As always, great job!! Mississippi senior citizen here and I am glad to hear the encouraging remarks about the future of my state. You always exude a sensible, cautious but non alarmist demeanor. Your followers appreciate you and what you do.
@couerleroi1 thank you! This outlook for Mississippi was a pleasant surprise in many ways. I keep finding unexpected things when I comb through the information. For example, this week I've been doing the research for the Missouri outlook. In the projections, they are looking at a bigger increase in days over 105 than Mississippi, and I think they're less likely to be able to handle it.
Thank you so much! Your heart-felt words and attention mean so much to me. I can't wait to send the link for my family to watch! Thank you so much especially your reference to our retired elders ❤. I am relieved, I am so glad the heat forcast isnt as great as Texas (sorry Texas). I really appreciate what you were saying about generators - solar vs batteries - where can we learn more about that kind of stuff? The information about the temperature and plants was so specific. What about for marine life? I know many are migrating...
@RieCherie so glad you found this video useful! For marine life, I do worry about the Gulf. We are getting to the temperatures that kill sea grass- I think it's water temps over 100 wipe out the sea grass- and that's an ecosystem destroying impact. I find it very hard to find reliable information about energy backup systems, because so much of the info is either AI harvested nonsense or designed to get you to buy the thing. I feel I am getting trustworthy information from folks I've connected with via AR on the Discord- we have a few people who frequently discuss and review tech- and on the private Facebook group, "A Way Forward". I think you need to be invited to join the group. If you're active on Facebook you can connect with me there & I'll hook up you.
Posting here as it's your most recent video... I'd be interested in a video reacting to the fallout of Helene. As I understand it, Asheville and western north Carolina were considered relatively safe going into the future, but this hurricane shows the susceptibility of the area to large rainfall patterns, especially from supercharged hurricanes coming off a warmed gulf of mexico/Atlantic. Maybe it's too speculative, I know you present from data, so maybe the right data/models don't exist. Thanks for all the informative videos.
@Krautastic I've been putting together a piece speaking to that today. It'll be out in about a half hour, I'm just compiling it now. How awful it is to see the horror unfolding in southern Appalachia. In my state level outlooks I have highlighted flooding rain as the major resilience challenge for this important region, and I have shown that we are expecting more inland hurricane tracks. But to see THIS inland hurricane track, it was unexpected- we were projecting more inland hurricane tracks over the coastal plain, not cruising straight north and causing dam failure all the way to Tennessee.
@@AmericanResiliency I saw the upload before the comment. Absolutely terrible. I just visited friends there a month ago (they're safe), but flying in I saw how all housing is built in the valleys between hills because the forests and hilltops of the smoky Mountains are protected. So everyone lives in watersheds. What's crazier is seeing climate deniers dig their feet in more when hit upside the head with these events, while I calculate my next hometown.
@@Krautastic I honestly think some people are going to sit there watching tv while the ocean creeps into their house. They'll have rooms they don't go into anymore and more and more things they don't look at and then they won't have anything. Only sane thing to do is respond to what's happening in the world around us.
Don’t many crops stop producing fruit at 95 F? That’s been my experience at least. So whether it’s 100, or 102, or 105 is kinda irrelevant if there’s many more weeks above a temperature that we can produce food.
@wmpx34 you're making a relevant point that I just brushed on towards the end of this video. These are projected conditions where crop transitions will become necessary. There are hot-weather crops that bear alright over 95. I think the work being done by scientists in Uganda on this topic is very important- part of why Uganda is the next international outlook video I'm going to be doing. I want to showcase both Uganda's work in hot-weather ag science, and their climate outlook.
@@AmericanResiliency Hope everyone likes okra then 😂 That’s about all I’ve tried that can withstand 114 F heat index. The challenging thing is that we will continue to get hard freezes here, so truly tropical perennials will continue to be a no-go.
@@wmpx34 it's true, you're looking at both hot and cold limits that keep you to kinda short-season hot weather crops. Okra, amaranth, yam, maybe cassava... looks like millet could become important, there are strains of millet being developed that are bearing alright at that heat index, I've read. The fact that we're unlikely to be able to continue growing current crops under projected 2C conditions in many parts of the US is a gigantically complex problem. Many people think of it from a grower perspective- I'm also inclined to think about it from a table perspective. It's hard to get people to eat unfamiliar foods. Many people have a deep biological aversion to unfamiliar foods.
As always, great job!! Mississippi senior citizen here and I am glad to hear the encouraging remarks about the future of my state. You always exude a sensible, cautious but non alarmist demeanor. Your followers appreciate you and what you do.
@couerleroi1 thank you! This outlook for Mississippi was a pleasant surprise in many ways. I keep finding unexpected things when I comb through the information. For example, this week I've been doing the research for the Missouri outlook. In the projections, they are looking at a bigger increase in days over 105 than Mississippi, and I think they're less likely to be able to handle it.
Thank you so much! Your heart-felt words and attention mean so much to me. I can't wait to send the link for my family to watch! Thank you so much especially your reference to our retired elders ❤. I am relieved, I am so glad the heat forcast isnt as great as Texas (sorry Texas). I really appreciate what you were saying about generators - solar vs batteries - where can we learn more about that kind of stuff?
The information about the temperature and plants was so specific. What about for marine life? I know many are migrating...
@RieCherie so glad you found this video useful!
For marine life, I do worry about the Gulf. We are getting to the temperatures that kill sea grass- I think it's water temps over 100 wipe out the sea grass- and that's an ecosystem destroying impact.
I find it very hard to find reliable information about energy backup systems, because so much of the info is either AI harvested nonsense or designed to get you to buy the thing. I feel I am getting trustworthy information from folks I've connected with via AR on the Discord- we have a few people who frequently discuss and review tech- and on the private Facebook group, "A Way Forward". I think you need to be invited to join the group. If you're active on Facebook you can connect with me there & I'll hook up you.
Posting here as it's your most recent video... I'd be interested in a video reacting to the fallout of Helene. As I understand it, Asheville and western north Carolina were considered relatively safe going into the future, but this hurricane shows the susceptibility of the area to large rainfall patterns, especially from supercharged hurricanes coming off a warmed gulf of mexico/Atlantic. Maybe it's too speculative, I know you present from data, so maybe the right data/models don't exist. Thanks for all the informative videos.
@Krautastic I've been putting together a piece speaking to that today. It'll be out in about a half hour, I'm just compiling it now.
How awful it is to see the horror unfolding in southern Appalachia. In my state level outlooks I have highlighted flooding rain as the major resilience challenge for this important region, and I have shown that we are expecting more inland hurricane tracks. But to see THIS inland hurricane track, it was unexpected- we were projecting more inland hurricane tracks over the coastal plain, not cruising straight north and causing dam failure all the way to Tennessee.
@@AmericanResiliency I saw the upload before the comment. Absolutely terrible. I just visited friends there a month ago (they're safe), but flying in I saw how all housing is built in the valleys between hills because the forests and hilltops of the smoky Mountains are protected. So everyone lives in watersheds. What's crazier is seeing climate deniers dig their feet in more when hit upside the head with these events, while I calculate my next hometown.
@@Krautastic I honestly think some people are going to sit there watching tv while the ocean creeps into their house. They'll have rooms they don't go into anymore and more and more things they don't look at and then they won't have anything. Only sane thing to do is respond to what's happening in the world around us.
Don’t many crops stop producing fruit at 95 F? That’s been my experience at least. So whether it’s 100, or 102, or 105 is kinda irrelevant if there’s many more weeks above a temperature that we can produce food.
@wmpx34 you're making a relevant point that I just brushed on towards the end of this video. These are projected conditions where crop transitions will become necessary. There are hot-weather crops that bear alright over 95. I think the work being done by scientists in Uganda on this topic is very important- part of why Uganda is the next international outlook video I'm going to be doing. I want to showcase both Uganda's work in hot-weather ag science, and their climate outlook.
@@AmericanResiliency Hope everyone likes okra then 😂 That’s about all I’ve tried that can withstand 114 F heat index. The challenging thing is that we will continue to get hard freezes here, so truly tropical perennials will continue to be a no-go.
@@wmpx34 it's true, you're looking at both hot and cold limits that keep you to kinda short-season hot weather crops. Okra, amaranth, yam, maybe cassava... looks like millet could become important, there are strains of millet being developed that are bearing alright at that heat index, I've read.
The fact that we're unlikely to be able to continue growing current crops under projected 2C conditions in many parts of the US is a gigantically complex problem. Many people think of it from a grower perspective- I'm also inclined to think about it from a table perspective. It's hard to get people to eat unfamiliar foods. Many people have a deep biological aversion to unfamiliar foods.