COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022
Dad signals he may bring girlfriend to guys weekend
I’ve been planning an out-of-
state sports weekend with my
dad and brother. I have been
looking forward to it, because
with three small kids, I have
little time for these kinds of
activities. I got us all tickets and
hotel rooms, but my brother now
has to skip it because of a family
medical issue.
Dad has just hinted he may
bring his girlfriend to take my
brother’s spot, because “she’s
upset and not talking to me
because I didn’t take her to my
brother’s son’s birthday.” I can’t
imagine a more excruciating
weekend.
I told him plainly, “I expected
DEAR ABBY: My father, who
has been a widower for 17 years,
has been dating a woman on and
off for 12 years, a couple years
after my brother and I left for col-
lege. My brother and I have never
cared for her, but we live three
hours away from them in oppo-
site directions now. We fi gure if
he’s happy, then it’s none of our
business. I try not to be rude, but I
simply do not enjoy spending time
with her.
this to be a ‘guys’ weekend.”
But, like always, he was cagey,
and I’m terrifi ed he is going to
show up with his girlfriend. How
can I impress upon him that I
don’t want her to use my broth-
er’s unused ticket because I do
not want to spend the weekend
with her? — BAD SPORT IN
OREGON
DEAR BAD SPORT: Is your
dad unaware of how you feel
about his lady friend? The solu-
tion to your problem would be
to tell your father that while you
are pleased he has found happi-
ness with this woman, you do
not enjoy her company, which is
why he doesn’t see more of you.
While you’re at it, tell him
what it is about her that you
cannot tolerate. Then “remind”
him that her presence would
change the character of the
“guys weekend,” and if he plans
to bring her, he will spend the
weekend alone with her — your
treat — because you, too, will
change your plans.
DEAR ABBY: In seven
months, my 43-year-old son will
be married for the second time.
Because of his fi ancee’s problem
drinking, I am absolutely against
the marriage. I hate the idea of
going to the wedding. Should I
go anyway, and have the most
miserable day of my life? I
doubt that I would be able to
hide my sadness. Or should I
decline, tell my son I wouldn’t
be a good guest to have on his
happy day and wish them “all
the best”? — HESITATING IN
WASHINGTON
DEAR HESITATING: I will
assume that your son is aware
of your concerns about his fi an-
cee’s drinking. Do not boycott
this wedding. If you do, you will
create a wedge between you and
your daughter-in-law that could
last for decades. Plaster on a
smile and attend so you can wish
them all the best in person. Then
cross your fi ngers that your wish
comes true.
There’s still a way to reach global goal on climate change
fossil fuels such as coal,
oil and natural gas, Mein-
shausen said.
Yet, even if that’s good
news, it’s not all good, he
said.
“Neither do we have a
margin of error (on barely
limiting to 3.6 degrees) nor
do the pledges put us on a
path close to 2.7 degrees,”
Meinshausen said.
In 2018 the United
Nations’ scientifi c expert
team studied the diff erences
between the 2.7- and 3.6-
degree thresholds and found
considerably worse and
more extensive damages
to Earth at 3.6 degrees of
warming. So the world has
recently tried to make the
2.7 degrees goal possible.
Earth has already
warmed at least (2 degrees
Fahrenheit since pre-indus-
trial times, often considered
the late 1800s, so 2 degrees
of warming really means
another 1.6 degrees Fahren-
heit hotter than now.
Meinshausen’s anal-
ysis “looks good and
solid, but there are always
assumptions that could
be important,” said Glen
Peters, a climate scientist
who tracks emissions with
Global Carbon Project.
The biggest assumption
is that nations somehow
get to promised net zero
carbon emissions, most of
them by 2050 but a decade
or two later for China and
India, said Peters, research
director of the Cicero
Center for International
Climate Research in Oslo,
Norway.
“Making pledges for
2050 is cheap, backing
them up with necessary
short-term action is hard,”
he said, noting that for most
countries, there will be fi ve
or six elections between
now and 2050.
By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — If
nations do all that they’ve
promised to fi ght climate
change, the world can still
meet one of two interna-
tionally agreed upon goals
for limiting warming. But
the planet is blowing past
the other threshold that
scientists say will pro-
tect Earth more, a new
study fi nds.
The world is potentially
on track to keep global
warming at, or a shade
below, 3.6 degrees Fahr-
enheit hotter than pre-in-
dustrial times, a goal that
once seemed out of reach,
according to a study pub-
lished Wednesday, April 13,
in the journal Nature.
That will only happen
if countries not only ful-
fi ll their specifi c pledged
national targets for curbing
carbon emissions by 2030,
but also come through on
more distant promises of
reaching net zero carbon
emissions by mid-century,
the study says.
This 2 degree warmer
world still represents what
scientists characterize as a
profoundly disrupted cli-
mate with fi ercer storms,
higher seas, animal and
plant extinctions, disap-
pearing coral, melting ice
and more people dying
from heat, smog and infec-
tious disease. It’s not the
goal that world leaders
say they really want: 2.7
degrees Fahrenheit since
pre-industrial times. The
world will blast past that
more prominent and pro-
moted goal unless dra-
matic new emission cuts are
promised and achieved this
decade and probably within
the next three years, study
authors said.
The Associated Press
Wind turbines produce power during sundown in Emlichheim, Germany, Friday, March 18, 2022. A new study released on Wednesday, April
13, 2022, fi nds that if the nations of the world live up to their promises, future climate climate change can be limited to the weaker of two
international goals. According to a study, the world is potentially on track to keep global warming at or a shade below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit
hotter than pre-industrial times, a goal that once seemed out of reach.
Both goals of 3.6
degrees and 2.7 degrees
are part of the 2015 Paris
climate pact and the 2021
Glasgow follow-up agree-
ment. The 3.6-degree goal
goes back years earlier.
“For the fi rst time we
can possibly keep warming
below the symbolic 3.6-
degree mark with the prom-
ises on the table. That
assumes of course that the
countries follow through
on the promises,” said
study lead author Malte
Meinshausen, a Univer-
sity of Melbourne climate
scientist.
That’s a big if, outside
climate scientists and the
authors, say. It means polit-
ical leaders actually doing
what they promise.
The study “examines
only this optimistic sce-
nario. It does not check
whether governments are
making eff orts to imple-
ment their long-term targets
and whether they are cred-
ible,” said Niklas Hohne of
Germany, a New Climate
Institute scientist who ana-
lyzes pledges for Climate
Action Tracker and wasn’t
part of this study. “We
know that governments are
far from implementing their
long-term targets.”
Hohne’s team and others
who track pledges have
similarly found that limiting
warming to 3.6 degrees is
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still possible, as Meinshau-
sen’s team has. The dif-
ference is that Meinshau-
sen’s study is the fi rst to
be peer-reviewed and pub-
lished in a scientifi c journal.
Sure, the 3.6-degree
world requires countries to
do what they promise. But
cheaper wind and solar have
shown carbon emissions
cuts can come faster than
thought and some countries
will exceed their promised
cuts, Meinshausen said. He
also said the way climate
action works is starting
with promises and then pol-
icies, so it’s not unreason-
able to take countries at
their word.
Mostly, he said, limiting
warming to 3.6 degrees
is still a big improvement
compared to just fi ve or 10
years ago, when “every-
body laughed like ‘ha we’ll
never see targets on the
table that bring us closer
to 3.6 degrees’,” Mein-
shausen said. “Targets and
implemented policies actu-
ally can turn the needle on
future temperatures. I think
that optimism is important
for countries to see. Yes,
there is hope.”
About 20% to 30% of
that hope is due to the Paris
climate agreement, but the
rest is due to earlier invest-
ments by countries that
made green energy tech-
nologies cheaper than dirty
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
36/55
Kennewick
33/60
St. Helens
35/60
TIllamook
33/59
30/59
Condon
34/60
36/59
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
Partly cloudy
and cold
Mostly cloudy
and chilly
Cloudy
A little
afternoon rain
A shower in the
afternoon
56 34
49 28
53 36
Eugene
3
1
2
32/56
54 34
47 33
56 37
2
0
2
Comfort Index™
La Grande
0
24 46 37
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
0
0
19 46 32
Comfort Index™
0
43 29
51 39
8
2
7
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 92°
Low: -14°
Wettest: 2.49”
41°
20°
41°
24°
44°
26°
0.09
0.26
0.37
0.93
2.43
0.06
0.34
0.80
2.72
5.42
0.16
1.83
1.14
9.02
9.00
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
45%
SSE at 8 to 16 mph
0.2
0.07
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
36/58
10% of capacity
73% of capacity
43% of capacity
75% of capacity
41% of capacity
97% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
2660 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
5 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
163 cfs
Minam River at Minam
319 cfs
Powder River near Richland
27 cfs
Cotulla, Texas
Checkerboard, Mont.
Blue Canyon, Calif.
OREGON
High: 55°
Low: 11°
Wettest: 0.67”
The Dalles
Burns
Troutdale
WEATHER HISTORY
A late-season snowstorm and cold wave
hit the Southeast on April 16, 1849. A
32-degree reading was the latest freezing
temperature ever in Wilmington, N.C.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
6:06 a.m.
7:39 p.m.
7:56 p.m.
6:17 a.m.
SUN.
6:04 a.m.
7:41 p.m.
9:17 p.m.
6:40 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Apr 16
Last
Apr 23
New
Apr 30
First
May 8
Brothers
29/60
25/49
Beaver Marsh
20/50
Roseburg
34/60
Jordan Valley
24/48
Paisley
25/54
Frenchglen
21/50
Grand View
Arock
28/55
26/55
Fields
34/59
Klamath Falls
22/52
Lakeview
22/53
McDermitt
27/55
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
55/42/c 51/40/r
54/36/c 59/30/r
52/40/pc 68/40/c
52/44/pc 52/41/r
50/27/c 57/29/c
55/44/c 51/41/r
56/42/c 52/42/r
47/32/pc 59/37/c
49/33/pc 55/34/c
56/42/c 57/41/r
56/42/c 57/38/c
59/44/c 52/42/r
50/37/c 60/37/c
48/35/c 55/29/c
44/33/pc 51/31/c
58/41/pc 55/41/c
52/30/pc 54/33/sh
53/26/pc 53/26/c
Diamond
22/52
29/57
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Boise
31/52
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
SUN.
22/51
Silver Lake
23/51
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
14/50
34/64
38/52
Ontario
30/56
Burns
20/54
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
15/45
Bend
Coos Bay
24/47
28/50
Seneca
27/54
Oakridge
Council
22/48
21/48
24/55
Elkton
THURSDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
17/41
John Day
22/55
Sisters
Florence
Powers
24/49
Baker City
Redmond
37/54
39/54
Halfway
Granite
29/56
Newport
36/55
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
25/53
27/53
33/58
34/59
54 32
3
Corvallis
Enterprise
19/46
24/46
Monument
31/57
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
22 48 31
Elgin
23/49
La Grande
29/51
Maupin
Baker City
32/52
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
34/54
Hood River
29/52
33/58
Lewiston
Walla Walla
35/58
Vancouver
33/59
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
SUN.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
54/38/pc 58/42/c
60/43/c 48/41/r
47/37/c 53/34/c
59/39/pc 58/41/r
54/44/c 52/43/r
56/40/c 49/39/r
56/38/c 69/43/c
57/38/pc 58/43/c
52/39/c 56/38/c
59/43/c 54/44/r
58/44/c 54/41/r
55/34/c 60/31/c
60/44/c 58/39/r
58/45/c 54/42/r
48/31/pc 52/36/c
60/41/c 59/42/sh
46/36/c 52/29/c
52/39/pc 57/40/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Cloudy and cold
Clouds and chilly
25
24
43
30
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Cold
Mostly cloudy
34
33
51
36
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly cloudy
Not as cold
30
25
43
32
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Inc. clouds
Cloudy and warmer
44
33
52
40
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Cloudy and chilly
Mostly cloudy
48
31
46
37