and welcome everyone. The water is, unlike the Pacific Ocean, I'm going to take the water as being warm. Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Central California anyway, is rather chilly. Well, yeah, ocean, you know, not lake. So welcome everyone. Thanks for showing up here at Science Circle. My thanks to our hosts for organizing this. So the theme is, this isn't your grandparents climate, that there have been changes over the years. We're no longer in the pre-industrial climate. Joss, how do you normally handle questions? I'm okay with people asking them. So we're here on the Earth, a small rocky planet, orbiting a main sequence G2V star. We normally call it soul. Near the rim of a spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Sitting there in space, the Earth orbits around soul, absorbs energy from the Sun in the UV visible wavelengths, and then if nothing else happened, the Earth would start getting as hot as the Sun eventually. But avoiding that, the Earth emits energy to space in the infrared long wave. And the two occurrences, the sunlight coming in and the infrared radiation going out, are separate enough that in modeling they can be treated separately. The infrared is generally taken as longer than four micrometers in wavelength.  It takes a while to learn a person's personality, and it takes a while to figure out what the climate is, whether you just sort of have to walk out the door and look up and notice that it's raining, and sure enough it's raining here. Well, get into that global warming versus climate change along the way. Global warming is generally taken as a single number, the global annual average of the temperature change. So it's easy to plot as a trend, yes. Whereas climate change includes everything beyond that single number, including a geographical distribution of heating and all the things that the heating causes. So the business of the Earth, in many ways, is to balance energy, to absorb energy from the Sun, and reflect some of the energy the Sun gives us back into space. But, oops, okay, thanks for letting me know. So the Earth is basically a system of energy balances. We receive energy from the Sun, partly some gets reflected back into space, but 67 watts per meter squared is absorbed by the atmosphere, and 168 watts per meter squared is absorbed by the surface. The Earth emits, surface of the Earth emits radiation, infrared radiation, reflects some of it back from the atmosphere. But what makes it out is 235 watts per meter squared. Think of the Earth as a disk, as a G. So the radiation that actually comes in is in the facing disk of the planet. Yes, it's allowing for the inclination and that part of the Earth's surface is blocked by the rest of the Earth. So about 235 watts per meter squared of infrared radiation goes out to space, and when things are in balance it just happens that 67 and 168 got up to 235. So this is pre-industrial. Basically the heat from the Earth's core is insignificant. It's way down there. Remember these are numbers per meter squared. We should be grateful for natural global warming. Basically carbon dioxide is emitted from volcanoes at a slow rate compared to what we're doing now by human efforts. Then the carbon dioxide is absorbed by weathering of rocks, making carbonate rocks, and by sea creatures with shells that make a carbonate shell later die and the shell ends up on the ocean bottom. An interesting feature of Earth is the emission of infrared radiation depends strongly on the temperature and strongly being the fourth power of the temperature. And the effective radiating temperature of the Earth to balance the absorbed energy from the Sun is minus 18 degrees. That's kind of chilly. Remember that's the average temperature. It would mean a lot of places we live in would be totally too cold. But the actual surface temperature that we experience on average is about plus 15 degrees centigrade. So there's a 33 degree difference between the effective radiating temperature of the Earth and the surface temperature of the Earth. And that is a natural balance of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, pre-industrial. And there's no physical reason to infer that the warming of CO2 is going discontinue at the pre-industrial level as we pump more and more CO2 into the atmosphere. We're historically living because of the CO2 and methane and we may find ourselves uncomfortable because of our changes. So water, we seem to have some water here today, but water in the form of water vapor is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. But the concentration of water vapor that's in the air depends on the temperature. And carbon dioxide and methane, because they don't precipitate out, act as control knobs on how much water vapor is in the atmosphere. Lasis and colleagues did a simulation of what would happen if the CO2 and methane were instantaneously removed from the atmosphere, but initially leaving the water. And in 50 years, the planet had cooled to average temperature of minus 21 degrees centigrade, and there was virtually no water vapor in the atmosphere. Yes, with the temperature of, as the carbon dioxide moves the temperature up a notch, more water vapor can exist in the atmosphere, and that water vapor is a stronger greenhouse gas. So that if the temperature went up by three degrees, which is similar to what's expected from doubling carbon dioxide, two of those degrees would be due to the extra water vapor and more violent storms. When it gets warmer, you have a heat of evaporation of the water off of the warmer oceans and the warmer air, and that is latent energy that as the water vapor condenses, it liberates that energy back into a storm, and so more water, more energy. This is a simple analogy of what's going on to get us the greenhouse effect. If you put a light in the bottom of a cylinder of water and look down, you know, with just the water, there's no problem. You see the light sitting on the bottom, but as you start to add ink into the water, squeeze an octopus or something, in order to continue to see the light, you have to move the light up. That's sort of, you know, obvious to people with a cylinder and light, and by the time you add a lot of ink into the water, you can only see the light if you've moved it up a fair amount. I'm hoping that makes sense. So the same thing happens in the atmosphere. The CO2 is a strong absorber, and when you add more CO2, the altitude from which the atmosphere radiates to space, or conversely, from which a satellite can see down to us, also increases, just like the cylinder. And in the troposphere, the higher the altitude, the colder it is, and colder means less energy is radiated to space, back to that fourth power of temperature. To get that emitted energy back in balance, because now the Earth, as you add more CO2, is emitting less energy, you have to warm up the new altitude from which radiation goes out to space. And the temperature at that altitude is tied to the surface by convection. And that's basically the physics for global warming in a nutshell, that you increase CO2, you raise the altitude from which the atmosphere can see space, it's colder there, and that means less radiation is going out, but the same radiation is coming in in terms of sunlight. And that means the Earth is taking on more energy than it's emitting out. And in one sense, that's the definition of warming. It may not always be temperature that changes, but that's the global warming effect. And you can search on that in terms of some of the effort of putting that energy in terms of cat sneezes as a unit. Now it was known much earlier that carbon dioxide absorbed infrared radiation, but starting in the 60s, the Air Force cataloged all the absorption lines of CO2 and other gases. Well, it depends on the particulates, Vic. If they're sulfate aerosol, aerosol means small particle in the atmosphere. If they're sulfate in aerosol, they tend to reflect sunlight and the air cools a bit. If they're carbon particles, then they tend to absorb sunlight and energy. And that would tend to heat the atmosphere. Sorry if my voice is a bit scratchy. I was on travel to a conference a week and a half ago and came back and immediately came down with my travel cold.  Back in what's become a classic paper back in 1967, Suki Minabi and Dick Weatherall used a one-dimensional, so it's global average, but has varies in altitude. It's got a whole altitude profile. A radiative convective model, which means that it handles sunlight and infrared radiation and it convicts air up when the atmosphere becomes unstable. The density allows the upwelling radiation. Same stuff that holds up gliders in the atmosphere. They were able to calculate a change in average surface temperature from doubling the concentration of CO2 of about 2.4 degrees. And probably two-thirds of that is due to the water vapor that is added to the atmosphere as the CO2 warms it a bit. And that number is still solidly within current estimates on the effects of global warming. We also noticed a signature of greenhouse gas warning that the troposphere warms because more radiation, more infrared radiation, gets trapped with it like a blanket and a cooling stratosphere. Because if less radiation is escaping the troposphere, then there's less radiation going through the stratosphere and that basically cools it. So that signature matches observations. You wouldn't have that signature from the more active sun, for example. And that supports the idea as well as with other physics that the carbon dioxide is causing the warming. I'm not familiar with Eunice and that's unfortunate if she did do the experiment and not receive the recognition. I'd be interested if, well I can look up the paper myself. But I would be interested in that. Thank you, Tackling. So going away from the physics from a moment and how that motivates global warming. We also have observations and analysis from a number of groups now. Unobserved heating, both from using tree rings as a proxy for temperature. And after 1960 more direct readings. Basically the tree ring temperature followed observed temperature from about 1880 until about 1960. And around then there's emerged a problem that in the literature is called the divergence. It was published in the 90s and basically some of the tree ring data at high latitude stopped following the temperature. That could be due to acid rain or something else affecting the tree growth. It was known prior to the first analysis by Michael Mann in doing a temperature sequence like this. And he merged the two data things. Taking the tree data up to about 1960 and then merging into observed temperature when the there was less certainty about the tree data. Yes there's a, for instance, a whole very nice history done by the American Institute of Physics on global warming. I'll try to find that at the end of the talk. So both the physics and the observations, I think they took, depends on the base period they took. And I think they took a more recent base period of somewhere around 1900 to 1960. An anomaly is basically where you subtract off a base period to give you better numerical precision. You don't need to carry on the large number and do the whole analysis on that. So it's often done in terms of an anomaly, meaning the variation from something taken as the base value. Now I did give the link at the bottom to the Berkeley EarthOrg organization from which they took the graph. And their analysis and papers are online. So that information of what they used as the base period would be there. And in the early phases we have, well we still have, we have natural variation from volcanoes. We also have large uncertainties in the data. So beyond the observations of temperature increase and the fairly basic physics that I started with that points toward greenhouse gas warming, the total solar irradiance is measured from orbit and has little variation. And if anything, is at a minimum. So it can't be blamed on the, the heating can't be blamed on the sun. And currently the eccentricity that's the, how elliptic the orbit is versus circular is low and heading for a minimum in about 25,000 years. Cutting out climate change as a source of orbit, of from orbital forcing that in times when the orbit is much more elliptic and it changes because of the pull on the earth from Jupiter and Saturn primarily. When the earth is more eccentric, you can run into conditions where the northern hemisphere summer isn't sufficient to melt the snowfall from the previous winter and you know over thousands of years that accumulates in the ice sheets, which has been the basic mechanism of climate variation historically, historically meaning in millions of years. And either a change in the sun itself or warming due to orbital parameters, which basically also change the amount of sunlight arriving at the earth. Neither of those would have the signature I mentioned of tropospheric warming with stratospheric cooling.  And that resulted in both a paper on what he observed in development of climate models by the modeling group and also a fairly understandable talk on YouTube on what he observed on the methodology that is being used, which is not exactly what computer scientists might have expected. Yes, Vic. It's becoming more eccentric politically, but not orbitally. Just calculating global warming gives you a number of how the surface temperature is changing, but that doesn't really say anything about how the planet is responding to the energy accumulation of the earth. The planet, for its own reasons, can increase the surface temperature or it can melt ice or store energy into the deep oceans. And only the first, increasing the surface temperature, brings things back into an energy balance where the earth is emitting as much radiation as it's receiving. Now melting ice, particularly sea ice, decreases the albedo, the reflection of sunlight by the earth. Instead, the open seawater absorbs energy and that's going also act as a feedback. So a positive feedback in the sense that you melt the ice because of the increased CO2 and the energy imbalance. And now the earth receives or keeps more of the energy it receives. So that increases the heating. Well, Vic, about 40% of the CO2 we release into the atmosphere has been absorbed by the ocean that also acidifies the ocean, which is one of the problems. And as the temperature of the ocean increases, it can hold less CO2. That certainly is an issue of how long will the ocean keep absorbing the CO2? We've heated the earth. There are patterns to how that heating occurs. And both the atmospheric circulation and the ocean circulation read, distribute that heat because it's not even. More heat is received at the tropics than in the Arctic. And now, as an effect of the global warming, the Arctic is heating up about twice as fast as the temperate and tropical zones. Changing the circulation can change the amount and location of precipitation, meaning rain and snow. And warmer water can increase the evaporation, increasing rain, making a storm more intense. At the same time, the changing patterns can lead to drought in other areas. So that if the precipitation moves, what was an agricultural area may not receive enough rain. And the rain may have shifted to a different soil type, not as good for current crops. So that's one of the side effects. Climate models are also used now in sort of a new science of attribution, how climate change may have contributed to extreme events. It's somewhat salty soda pop though. So there's a new and increasing science of probabilistic event attribution, refer a post analysis of a particular event. One could run an ensemble, meaning a whole collection of slightly perturbed weather model, and look at the both with and without increases in greenhouse gases, and then look at the change in probability. That would be true for a particular event that you'd use a weather model. And in fact, that's what is done with weather, weather modeling now is running an ensemble of slightly perturbed runs and then looking at what might occur. And the probability of the event is compared for the two sets of runs and allows making a statement of how climate change may have changed the probability of such an event, or in practical terms for humans, the risk. And insurance companies and banks are reevaluating such risks. There's a recent two volume, fourth US assessment that's been released. Both volumes are online and I have the URLs here and these slides will be made available. These contain more than I put out in the talk, far more on both the science of climate change and on the impacts, risks, and adaptation in the United States. And well, preparing this, a rent across a tent talk by Yevon Schmidt, who was at NASA, still is I think, and gives a nice short review of emergent processes and model skill, points out that all models are wrong, that every model has to be an approximation to the real earth. But if a model helps you understand more, or with weather models predict more, then the model has skill. And so people talk about the usability of a model in terms of its skill. And this goes back, I think, to a statement by Tukey that all models are wrong, but some are useful. So that was my last slide. I'm happy to stand here and take questions as best I can. Well, that talk by Gavin Schmidt, let me raise the slide viewer preloads talks going forward, talks by Gavin Smith. He shows some nice pictures. One of the things one can take from the picture is that the current climate models reproduce observed features of the circulation, swirls of water vapor in the southern ocean, tropical cyclones and hurricanes. This is not in sync with the earth. And one of the things that confuses people is with weather prediction, you're starting with initial conditions that are current, integrating the model forward in time and losing interest when the model no longer matches the real earth. With climate modeling that isn't the way it's done. It's essentially a weather model. The what's called the dynamic core is often the same, although not the climate model may have less resolution, meaning the grid squares are bigger. But the features of the circulation in the atmosphere emerge naturally from the physics of the model. There's no code that says, oh, put a swirl here. And if you look at a global look at the model atmosphere and look at the observations at the same time, they look very similar. And if you were on the model earth, I don't think you could immediately tell that it wasn't the real earth. The simulations are that good. Different physics parts of the model are compared with observations. For instance, back in 1989, the atmospheric radiation measurement program was started, which has multiple sites, one in Oklahoma, where they take the atmospheric properties, clouds, weather circulation, and the radiation. So the two can be compared. And there's a lot of validation of climate models in terms of, do they have the right statistics? Do the various parts, when compared with observations, agree with those observations? And then it's all put together. And there are features that you wouldn't get from just any single part, but come from the interactions of all the parts.  The IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change, has a chapter on how models are evaluated. And that's at, yes, combining non-meat types of protein to get complete protein. I think corn falls in there somewhere, too, corn beans and legumes. Any questions? It is true that some features of the climate change are happening faster than predicted. Yes, and the more southern tree rings stayed accurate. It was some of the more northerly boreal tree rings that diverged from measured temperatures. From 1980 to 1960, observed temperatures and tree rings tracked very well. Well, not fires in permafrost so much, but permafrost melting, which can release methane. It also is causing problems in Alaska, where permafrost is getting mushy, with buildings. It becomes almost like standing in a puddle in the rain. Oh, we're doing that here. It's not always the number of hurricanes, although with more energy, that number can increase. But the intensity of hurricanes, because there's more available energy. Certainly more flooding. There has been a rise in sea level, and that mean, and couple that with stronger storms, and you have more flooding, basically, in coastal cities. So far, there hasn't been great concern that things are going to change enough that the methane stored at cold temperatures in the seabeds are going to activate. But that, of course, could depend on how extreme we keep emitting. There's still warning on hurricanes, and they track them. And that's one of the features of having monitoring satellites. And if we didn't keep replacing the satellites as they were out in their orbits decay, then we would lose that ability to give early warning. Support your local satellite launch, or national satellite launch. Our grandchildren will probably think we were rather selfish, greedy, and careless. Not good. Shepherds of the planet. Yes, and insurance companies are noticing increased risk, increased property loss from wildfires, from flooding, and that may make insurance in some places prohibitively expensive. Well, insurance companies actually do take out insurance policies. It's a re-insurance. So there's insurance companies for the insurance companies. Similar to crystal, similar to wildfires being the big problem in California, particularly after several years of drought when things become tinder-dry. I'm not sure that it would get to the point of being a bottleneck with seven billion people on the earth. But it certainly puts a large number of people at hazard. There are people who basically live on the flood plain in many countries. We're also seeing tropical diseases starting to propagate northward as the temperatures increase. So that's another hazard in terms of human health. Pine beetles have also, because many areas haven't seen as much of a cold snap as in history, pine beetles have been able to increase their range, increasing the danger of wildfires also. The assessment for the whole world would be the ice PCC reports. So the warming is changing the statistics of extreme events where they are now more biased to the hot side than to the cold sides compared to historical data. One interesting effect has been that the gradient between the tropics and the poles has decreased. The poles are heating faster than the tropics. That means that the sort of vortex of circulation around the pole is weaker, allowing outbreaks of polar air down into the 48 states. Some cold winter weather, but not colder annual averages. Well, paradise in California burned a year ago about fire, but that's a good question. And probably the hardest thing to predict is regional climate at this point. Vic, I think the answer to that is sort of like the correct answer for chocolate or vanilla, and the answer is yes. That some places will suffer drought, lack of water. The lack of food is interesting. They talk about virtual water exporting, and basically when you grow food or manufacture something, it often takes water. Certainly growing food takes water, and when that product or food is exported to another country, it's considered as an export of virtual water. And that movement north of say rainfall and productive areas is affected by soil type. It's not always the same soil type when you move 600 miles north, and that can drastically affect particular crops. Now we've developed, in a sense, specialized hybrid crops over the years, and flexible those crops may be to changes in location and soil. And season isn't clear yet. As the growing season changes, the blossoming season also changes, and that can screw up matches between pollinators and the crops. Thank you all for coming. I appreciate the audience and the discussion. It's always nice after preparing something to have people to present it to and discuss it with.


Obamidji High School students are learning some of the most innovative engineering techniques and tools. Using 3D printing, mapping and more, their teachers hope to inspire them to go on to lead the way in the field, as Mel Meyer reports in This Week's Golden Apple. Remember yesterday we wrote the component of the quality, remember doing that? Through the outside organization called Project Lead the Way, teachers receive training from industry professionals and the materials they'll need in the classroom. Chris Conway says the program also consistently reviews the course lessons. Which means the curriculum that we're using is always up to date and accurate. It coincides really well with what's going on in industry. Most recently the students have been working on 3D models of car parts. Sophomore Kyle Watson says he wanted to take the class because he's interested in building things like this in the future. And I thought hey it might be a good opportunity to sign up for such a great class. If students enjoy this introductory course they can move on to the principles of engineering which focuses on the math side. But it's applied math so a lot of the kids really enjoy it, seeing the numbers go to work. Over in Aerospace Engineering students get to learn parts of a plane, the navigation and how to fly. Then we get into propulsion systems of rockets that build model rockets and fly them successfully. Now they've moved on to unmanned remote controlled objects. We are building a rover that has a claw on it. It's supposed to make a rover you would see on a Mars. As a technology that they build changes so do the people behind it. Traditionally we haven't had a ton of girls in our classes. One of the things that we're trying this year in the industrial tech department is we're offering an all girls automotive class. It's just one of the many things students have to look forward to next year. My instructor is going to come in and teach the flight part of the course so the students will have their private pilot's ground school course done. An incredible opportunity for high school students who might have to pay much more in the future for such an experience. It's high school and it's free and the worst that could happen is I don't like it. At least I know that when I get to college it's not what I want to do. In Bemidji with this week's Golden Apple, I'm Mal Meyer, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WWW blue plan today. We are all about Christmas I have my first Christmas Trader Joe's haul for you now. I'm hoping to have a second one I'm not sure how much more holiday things Trader Joe's will get in because I have a lot to share with you today But in the event that there's enough for a second video I will definitely definitely be doing a second video for you now today. I have all of the new holiday items I did not purchase everything But as always at the end of the taste test portion and where I show you what I actually purchase I will include clips and talk a little bit about some of the other holiday items that were in store The reason I don't purchase everything is because a lot of the items my husband and myself wouldn't necessarily eat or use And I don't want to be wasteful. So I thought that I would take pictures and just kind of share with you in case it works For your family what's available at Trader Joe's but before we get started I'm in my Christmas sweatshirt new this year that I'm super excited about so let me show you the first of the new Christmas gear so my sweatshirt says and nobody's walking out on this funnel fashion family Christmas so let me know down in the comments if you know what movie this is from I'm going to be taste testing all the New holiday items and I'll put the points here on the screen So you're going to get a first impression of all of these new things But before we jump in if you are excited for the first Trader Joe's Christmas haul of 2020 give this video a huge big thumbs up It really means a lot to me and shows me that you like these types of videos Also, if you're new to my channel or not yet subscribe subscribe We would love to have you I am planning on doing the 12 days of vlog miss So you don't want to miss out on all of the Christmas content as well as all of the other fun content here on my channel as I do Upload most days of the week make sure you're checking out that description box down below where you're going to find my nutrition coaching website I offer personalized calories and macros Super important to know what you should be eating every single day as well as one-on-one coaching in both 30 minute and 60 minute Sessions so check that out Also, you'll find links and discount codes to all of my very favorite things and last but not least the link to head over and join Me on Facebook. This is a great time to head over and join us as I have lots of good things up my sleeve as we roll into 2021 so head on over and join us there. So It's time for a Trader Joe's haul and taste test. It started because I have a Ton from Trader Joe's so we're gonna start with all the good sweet stuff I do have one frozen item and two beverages So I'm gonna leave those in the fridge and freezer until we get through all the sweet stuff because I have a pile over here of that So we are gonna start first with the mini dark chocolate mint Stars a serving size of these is 13 pieces for 130 calories I will be putting points and the price just so you know here on the screen for you So I actually bought these last year, but of course, I don't remember what things taste like from the year before So we're actually going to taste test almost everything that I picked up There's I think one item that's actually going to be a gift so we won't be taste testing that but we're gonna start with these Yummy minty chocolate stars. So this is the size of them now They are fairly small but again 13 of these is a serving. These are delicious. They are shortbread Chocolate minty. These are really really good. These I remember being good last year could be a little bit dangerous These would be a great gift. They're really really delicious and again because there's so many pieces in a serving You could even cut down the number of pieces and cut down the points and calories, but ten out of ten Next up are the Trader Joe's a dark chocolate covered Jojo So we know that Jojo's our Trader Joe's version of Oreos some I like some I don't I have had these before again last year I'm excited for these. I remember these being really really good Now, I know these are incredibly high in smart points They're very much a decadent type of dessert where one is enough So let me pull it out show you guys what it looks like and we'll give it a try So this is the size of it You can see it's coated in chocolate and a little bit of peppermint candy one cookie is 140 calories That's delicious like incredibly delicious now. It's a very rich and sweet So I would say one is plenty and I have a big sweet tooth And I think one of these for serving is plenty especially due to the points and calories But absolutely positively delicious. These would be beautiful as an accent to a cookie plate for the holidays Keep it on the peppermint Van Wagen. We have the Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered peppermint cream So this to me is like a York peppermint patty, which is actually one of my very favorite candies I do remember these from last year. I think that I tried these but because I love York peppermint candies I'm sure I'm going to love these here is what they look like. They are again chocolate covered with the little bits of peppermint candy Can you see that peppermint? Oh? Mg Wow So good better than a York different than New York. New York is a mint center This is a hundred percent peppermint and if you didn't know I'm a huge peppermint lover So this is actually my favorite time of the year. I love candy canes. I love all things peppermint These are absolutely Positively delicious next up. I have a peppermint meringues if you saw my recent grocery haul, you know I hauled these these are one of my favorite things I'm not going to taste test these because I've had them a million times. I love these They are little meringues and you can see that they are actually coated with a little bit of Candy cane pieces and what is so great about these is you get a lock for the points and calories in fact calories 11 cookies is 80 calories. You can't beat it and they're really good. They kind of melt in your mouth They're not overly sweet, but they pack a little bit of peppermint punch really really delicious I generally stock up on these so that I have them once the holiday season passes now We're going to try the mini marshmallows now We know mini marshmallows are seasonal at Trader Joe's they don't actually have them during the year They do have the big marshmallows in the summer for camping for s'mores But these peppermint marshmallows are definitely a seasonal thing They are mini and this cute little bag here is less than two dollars and I can't wait to try these I'm hoping that I get peppermint and not just marshmallow So here they are they look delicious. They're super soft these tastes really good But I definitely don't get a lot of peppermint. I get more marshmallow. They're good It's a good marshmallow But I just wish that it had a little more peppermint flavor But how fun would this be for kids to pop in some hot cocoa? You could even top all your peppermint seasonal coffee drinks with these so I like them They're just not as pepperminty as I was hoping But they are gluten-free and vegan the peppermint JoJo's I remember these being so good last year I'm excited to try them again I would like to compare them to the chocolate covered ones and see which one I like better So this is what they look like the standard size of an Oreo cookie the inside It has the white cream of the Oreo cookie, but you can see the little bits of peppermint in there Wow, these are so good. So those chocolate covered ones are equally as delicious I find them to be more rich and more sweet. So if you're not a big sweet person, you will probably love these My favorite thing about these besides the good burst of peppermint Is you have little chunks of candy cane in them. So when you bite into them and chew them you get the crunch of the candy cane So good 10 out of 10 Trader Joe's peppermint pretzel slims now I loved the ones that I hauled during the fall. Those were so good But because I love peppermint, I'm at I'm super excited for these I think again, I have these last year, but I'm going to try them again on camera to give you my honest opinion I really really like the pretzel factory pretzel slims in peppermint So I'm going to compare those to these ones because those you can pick up at cost go for a really good price Even though these are affordable at Trader Joe's as well So here is what they look like. They are coated front and back with the white chocolate and the chunks of peppermint So good Absolutely delicious very very close to the pretzel factory brand. These are good Again, they're very very sweet and I think it's that white chocolate coating So one or two of these perfect four of these is a serving and I think you could easily Get away with one or two of them to kind of cure that peppermint that Christmas and the sweet tooth The last minty thing I have are the dark chocolate covered minty mallows Now I think Trader Joe's had these last year, but I did not haul them. I must have missed them So I'm pretty excited about this. This is going to be reminiscent of these smash mallows Dipped in chocolate, but peppermint and chocolate a couple of my favorite things So here's what these look like fully coated in chocolate big. These are nice big pieces These are really good. The chocolate is nice and smooth and creamy and just melts in your mouth It's a great texture of marshmallow very soft and definitely I'm getting them in so these are really good Two of these is a serving and again, I think you could get away with one They're good size. They're full of chocolate and marshmallow, which are both super sweet Yeah, these are really really good the mini gingerbread people now last year. These were called mini gingerbread men They are now people They should be as equally as delicious as the men were I remember these being so good last year and I was hesitant on these I love ginger. I love gingerbread, but I wondered how good these would really be and I remember these were incredible So we're going to give them a try make sure there is incredible as last year Now that they're gingerbread people instead of gingerbread men So here's what they look like and then the back side is coated in the white chocolate Yes, yes, and yes, so good. I taste crystallized ginger So I get a big punch of ginger if you're not a ginger fan I don't know if you would like these because it's definitely gingery and spicy They're incredible I love ginger and these are probably the best gingerbread cookies that I've ever had four of them is a serving I think one or two would be sufficient because they're sweet due to the white chocolate, but they're spicy with the ginger So good next up are the mini cranberry pistachio biscotti I love biscotti the pumpkin is one of my very favorite things. So I'm excited to try these I'm hoping that it's crispy, but also has that Chewy texture from the cranberries and the pistachios. So here's what they look like. They are very very good size They have that drizzle of white chocolate or frosting over the top Finally hard like biscotti, but it's really good.  So that is probably what you'd want to do. You could also dip this in cocoa or tea But yeah, these are good. These are equally as good as the pumpkin And the last three things I have two are beverages and one is actually a frozen appetizer Let's start with that because I just warmed it up. This is the camembert cheese and cranberry sauce Filo bite this sounds really really good. So I just popped this in my air fryer for a couple of minutes Four pieces is 290 calories. I'm going to assume that it's cheese and cranberry sauce In a filo wrap. That's what I'm going to assume the package doesn't say But this is what it looks like. This is the size and again four is a serving Wow, those are incredible. It's cheesy. It has the cheesy texture of a mozzarella stick And then you get the sweetness of the cranberry sauce in the dough. Wow. These are really really good I could definitely eat four or more. These would be a great appetizer at either Thanksgiving or Christmas. Wow These are absolutely incredible Let me know down in the comments if Trader Joe's had these last year because I don't remember them or I would have bought them The first drink that I have is the cocoa peppermint flavored almond creamer So this is an almond milk creamer for your coffee. It is one tablespoon for 40 calories So I went ahead and brought in a glass here. I shook it up poured it into the glass You can see it's definitely that chocolate cocoa coloring. So let's give it a try. That's really good I taste chocolate. I taste peppermint and it does have that little bit of an almond milk taste You know what I'm talking about when you think almond milk. It's good. It's sweet. It's actually sweeter than I expected So I'm excited to try this in my next cup of coffee But it's really good and last but certainly not least is the almond nog I remember trying this last year and really liking it This is all the rage if you are an agnog lover, but you don't love the calories and points in agnog This is a great alternative. You can have a half of a cup for 50 calories I'm pretty sure traditional agnog is like 190 calories for half of a cup Now granted, this is almond milk. We'll try it. We'll see what it's like compared to regular agnog It tastes like agnog. It is not as strong in flavor as traditional agnog and definitely definitely not as sweet So if agnog is too sweet for you, you'll probably really like this I think this would be great on its own with a little bit of a nutmeg or cinnamon sprinkled on top You could also use this as a base of an iced latte You could make an agnog latte for far less calories and points You can even add this as your creamer in your coffee. But yeah, it's really good It's just not as agnoggy and sweet as traditional agnog Trader Joe's has chocolate liqueur cherries. These sound absolutely delicious It's $5.99 for this 14 ounce package Kind of like the chocolate covered cherries. You get it Christmas, but the adult version So those sounded really delicious Also boozy little chocolate truffles. Now I bought these last year. These are $6.99 These are incredible. The truffle is so good and it's the perfect amount of booze This would be a fantastic gift for somebody And then the candy cane jojo's ice cream. Now, I've never had this. This is a pretty small container It's not even a full pint like what ben and jerry's comes in I just can't buy it because I'll literally eat the whole thing and I know that about myself But I wanted to show it to you guys in case you have a little more self-control And then this cute little holiday chocolate pack I actually bought this last year and I ended up placing these on a big plate of cookies for Christmas In between for kind of a Christmas decoration. So since I did it last year, I didn't pick these up These are affordable $3.99 and actually the chocolate is really really good The trader joe's peppermint bark. I also bought this last year. It is so good. You guys again, it's dangerous I love peppermint anything like I've mentioned. So this is something I just chose not to get It is $9.99, but it comes in a really pretty reusable tin And as you saw, I had a lot of other peppermint items But this would again would be a great gift. It'd be a great thing to serve up on Christmas The gummy scandinavian tidings. These are so cute.  These are really good. I've had these before again Just not something that I wanted to indulge in this year But they are really good great if you have kids if they want something sweet and gummy This is an excellent option. The trader joe's chocolate covered pretzel twists. I also bought these last year 6.99 There are three different pretzels coated with three different yumminess peppermint nuts and sprinkles These are really good. We serve these up on Christmas last year and everybody absolutely loved them I think they have this last year, but I've actually never tried it. This is the nantucket cranberry pie Now it sounds delicious and I may pick it up for Christmas, but I just didn't want to get it this early I don't know if it'll be around But I wanted to share it with you guys because it looks absolutely delicious and the taste test caramels are back for $5.99 I have not purchased these. I Really like caramels, but Troy doesn't eat chocolate and it's not fun to do the taste testing by myself But if you have family or kids or a friend that you could do the taste test with it's pretty fun They actually include all the different flavors in the packaging And then you get to try them all and try to figure out what flavor they are The salty honey toffee covered crackers and milk chocolate for $3.99 To me, this is Christmas crack if you've heard of Christmas crack It's basically where you take saltine crackers and cover them with everything delicious And they make this really good crack that you just can't stop eating and I have a feeling these would be exactly the same thing So I did not pick them up although they look delicious I did buy these cookies last year and they're okay. I didn't love them. They are very soft They're coated with kind of a white kind of crunchy frosting. I just didn't love them I know that a lot of people really like these and they have these and then they also have The chocolate covered ones the Danish butter cookies that come in the cute little Dutch 10 is another great gift and a great thing to add to the table at Christmas If you have kids, you have to get this. This is the holiday ornament cookie kit. How fun It's everything you need. It's the cookies the icing and the sprinkles. This is so so cute I make Christmas cookies every year, but this would be a fun little project to do with the family The honeycrisp apple juice beverage is new this year as well It just had a lot of sugar so I didn't pick it up, but it is $3.99 for four 10 ounce cans Also the brand new sugar plum sparkling beverage again $3.99 This I think would be a really good mixer for an adult beverage I haven't got it, but if it's still there around Christmas, I may have to grab it And another sparkling beverage the cranberry and ginger. This sounds really good as well It is four eight and a half fluid ounce cans for $3.99 Another fun project to do with the family is a gingerbread kit I think this was $7.99 I would love to do this, but I don't think I could get Troy on board So I passed it up this year But this is super cute and again includes everything that you need to create the gingerbread house Eggnog liqueur now I've grabbed this put it back grabbed it put it back So this will be on my to add to Christmas list if it's still available It's only $8.99 and I love eggnog. So add a little liquor to that Perfection. There's also a cocoa cream liqueur again $8.99 This sounds really good too. I thought this would pair really well with a nice hot cup of coffee The winter wassel punch for $3.99. Basically, this is a festive beverage With apple black currant and lemon juices. So that sounds really good too I think this too would pair is a really good mixer peppermint hot chocolate this cute little tin is $4.99 Which is not bad at all. It's an eight ounce tin and again You can reuse the tin it would also be a great gift and who doesn't love peppermint hot chocolate The chocolate peppermint loaf mix I bought this last year and made it it is so good It's absolutely positively decadent. The baking mix is $2.99 You just need to add I believe oil and eggs But it was really really delicious as if you love peppermint and chocolate definitely pick this up And of course trader joes has eggnog. You saw me haul the almond nog They also have regular and light eggnog. The quart size is $2.99 In addition to the peppermint mix They also have a gingerbread cake mix with crystallized ginger pieces now I love ginger, but I'm the only one that does so I don't see myself picking this up because I couldn't eat the whole loaf. Well, I shouldn't eat the whole loaf myself But this would be great to serve at christmas dinner or on christmas eve a sparkling cranberry beverage for $2.99 You guys saw me haul the ginger beverage in the fall haul. So this I'm guessing is similar to that I actually still have the ginger beverage in my fridge. It says serve chilled Enjoy on its own or spiked with your favorite alcohol. So again another great mixing option the butter toffee pretzels are back This isn't really holiday, but these are incredible. This is christmas cracker holiday cracker trader joes crack I didn't buy it because last year I think I ate the whole bag in a couple days But they are absolutely to die for so that's everything that I have for you for the first christmas haul from trader joes Like I said, if they bring in enough additional christmas or holiday products I will definitely do another haul and taste test, but I hope that you got some great ideas from today's haul I'm excited to share everything christmas with you. So stay tuned for the 12 days of vlogmas As well as a ton of other christmas content coming your way If you enjoyed today's video, please give it a big thumbs up It really helps out my channel and it lets me know that you like these hauls and taste tests If you're not yet subscribed and you would like to be part of my community We'd love to have you just hit the little subscribe button and go ahead and ring the bell next to it So you're notified when new videos are uploaded. 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