Enviro Engineer

@NMarbletoe @Colorado_N8tive @WxNB_ We aren't just ignoring what came before, we're building fucking golf courses on it. Growing alfalfa shipped across an entire ocean on it. We laugh in the face of it with our hubris. We have the tech and tools to survive it, but the greed and shortsightedness to force a crisis.

@NMarbletoe @Colorado_N8tive @WxNB_ Hohokam, ancient pueblo, who knows how many others. One could suggest their existence and failure means we shouldn't matter, the earths cycles will come and go. I tend to lean into it means we'd be fools to exacerbate those cycles, but even more importantly, not to be proactive

Before this heatwave, Phoenix, AZ had never recorded three consecutive days at 105°F (40.6°C) or above in March — The previous record was obliterated by more than 40 days. This is deeply shocking.

@patbhamilton @Colorado_N8tive @WxNB_ And now we can add the mass migration of a few billion humans into the chaos mix

@EnviroEngine @Colorado_N8tive @WxNB_ Indeed, looking at past climate change isn't comforting. The rate of global heating now exceeds anything seen over the period of human civilisations/ recorded history. x.com/i/status/20369…

@ShineForever1K @guy1guy21 @idontgetball 3 years huh?

@guy1guy21 @idontgetball The stretch five is relatively very new to the basketball world. I’m sure if we give it 3-8 years we will see another center reach these numbers. It’s more impressive that amongst all the all-time guards that the NBA has had Russ was able to climb so high in such short time

no fucking way Russ is gonna get chain snatched this easily???? are you fr ?

@simon_culling @WxNB_ Might have a point if all the surrounding rural areas didn't set their own records.

@WxNB_ The station used for Phoenix records is the International Airport (I believe) which is in the centre of the built up area. Would it not be the case that the increasing urban heat effect of a rapidly growing city might be a large contributor to this?

@Colorado_N8tive @WxNB_ Yeah it did, and it wiped out a civilization. Not sure why that's comforting.

@WxNB_ I’m not shocked by the weather anymore. Recorded history is a tiny record of human life on the planet. I suspect phoenix before it was ever called phoenix has seen this exact thing before.

@Iheartelon @shagbark_hick It's absolutely insane that the refineries that are making billions per year are on city water.

@shagbark_hick You are correct that well managed municipalities are limiting residential use pretty well. And then there are the ones that are not so well managed: texastribune.org/2026/03/08/tex… But the general view is industry means jobs, growth and prosperity and only the environmentalists hate that

I hear a lot of different things about water in the American Southwest. Some seem to say it's an apocalypse, everyone is going to die, it's gonna be Mad Max out there, etc. Others seem to laugh that off completely, ignore it, deny it, not worry at all. Who's right?

@Politics_Reply @JimCantore If it goes below true deadpool then, yeah, basically. Will only be putting out whatever's coming in minus powell evaporation

@EnviroEngine @JimCantore Does that mean they basically shut off the grand canyon?

Ramifications could be significant.

@Sarkiniem1 @hispanicnomad @ValkoinenPoro This entire interaction is beautiful and amazing and I love you all.

@hispanicnomad @ValkoinenPoro This is from a sketch. Guy buys a coffee and pays with a 1000€ bill, gets something like 50cents back. Guy goes like "It was a 1000€ bill" Cashier just stares at him without saying anything. And the guy just sits drinking his coffee while they stare at each other.

Finland consistently ranks as one of the happiest countries in the world I call bullshit Look, I've been to 60+ countries. Some of them quite rough around the edges And I have never seen as many frowny faces per square meter as in Helsinki Genuinely, deeply, almost proudly sad faces Here's what those happiness surveys actually measure: ✅ Low corruption ✅ Functioning institutions ✅ Physical safety ✅ Trust in government But man, that's not happiness. It just the absence of certain problems There's a difference between a life with no obvious disasters and a life that feels worth living I've sat in cramped buses in "poor" countries and watched people laugh until they cried over nothing I've shared meals with families who had almost nothing and felt more warmth in one hour than in a week walking around a Nordic capital The Finns have a word (sisu) that gets romanticized as grit and resilience It also describes a population that learned to endure rather than enjoy Finland has excellent infrastructure and the facial expressions of a country waiting for a delayed flight

@ArkansasWester1 @LisamarieH5ywb @TimelessTrvlr Your confidence in making an ass of yourself is almost admirable. That looks to be a drone shot of Mt Garfield from about 28 and North. Right in the middle of Grand Junction. Garfield would be looking northwest and you would see the other side of it from Palisade.

@LisamarieH5ywb @TimelessTrvlr That is palisade and you are wrong

Grand Junction, Colorado is where you get red rock canyons, vineyard afternoons, and wide open skies.....without the Denver price tag or the Colorado frenzy.

@metroadlib Same logic applies. They're voting for dumb. For someone who thinks like them. Add that to those voting on single issues like 'immigrants' or 'abortion' and somehow they managed to find themselves a critical mass

they're voting their beliefs. and, like it or not, there's symmetry there; there's logic in that thought process. no....what I cannot get over....what I cannot work out in my mind despite *every* valiant effort....is backing a fucking dummy...for the highest office in the land.

I stare in disbelief every. single. day. watching the president during these pressers. every. single. day. you know what it is? I can set aside the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, christofascist patriarchal white nationalism-- if ppl wanna vote for that, fine--

@theliamnissan Assumes a whole lot about season and prevailing winds at the time

You'll wanna be in the white zones folks

@CoyoteGulch @KyleClark There's only sunshine and it's gone... Snowpacks toast and melted away... Ain't no snowpack oh it's gone, and the southwest ain't got too long, if there's no snow that's here to stay...

This is a graph of #snowpack above #LakePowell using 104 snow measuring stations. It was 9 inches of water on March 7, now 6 inches. Other dry years shown.There is no historical analog to this -- Brad Udall #ColoradoRiver #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/03/26/thi…

@skertkit @uranoutofluck @elia_mafhh He's a generalizing dipshit and an unwitting slave to his own selection bias

@uranoutofluck @elia_mafhh There is an argument. She assumes you can derive it a priori or analytically by first principles or something. The argument is based clearly on experience. And he is correct.

I love that she speaks softly the entire time, but remains in control of the conversation.

I placed $1.5 billion in futures at 6:50 AM. Fourteen minutes before President Trump's Truth Social post. That's generous. Usually, I get five. The S&P was barely breathing. Premarket Monday. The kind of quiet where a single order echoes through the entire book. I bought $1.5 billion in futures. The index moved 0.3% on my entry alone. That's how thin the market was. That's how empty the room was. At the same time, I shorted $192 million in crude oil. Then I sat there. Three screens. One coffee. The futures blinking green on the left, the oil contract bleeding red on the right, and in the center, a Truth Social feed set to refresh every four seconds. Fourteen minutes is a long time when you know what's coming. Not because I was nervous. Because I was early. At 7:04 AM, the president posted. Productive discussions. Five-day halt on strikes. Peace talks with Iran. S&P jumped 2.5%. Oil cratered 6%. My position gained $60 million before most Americans' alarm clocks went off. Good morning. Iran later denied that the talks ever happened. Called it fake news. The speaker of their parliament accused the president of manipulating financial markets. The talks might not be real. The sixty million dollars is. The analytics accounts flagged it within the hour. "Unusual activity." "Orders 4-6x larger than anything else trading at the time." That's their word for it. Unusual. My word for it is Tuesday. They always flag it. That's their function. Flagging is not investigating. Flagging is the system's way of noting that it saw something, documenting that it will do nothing, and calling that process oversight. The actual investigation is conducted by the CFTC. The CFTC has one commissioner. Out of five seats. One. The other four chairs are empty. Not vacant. Emptied. There is a difference. Vacant means nobody applied. Emptied means somebody decided the body responsible for policing futures markets should not have enough members to hold a vote. That's not negligence. That's architecture. You know what we call this pattern on the desk? TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. Escalate on Friday, capitulate on Monday, and extract in the window between the decision and the post. It's so reliable, we named it. We have a private Slack channel. #taco-tuesday. It updates automatically when Truth Social pushes a new geopolitical keyword. We don't teach it as insider trading. We teach it as a market structure. New analysts learn it in their first week. By the second week, they stop flinching. The phone rang at 6:47 AM. Three minutes before I entered the position. The call lasted ninety seconds. Ninety seconds of context. $60 million of outcome. You call that insider trading. I understand why. Insider trading is the word you learned. It's the crime from the movies. The whispered merger at a cocktail party. Four hundred shares of a mid-cap pharmaceutical. That gets prosecuted. That's the version of this crime the system was built to catch. What I do is different. I place $1.5 billion against a war decision made in a room I have the phone number to. On a platform overseen by a commission with one member. In a market where the president's social media account is the most powerful price-setting mechanism on earth. That's not insider trading. That's infrastructure. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your brother-in-law. I made $60 million trading on a war. The difference is not the crime. The difference is the decimal point. Americans paid for this war with four-dollar gas and sixteen billion in taxes. I paid for a phone call. We are not in the same economy. Last month, $529 million was wagered on Polymarket's Iran strikes market. Six accounts pocketed $1.2 million. Deposited funds the same day. Hours before the bombs fell. One account cleared $553,000 at 17% odds, seventy-one minutes before public confirmation. He has not placed another bet since. The president's son sits on Polymarket's advisory board. Two federal investigations into the platform were quietly dropped this year. Twelve government officials sold stocks in the weeks before the tariff crash. All of them reported the sales after the deadline. Nobody calls any of that insider trading. They call it prediction markets. Delayed disclosures. Portfolio rebalancing. I call it the junior varsity version of what I do with futures. An Oxford law professor called it the most far-reaching securities fraud in history. We call it the window. Tomorrow, this will be gone. Buried under a new tariff. A new ultimatum. A new TACO. Next Monday at 6:50 AM, I will be here again. Coffee. Three screens. The phone. The ninety-second call. The fourteen-minute window. The game isn't rigged. Rigged implies something broke. Nothing broke. Every component is functioning exactly as specified. The one-member commission. The anonymous platforms. The four-second refresh on the Truth Social feed. The phone that rings at 6:47. I didn't exploit a flaw in the system. I am the system.

@mwmoedinger Ahh, I see. So laterals come up from floor on 2nd, down from ceiling on 3rd? Less duct means less space for mold and dust to gather and spread too. Whole house are a godsend in Colorado, but I can certainly see how humid environments would make them a no go.

These are just the trunk lines - there would be lateral lines inside the joist bays to reach into the spaces! No, I'm pretty opposed to whole house fans - putting your house into constant negative pressurization, while sucking in humid air [in the climates where I work] is *terrible* for the health of the building.

When laying out ductwork, especially in a renovation, it's imperative that you have an architect, GC, and HVAC sub who *understand the basic physics.* A quick example, below, as well as 10 things you should keep in mind when designing/installing a residential HVAC system 👇👇

@mwmoedinger Seems tough to avoid deadspots and some pretty serious temp striations with no direct flow in the middle two floors. I'd be curious how it actually feels. Seems prime for some in floor radiant and local split cooling. Do you use whole house fans much?

Anyway...here's a thread where I break down 10 things you should keep in mind, when designing/installing residential HVAC systems. Once you understand the fundamentals of the physics, all of this gets a lot easier to understand and work with! x.com/mwmoedinger/st…

@NWeasels @simongerman600 The La Garita of Silverton, CO deserves a nod too. Possibly the most explosive eruption of any documented caldera. volcanohopper.com/2020/04/06/la-…

@simongerman600 Missing two other patches of supervolcano since there's three in the US (Long valley near Mammoth in CA and the Valles caldera north of Albuquerque in NM)

Another great XKCD comic! This time we are treated to a quick geology lesson about the US. The bit on California made me laugh 😉

@jeffhunt Shame.

I order my steak medium well. Today, a restaurant mistakenly brought me a medium-rare steak. Took one bite. What is wrong with people that eat steak like that? Beef bubble gum? I swear that cow was alive 5 minutes before I took a bite. Ain't nothing right about that!!! Just a little bit of pink - best steak!