North American temperatures break the 80's

 Using the Gulf of Maine as our big anal thermometer, we have broken the chart.

The 80's were horrendously cold for me.  We had just bought a new, but very old, house, and the pipes were freezing.  Toronto was regularly hitting 30 below.  That all stopped in the 90's.

Greenland is starting to get white again.  We need a full charge/discharge cycle to freeze Texas, and I don't see it.  However, I see this stagnant pattern hanging around.

This stagnation goes against the 'infinite energy' of the Polar Vortex.  They will have to invent some sort of stagnant PV.

ps with no definition of 'cold', they are trying to convince us that it was a warm winter.

Stagnation

 It means no major weather energy coming through, and we are in an air quality alert, in Toronto.

It was the best of times, the most boring of times.  The Arctic is deflating.  It is funny that the weather people are saying there are more huge cold blobs coming down on us.  No physics - no clue.

It shows their great flexibility as they bend over backwards.  At the beginning of the season, it was 'warmest ever'.  Then came the 'Eternal Polar Vortex'.  

I am saying there will no more excitement from Mr. PV.  

We may even be having another mini heating event, although I can't see it on anything else.  The total heat energy of a heating event is defined by the area underneath the curve.  This new one already looks like it is hooking down again.  

Good physics with aluminum

 

I never see good physics with these 'science porn' sites.  Nearly everything suffers from scaling.  But this one seems good.  Rare earth metals are everywhere.  You keep reading about new sites, and how great they are, but this is useless.

The nasty buggers are nearly impossible to process and get into a useful form.  That's because their very usefulness results from a very aggressive charge structure.  Try putting that in your pocket!

For a reaction, nobody cares about the stuff inside, it's all the surface.  They now claim to have a structure of aluminum that is as sizzly as the sizzliest rare metal.  If I were trymp, I would treat this discovery like the mrna discovery for the covid vaccine.  Get it out there, and compensate later.  Lots of labs sit on this stuff for rights, etc.

If it is as reactive as they say, then it scales well.  Mass production could solve all these rare earth problems without killing all the miners and processors.  I am excited.

ps note the irony, as he hates the covid vaccine.