| David Chapman via gmail.com | 3:46 PM (46 minutes ago) |  | |
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Jack…
Best of the season and for the New Year. Thanks for the card. I was struck by it saying humans on Mars. Right now we can’t even get humans from one city to the next in these storms. Welcome to Global Warming. Yes seems strange but not really. Cold air normally trapped in the North because of warming now escapes and goes south and lambasts us in huge snow storms and bizarre temperature changes including freezing weather.
David
| Jack Waldbewohner <ohomen171@gmail.com> | 4:28 PM (3 minutes ago) | | |
| to David, bcc: Elena, bcc: Artemis, bcc: Barbara, bcc: Marianna, bcc: Chris | |||
Dear David:
It is ironic. Some of these jurisdictions hit -39F with wind chill (Des Moines). That kind of wild cold plays hell with power grids. Texas is worst of all. The Republican fascists took control of the power grid and did disastrous deregulation. In a big storm a couple of years ago hundreds of people died in Texas. The Republican fascists swore that they improved the grid. Already some outer fringes are failing in this cold. My smart Texas friends have done what I did here in Pacifica. They have bought natural gas-powered Generac generators that kick in when the grid fails. Natural gas keeps going when the power grid goes down. You have your experiences with cold in Canada. Before the money got bad, I hung out a lot in Bariloche in Patagonia. In the dead of winter temperatures can drop to -25 F. Locals tell me that natural gas never fails.
Darwin is misquoted as saying it is “The survival of the fittest.” I think that he meant that is: “The survival of the most adaptable.”
Do not worry about rockets to Mars. They have launch sites not getting hit by frigid temperatures that often.
With kindest regards,
-JackW
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