Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/24/2024 2:21 PM, -hh wrote:

Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:


<https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>



-hh

We did not get to go to ice fields up that way. The tour company
substituted a very nice local trip with lunch. Otherwise all went off as scheduled. We had a great time. The train trip was the highlight. If you
go choose the Gold level.

Glad to hear that you’re safe & relatively unaffected.

We had found Jasper to be a cute town; seems apparently that the main drag
has been wiped out, which is a loss. Ice fields up that way were okay…didn’t leave a huge impression on us, since we’ve been to a few others
prior…”ice is ice” to a certain degree :-)

For trains, was on one today (two, actually) to go to visit an Edgar Degas special exhibit. Learned that with one exception, all of his bronzes were
made posthumously, as they were his private working pieces made only for developing his own paintings in his studio.

-hh

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On 2024-07-28 17:02, Tom Elam wrote:

On 7/24/2024 2:22 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-24 11:21, -hh wrote:

Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:


<https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>

Based on his political leanings, I'm sure Tom doesn't believe in
global warming.

:-)

Global warming has been going on for a very long time. The data are irrefutable.

Love the careful phrasing there...

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On 2024-07-29 10:28, -hh wrote:

Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/24/2024 2:21 PM, -hh wrote:

Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:


<https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>



-hh

We did not get to go to ice fields up that way. The tour company
substituted a very nice local trip with lunch. Otherwise all went off as
scheduled. We had a great time. The train trip was the highlight. If you
go choose the Gold level.

Glad to hear that you’re safe & relatively unaffected.

We had found Jasper to be a cute town; seems apparently that the main drag has been wiped out, which is a loss. Ice fields up that way were okay…didn’t leave a huge impression on us, since we’ve been to a few others
prior…”ice is ice” to a certain degree :-)

Yeah.. ...our Dad took us to see most of the sights from Jasper down to
Banff, and the ice fields were kind of cool...

...once.

For trains, was on one today (two, actually) to go to visit an Edgar Degas special exhibit. Learned that with one exception, all of his bronzes were made posthumously, as they were his private working pieces made only for developing his own paintings in his studio.

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On 2024-07-29 19:42, Tom Elam wrote:

On 7/29/2024 4:41 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-28 17:02, Tom Elam wrote:

On 7/24/2024 2:22 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-24 11:21, -hh wrote:

Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:


<https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>

Based on his political leanings, I'm sure Tom doesn't believe in
global warming.

:-)

Global warming has been going on for a very long time. The data are
irrefutable.

Love the careful phrasing there...

Nothing careful, empirical data going back hundreds of millions of years
show that climate warms after cold ice ages. In the past natural events
like the Siberian Traps have had warming effects far more severe than
the current recovery from the last ice ages. OTOH "Snowball Earth" +-600
ma also had a devastating effect on life. The earth warmed and life recovered.

There is absolutely no doubt that atmospheric composition plays a role
in climate.

More careful phrasing.

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Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2024-07-29 19:42, Tom Elam wrote:

On 7/29/2024 4:41 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-28 17:02, Tom Elam wrote:

On 7/24/2024 2:22 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-24 11:21, -hh wrote:

Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:


<https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>

Based on his political leanings, I'm sure Tom doesn't believe in
global warming.

:-)

Global warming has been going on for a very long time. The data are
irrefutable.

Love the careful phrasing there...

Nothing careful, empirical data going back hundreds of millions of years
show that climate warms after cold ice ages. In the past natural events
like the Siberian Traps have had warming effects far more severe than
the current recovery from the last ice ages. OTOH "Snowball Earth" +-600
ma also had a devastating effect on life. The earth warmed and life
recovered.

There is absolutely no doubt that atmospheric composition plays a role
in climate.

More careful phrasing.

Indeed. There’s carefully nothing in there to note what role is played by changes in the rate of change.

A lot of this is like the automotive mantra of “speed kills” .. it’s not the speed per se, but the sudden stop at the end = rate of change.

-hh

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Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> wrote at 00:06 this Monday (GMT):

On 7/24/2024 2:21 PM, -hh wrote:

Looks like Tom's trip might have some disruptions:


<https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-jasper-national-park-evacuation-167dcc0e03984672584f9770799c2fb8>



-hh

We did not get to go to ice fields up that way. The tour company
substituted a very nice local trip with lunch. Otherwise all went off as scheduled. We had a great time. The train trip was the highlight. If you
go choose the Gold level.

Stay safe!
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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