Welke about her goals, initially, for some of her research. One area she's focused on is silage corn, and she says that Wisconsin farmers have been happy to hear of that direction. Winds pick up a little today in Wisconsin, but Stu Muck says the ag weather stays dry. Not much snow in the short term forecast. Last night 33 candidates that hoped to be the ambassador for all fairs in Wisconsin found out who would hold the post. Charitee Seebecker introduces us to Melanie Salentine. She's a 21 year old student at St. Norbert College who found her passion for fairs at a young age in Kewaunee County. LaNina is a big influence on the weather the upper midwest is experiencing. Mace Michaels, a staff meteorologist with Severe Studios Radio Network, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, says patterns don't bring a lot of moisture to the upper midwest now, but he doesn't believe that will lead to a drought. Bryce Windecker of EverAg is a dairy farmer himself in New York state. He talks with Pam Jahnke about the snow they've received so far, and how they're managing. He also focuses on how the new calendar year has begun with international sales, and overall milk production.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fruit Grower Report
Winter Weather Outlook Pt 2

Fruit Grower Report

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025


We're kicking off the new year with some interesting weather with a lot of snow in the mountains and strong storms. Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences professor at the University of Washington, says we are in the midst of a La Nina, a weak La Nina, but it has implications for the winter.

Viewscapes
A year of extremes: 2024 weather in review

Viewscapes

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 16:39 Transcription Available


Weatherwise, July 2024 was a doozy.Palm Springs hit 124 degrees. Alaska had the wettest July on record. Washington DC tied its record for the most consecutive days with temperatures over 100. Hurricane Beryl became the earliest category five hurricane in history. And a Chicago derecho spawned 32 tornadoes in single day. “All of that happened just in July, which is just astonishing,” says Josh Ward, field meteorologist for Washington State University's AgWeatherNet.Last year was another year for weather extremes in the United States, Ward notes. As of November 1, the nation experienced 24 weather and climate disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each in damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Global warming is contributing to the increase in weather-related disasters. Ward graduated from the University of North Carolina Asheville in May and moved to Eastern Washington in September. Had he stayed in Asheville, he would have witnessed the catastrophic flooding in western North Carolina that followed Hurricane Helene's September 26 landfall in Florida and the storm's destructive path through the Southeast.Looking ahead for the Northwest, Ward says the weak La Niña developing will mean a cold, snowy winter.Meanwhile, NOAA has reported that fall 2024 was the warmest on record for the United States. “Another record broken,” Ward says. “We are in the decade of breaking records for weather, I do believe.  So be on the lookout for that in the future.”---Sign up to receive Washington state weather updates from WSU's AgWeatherNet.Support the show______________________________________________________________________________Want more great WSU stories? Follow Washington State Magazine: LinkedIn @Washington-State-Magazine X/Twitter @wsmagazine Facebook @WashingtonStateMagazine Instagram @WashingtonStateMagazine YouTube @WashingtonStateMagazine Email newsletter How do you like the magazine podcast? What WSU stories do you want to hear? Let us know. Give to the magazine

Fruit Grower Report
Winter Weather Outlook Pt 1

Fruit Grower Report

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025


We're kicking off the new year with some interesting weather with a lot of snow in the mountains and strong storms. Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences professor at the University of Washington, says we are in the midst of a La Nina, a weak La Nina, but it has implications for the winter.

The Wizard of iPhone Speaks (20-22)
Episode 2: Ten Urban Myths of 20-24 inc Your bank gives you Cash Back

The Wizard of iPhone Speaks (20-22)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 8:46


Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Bowling Green, Kentucky, Bring a Torch & Tennebaum--used with permission. There was no election fraud in 2020. The Titanic might have missed the iceberg if they hadn't been competing for The Blue Riband of The Atlantic. ie Fastest Crossing! President Biden is committed to border security & domestic justice!Widening the Airport access exit on i40 in Nashville will not solve the problem! Too many passengers “Herr Mozart.”   The “return” of La Nina is a weather fraud. It's not neccessary to name the return of a normal pattern. It's an illogical extension of our pattern of him-a-canes and her-a-canes.

Bill Handel on Demand
Wayne on the News

Bill Handel on Demand

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2025 36:39 Transcription Available


Wayne Resnick fills in for Bill Handel.Breaking news: 10 dead, 30+ injured in New Orleans after a driver plowed through a New Years' Eve crowd on Bourbon St.. The driver is dead, following a shootout with police. Two police officers were injured in what New Orleans' Mayor LaToya Cantrell calls a "terrorist attack."Also, California is experiencing the 2nd dryest season on record (thanks La Nina!), California FINALLY picks its state crustacean (the noble Dungenous Crab), the state slug (the honorable Banana Slug), and the state seashell (the dignified Black Abalone). And a 1-month old, onesie-clad Spider Monkey was pulled over for driving without a license... in a Rolls Royce??? I have so many questions...

The Anna & Raven Show
What is La Nina?

The Anna & Raven Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 3:53


Meteorologist Ashely Baylor explains what La Nina is and what it could mean for you! Photo Credit: Getty Images

The Anna & Raven Show
Friday, December 6, 2024: Holiday Renovations; Self Proclaimed Office Jobs; Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting!

The Anna & Raven Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 45:50


Raven and guest co-host Meteorologist Ashley Baylor go around the room with the rest of the team to debate scrapping their cars or waiting for it to heat up and which is better! Producer Justin and Ashley would not make great neighbors but find out why! Meteorologist Ashely Baylor is guest co-hosting, and she explains what La Nina is and what it could mean for you! Raven says that everyone has a house renovation that they must do before the holidays! Find out what Ashley's husband has been renovating since June! With the holiday season coming quickly, Raven takes the opportunity to tell Producer Julie and Producer Justin not to get Anna or himself gifts! But his gift for Anna left everyone speechless! Raven thinks he's being punked in a building by someone placing wet floor signs in front of every door he walks out of! In result, he has starting do this with the signs! Are you up to date on this week's biggest news stories? Raven and Ashley will get you caught up on the current trends including Flavor Flav's meltdown at The Rockefeller Christmas Tree Ceremony! Holiday Travel, the most wonderful time of year? The last flight Raven was on, there were some crazy occurrences! It's their first-year hosting in the big new house and both sides of the family are coming, around forty adults and nearly twenty kids. James wants to hire an entertainment trio to keep the kids busy and in the basement game room most of the night. They'll come up during dinner and dessert and the adults will enjoy themselves upstairs. Renée thinks this is insane and will be embarrassing. You can't keep the kids separate on a holiday and no stranger is coming to our house, we'll watch them together. He says twenty kids running through the party will be chaos. Erin and Russell have a chance to win $3100! All they have to do is answer more pop culture questions than Raven in Can't Beat Raven!

The MAP IT FORWARD Podcast
EP 1242 Ana Donneys - Market Volatility For Coffee Farmers - The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward

The MAP IT FORWARD Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 22:55


Join our Mailing List - https://www.mapitforward.coffee/mailinglistLooking to start your business as a coffee consultant? Our workshop "It's Time To Become a Coffee Consultant" is for you - https://mapitforward.coffee/workshops••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Welcome to the 2nd episode of a five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro by the Map It Forward Podcast, hosted by Lee Safar.Our guest on the podcast in this series is Ana Donneys, a 5th generation coffee producer and CEO of Cafe Primitivo, based in Quindio, Colombia.When Ana took over the farm 6 years ago, she inherited significant debt along with the legacy of her grandfather's farm. Having studied business at university, Ana's determination to implement a business strategy for the farm focused on specialty coffee, profitability, and regenerative farming practices is seeing those decisions paying off as the C-Market hit record highs.In this series, we explore this moment of volatility in the coffee market from the perspective of the next generation of coffee farmers.The five episodes in this series are:1. Is This a Moment For Coffee Farmers? - https://youtu.be/Jbwh4wd1Rlk2. Market Volatility For Coffee Farmers - https://youtu.be/i5AbG3sWZtc3. Gen Z Coffee Farmers are Changing the Game - https://youtu.be/6cLhazaWfEE4. The Impact of the C-Market on Coffee Producers - https://youtu.be/30NTYlYhnTQ5. The Future For Coffee Farmers Is Changing - https://youtu.be/NbKinViPuF4In this episode of The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward, Lee and Ana from discuss the current market volatility in the coffee industry. Ana explains how market uncertainty and price fluctuations have impacted coffee producers, especially small to medium-sized farms. She shares insights into the difficulties faced by farmers, such as the struggle to forecast market demands, price drops, and the inability to hold onto their harvest due to financial constraints. The episode also highlights the issue of defaulting on contracts and the broader economic and environmental challenges such as climate change and the impact of La Nina. Ana provides a glimpse into the resilience and adaptive strategies of coffee producers, mentioning efforts towards regenerative practices and sustainable farming. The episode underscores the importance of relationships within the coffee community and the potential future role of younger generations in shaping the industry. Special thanks to Angel Barrero for his role in connecting the coffee community.00:00 Client Conversations Before Harvest00:44 Sponsorship Message: Become a Coffee Consultant01:23 Introduction to the Episode and Guest01:56 Market Volatility and Coffee Production Challenges07:31 Understanding Defaulting in Coffee Contracts17:49 Impact of Climate Change on Coffee Harvests20:16 Future of Coffee Production and Regenerative Practices22:07 Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser22:34 Closing Remarks and Call to Action Connect with Ana and Cafe Primitivo here:https://www.instagram.com/cafeprimitivo/https://www.cafeprimitivocolombia.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadonneys/••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Support this podcast by supporting our Patreon:https://bit.ly/MIFPatreon••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward Podcast Host: Lee Safarhttps://www.mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/leesafar••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

MAP IT FORWARD Middle East
EP 697 Ana Donneys - Market Volatility For Coffee Farmers - The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward

MAP IT FORWARD Middle East

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024 22:55


Join our Mailing List - https://www.mapitforward.coffee/mailinglistLooking to start your business as a coffee consultant? Our workshop "It's Time To Become a Coffee Consultant" is for you - https://mapitforward.coffee/workshops••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Welcome to the 2nd episode of a five-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro by the Map It Forward Podcast, hosted by Lee Safar.Our guest on the podcast in this series is Ana Donneys, a 5th generation coffee producer and CEO of Cafe Primitivo, based in Quindio, Colombia.When Ana took over the farm 6 years ago, she inherited significant debt along with the legacy of her grandfather's farm. Having studied business at university, Ana's determination to implement a business strategy for the farm focused on specialty coffee, profitability, and regenerative farming practices is seeing those decisions paying off as the C-Market hit record highs.In this series, we explore this moment of volatility in the coffee market from the perspective of the next generation of coffee farmers.The five episodes in this series are:1. Is This a Moment For Coffee Farmers? - https://youtu.be/Jbwh4wd1Rlk2. Market Volatility For Coffee Farmers - https://youtu.be/i5AbG3sWZtc3. Gen Z Coffee Farmers are Changing the Game - https://youtu.be/6cLhazaWfEE4. The Impact of the C-Market on Coffee Producers - https://youtu.be/30NTYlYhnTQ5. The Future For Coffee Farmers Is Changing - https://youtu.be/NbKinViPuF4In this episode of The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward, Lee and Ana from discuss the current market volatility in the coffee industry. Ana explains how market uncertainty and price fluctuations have impacted coffee producers, especially small to medium-sized farms. She shares insights into the difficulties faced by farmers, such as the struggle to forecast market demands, price drops, and the inability to hold onto their harvest due to financial constraints. The episode also highlights the issue of defaulting on contracts and the broader economic and environmental challenges such as climate change and the impact of La Nina. Ana provides a glimpse into the resilience and adaptive strategies of coffee producers, mentioning efforts towards regenerative practices and sustainable farming. The episode underscores the importance of relationships within the coffee community and the potential future role of younger generations in shaping the industry. Special thanks to Angel Barrero for his role in connecting the coffee community.00:00 Client Conversations Before Harvest00:44 Sponsorship Message: Become a Coffee Consultant01:23 Introduction to the Episode and Guest01:56 Market Volatility and Coffee Production Challenges07:31 Understanding Defaulting in Coffee Contracts17:49 Impact of Climate Change on Coffee Harvests20:16 Future of Coffee Production and Regenerative Practices22:07 Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser22:34 Closing Remarks and Call to Action Connect with Ana and Cafe Primitivo here:https://www.instagram.com/cafeprimitivo/https://www.cafeprimitivocolombia.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadonneys/••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Support this podcast by supporting our Patreon:https://bit.ly/MIFPatreon••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward Podcast Host: Lee Safarhttps://www.mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/mapitforward.coffeehttps://www.instagram.com/leesafar••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Fruit Grower Report
Weather Outlook for Winter Pt 2

Fruit Grower Report

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2024


Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences professor at the University of Washington, says we are in the midst of a La Nina, a weak La Nina, but it has implications for the winter.

Fruit Grower Report
Weather Outlook for Winter Pt 1

Fruit Grower Report

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024


Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences professor at the University of Washington, says we are in the midst of a La Nina, a weak La Nina, but it has implications for the winter.

All Cooped Up Alaska
Brian Brettschneider~Senior Climate Scientist for NWS Alaska~La Nina Winter 2024

All Cooped Up Alaska

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 50:46


Send us a textToday's conversation is with climatologist Brian Brettschneider. Recently, Brian was chosen for a new role for the National Weather Service of Alaska as "Senior Climate Scientist" and is a passionate communicator about expanding climate awareness. Topics include: weather forecasting, data & development of evolving technologies, La Nina Winter 2024 predictions and the teamwork of NWS with the FAA in improving weather forecasting.Weather data is key component for weather forecasting that enables planning for fire fighting, sea ice travel and flooding preparation. The temperature and precipitation station of record for Anchorage is located at Ted Stevens International Airport. Brian discusses some of the history and importance of this data.  Weather forecasting has evolved with modern technology. Brian discusses how the National Weather Service is incorporating AI into creating ways to forecast weather. The technical term is "Machine Learning" or "Nero Network Models". Tune in for this discussion. Brian also talks about his experience seeing the "fin whale" that was recently beached on shores of Westchester Lagoon, near downtown Anchorage. Brian welcomes questions about climate by providing his email: Brian.brettschneider@noaa.govThank you for listening to the Alaska Climate and Aviation Podcast. Katie WriterPodcaster/Pilot/Photographerktphotowork@gmail.comhttp://www.katiewritergallery.comSupport the showYou can visit my website for links to other episodes and see aerial photography of South Central Alaska at:https://www.katiewritergallery.com

Mystic Mami Podcast
Season 6 Episode 5: Santa Muerte- La Nina Rosa

Mystic Mami Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 22:00


TikTok: Cafe_Con_HuesosShop: jaguarlotusbotanica.bigcartel.com PodCast:MysticMamiPodcast YT: Kirathehealer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirathehealer/support

Outdoors with Hiking Bob – Studio 809 Radio
422 Fox 21 Chief Meteorologist Matt Meister

Outdoors with Hiking Bob – Studio 809 Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 43:48


Bob starts off November with an interview with Matt Meister, the Chief Meteorologist for Colorado Springs' Fox 21 TV station.  They talk about the complexity of predicting the weather in Colorado, and what makes Colorado's weather - especially in the Pikes Peak region - so unique. Meister talks about the difference between a La Nina and El Nino winter, which one we're having this year, and what it means for weather in Colorado and the western U.S, and much more. It's a fun and informational episode! Fox 21 News website: https://www.fox21news.com/ Please take a moment to take a survey about Bob's podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/yee4dp89 Please consider becoming a patron of this podcast! Visit: https://www.patreon.com/hikingbob for more information Hiking Bob website: https://www.HikingBob.com Wild Westendorf website: https://wildwestendorf.com/ Where to listen, download and subscribe to this podcast: https://pod.link/outdoorswithhikingbob

Nuus
Die verswakking in La Nina is noodwendig slegte nuus nie

Nuus

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 0:38


Dit blyk asof die gretig-afgewagte La Nina-verskynsel hierdie somer nie so sterk of waarskynlik sal wees nie, volgens verskeie weerburo's wêreldwyd. La Nina volg gewoonlik op 'n El Nino-weerverskynsel, wat die afgelope somer Namibië en Suider-Afrika in 'n ernstige droogte vasgevang het. La Nina bring gewoonlik goeie reënval in Suider-Afrika, wat broodnodig is na die droogte. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het gepraat met die Suid-Afrikaanse weerkenner Johan van den Berg, wat meer inligting oor die La Nina gee. Dit is nie net slegte nuus nie.

Explore Oregon: Making the most of the outdoors
Snow or no? What's the forecast for Oregon's winter weather?

Explore Oregon: Making the most of the outdoors

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 20:16


In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks with Oregon State Climatologist Larry O'Neill about the forecast for the winter of 2024-25. O'Neill details why a forecasted weak La Nina system could result in a cooler and wetter winter than normal and what that means for the state overall, including for skiing and winter recreation.

WTAW - Infomaniacs
The Infomaniacs: October 21, 2024 (7:00am)

WTAW - Infomaniacs

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 35:46


Bad drivers. Foods to help stress. Carbs make us happy. Wicked mac and cheese. Amazon's new Kindle lineup. How are you preparing your Thanksgiving turkey? Busy weekend in Austin. La Nina winter. Philadelphia gets its own portal. New Zealand airport implements 3-minute hugging rule. Airplane engagement.

WTAW - InfoMiniChats
Three Minute Hugs

WTAW - InfoMiniChats

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 33:42


Bad drivers. Foods to help stress. Carbs make us happy. Wicked mac and cheese. Amazon's new Kindle lineup. How are you preparing your Thanksgiving turkey? Busy weekend in Austin. La Nina winter. Philadelphia gets its own portal. New Zealand airport implements 3-minute hugging rule. Airplane engagement. Happy Apple Day! Forever chemicals. Reading.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast
Podcast #183: Fernie Alpine Resort General Manager Andy Cohen

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 73:50


This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 11. It dropped for free subscribers on Oct. 18. To receive future episodes as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoAndy Cohen, General Manager of Fernie Alpine Resort, British ColumbiaRecorded onSeptember 3, 2024About FernieClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which also owns:Located in: Fernie, British ColumbiaPass affiliations:* Epic Pass: 7 days, shared with Kicking Horse, Kimberley, Nakiska, Stoneham, and Mont-Sainte Anne* RCR Rockies Season Pass: unlimited access, along with Kicking Horse, Kimberley, and NakiskaClosest neighboring ski areas: Fairmont Hot Springs (1:15), Kimberley (1:27), Panorama (1:45) – travel times vary considerably given time of year and weather conditionsBase elevation: 3,450 feet/1,052 metersSummit elevation: 7,000 feet/2,134 metersVertical drop: 3,550 feet/1,082 metersSkiable Acres: 2,500+Average annual snowfall: 360 inches/914 Canadian inches (also called centimeters)Trail count: 145 named runs plus five alpine bowls and tree skiing (4% extreme, 21% expert, 32% advanced, 30% intermediate, 13% novice)Lift count: 10 (2 high-speed quads, 2 fixed-grip quads, 3 triples, 1 T-bar, 1 Poma, 1 conveyor - view Lift Blog's inventory of Fernie's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himOne of the most irritating dwellers of the #SkiInternet is Shoosh Emoji Bro. This Digital Daniel Boone, having boldly piloted his Subaru beyond the civilized bounds of Interstate 70, considers all outlying mountains to be his personal domain. So empowered, he patrols the digital sphere, dropping shoosh emojis on any poster that dares to mention Lost Trail or White Pass or Baker or Wolf Creek. Like an overzealous pamphleteer, he slings his brand haphazardly, toward any mountain kingdom he deems worthy of his forcefield. Shoosh Emoji Bro once Shoosh Emoji-ed me over a post about Alta.

WWL First News with Tommy Tucker
La Nina hasn't come yet. What does that mean for rest of hurricane season?

WWL First News with Tommy Tucker

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 17:54


* There's about a month and a half left in hurricane season and La Niña has yet to emerge. What does that mean? * Checking in with Joe Giarrusso on how the budget process is going

The Morning Review
Spokane showing signs of La Nina

The Morning Review

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 2:18


Read beyond the headlines! Support Local Journalism https://www.spokesman.com/podcastoffer

Ducks Unlimited Podcast
Ep. 620 - Two Meteorologists and a Duck Scientist Walk into a Studio…

Ducks Unlimited Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2024 48:54


Duck hunters are obsessive weather watchers, as it influences everything from large-scale migration to local movements and habitat use. In this episode, Dr. Mike Brasher welcomes Skot Covert, chief meteorologist at CBS 5News Fort Smith-Fayetteville, AR, and Chance Gotsch, meteorologist at ABC17 Columbia, MO, to discuss early season forecasts for the upcoming fall and winter. Recorded on September 16, 2024, Skot and Chance provide an education on La Nina, El Nino, and how they influence the weather we experience. Although the outlook isn't great for southern hunters, wild cards in play, so tune in for the details.www.ducks.org/DUPodcast

Texas Ag Today
Texas Ag Today - September 13, 2024

Texas Ag Today

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 23:02


*Cotton harvest continues in South Texas.  *We are still transitioning into a La Nina weather pattern.  *The Delta cotton crop was susceptible to damage from Hurricane Francine.  *Providing enough water for a growing Texas will be a major focus of the next session of the Texas legislature.  *The democrat and republican leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees all agree on one thing.  *The West Texas Agricultural Chemicals Institute's annual meeting was in Lubbock last week. *The South Texas water crisis is hot topic right now.  *Show and fair season is getting underway, emphasizing the need for strong biosecurity practices.

The FowlWeather Podcast
Ep. 49 – Got Rice? – Talkin' Wild Rice with Northern Latitude

The FowlWeather Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 41:37


Wild rice and ducks go together, like, well…. wild rice and ducks. An important duck food, wild rice also pairs well with many duck dishes. DrMike talks with young entrepreneur, McKinley Dixon of Northern Latitude Foods, producers of organic wild rice from Idaho. A family business – they harvest wild rice by home made airboat, an airplane engine repurposed that captures rice brought to the wild lakes of northern Idaho, first likely brought into the lakes by ducks, the wild rice now thrives and so does Northern Latitude Foods. That, some updates on tropical systems, increasing drought, a La Nina update, and so much more on this week's episode of The FowlWeather Podcast.

McKeany-Flavell Hot Commodity Podcast Series
Will this winter wheat planting season give us chills?

McKeany-Flavell Hot Commodity Podcast Series

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 15:37


Acreage expectations: the case could be made for more wheat acres for 2025/26 Current conditions are not ideal and La Nina's influence could cause issue this winter McKeany-Flavell's U.S. Corn Wet Milling Industry Study, 2023 Edition All industrial buyers and consumers of corn-derived products, as well as investors in that field, should understand the corn wet milling process, product portfolio, pricing, and industry growth potential.  Now available for purchase at mckeany-flavell.com!

Texas Ag Today
Texas Ag Today - September 2, 2024

Texas Ag Today

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 23:11


*Grain prices have softened over the past several weeks.  *Texas citrus growers are expected to grow more grapefruit and oranges this year.  *The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Live Cattle Data Dashboard is now available.  *What can Texas High Plains farmers and ranchers expect from the La Nina that's coming our way?  *An expected record agricultural trade deficit has renewed the debate over free trade agreements.*August weather is behind us, and we are headed toward fall.  *It's time to start planning for fall gardens.  *A recent study looked at the benefits of having radiographs of the neck performed before purchasing a horse.

Texas Ag Today
Texas Ag Today - August 28, 2024

Texas Ag Today

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 23:13


*Cattle prices have been dropping lately, but there are some bright spots in the market.  *We are still a transitional weather pattern from El Nino to La Nina.*Cheaper corn is giving Texas cattle feeders an opportunity.  *U.S. lawmakers are about to head back to Washington D.C. *Texas farmers and ranchers have been visiting with their members of Congress during the August recess.  *Coastal Bend row crop farmers are wrapping up harvest for the 2024 growing season.  *Coccidiosis is common in goats.  

FOX 12 Weather Podcast
FOX 12 Weather Podcast - Episode 111

FOX 12 Weather Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 35:47


Jeff, Mark and Camila have all your hot stats as we kick off August with another scorcher. Plus- an update on fire season, La Nina watch, and a fact about Mark you maybe never needed to know.

Marine Science (Audio)
Our Common Climate: Variability and Climate Change in the U.S. - Mexico Western Border Region

Marine Science (Audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 53:12


Please join us for the annual Keeling lecture in honor of Scripps Professor Charles David Keeling's life and invaluable contributions to climate science and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Tereza Cavazos's will present an overview of relevant climate drivers shared in the US-Mexico western border region, as well as their possible changes and impacts. From extreme weather to droughts, from the monsoon rains to the jet stream and El Niño events, these variations see no artificial borders; however, adaptation to climate change poses major challenges particularly south of the border. Delays in finding feasible and equitable actions can have severe consequences for present and future generations. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 39650]

The John Batchelor Show
#OzWatch: La Nina cold weeks of snow and damp with an Antarctic front. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 7:25


#OzWatch: La Nina cold weeks of snow and damp with an Antarctic front. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-20/hazardous-weather-south-east-australia-strong-winds-hail-snow/104119890 undated NSW

Explore Oregon: Making the most of the outdoors
Oregon wildfire forecast and preview for summer 2024

Explore Oregon: Making the most of the outdoors

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 26:19


In this episode, host Zach Urness talks about the wildfire forecast for the summer of 2024 and the fires burning right now. Urness lays out what type of wildfire season is expected using interviews with fire weather meteorologists, who explain how drought, fuel moisture and El Nino to La Nina weather patterns could impact wildfires across the state this summer. Urness breaks down the hot spots for fire danger, and where active wildfires have already had an impact on summer 2024 in the state.

The FOX News Rundown
Evening Edition: Record Number Of Hurricanes Predicted For This Year

The FOX News Rundown

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 18:22


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting an 'above-normal' hurricane season saying there could be as many as 25 named storms, the most they have ever predicted. NOAA attributes the prediction to a number of factors including warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and La Nina conditions in the Pacific. The expected heavier than normal hurricane season comes at a time when the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is warning the agency could be facing a budget shortfall this year. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Mike Brennan, National Hurricane Center Director, Erik Hooks, Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz about this upcoming hurricane season, the advancements in safety warnings and the need for more funding for disaster relief. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The John Batchelor Show
#OzWatch: Antarctic blast and the arrival of La Nina for another year. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 8:11


#OzWatch:  Antarctic blast and the arrival of La Nina for another year. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.9news.com.au/national/polar-blast-hits-east-coast-bringing-strong-and-gale-force-winds/8ca2f6ca-32e6-4ceb-a863-13b0eaf242ca 1894 Perth, WA

Live Like the World is Dying
S1E115 - This Month in the Apocalypse: April, 2024

Live Like the World is Dying

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 61:16


Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Brooke, Margaret, and Inmn talk about some news from Gaza, the climate, hurricanes, University occupations, Texas' latest attempt to become a mini fief, abortion laws that are older than states, an update on an Arizona gun law, Taylor Swift, and TikTok. Host Info Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Brooke can be found on Twitter or Mastodon @ogemakweBrooke. Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Live Like the World is Dying: This Month in the Apocalypse: April, 2024 **Margaret ** 00:15 Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. Oh, wait. Brooke, you had a better... You wrote us a new jingle to sing, right? Why don't you do that right now?  **Brooke ** 00:26 [Singing] I wrote us to do jingle to sing. Bling, bling, bling, bling, bling, bling, bling. **Margaret ** 00:36 And that's now our jingle forever. that doesn't even include our name in it. That's what happens when...  Right before we hit record, we were like who's going to record the intro. And I was like, I'm going to record the intro because I have an idea. And my idea was to make Brooke come up with something to sing off the top of her head, because I'm a good person. But who's not a good person.... Wait, I'm not introducing the bad stuff yet. More good stuff. Also a host today is Inmn. Hi, Inmn. **Inmn ** 01:06 Hello, hello. I hope everyone is doing as well as they can in our in our great times. **Margaret ** 01:15 Statistically, at least one of you is punched a cop in the last week. So that's pretty cool. And also, we're a proud member of the Channel Zero Network of anarchist podcasts. And here's a jingle from another show on the network. [Singing] This is a new jingle for a show on the network. It goes like this. **Margaret ** 01:46 And we're back. So anything happened in the world this month, Inmn? **Inmn ** 02:22 Nope. Not at all.  **Brooke ** 02:24 Everything was good. Bye, yall!   **Inmn ** 02:26 Absolutely. Absolutely nothing has happened. Only sunshine.  **Margaret ** 02:29 What if we just did updates about like the things that we saw on TV? I guess that's a different kind of podcast. It's the wildest thing. Velma got the Scooby Doo gang together... Anyway.  **Inmn ** 02:43 We do This Month in the Apocalypse, but it's only it's only from the fictional worlds that we spend too much time inhabiting. [Everyone lauging] **Margaret ** 02:52 I conquered the entire world for my god. **Brooke ** 02:56 My child has been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer because she's been curious about this show that was like my formative high school experience **Margaret ** 03:05 Aw, to like connect with you, watching old people shows like Buffy. **Brooke ** 03:09 Right? So that's what's happening in the world right now in my world. Yeah. Wow. **Inmn ** 03:14 You know, every once in a while it lines up though. Because, you know, I was recently watching, as part of my delve back to things I watched in high school, which is the Gilmore Girls, the family that I grew up with on TV. And they actually talk about Palestine quite often in the show. Or like they mentioned that... They mention that that stuff is happening, which lines up politically with like when the show was on the air and there was also a lot of bad stuff happening in Palestine. And but I don't think the show's creators were... They were kind of like adopting a neutral but mostly support Israel thing, which is, you know, it's-- **Margaret ** 04:07 Not our line here. **Inmn ** 04:11 Which is not our line here, but is... How much can you expect from mainstream TV? Like I wasn't surprised to rewatch it and discover this. **Margaret ** 04:24 So what's our Gaza update? **Inmn ** 04:27 Yes, this is my very funny segue into Gaza stuff. **Margaret ** 04:31 No, it's good.  **Inmn ** 04:32 Yeah, so... Which, I mean, there's nothing absolutely nothing funny about this. But so there's like a big... There's like big kind of like ceasefire talks happening right now, which I feel like this is something... You know, obviously people have been wanting there to be ceasefire talks for a long time and they they sort of happen and then Israel's, like, "We're not doing ceasefire talks. Fuck everyone." But they're... In this more recent round, while people kind of like imminently await a ground invasion of Rafah, which like the last little southern piece of Gaza that pretty much everyone who lives in Gaza has been forced into. And Hamas has responded to a call for ceasefire negotiation talks, saying that in order to start negotiations, they need for there to be a ceasefire. And part of part of what they're asking for at this point is like, yeah, we're willing to talk about hostage stuff, because I think they are still like 130 hostages, or something--  **Margaret ** 06:03 Which is sort of--like from a pure detached point of view--like kind of impressive that they've still held on to these hostages, as the entire region falls? **Inmn ** 06:16 Yeah, yeah. And-- **Margaret ** 06:20 Like, tactically impressive. **Inmn ** 06:25 Yeah. And they. So, kind of what they're asking for is like, yeah, we're willing to play ball. We're willing to do... like, we're willing to release hostages. But what we what we need is for Palestinian people to have  basic human rights, and to not get bombed, and for there to be a ceasefire. And what do you think Israel's response to these like, pretty, pretty basic requests were? **Margaret ** 06:56 Did they build a time machine to kill all the peoples'.... No, they probably already did kill all those people's parents. Nevermind. Something really disproportionately, impressively evil. That's my guess. **Inmn ** 07:12 Yeah, well, it's kind of like.... So you know how this thing happens in politics, sometimes, where people kind of talk up a response as being much more internally conflictual than it actually is? The same things kind of happening in Israel were awaiting Netanyahu's response, like all of the like defense, prime ministers and stuff have been like, "If you don't continue with a ground invasion, we're abdicating and your government's going to fall apart." And Netanyahu was has vowed multiple times that regardless of whether negotiations happen, or there is a ceasefire, that a ground invasion of Rafah will happen. So it's kind of like fake strife, like fake internal strife. You know? Cool. And, yeah, that's kind of the state of the ceasefire talks. And something... This is just a piece that I've been trying to learn a little bit more about, which is a topic on a lot of people's mind, which is like, "Jey, Egypt, what's up? Why aren't you letting people into Egypt to escape genocide?" And there's kind of a few different factors at place. And one interesting development on that is that Egypt has started to build a buffered wall zone. Like a border between the border kind of thing. Which is just like a giant concrete pen that can fit about 150,000, people that they're building in anticipation of the border between Rafah and Egypt rupturing during  Israel's ground invasion of Rafah, which they've... which Israel's all but announced is imminently going to happen. And likepart of what Egypt has said about this is they have been saying like, "Oh, well, we don't want to let people cross over into Egypt because we don't want people to then not be allowed back into Palestine when the war is over." It's kind of like this farcical idea that Israel's gonna do a war, take care of Hamas, and then just like peacefully leave Palestinians to like go about their lives. **Margaret ** 09:47 Yeah, I mean, like, it is true that... It certainly seems likely to me that Israel will not let anyone back in after they leave because Israel seems pretty clear that their goal--and has been their goal since 1895. Can I tell you a thing I learned about this? Sorry. **Inmn ** 10:05 Yeah, absolutely, please. **Margaret ** 10:09 I'm not sure when this podcast comes out. I just recently recorded, and it'll be out around the same time, an episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff about Palestinian resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine, basically the period between 1917 and 1948. Well, technically, the Mandate kicked in, in 1922. But after the British control started, right? And in that I learned a little bit more--like maybe a lot of the listeners already know this stuff--but everything that's happening now was in the diaries, and often public statements, of all of the founders of the State of Israel, down to very specifically like, "No, we are going to absolutely remove all of the--" they would never use the word Palestinians. They wouldn't even use the word Arabs. They specifically only said "non Jewish people" when they refer to the people who are already living in Palestine. And it's just really, blatantly clear that since the beginning, the project of Israel has been not just to create an Israeli State--or sorry, a Jewish state--but to remove non Jewish people. **Inmn ** 11:24 Yeah, yeah. And it's--yeah. Which it's like part of that, that makes it really confusing to see Egypt's response-- **Margaret ** 11:35 I mean, I'm sure they're still doing it because they're bastards. But that part about like, oh, well, no one would be allowed back. That's probably true.  **Inmn ** 11:45 But it's probably true regardless. And like Egypt not wanting people to go into Egypt, I think is probably more based on Egypt's fear of being drawn into a military conflict with Israel or, as they've also stated, Hamas kind of like migrating to Egypt and like taking up the fight in Egypt. And so it's... they're kind of adopting a "tread on no one's feet and just kind of not let anyone in" kind of situation, all while saying that it's for the... it's better for Palestinian people to be trapped in the city. You know?  **Margaret ** 12:30 Can I do one other random history interjection about all this because it's on my mind.  **Inmn ** 12:34 Totally.  **Margaret ** 12:36 Okay, so there's this huge revolt in 1936, where all of the--especially the Muslims and the Christians fought--against the Zionist takeover of their land, you know? And, and their main military enemy at this point wasn't the Israeli settler or the Jewish--the zionist settlers--it was the British, right? Because the British were in control. The British used human shields. The British invented the fucking Mad Max car.  **Inmn ** 13:11 Oh my god.  **Margaret ** 13:12 They actually invented it in Ireland where they strap a guy.... They invented it by, you take an Irishman and you strap him to the front of a car and now the other Irish are afraid to fucking shoot the car or blow up the car because they don't want to kill their own guy. And there's photos of this. There is a photo in Palestine of the British in an armored car with like kind of a... It's not like a guy crudely lashed to the front Mad Max style like totally, but it is instead almost worse. It's like they went and manufactured a little cart that sticks in front of the car with two guys tied up on it. Anyway, there's the whole like, every accusation is a confession thing, and I think no government in the world has ever been more guilty of that than Israel. **Inmn ** 14:05 Yeah, yeah. That's very, very true. But yeah, that's kind of the state of things in Gaza right now. And just because I was curious about this, I looked it up and like, for a lot of folks who are raising money for people to, for families, to get elsewhere from from Rafa, it's like those current... It's like that that is something that is possible to happen but it kind of involves...it involves a lot of bribing and involves a lot of waiting for a long time and a lot of just finagling political situations, and it costs anywhere from like 5000 to like $10,000 per person. So it's very expensive, but but it is something that's happening, but it's mostly available to rich people right now. **Margaret ** 15:02 And there's a lot of fundraising going on. And I wish I had a link more directly in front of me. There's people who have collected together spreadsheets where they keep track of all of the families that need to get out, and like what their specific fundraisers are and stuff like that. **Inmn ** 15:17 Yeah. But Margaret, what's kind of been happening with people's responses to stuff going on in Gaza here in the States? **Margaret ** 15:29 So one of the things about the way that we do the show is that there is a lag between when we record things and when we put things out, so don't... So we're not going to like do like the news about the occupation movement that's happening now in the US, we're going to kind of really briefly touch on it. But I'm guessing most of you all are more familiar already what's happening with that than this show, which will be a little bit out of date by the time you hear it. But there is a huge movement across the US, especially this week, as we record, of--maybe even more so in the future, you know, who knows, every social movement goes different directions--of students taking over their universities and demanding that their universities divest from Israel. And it's really shattered a lot of the.... The more pro-Zionist elements of the mainstream media are still touting the like, "And these are anti-semitic protests." But that line is failing more and more on.... Like, people aren't hearing it anymore. People are like, "That's so clearly not true. The people at the front of this are the Jewish Voices for Peace," like, you know? It's like more and more people aren't falling for it. And so there's a big culture war thing that's happening. I got really lucky in that I was scheduled to speak at the New School anyway last week, or something--I lose track of time, all the time--to some students who had read one of my books, and then the occupation had kicked off. So instead, I was sort of invited--like anyone from the occupation was invited to come--and we talked, instead of talking about my book, we talked about the directions that social movements go and how they succeed and fail. And I don't know, maybe we'll do a episode about that at some point. But those movements are fiery and interesting. Anyone who's listening who's part of them, don't let the fucking liberal sell you out, and don't let the fucking authoritarians take you over. And that's what's involved. And don't let the cops divide you into "good protestor, bad protester." Those are the ways that people try to sell you out. And you can not get sold out until you, at the very least, get the demands of divestment. And as we're recording, this is the stuff that might change. As we're recording, I think it's Brown University is starting to enter negotiations about divesting from Israel. Whereas Colombia, where a lot of this started, is promising suspensions. And everyone's like, "You don't understand. Stopping this genocide is more important to us than our stupid--" you know, like, I think people don't get.... And then in the right-wing, and even some of the Liberals, are all like, "I don't get it. This isn't even a war that's happening in the US?" and everyone is like, "Basic fucking empathy? Like what the fuck is wrong with you?" Another kind of protest that happened that I actually only found out recently is that around 50 Google employees were fired because of a non-violent protests that they took against a Google contract, a project called Project Nimbus, which is an AI that has been used by the Israeli government that was developed by Google. Google denies certain parts of their claims around project Nimbus. But the 50 employees are currently suing, I think through the Labor Board, to get their jobs back. And so there's other ways that people are standing up about this. And we've been, of course, seen some other ways all across the US for the past six months and all across the world. **Inmn ** 18:58 Yeah, and just to like shout out this thing real quick because I thought it was really cool. It's this trend of people kind of like...it's like fighting in any possible way they can to do something for people in Palestine. And like outside of university encampments and stuff, it's like finding ways to act in solidarity with those struggles or to just find other little gaps in the armor. But shout out to the bus drivers union in New York City for utterly refusing to transport a bunch of people who were mass arrested at at a demonstration. They're like, "No, no. We're not letting the NYPD commandeer our buses and make us their accomplices," and they just refused to transport people.  **Margaret ** 19:57 I think this is a really important part of why.... Like,  labor organizing fell out of style until--well, about five years ago picked back up again--but overall, there's this idea that like, "Oh, class, reductionism. And like, you know, it's boring. And that's the old way of doing organizing and shit." And there's like some problems with the way that labor organizing has been done, especially in the middle of the 20th century, when they created a bunch of corrupt organizations--that were still better jobs--but, you know, they lacked the fiery interestingness of early 20th century and late 19th century unions. But sorry, who knew I was just gonna talk about history this whole time. But this is the other thing about what unions are, is like in order to.... This is what is involved when we talk about building workers power, like building power among the people who actually have to work for a living versus the people who can make money off of the fact that we work for a living, like having the bus the union be like, "No, we're not transporting prisoners." and they can say that because they have power within their own workplace, even though they don't own their workplace, which is like the next step. That's what you want to build to after you build a union, you know? But anyway, unions. Fucking cool. Y'all ready to talk about climate? **Inmn ** 21:14 God, no.  **Brooke ** 21:16 Never. **Margaret ** 21:16 Well--I know this is the thing I keep coming back to--this is the thing that always slips through the cracks of even radical news because it is easier to wrap our mind around things that feel incredibly direct and present. And that is not to say that these direct and present things don't deserve our attention. They absolutely do. But keeping in mind the climate context that we all live in, I think is important. So I'm gonna tell you some stuff about it. Almost the entire continental US is forecast to have a hotter than usual summer, surprising nobody. The only exception to this is basically North Dakota and some of the like areas that like--nature doesn't really care about our borders-- that might be the same. Everywhere else is expected to be hotter. In particular, the swath cutting across Eastern Oregon and Montana and then cutting all the way down through all of Texas, kind of at an angle, that is the huge swath of the country that is like extra expected to be way hotter. And southern Alaska is the only place in the US on the map that I saw--Hawaii wasn't on this map--where it might be colder than usual. But most of Alaska will still be warmer than usual. The Rocky Mountains are expected to be dry. And the East Coast, especially the South, is expecting a wetter than normal summer. The actual wildfire prediction map for this coming summer is mostly normal--new normal, so bad--but mostly new normal. With the Sierra Nevadas in Southern California, like LA and kind of that surrounding area, are actually less fire likely than normal. And then the more likely fire than normal is Idaho, like southern Idaho into Nevada and Utah. **Brooke ** 23:10 Was gonna say that a lot of Idaho has had a lot of fires a lot of years. **Margaret ** 23:15 But it's like this map is like not totally the map of where you look and expect wildfires, which is not to say there's not gonna be wildfires everywhere. It's just that's the current anticipation. The National Weather Service has put together a heat risk website that does a daily forecast and a weekly forecast that also shows like where people are more at risk for heat problems. And it takes into consideration the wet bulb temperature and access to all kinds of stuff. There's actually a fair amount of adaptation that is happening by scientists and some of our infrastructure to try and figure out how to handle.... Because like some people are taking climate seriously and some of those people have access to weather data and shit, you know? April, as of this recording on the last day of April, was probably the 11th straight month of the hottest of that month on record across the world. Which means that if we pull it off next year, every single month for a year will have been the hottest ever. There is a 55% chance that this year will top 2023 as the hottest year on record. The reason that we might not beat last year--I know everyone's rooting for us but we might not pull it off because the other side will be like "Well they had us in the first half." We're expecting a slightly cooler than normal fall and stuff because of La Nina weather patterns hitting. However, La Nina weather patterns are gonna fuck up a whole bunch other stuff. And okay, I know you all are ready to root for America, number one. so you want to hear something else that we are number one about across the world?  **Brooke ** 24:57 No.  **Margaret ** 24:59 Economic impact of natural disasters. Doesn't that kind of surprise you? **Brooke ** 25:03 What? Say more. **Inmn ** 25:06 I've heard a little bit about this. **Margaret ** 25:09 We are number two in our spending related to per capita wealth, but we're number one in total spending on this kind of stuff. It costs us about point .4% of our gross domestic product every year to take care of natural disasters. This is twice China and four times Canada. And, I mean, it's just because we suck and Capitalism sucks, is the is the reason why this is happening. Home Insurance went up 21% between 2002 and 2023. A ton of people are just going uninsured because they can't afford it anymore. Also, insurers are jacking up prices and/or entirely pulling out of certain areas. And now a lot of countries just kind of say, "Well, we kind of just can't build where there's fires and mudslides all the time." But America is like, "No way. This is our country. You can build wherever you want." And so there's also like fewer building codes and stuff around how to make houses that makes sense in your area in terms of disaster and climate and things like that. So that's something we're really good at, is spending money that we shouldn't have had to spend. There's been a whole bunch in the past couple months. In April there's been a whole bunch of tornadoes that have moved through Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and north Texas. However, we are currently lower than normal by a little bit on tornadoes. However, they've been a little bit more deadly than normal, I believe. And overall, this is expected to be a fairly more active than usual tornado season coming up. So if you're in the Great Plains and the tornado lands, which is of course, as I think we've talked about before, the tornado belt is like slowly moving east because of climate change. Speaking of the American South, it is facing some of the most rapid sea rise in the world. We, once again America is number one--I don't know if we're number one. We're actually not number one. But we're doing... We're doing pretty good. We have twice the worldwide average in sea level rise. Isn't that? Anyway... **Inmn ** 27:15 Which means that there's going to be a lot new beachfront property. **Margaret ** 27:22 I mean, a lot of the old, a lot the old beachfront property has gone away. Or rather, people are like struggling to hold on to it. A lot of places across the American south have already gotten four, six, or eight inches of sea level rise since 2010. The highest is Galveston, Texas with 8.4 inches. And the results of this, of course, are wetlands are drowning, which leaves areas more vulnerable to storms. We'll talk about the hurricane season in a second. Septic systems are backing up and contaminating waterways. Insurance companies are just dipping out entirely. And roads are now below high tide in plenty of places. People are periodically cut off. Why don't we hear about this more? Well, because the people who are affected are Black. That's why. Environmental racism is a real thing. A lot of these areas have had specific redlining policies in place, or used to be in place, or whatever. The economic landscape is such that people of color, and especially Black people, are living in the flattest areas that are the lowest to sea level and in the most risk, and it is largely poor places that people have already not cared about because this is where a lot of like pollution happens, you know? Other fun news... The kind of thing that like.... I feel like every week there's something that should have been big enough news for us to entirely overthrow the world order, but a whole bunch of-- **Brooke ** 28:51 I'm concerned about what you call fun, Margaret. **Margaret ** 28:54 You take it where you can find it, ya know? Okay, so I'll explain my idea of fun. The very beginning of the movie Gladiator, right? I don't give a shit about the rest of the movie Gladiator. But there's this is one scene where the Roman army, who are somehow the good guys in this situation (they're not the good guys), they're attacking the Goths. And obviously, the Goths are good because they're goths.  **Inmn ** 29:20 Yeah, we love that.  **Margaret ** 29:20 And at one point, the barbarians come out of the woods and they're like holding the Roman messenger's head and then they all grab their axes and run screaming into the Roman army. and to their own death-- **Inmn ** 29:34 Which is how no army ever fought ever.  **Margaret ** 29:36 Yeah, I know. It's also not a very good way to fight, specifically, the Roman army. nd at least in the movie Gladiator, they all die horribly. There's a certain honesty to that. There's a certain honesty to just being like, "This isn't about winning or losing. This is about like, 'Can we fucking do this?"" But we can't because we don't have.... We're not in a revolution and individual actions don't.... This is the sketchiest thing I've ever said on the show. So anyway, a slew of documents came out, showing that oil companies in their private correspondence are like, "We're not going to bother meeting any of the Paris agreements. Why would we do that? There's nothing in it for us. We don't care." And they're just ignoring it in their private correspondence, while of course, they're all publicly like, "Oh, we're so committed to it." And it's just like, and the.... You know, and this isn't like weird conspiracy stuff. The Democrats introduced this in Congress, you know? And it's just like one of these things where it's just like, well the oil companies shouldn't be allowed to exist anymore. That seems fucking obvious, right? Anyway, I don't have a better tactical idea. And that didn't work in Gladiator. So I don't recommend it. Flash floods killed at least 169 people in Kenya in April. About 150,000 people in the country have been displaced by the rains. More than half of the country is facing intense flooding right now. Dubai got two years' worth of rain in one day at the end of April. It was 10 inches in 24 hours, the heaviest it's had in the past 75 years. The more center and center-right media is like, "Oh, it's because they're doing cloud seeding. They reap what they sowed." But the Washington Post article I read about this was like, "It wasn't fucking cloud seeding. It was fucking climate change." And that makes sense to me. Hurricanes. I promise you hurricanes. Colorado State University researchers are predicting a very active hurricane season this year. They're guessing there will be 24 named storms. And the way that we like named storms is that there's like 21 letters of the alphabet that we use. I don't know why it's 21 and not 26. I didn't bother looking it up. And then they're like, "Oh, fuck, we're out of things. And then they like do other shit, you know? Because when they first started naming hurricanes and tropical storms, they didn't really imagine that there would be more than 21 of them in a year. But now this is the third or fourth year. There's been like three years in the past couple of years where they've run out of names. And this one, they're expecting probably 24. They're guessing--again, this is all forecasting and this is not certain--that starting June 1st with hurricane season they're guessing it'll be about eleven hurricanes with five of them being major because the accumulated cyclone energy in the...mother of storms--it probably is a science name, but Mother of storms is cooler--is twice normal. And this is bad. It's like only a little bit worse than the new normal. So it's like bad, and the new normal is bad,  but what I'm not saying is "2024 year is gonna be the worst ever, and we're all gonna fucking die in hurricanes. And everyone needs to leave New Orleans." is not what I'm saying. Although, maybe? But it's just the new bad and a little worse than usual, a little incremental. **Brooke ** 33:05 Maybe they need to give those four-five sidelines letters a chance at being part of the naming process and then-- **Margaret ** 33:14 What five letters is it? I bet it's like X-- **Brooke ** 33:17 Yeah, and Z. Give X a chance. **Margaret ** 33:21 What about Xereses? Does that start with and X? **Brooke ** 33:24 There we go. Zeus.  **Margaret ** 33:26 Well, Xerxes is probably not in the Roman alphabet anyway. We can transliterate things however we want. **Inmn ** 33:36 It's kind of like the emergence of the new category six, the theoretical--we talked about it earlier this year--but the theoretical category six hurricane, which we might see this year.  **Margaret ** 33:48 Cool.  **Inmn ** 33:52 New albums about to drop! **Brooke ** 33:58 But Taylor Switft already put out a new album. What are you talking about? Oh, that's my news clip for the month. That's all I need to share. **Margaret ** 34:05 Oh, yeah. **Brooke ** 34:06 Taylor Swift put out a new album. **Inmn ** 34:08 I wonder... I wonder how many of our listeners are Swifties?  **Margaret ** 34:14 I bet a good amount.  **Inmn ** 34:15 Yeah, not a condemnation. Just a curiosity. **Margaret ** 34:18 I think about a quarter of my friends really like Taylor Swift. But the thing that I have said on Twitter that has been the most controversial and the thing that has most people thinking I'm a liar is when I said I cannot name a Taylor Swift song and would not be able to pick her out of a lineup.  **Brooke ** 34:35 What?  **Margaret ** 34:36 People think I'm lying. I'm not lying.  **Brooke ** 34:38 I think you're lying.  **Margaret ** 34:40 I'm not lying.  **Inmn ** 34:41 I do not think Margaret is lying. [Laughing]  **Margaret ** 34:44 If you put three 30 year old blonde, white singers in front of me, it would be a...I'd have a 33% chance of fucking picking Taylor Swift. Now, I'm certain I've heard some Taylor Swift songs, but I would not know they're Taylor Swift songs. And this is not like.... I'm not even saying this as a a point of pride. I mean, okay a little bit because I'm a fucking contrarian asshole, but that's not something I'm proud of. I'm not proud of my own pride about this. **Brooke ** 35:13 This is now going to be a Taylor Swift episode. Goodbye to the news. Hello to me singing Taylor Swift songs to Margaret. **Margaret ** 35:21 But then do like one of them that's not a Taylor Swift song in the middle and see if I can tell you which one it is.  **Margaret ** 35:26 Totally. Yeah.  **Margaret ** 35:29 [singing] "Where have all the flowers gone." That one's not her. **Inmn ** 35:33 That is not Taylor Swift. [Brooke singing unknow (presumably) Taylor Swift song in the background]  **Margaret ** 35:37 Wait, we don't want to get sued. And I don't want to hear Taylor Swift. Oh my God, no, I actually am a bad person. There's nothing inherently good or bad about being interested in pop culture. Alright. But speaking of hurricanes, the East Atlantic's warmth is three months ahead of schedule for the average of the past four years. Not for the old average but for the new average. The East Atlantic's warmth is, on April 2nd it was as warm as July 2nd is on the average. And then there's one other piece of bad news. But then I have positive news. Or, then I have like neutral news. The one other piece of bad news is that, as of this recording, King Charles III has not died of cancer. [Disappointed grons] I also wouldn't be able to pick him out of a lineup. That's not... I don't know if that one's true.  **Brooke ** 36:37 70 year old white man. Yeah, no. Yeah, probably not. At least not if he's in normal clothes. **Inmn ** 36:43 Um, well. Yeah, I absolutely believe all of that. Weirdly in.... I'm gonna say a controversial-- **Margaret ** 36:51 I thought you didn't believe me about Taylor Swift.said you believedno, I, I  **Inmn ** 36:53 What? Margaret I believe you. **Margaret ** 36:56 Oh, that's right. It was Brooke that didn't believe me.  **Brooke ** 36:58 Inmn trusts you about everything. **Inmn ** 37:00 I feel like I'm one of the few people that just very much knows this to be true in a real way. **Margaret ** 37:09 That's true. Inmn has seen me live in an off grid cabin in the middle of the woods. **Inmn ** 37:17 But, so, like, Arizona... I'm going to talk a little bit about Arizona. Arizona weirdly has been like, like we just had one of our wetter springs ever. And cooler springs. To the point where, there's like a big outdoor thing that happens in the last week of March every year, and we were scrambling to find new places...like an indoor venue for it because it was raining and we were all like, "When the fuck has it ever rained at the end of March?"  **Margaret ** 37:49 Yeah, you're supposed to only get rain in the monsoon season in like what, Fall or something? **Inmn ** 37:56 It's in like July-August. And then like, we do have a winter rainy season. It's just hit or miss. But March? March is weird. Like it rained like four times in a week in March. And I was like, "What's going on?" And like, just because it was a big outdoor performance was the only reason I was like that asshole who's like "Why the fuck is it raining in this desert?" you know? [Everyone laughing] **Margaret ** 38:24 "I moved here for one reason: I hate water." **Inmn ** 38:27 Yeah. But I have some other updates from Arizona. Shout out to.... Shout out to Logan, who is a bud who always texts me like weird, really in-depth updates about headlines that we touch on and then is like, "Inmn, the story is so much bigger than you thought it was!" And I'm like--  **Margaret ** 38:48 That's cool.   **Inmn ** 38:49 Please keep sending me these updates. So on a previous This Month, we talked about this expansion of kind of like Castle Doctrine in Arizona, which is like aimed at like, you can defend your...you can like essentially shoot and kill people without repercussions for trespassing, not only into your house, but on your property. And Logan was telling me that.... So the reason that this law was being pursued--you know, there's speculation about it being very anti-migrant--and it was actually in response to this criminal case where George Alan Kelly, who lives just north of Nogales, encountered some people crossing over his land, right near and along the Border, and he, suspecting them of being migrants, just held up an AK-47 and started shooting at them from 100 yards away. And he killed one of them. He killed Cuen-Buetimea, who was a 48 year old man who lived in Nogales. And some of the people in the group, who were then witnesses in the trial, attested to just, you know, crossing for work. And the person who was killed has two adult daughters who live in Nogales. And they were trying to pass this law ahead of the trial so that George Allen Kelly would not be accountable to wildly shooting a gun into the air and killing someone. But George Allen Kelly was...there was a mistrial due to jurors not being able to come to a unanimous decision. And it does not appear, as of right now, that prosecutors are going to try to refile charges. So yeah. Some other stuff going on in Arizona is.... So this is kind of like good news, bad news. And it's gonna start with some bad news. On April 9th, the Arizona Supreme Court made a ruling upholding an 1864 law that declares a near-total ban on all abortions, carrying a two to five year prison sentence for doctors who perform abortions except to preserve the life of the person giving birth. And yeah, so this is like from.... Prior to this, Arizona was a 15 week abortion ban. And currently, as we wait, we're like still waiting for this law to go into effect in like June, I think. But, so in June there will be a near-total ban on abortion in Arizona. But the Arizona House just passed a bill that would repeal this law from 1864. And this is a law that was passed before Arizona was a state. **Margaret ** 42:15 Yeah, that was like the first thing, when someone was like.... I didn't reshare this when I first came across it because I was like, "Arizona didn't exist. This is..." Because it's always like people come up with this horrible thing that's happening. And about half the time it's true and half the time it's not. Yeah, I totally didn't believe this one at first, because I was like, "There wasn't a state called Arizona. There was a territory and they had their territorial laws." **Inmn ** 42:16 Yeah. And the Arizona Supreme Court has somehow upheld this law. But the House just passed a bill to repeal it. And we're recording this on Tuesday. As of April 30th, tomorrow, Wednesday May 1st, the Senate is expected to pass the bill that would repeal this 1864 law. **Margaret ** 43:09 Didn't even Trump come out against that law? **Inmn ** 43:13 I don't know. **Margaret ** 43:14 I think I watched a video of Trump kind of being like, "Maybe that one wasn't the move."  **Inmn ** 43:21 That would be wild.  **Margaret ** 43:23 Because that one I think, was bad enough that I think that there's  bipartisan anger at it. **Inmn ** 43:31 Yeah. Which is kind of how.... That's like how stuff has progressed in the House and the Senate is like it... It required bipartisan agreement in the House. And it will require like two Republican senators to get on board for the Senate vote, which there are two that are expected to vote for the bill that would repeal the ban.  **Margaret ** 43:54 They're just trying to not get up put up against the wall. Anyway, Margaret's in a weird mood today. **Inmn ** 44:01 Yeah, and, you know, one last kind of bad world thing--bad politics--in the realm of some Republican-led states really trying to be their own little mini fiefs and like testing state-federal stress test, whatever shenanigans. So, Title IX regulations were just updated. And they were updated.... They were amended to include specifically protections against discrimination based on sexual-orientation and gender identity. Whereas previously, it was just based on being a woman, essentially. And for folks who don't know, Title IX regulations are for educational institutions that receive federal funding, they have to abide by certain regulations in order to receive that funding, which is, you know, most public schools. And big surprise, guess which three states? Florida, Tennessee, and Texas are all essentially either instructing their education systems to not listen to, to not uphold the regulations, or just straight out suing the Department of Education over it. And the rallying cry around that is, big surprise, sports and trans athletes. Surprisingly, the new Title IX regulations say absolutely nothing about sports. So it's like they're rallying around something that the new regulations have not even codified. **Margaret ** 45:55 I mean, literally, the only time that these people pay attention to women's sports is when they're worried about trans women existing. So it doesn't surprise me that, you know. **Inmn ** 46:08 Yeah. But Margaret, you have some maybe good things to tell us? **Margaret ** 46:15 I got neutral stuff first. TikTok has been officially... The law passed that TikTok is now--not immediately--banned in the United States. TikTok has been.... Its parent company, which is based in Beijing, has nine months to sell it. And so by any realistic standard, it'll be about a year before TikTok would do any disappearing. And then of course, obviously you can ban software. But that's not a easy thing to enforce. It would get taken down off of like the Google Play Store and the Apple Store and stuff like that, but people who had it still would have it. And then it would get buggier and buggier or in shittier and shittier as updates are unable to go out, unless people use VPNs to get from another country, etc, etc. **Margaret ** 47:02 There's ways around it? What? [Sarcastically] **Margaret ** 47:06 I know. It's also completely possible that since every one involved is a capitalist, they're probably like, "Alright, well, we'll sell the fucking thing. Like, who cares?" You know? That's like my guess. I don't know, I could be wrong about that. I would be surprised if TikTok ends up going away because of this. However, the actual thing that I think ties into this is there is a bipartisan bill that people are working on, called Kids Off Social Media Act, which wants to say that kids under 13 should not be on social media, and pass all kinds of like things about how like algorithms can't focus on anyone 17 and under. And just like lots of like, "social media is bad for kids." And now I think social media is probably bad for everyone. However, to me....  I haven't given us a lot of thought. It seems like a basic free speech issue. And also, like, old people fighting the future and screaming at clouds kind of moment. And the idea of banning TikTok, I'm like.... Okay, I'm not accelerationist. I don't think things should get worse before they get better. But the idea of some fucking 80 year old liches in Congress being like, "I don't like the tocks ticking around like that." And then like, it's like, incredibly popular. I think about half of Americans have a TikTok account. Like, telling half of Americans they can't do a thing sounds like a way to get people really mad. And I know I get really excited by the idea of like.... They have their bipartisan tyranny, and there's this idea that maybe one day we'll get over this fucking culture war and we can fight back in the class war that is waged against us. And like, if TikTok is the thing that brings it, I'm fear for it. I'm too old for TikTok. I have an account. I don't know how to use it. I've never uploaded a video. TikTok doesn't need me. But like, whatever anyway. But actually, I'm kind of curious, not having a child, Me--I'm the one without a child--Brooke, do you have thoughts on this no social media for the kids thing? Like am I...am I totally off base? Is it just protecting.... Like, I don't know. What's up?  **Brooke ** 49:28 I mean I get where they're coming from with it, and all the research that's shown how negative social media is for--I mean, they've done particular studies for kids and how it affects them--but turns out it's actually bad for all human beings, the way social media has come for us and the atmosphere is it creates. So, I get where they're coming from with it. As a very involved parent, you know, my solution is always to pay attention to and engage with your children, which is not a reasonable thing for all people to have as much engagement as it would take really to have healthy social media interactions. But then, you know, the anarchist side of me says, "No, you don't get to ban things ever." **Margaret ** 50:18 Well and also like, I don't know, a lot of people are rumbling about how TikTok is why a new generation of people supports Palestine and doesn't buy into the myths about the Zionist project being a thing that represents all Jews, for example, right? And then anti-capitalism is spreading and being pro capitalism is 100% bipartisan for the ghouls who feed off of the youth and somehow live too long. This is the most ageist shit I'm ever going to say. Some people are capable of performing their jobs well into their later years and gain wisdom. The people who run this country are nightmare men.  **Brooke ** 51:00 I feel like it's, you know, the same kind of things they've said about all new technologies that have come out over the last,, you know, whatever, 30 years. **Margaret ** 51:09 And like the only person who said this stuff, and was right, was a little man who had some bad strategic and ethical ideas, but wrote that "industrial society and its future have been a disaster for the human race." At least be consistent. **Inmn ** 51:31 I was researching this for another episode once, and I didn't end up talking about it because it was hard to learn too much about, but some of the lawmakers have specifically cited youth information spreading about Palestine as a reason for the TikTok ban. It's like a specifically listed reason from lawmakers. And the other thing about the Kids Online Safety, whatever it's called, is it's heralded as a way to protect children from pornography and from the proliferation of child pornography, which is the thing that lawmakers say all the time, and pretty much all these human rights organizations who are, you know, much more aptly trying to protect children from shit are like, "This is most asinine bullshit we've ever heard this. This bill is utterly absurd." And it has other implications, which are that it's trying to herald in this idea that you could no longer be like anonymous on the internet, and that the government has a lot more to...has a lot more agency to track your goings on on the internet. So it would.... It's like the bill would require you to essentially show a driver's license in order to engage with a lot of things on the internet, which I think is just trying to...I think it's capitalists' attempt to really make a thing like the internet something that is like more of a interacting with the government process and less a whatever the internet is, you know.  **Margaret ** 53:24 That makes sense to me. and yeah,  **Inmn ** 53:26 And it kind of falls in line with the our futuristic hellscape of like the "One app," for example. Like, you gotta scan your fucking fingerprint to log into Instagram or do anything on the internet. **Margaret ** 53:43 It's funny because sometimes they use a VPN just as a basic practice and sometimes I use a VPN that's set in Europe. And when you browse the internet as a European, every site you go to is like, "Hey, do you want us to track you?" And you're like, "No." And it's like, "Okay, fine." Because the EU has some good internet laws, you know? About restricting the tyranny part of it instead of the like.... Whatever. Okay, I'm gonna do my vaguely positive news at the end. Y'all ready? **Inmn ** 54:18 Yeah, what's good?  **Margaret ** 54:21 People are sleeping more than average than before. **Inmn ** 54:25 Yay. I'm not. But good for them. **Margaret ** 54:28 25 minutes more on average for the same people--not like the same individuals, right. Because how often you sleep is dependent on how old you are and also very heavily dependent about whether you have children. But people are sleeping about 25 minutes more on average than they were in 2002. And the best guess is that it started picking up a lot recently because of remote work and a lower percentage of people commuting. The biggest cool thing, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, has banned non-compete agreements. 30 million people have been freed from non-compete clauses. **Brooke ** 55:07 Oh, nice. **Margaret ** 55:11 The EPA is banning most use of methyl chloride, which is a paint stripper that has killed like 88 people or something in the past couple of years and it's just bad. The EPA is actually, for the first time in a while, starting to get like...they're trying to stop forever chemicals. And there's like some shit that they're actually trying to do, right? They also--do you want to guess when asbestos was finally banned in the United States? **Margaret ** 55:39 It was late. It was like the 90s. **Inmn ** 55:41 Was it last week? **Margaret ** 55:45 March 2024.  **Brooke ** 55:47 Oh, shit. **Inmn ** 55:50 I was right, sort of. **Margaret ** 55:52 Yeah, Inmn was closest. There's about six types of asbestos and one of them had been sort of.... Enough people, enough industries had been like, "But we want to use it." And so for the past 33 years, this particular type, people have been trying to ban. Because the 90s is an accurate assessment of when I think most of the others got--I don't know, I'm making that part of it up--all I know is that for 33 years, they've been trying to ban this fucking asbestos and they finally succeeded in March of this year. Also, the FDA did an emergency approval of pre-exposure prophylaxis for COVID called Pemivibart, which is a dumb name because it rhymes with farts. And nothing should rhyme with fart if it's a drug. And it is for the immunocompromised. So you would take this before, you know, if you're going into a situation where you're worried about getting COVID. And it's an emergency approval like the original vaccines were so it's not through all of testing, but it's important enough that they feel like it's safe enough. Also, recently passed phase three trials is a vaccine to pretend prevent UTIs, or urinary tract infections, which is the kind of thing that I never would have occurred to me you could run it against because it's usually, I believe, bacterial infections. But it's a really common problem. And that's cool if we can fucking solve it. **Brooke ** 57:22 And some people are super prone to them just based on, you know, bodily health or genetics or whatever. Like it's a thing. They have ongoing, chronic UTI kind of thing. So fuck yeah. **Margaret ** 57:37 It's kind of like when they finally got an HPV vaccine through and it was just like, oh my god, this is actually pretty fucking game changing, you know? I wish they would give it to fucking assigned male people. But yeah. **Brooke ** 57:47 And then conservative Christian types that were like, "Oh, we don't think that our children should have to have this vaccine."  **Inmn ** 57:54 Any kind of person can get the HPV vaccine. **Margaret ** 57:57 Oh, interesting. Good to know. **Inmn ** 58:00 Yeah, it's a different vaccine, I think. But anybodied person can get it.  **Margaret ** 58:07 That's good to know. And hopefully, next time, we'll have different news about King Charles III and cancer. But who knows? But that's This Month in the Apocalypse, which you have now listened to, or participated in if you are named Brooke or Inmn or Margaret. Unless your named Brooke, Inmn, or Margaret and you're not on the podcast, in which case you didn't participate in it. You just heard it. And then probably have a different kind of parasocial relationship with us if you share our names, especially if you're Inmn. Like, there's not a ton of you. And like, Inmn's pretty cool. So do you have like a different.... 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#OzWatch: "Unprecedented" eve of five EL Nino or La Nina turbulent systems consecutively. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 7:11


#OzWatch: "Unprecedented" eve of five EL Nino or La Nina turbulent systems consecutively.  Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-on-the-brink-of-an-unprecedented-weather-moment-061453650.html 1943 Australian rules football in Darwin

The John Batchelor Show
#OzWatch: Monsoon blankets the Northern Territory and La Nina approaches. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2024 10:12


#OzWatch: Monsoon blankets the Northern Territory and La Nina approaches with harsh expectations.  Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/twin-cyclone-threat-for-australia-this-weekend/1853555 1873 Explorer's Camp