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Yes, and Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should be. Still no sunspots. The few that showed up faded and now we have had more spotless days. Less energy is coming in. Scientists say that we are entering a period of low solar energy that could last thirty years. We were in a period of high solar energy from the 1950s until the last cycle ended in 2012. They don't see any glaciation recurring but it will be cooler and wetter in all cycles. Get those attics insulated and if you are building, put a lot of insulation in the walls. The past five years were a low energy cycle and the next layer of the atmosphere up is colder now that ever measured before. So tell the global warming folks to stuff it. Today someone showed me a NASA page that mentioned a change in the sun's orbit. I have to read up on that one. The drought in California is most likely caused by the loss of the Brazilian Rain Forest to coffee growers. --71.104.xx.xxx

I am still trying to figure out how there can be millions of acres of fires in CA every year and they never run out of forest to catch fire. I realize that the heat from the fires causes seeds to open and new growth begins but trees don't grow that fast. --73.120.xx.xxx

But that's one of the reasons why everyone is crammed so much into densely populated pockets, rather than spreading out a little more evenly through all their space... because California only "owns" about half of its territory; has limited amounts of non-desert/mountain land to build on anyways; and they have very firm ideas about land development and management on top of it all. --137.118.xx.xxx

Global warming is a reality where remember the winters around the sixties and seventies were more severe along with more snow where a few days there was massive snow. Now those days rarely happen along with there is less snow as the temperature goes above 0 Celsius more often. When in the winter driving 50 Kilometers south cross the snow line where as the temperature was above freezing there is no snow. Slowly putting more insulation in the house where getting rid of fiberglass insulation which has mold then spray foaming along with chalking the joints where there a perfect air seal along with installing a reflective bubble wrap before installing new drywall. In the eighties energy efficiency was not a priority where the solution was install a larger furnace. Going to spray foam the attic where all the fiberglass insulation will be taken out. Have a thermal camera where see the difference spray foam makes as there are no cold spots. Eventually if the price of electric cars come down then electric cars will be become main stream. In the city some routes are using electric buses which have no internal combustion engine. --147.194.xxx.xx

Robert in Canada, and where do people think the electricity for the cars is coming from? Dirty oil generation? Nuclear which is dirty later for a thousand years? Instead of tiny emissions spread out, electric cars bring ruination of a larger scale in a localized area. --71.104.xx.xxx

I think that after all the glitches with 2020, this is the Almighty’s version of unplugging the earth and plugging it back in again to see if it will work better after a reset. --68.118.xxx.xx

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But, I agree that Mother Nature will somehow figure out how to control human over population. Something will be coming in the future. --76.178.xx.xx

While electric cars are not completely environmentally friendly. Electric cars will be more common in ten years when more auto manufactures will produce. VW is focused on producing electric cars. Around the world electric buses are becoming more common. The grid will have to upgraded to DC high voltage transmission line where power from solar and wind can be transferred over large distances. It is expensive but possible to build or convert a house to net zero which does not require to be connected to the grid or gas line. There are no coal fired or oil fired generating stations in Ontario where they use gas turbine for the peaks. If houses had a storage system then during peaks gas turbine power stations would not be required. In Europe most of railways lines are electrified where passenger and freight use mostly electric locomotives. Take any building where over time it is possible to reduce energy consumption. Over the last twenty years reduced the amount of natural gas the house is using along with reduced the amount of natural gas the apartment buildings uses. Direct fired hot water tanks lose 7 to 12 degrees per hour as heat goes up the chimney. Indirect hot water tanks have a loss of less then one degree per hour. Where demand hot water heaters have no loss. --147.194.xxx.xx

Robert,Ontario , If the houses are sealed that air tight are they not going to develop moisture problems inside the walls? Don't houses need to breath? --73.120.xx.xxx

Robert, Ontario, when they are fixing the grid remind them of the Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun back in the 1800s that knocked out power all over and made the telegraph keys get hot and burned down some telegraph offices. And that time that the power was off in Canada and NE US for hours or days. They happen regularly but most of the time the earth is turned away thankfully. We could use a good one though as it has a lot of ultraviolet light with it to kill the c o v i d. I saw a report last night that the Far UV light is being used more now to kill virus etc. in hospitals. --71.104.xx.xxx

Robert ON, you strike me as a very intelligent man, but my god your posts are so hard to read/follow! They almost read like 1 long run on sentence. I’m not saying this to be an a$$, its just I have to read your posts 2 and 3 times to complete comprehend what you’re saying. --73.17.xxx.xxx

Showed a photo of the sunwith and without activity-- very strange look. --99.103.xxx.xxx

I started putting plastic film on my windows again. Had to turn the heat on this morning as it was 66 in here. Normal daytime temps for this date should be 75 degrees and it was 65 on my thermometer in the carport shade yesterday. --71.104.xx.xxx

That's YOU JKJ, not Robert ON. No wonder you have a problem with my posts. I use three syllable words also. --71.104.xx.xxx

Another interesting thought, I was discussing with a 9 year old, she stated that fire needs air to burn. And I agreed. Then she said that space has no air, so how does the sun fire keep burning? --193.27.xx.xxx

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