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That brings back memories....
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bob_G reacted to a post in a topic: What ever happened to winter in Mass??
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What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
And so the climate change debate started..... -
unskunk reacted to a post in a topic: What ever happened to winter in Mass??
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What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
The Chinese government has "almost complete" control over most. They do have their favored persons who would never say the wrong thing. Those are allowed to travel and allowed to bring certain levels of money outside of China. -
What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
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What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
I read an article about that last week. A great deal of the funding is coming from (drum-roll)......The UN! -
What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
"Group A" are the families of corrupt politicians or successful business people (who are paying the corrupt politicians) "Group B" are mostly spies (With C you get egg-roll and fried rice) -
What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
That was then. Today there are very many wealthy Chinese. I know of many that are here on "investment visa's". They buy a $2 million house in Lexington (or Weston, Wellesley, etc.) and they get fast tracked to getting a green card. Many send their kids to to private schools. The wife and kids are here while the husband makes 7 figures in China.... While what Richard said about "rural China" is mostly true, banning coal fired electricity plants world wide will not change that one iota. The poorer people in China don't have electricity so they are not going to freeze to death without it. Again, what is being done about it? Why is The USA shouldering the burden of lowing the worlds carbon footprint while others don't help? -
What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
Richard, you can hardly call China "poor"! My wife's family is still in China and they consider us here in the USA "poor" by comparison. My wife's niece and her family came to visit us just before COVID and they thought American cities are dirty compared to Chinese cities. Here we have garbage and and drug dealers and crime and homeless people. There they have very little crime, clean, well maintained streets and except for the air quality, they seem to believe that everything is "better". They may or may not be correct and that can be mostly subjective but none of that changes the fact that China's (China alone) greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired electric plants negate virtually 100% of our reduction efforts. How is that right? Better, what is being done about it? -
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jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
I find this from CNN: China approved equivalent of two new coal plants a week in 2022, report finds By Jessie Yeung, CNN 3 minute read Published 2:57 AM EST, Mon February 27, 2023 And this the day after: China approved record number of coal plants in 2022 John Vause talks with David Sandalow, director of the U.S.-China program at Columbia Univ.'s Ctr. on Global Energy Policy 04:59 - Source: CNN My point is that if people were "reading a newspaper" (made of paper), they would find this content "way in the back". It isn't just CNN, it is all of them. There is "approved content" and then the stuff most Americans are unaware of and they want to keep it that way. I read very many new sources, especially this time of year and I still only have time for a good chunk of the "Top Stories". This sort of content should be led with, at least the day it comes out.... -
What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
I agree! That is why it is 100% imperative to stop all clear cutting of forests, burning of forests, reclaiming the Amazon Basin, building coal fired electric plants, etc... None of that is happening and all the (very expensive) efforts we are applying make little sense if the big issues are not being addresses. The last report I read is that we are still losing 2%/year of the Amazon. China is CURRENTLY constructing over 15,000 coal fired electric generating plants, with plans to build thousands more after that. China is also currently strip mining huge swaths of many African countries for gold and rare earth minerals. I spoke with a doctor from Nigeria last light who told me that anyone who gets in their way (objects) "disappears". The Chinese companies pay the politicians a percentage of the goods and the politicians hire local criminals to "put down" any objections. If they are caught, they say they can't tell who hired them or their whole families would be killed. They get 3-4 months of jail and they are out to do more dirty work (murder and intimidation). This is like the game of "Tug of War" and every nation is on the same team. If the weight is very heavy (and it is) and 1/2 the teams are either sitting down or working against the team, then what is the point? Where is the media on this? -
What ever happened to winter in Mass??
jason colby replied to codfish's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
This is more like it! No denying "something" is going on but I was telling someone here that in the late 1960's I recall going out many days in tee shirts with temps in the 60's and 70's. Those winters were followed by winters with 4 feet of snow so the "trend" would be to say the warming is more expected. However, watching water temps (surface) in Boston Harbor and Rhode Island Sound for many decades I find that the surface temps typically equalize at what you would expect for May 1st and August 1st in a year 20 years ago. More, to get mahi in August/September while targeting cod on Coxes Ledge I'm looking for temps over 70F and two years ago (and last year) I found them but three years ago I didn't. That was the pattern I expected 30 years ago..... There is a lot of give/take with the data and a great deal of the sea temperature stats contradict what you might otherwise expect.... -
Massachusetts Striped Bass Association Expo.
jason colby replied to saxon59's topic in Massachusetts Fishing
They have not had the show in 5 years now. I had to change my booth/seminar/show appearances to RISAA-Providence which is 12 days away. As a "local alternative", I also did the Standish Sportsman's Show in East Bridgewater two weeks ago but that had much more of a hunting slant as opposed to The Mass Bass Expo. I suspect COVID got them started on not doing the show and complacency keeps them from starting it up again. It takes a lot of work and cooperation to get volunteers to help out and that is a huge undertaking all on it's own. I really do miss that show too.... -
K Foley reacted to a post in a topic: American Classic
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There was not so much a collapse but rather a very steady decline which "coincidentally" corresponded to the increases in commercial limits. In the words of Mike Armstrong, deputy director of The Ma. DMF: (2006) "We are only cranking up the limits to what they were in the past". When I asked how those limits worked out the last time he didn't answer.... In addition, the draggers in several states started targeting them in earnest while they were wintering off Virgina and North Carolina, leaving the surface of the water covered with hundreds of thousands of dead discards for weeks at a time.
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Damn groundhog!