Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected. ... Among the most influential planet-shaping forces is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an immense Atlantic Ocean current system that acts as a planetary conveyor belt. It brings balmy water northward from the tropics to Europe, then cycles the cooled water back south along the seafloor.
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress. read more
Paramount's owners were planning to have secured firm control of Hollywood rival Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of this week. A federal judge's ruling Monday in response to a major antitrust lawsuit filed by a dozen states has ground the process to a halt.
More voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey found.
Between 2007 and 2024, Florida attempted to rebuild the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem in an unusual way: dumping over 500,000 tons of recycled oyster and clam shells straight back into the water. These shells were gathered from seafood restaurants (quite literally scraped off of plates) as well as seafood plants. So essentially, a massive amount of sinking, rotting garbage was supposedly going to bring the struggling sandy seafloors back to life.
@#7 ... a fringe (often "underground") appeal ...
Maybe take a peek at WFMU ...
WFMU
en.wikipedia.org
... WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, independent community radio station licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free-form radio format. ...
I receive the station over-the-air here.
Yeah, "free-form" is a proper appellation for the station.
My guess is that they also have a streaming link ...
@#1 ... AMOC ...
More on AMOC ... (and, no, this is not AOC in Congress...)
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
en.wikipedia.org
... The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.[1]:2238
It is a major component of Earth's ocean circulation system and plays an important role in the planet's climate system.
The AMOC includes Atlantic currents at the surface and at great depths that are driven by changes in weather, temperature and salinity.
Those currents comprise half of the global thermohaline circulation that includes the flow of major ocean currents, the other half being the Southern Ocean overturning circulation.[2]
The AMOC is composed of a northward flow of warm, more saline water in the Atlantic's upper layers and a southward, return flow of cold, less salty, deep water. Warm water from the south is more saline ('halocline') because of the higher evaporation rate in the tropical zone. The warm saline water forms the upper layer of the ocean ('thermocline'), but when this layer cools down, the density of the salty water increases, making it sink into the deep.
This is an important part of the motor of the AMOC system. The limbs are linked by regions of overturning in the Nordic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Overturning sites are associated with intense exchanges of heat, dissolved oxygen, carbon and other nutrients, and very important for the ocean's ecosystems and its function as a carbon sink.[3][4]
Changes in the strength of the AMOC can affect multiple elements of the climate system.[1]:2238 ...
... Upon its release, "Like a Rolling Stone" quickly stood out given its unusually long length of 6:13. In those days, songs played on the radio were usually around three minutes long, as the New York Times noted in 2004. ...
Yeah, back in the day when "Like a Rolling Stone" was released, most radios were AM only.
Car radios were not required to receive FM until the 1970's.
When Did FM Radio First Become Available in Cars?
earthrepairradio.com
Was there ever such a AM/FM mandate for non-vehicle radios, i.e., those in homes?
I cannot find one.
There was the non-duplication rule, though ...
FM Non-Duplication Rule
en.wikipedia.org
... The FM Non-Duplication Rule was adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1, 1964, after a year's consideration.
It limited holders of FM licenses in cities of more than 100,000 who also held AM licenses to simulcasting no more than 50 percent of their AM signal on the FM station.
The commissioners considered the excessive simulcasting wasteful and an impediment to the development of FM broadcasting.
A year later, the FCC reaffirmed the rule, and, after a delay requested by broadcasters, set its effective date for October 1965; some stations were granted exemptions if they could demonstrate their simulcasting served the public good. ...
As I was growing up, we always had an AM/FM radio in the house. I remember listening to WABC in NYC on their FM channel, 95.5.
That non-duplication rule, though, gave rise to FM stations that would broadcast songs longer than the three minute limit of the AM stations.
Can you say WNEW-FM (102.7)? I knew you could.
Pres Trump to Americans ...
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby (1987)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Happy nightmare, baby
Happy nightmare, baby
Cause you're mine, all mine
We're gonna go for a ride
Gonna go for a ride
Down in the city tonight
Gonna be my baby
Will you be my baby?
Tonight, tonight
Our love is gone
Our love is gone
Into the night, into the night
Close your eyes, come along with me
Down into the bottom of the sea
Happy nightmare, baby
Happy nightmare, baby
Cause you're mine, all mine
...
Related ...
Palm Beach County rejects huge AI data center near Trump's Mar-a-Lago after resident backlash
www.yahoo.com
... "Not only is this AI Data Center a threat to the health, well-being, and safety of the hardworking, tax-paying residents of Palm Beach County and their families and children, it becomes a more extreme problem due to the fact that it will be constructed within 1,200 feet of Saddle View Elementary School and the preexisting Arden community and neighborhood," opposition organizers wrote on the NoToProjectTango.com website. ...[emphasis mine]
Meanwhile, towns and cities across the country are pausing or outright banning data center developments. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order earlier this week imposing the nation's first statewide moratorium on large-scale data centers.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, slammed the move, saying, "New York State has made a terrible decision."
"Data Centers are tremendous WINS for the States and Communities that are lucky enough to get them. New York should change its Policy, IMMEDIATELY," wrote the president, who called data centers "Money Machines." ...
Related ...
'Not compatible': Palm Beach County rejects controversial Project Tango AI data center
www.wlrn.org
... Following months of mounting tension, Palm Beach County commissioners voted to deny a controversial expansion for Project Tango, officially blocking plans for a massive hyperscale data center near Loxahatchee's Arden neighborhood.
The final decision came after a high-stakes, marathon 12-hour hearing that drew massive crowds -- requiring overflow rooms to accommodate the public -- and drew intense responses that forced officers to escort a few residents out of the Robert Weisman Governmental Center.
The decisive 5-1 vote, with Commissioner Maria Marino as the lone yes vote, effectively halts the proposed 3.6-million-square-foot hyperscale artificial intelligence data center campus slated for the western part of the county. ...
Current path seems to point the storm westward along the Gulf Coast and towards Texas.