I think that I have been misinformed. I had the understanding that is it Spring. I am fairly certain that the weather man told me that March 20th was the first day of Spring. Today is the 28th and it has been snowing for most of the day. There have been 45 inches of new snow in the Pass in the last 5 days. I do believe in global warming, but right now I am wondering if the glaciers will all melt before they crush my house. I'll have to check my insurance policy to see if I am covered for an ice age.
For Christmas my wife gave me a Netatmo weather station because I am a home weather station nerd. The Netatmo is very cool, but it has an unexpected feature: it measures indoor Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels. As soon as I set it up, the Netatmo began to alert that our indoor CO2 was at an unsafe level. The notes said that outdoor CO2 is usually around 400 ppm, and numbers above 1500 ppm could be unhealthy. On that first day, my house was at around 1300 ppm. Prior to that, I never gave indoor CO2 levels a thought. I began to do some research and discovered high levels of CO2 can cause symptoms such as fatigue, headache, breathing difficulties, strained eyes and itchy skin. My family does have all of these issues, especially on the weekends when we are home all day, but I never connected that to indoor air quality. Previously, I installed a Nest thermostat . The Nest is very smart and saves energy by learning your habits and programming itself. Unfortunately, it is so efficient, that t
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