Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I am waiting on the release of the '24s to trade trucks.
I've actually never owned a V8. I've had all 6 cylinders and 1 four banger (couldn't pull a greasy string out of a cat's ass).
It seems the standard engine in the 24 Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger are turbo charged 4 cylinders.
It makes me cringe and give a slanted stank eye, but I am willing to wait and see.
I don't require towing capacity. I need hauling/climbing power and it being able to move up and down the road.

In other words, I have never nor will ever haul a goose neck trailer, but I will load a truck with a literal half ton of stuff and need to go somewhere.

 

People used to read.

 

The current Ford Ranger (the T6) has always had a turbo 4, going back to its Australian origins. The new one is getting a couple of twin-turbo V6 mills, the smaller of which is in nearly every current Bronco and the larger of which is only in the Raptor version.

 

I want a 4x4 Tacoma, 6-cylinder, extended cab with as big a bed as I can get. I wish they still had lock-out hubs like the ‘91 Tacoma I had.

 

According to released specs, Toyota's new 2.4L turbo 4 is supposed to have much more horsepower than my 2011 4.0L V6.
We'll see.

 

Yesterday was the hottest day in the history of the world

Monday was hottest day for global average temperature on record, as climate crisis bites

 

The world being 140 years old, of course,

 

Well, that's definitely not true in any way. That's not even semantics.

The web hed gets the terminology correct.

 

In the "history" as in the extensively instrumentally documented history. Lots of shit happened before "history" began.

We can certainly estimate from numerous sources of evidence that temperatures had to be much hotter at various other times in the past, but we didn't have live instrumentation making the measurements in real time.

 

We are now officially in an El Niño year, which has well-documented global effects. One of them is a step-down in Atlantic hurricane activity, which is good. Another appears to be warmer global temperatures in the summer, which is worrisome but transitory.

A personal observance is that an El Niño winter tends to be wetter but not necessarily colder or warmer. If it happens to be colder in the South, you'll get a shitload of snow like in 1977 but the effect is temperature-independent.

 

Anything that steps down the hurricane season and brings a shitload of snow - which equals snow days from work - is good with me.

 

Yup ... perfectly explains why some put a set of testicles on the trailer hitch of those vehicles. It's solely because "they just like big vehicles."