Clear and a bit on the warm side this early Monday morning along California’s northern coast, and the air is apparently so clean, the muffled roar of the Pacific can be easily heard from my back patio.
Among the wads of interesting things happening on this planet right now, the most terribly-interesting one is the slowly dying conversation about climate change — slowly, but surely, the talk has become apparent in the obvious.
Even for morons (see pix at left).

The big problem is the cold. Folks form a knot in understanding the concept that global warming is the overall warming and more moisture in the air, which will come out as either rain or snow — both summer hurricanes and January snowstorms are part-n-parcel with climate change.

(Illustration found here).

And with that, there’s this solar flare came/coming at us.
Via the French Tribune and it’s impact: Due to the sun entering active period, solar flares have been reported in last few months. A solar flare at speeds of 1.87 million miles was directed to earth for a longer time on Saturday morning. The phenomenon is known as Coronal Mass Ejections and the charged particles produced due to the phenomenon reach earth within one to three days.
The famous end-line — no problem: However, scientists have denied the rumors about threat to earth.
Hard to grasp, again, even as the solar shit reaches us about right now.

And also this morning, us earthbound people will have another eye in the sky to watch over our deteriorating environment:

NASA‘s latest Landsat satellite launch has been given the green light to fly today, with the new Earth-monitoring orbiter expected to blast off just after 10am PST on Monday.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) has been running for more than forty years, adding to scientist’s long-term understanding of the changes in our local environment; Landsat 8 will launch atop an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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In fact, the satellite will take sixteen days to map the entire surface of the Earth, moving north to south in its orbits, and building up a full picture in narrow bands. Altogether, it weighs around 6,000 pounds, and is around the size of an SUV.

New emphasis is being placed on the weather via climate change. Despite the sometime-horrific results from weather the last couple of years, there’s been a tendency to downplay global warming’s effect on weather.
This current Superstorm Nemo, which just finished whacking the US eastern seaboard, has apparently changed the look of climate change, and now all our weather is part of the new normal in climate debates.
And even if the weather is cold — some people find it hard to grasp global warming when it’s freezing outside.
Via Mother Jones:

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus about the long-term phenomenon, newspaper op-ed pages are most likely to opine about how climate change isn’t real when seasonal temperatures dip.
According to a new study published in Climatic Science, annual and seasonal deviations from mean temperatures can explain attitudes (both positive and negative) expressed in 2,166 opinion pieces between 1990 and 2009 in five major newspapers, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Houston Chronicle.
(It also demonstrated that national public opinion polls aligned with temperature anomalies.)
During heat waves or temperature spikes, the percentage of newspaper columns that agreed with climate change rose.
But when winters were rough or temperatures fell, the percentage of disagreement ratcheted up.
Lead author and University of British Columbia climate scientist Simon Donner told Mother Jones it was difficult to explain such correlations, but he and his co-author took a stab at it…
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The problem with writing opinion articles supporting climate change exclusively during heat waves or slamming it during cooler seasons is that it fails to consider that the phenomenon is really “a long-term average,” Donner says.
“If next decade is warmer than this decade, it doesn’t mean every day in next decade is warmer than every day in this decade. There’s still going to be variability in the system.”
If the public and newspapers are going to trust that climate change is real, even when it’s cold outside, scientists and educators also have to step up and be more vocal.
“We’ve got to talk about climate change not just when there’s a good ‘hook’ to talking about it, but even you know, on unusually cold days in the summer,” Donner adds.

As the weather gets creepier and creepier, and more huge and dangerous, the object will be to what? The earth is reaching the slipknot point where no matter the action it won’t stop, or even slow down the effect/affect a warming environment will do against humanity.
Maybe in a sports analogy, beyond “weather on steroids” and such:

Michael Mann, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, compared a major storm like Nemo — or Hurricane Irene or Superstorm Sandy, for that matter — to a basketball slam-dunk with a lower net.
“If you take the basketball court and raise it a foot, you’re going to see more slam-dunks,” Mann said.
“Not every dunk is due to raising the floor, but you’ll start seeing them happen more often then they ought to.”

Time is of the essence, but as I said, for what?
Cold is heat and heat is cold — both together naked in the same shower.

Big headlines right now is the pope to resign — who gives a shit,  head of the most-corrupt, perverted and hypocritical institution in human history is leaving, what factor does it play in the natural order of things?
Worse than nothing.

And an aside: I’m adapting to Internet Explorer, which is crazy on its face.