Orange sunshine this early Friday on California’s north coast with more fog/smoke skies that have become commonplace the last few weeks, considered ‘haze, for lack of a better term.
All those forest fires blazing through the interior have created surreal cloud cover with ‘orange’ sunshine slicing through on occasion — and adding to the comfort zone, the NWS warns of possible thunderstorms later today ‘capable of producing lightning and gusty winds,’ a couple of items not needed right now.

A good local update on the fires at Redheaded Blackbelt — meanwhile yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown toured the Rocky Fire (now 45 percent contained), and warned of worse to come: ‘“Unfortunately, we now that historically August and September are worse than July. So fasten your seat belt.”‘

Brown says climate change isn’t ‘theory.’

(Illustration found here).

The former ‘Moonbeam’ governor, now real governor, has continued to enforece the notion climate change is aiding/abetting these terrible wildfires — via SFGate:

“We are now in an extreme weather event,” Brown cautioned.
“This is not the way these fires usually behave. If it continues year after year, California can literally burn up.”
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Although climate change can be a hot button political issue, Brown continues to use the California fires as an object lesson for climate change deniers.
This isn’t theory, he said, gesturing to the moonscape scene behind him.
“This is credible enough to change some minds,” he said.

And in the sense of denial in global warming — last night was the last for Jon Stewart at the Daily Show, which has apparently become a beacon for climate change.
From yesterday’s PsyPost:

New research has found that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show — two of the top political comedy TV shows in the United States — can shape viewers’ beliefs about climate change.
“These results dovetail with, while also extending, previous research showing that satirical television news can shape public opinion about other public affairs topics as well as attention to scientific and environmental issues, including climate change,” Paul R. Brewer and Jessica McKnight wrote in their study, which was published in Science Communication.
The researchers noted that news programs often seek to “balance” their coverage of climate change by interviewing climate change deniers, even though an overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that climate change is occurring.
“Thus, satirical television news coverage may offer counterpoints to climate change skepticism in public discourse and public opinion.”

We hope the trend continues…

Especially for those viewers outside the Daily Show prospectus — per the Washington Post, also from yesterday:

People are developing dementia a decade before they were 20 years ago, perhaps because of environmental factors such as pollution and the stepped-up use of insecticides, a wide-ranging international study has found.
The study, which compared 21 Western countries between the years 1989 and 2010, found that the disease is now being regularly diagnosed in people in their late 40s and that death rates are soaring.
The study, which compared 21 Western countries between the years 1989 and 2010, found that the disease is now being regularly diagnosed in people in their late 40s and that death rates are soaring.
The study was published in the Surgical Neurology International journal, and its findings publicized in the London Times newspaper Thursday.
The problem was particularly acute in the United States, where neurological deaths in men aged over 75 have nearly tripled and in women risen more than fivefold, the leader of the study, Colin Pritchard from Bournemouth University, told the London Times.
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The sharp increase in death rates from dementia-related diseases cannot simply be blamed on an aging population or stepped-up diagnosis, Pritchard said.
“The rate of increase in such a short time suggested a silent or even a hidden epidemic, in which environmental factors must play a major part, not just aging,” he was quoted as saying.
Pritchard said no single factor was to blame, but instead blamed the interaction between different chemicals and varying ypes of pollution.
“The environmental changes in the last 20 years have seen increases in the human environment of petro-chemicals — air transport, quadrupling of motor vehicles, insecticides and rises in background electro-magnetic field, and so on,” Pritchard was quoted by the newspaper as saying.
The scientists said nobody wanted to put an end to modern advances. Instead, to make them safer.

And as an old guy, I gots to say, Whoa!

Along with all that non-climate, climate research, this old news, point-on — via the Guardian last Tuesday: ‘The world’s glaciers are in retreat. The great tongues of ice high in the Himalayas, the Andes, the Alps and the Rockies are going back uphill at ever greater speeds, according to new research.’

Scorched earth via dry forest fires, and ice melting from the heat — what is ‘credible enough…‘