65F in the East Bay.   No big fires like in Canada yet.  We all get just enough 
relief so we can keep putting it out of mind.

On Aug 2, 2023, at 2:25 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:


On 8/2/23 2:55 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I just noticed it was overshoot day, and just after the hottest July ever 
recorded.    Yay!


I'll be mixing up a nice ice-cold (luke warm?) cocktail of shame with just a 
splash of Cassandrafruede (reminiscent of Absinthe?) at sundown today 
(spectacular when orange-tinted from the wildfire smoke and dust blown from 
drought-denuded areas)... While I pop the ice-cubes from the tray I'll remember 
the recent factoid from someone (McKibben?) that the annual carbon budget of 
most people in the third world is roughly that of an American's refrigerator 
with an Ice-Maker or a Brit's electric Kettle for twice-daily tea.  If I had AC 
I'd turn it down to it's coldest setting to spite my neighbor by belching 
superheated air into their AC air handler intakes... but alas I only have adobe 
walls and brick floors and lots of windows to absorb night-time coolth...   no 
fun in that!  <ahhh... the lingering aftertaste of Cassandrafruede!>

The wycked hot here in NM finally broke somewhat for us yesterday with an hour 
of rain like the "good ole days" when every afternoon had a rainstorm starting 
in July to cool off the second half of the summer.   The crew down in the 
Bosque building a pumping station to move the water pumped from the Colorado 
Basin to the Rio Grande (San Juan to Chama) is busy belching diesel exhaust 
plumes and  throwing adobe-bricklets from their tires when they pull out on the 
highway to become ad-hoc speed control bumps for the Los Alamos commuters 
usually roar by at 80 in the 55mph "safety zone" morning and night.

All the world is a circle?  Or is it a donut?  I think maybe I'm channeling 
Terry Pratchett?

Cheers!

https://www.overshootday.org/



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