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Climate Change(d)?

In addition to adding to climate change, it appears we are driving an insect extinction.

"We are pushing many ecosystems beyond recovery, resulting in insect extinctions.

• Causes are habitat loss, pollution, invasives, climate change, and overexploitation.

• We lose biomass, diversity, unique histories, functions, and interaction networks.

• Insect declines lead to loss of essential, irreplaceable services to humanity.

• Action to save insect species is urgent, for both ecosystems and human survival."

 
The airport pavement is why the temperature is higher! Meanwhile, humidity (2025 article)?

While humidity increases aren't as much a thing west of the Rockies, the East is seeing more and more of it. The worst part of humidity is when the temperature drops to 70 degrees in a break of the 90+ degree heat that is becoming more common in the midwest, but the dew point makes it muggy. If I wanted to live in forever muggy, I could have moved to the SE or Dallas.
 
Bees are pretty important, TSwizzle. You'd know that if you had any education.
 
Tswizzle whenever he can't fathom how some changes lead to other changes:

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France heat wave is getting historic.
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It warned that temperatures could exceed 40C in many places on Sunday, with some areas facing rises to 42C or beyond from Monday. The national heat index, an average of day- and night-time highs at 30 weather stations nationwide, is expected to hit its highest ever level, the forecasters added.
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El Nino is looking to be strong this year. How strong is yet to be determined. But scientists have been raising alarm bells early.
 
WEjen I moved to te area arund 1990 air coditing was uncommon.

There is wrk beg done on laws that allow resdnets to jntal porable air conditiners in windows.

AI Overview Just about 53% of Seattle-area homes have some form of air conditioning as of recent census and American Housing Survey tracking. Historically notorious for lacking air conditioning, the Puget Sound region has seen massive adoption over the last decade due to increasing summer temperatures and wildfire smoke.Seattle AC Adoption by YearExact historical percentages compiled from U.S. Census Bureau and American Housing Survey data:
1990s: ~15%
2013: 31%
2015: 33.7%
2019: 44.3%
2021: 53%
Present: Estimated 52% to 55% as adoption plateaus or rises slowly through modern heat pumps in new construction.
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WE are on the west side of the mountains, on the eastern side worse,.

Fire seasons are startling earlier and ending later.
 
Years back when bee colony coll[apse was first getting attention I listened to Hannity on FOX mock a government funded study to find the cause.

Utterly ignorant of the importance of both wild and commercial bees.

AI Overview
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon where the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear, leaving behind the queen, brood, and honey. While the exact single trigger remains unknown, scientists attribute massive hive losses to a combination of factors, including the parasitic Varroa mite, emerging viruses, pesticide exposure, and poor nutrition.
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AI Overview
Wild bees are vital to global ecosystems and agriculture. They are responsible for pollinating roughly one-third of the food we eat. Acting as hyper-efficient pollinators, they frequently outperform managed honeybees in boosting crop yields and sustaining the reproduction of native plant communities.
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www.fws.gov

Pollinators benefit agriculture | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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There are approximately 4,000 species of native wild bees in the United States that contribute to agricultural pollination. Several other animals like birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, and beetles also help pollinate crops. In return, agricultural crops provide food to meet daily energy needs, shelter, and other resources for pollinators. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the economic value of the relationship of pollinators and global crops is more than $235 billion a year. It is estimated that as much as 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. That’s one out of every three bites of food we consume.

Pollinator health is of great importance to the well-being of U.S. agriculture, food security, and the nation’s overall economy. Insect pollination services add more than $34 billion in economic value to U.S. agricultural crops annually and provide diverse diets for humans including fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Honey bees, although not native to the U.S., are responsible for up to $5.4 billion in agricultural productivity. Native pollinator insects like bumble bees, butterflies, moths, and ants also play a vital role in pollination across the country.
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Apparently Tswizzle never leaned about the birds and the bees.

Then there are the roles ants and worms play. The large scale loss of insects will probably have an effect eventuality.

AI Overview
While there isn't a single species officially declared extinct on this specific date, scientists warn that we are currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction event largely driven by human activity, whih disproportionately affects insects
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We in the USA are living in a fantasy reality.
 
steve_bank said:
Years back when bee colony coll[apse was first getting attention I listened to Hannity on FOX mock a government funded study to find the cause.

Utterly ignorant of the importance of both wild and commercial bees.

AI Overview
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon where the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear, leaving behind the queen, brood, and honey. While the exact single trigger remains unknown, scientists attribute massive hive losses to a combination of factors, including the parasitic Varroa mite, emerging viruses, pesticide exposure, and poor nutrition.
Click to expand...

AI Overview
Wild bees are vital to global ecosystems and agriculture. They are responsible for pollinating roughly one-third of the food we eat. Acting as hyper-efficient pollinators, they frequently outperform managed honeybees in boosting crop yields and sustaining the reproduction of native plant communities.
Click to expand...


www.fws.gov

Pollinators benefit agriculture | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

www.fws.gov www.fws.gov

There are approximately 4,000 species of native wild bees in the United States that contribute to agricultural pollination. Several other animals like birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, and beetles also help pollinate crops. In return, agricultural crops provide food to meet daily energy needs, shelter, and other resources for pollinators. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the economic value of the relationship of pollinators and global crops is more than $235 billion a year. It is estimated that as much as 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. That’s one out of every three bites of food we consume.

Pollinator health is of great importance to the well-being of U.S. agriculture, food security, and the nation’s overall economy. Insect pollination services add more than $34 billion in economic value to U.S. agricultural crops annually and provide diverse diets for humans including fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Honey bees, although not native to the U.S., are responsible for up to $5.4 billion in agricultural productivity. Native pollinator insects like bumble bees, butterflies, moths, and ants also play a vital role in pollination across the country.
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Apparently Tswizzle never leaned about the birds and the bees.

Then there are the roles ants and worms play. The large scale loss of insects will probably have an effect eventuality.

AI Overview
While there isn't a single species officially declared extinct on this specific date, scientists warn that we are currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction event largely driven by human activity, whih disproportionately affects insects
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We in the USA are living in a fantasy reality.
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Yeah that's way too advanced for TSwizzle.
 
Europe is now suffering from high heat.

Maybe this is the beginning.

And our crackpot president wants more oil and no wind or solar.

And thee scents of profit is driving mega server farms for AI consuming large amounts of water and electrolytic.

Doesn't seem like anything will change the trajectory. We will keep going until it all starts to breakdown.
 
steve_bank said:
Europe is now suffering from high heat.
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It's all just part of the natural variability!

(Crickets from Tswizzle as to how this could be part of the natural variability).
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/...e_code=1.tlA.YDOT.OTKivoywNHjS&smid=url-share

Why Europe Is the Fastest-Warming Continent​

The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions warm most rapidly.
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Western Europe’s second record-shattering heat wave in a month aligns with a grim trend: For the past three decades, Europe has been warming faster than any other continent.

Average temperatures there have climbed by roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit, or 0.56 degrees Celsius, per decade since the mid-1990s, more than double the pace of warming worldwide, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service.

Emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from human activity are driving the planet’s long-term increase in temperatures, which is helping hot spells reach ever-greater extremes of severity and duration.

But local factors determine how all that excess heat is distributed around the world, and why temperatures are rising faster in some places than others.
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Read the entire article is you're interested. It's a shared one. And, btw, why is it going to be 101 F in New Jersey where my sister lives, next week, but just 94 in Central Georgia, which is pretty normal in Georgia for July. Don't tell me that we haven't fucked up the planet! Not that we realized what we were doing until several decades ago, but it does seem as if we're reaching the point of no return, which always makes me wonder why smart people are having children. What type of a habitat are we leaving the kids? Oh well. Humans have a very long history of destroying their own habitats along with the animals that are needed for food, pollination etc.
 
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