Overcast and quiet this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast — at mid-week, it’s gotta be all down hill from here, right?

Yesterday, the original idea for my morning post was Earth Day (which was Tuesday), but due to problems with my site, I forgot about it as I rushed about to finish the post before leaving for work. What a dumb-ass.
Instead, I listed some bad shit happening with the environment, which should have caused it to be called, ‘Save-Earth Day,’ and left out the whole spiel.

Republicans, however, sugar-coat: “I think conservatives value Earth Day, but they celebrate how the environment, air quality and water quality have improved through conservative principles – through free trade and through technological progress”
Bull-cough/cough-shit!

(Illustration found here).

The above flattering bullshit came from Nick Loris, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, the freakish-right-wing brain tank — these guys are all full of denying shit.

And this from the Website of the Texas GOP, and climate change: Time to chill out on man-made global warming, or, I mean, global climate change theory. Facts matter.
This shit is spattering the average American:

Americans’ generally low level of concern about global warming compared with other environmental issues is not new; warming has generally ranked last among Americans’ environmental worries each time Gallup has measured them with this question over the years.
Concern about pollution of drinking water has generally been at the top of the list.
Gallup has tracked worry about global warming using this question format since 1989.
The percentage of Americans expressing a great deal of worry has varied over that period, partly reflecting major global warming news events along the way.
The highest levels of worry occurred in April 2000 (40 percent) and March 2007 (41 percent).
On the other hand, worry reached its lowest points in October 1997 (24 percent), March 2004 (26 percent), and March 2011 (25 percent).
The current 34 percent worry is essentially the same as it was in 1989.

Since that way-first Earth Day, yonder-back in 1970, the planet has been warming — via Climate Central:

Average temperatures across most of the continental U.S. have been rising gradually for more than a century, at a rate of about 0.127°F per decade between 1910-2012.
That trend parallels an overall increase in average global temperatures, which is largely the result of human greenhouse gas emissions.
While global warming isn’t uniform, and some regions are warming faster than others, since the 1970s, warming across the U.S. has accelerated, previously shown in our report The Heat is On.
Since then, every state’s annual average temperature has risen accordingly.
On average, temperatures in the contiguous 48 states have been warming at a rate of 0.48°F per decade since 1970, nearly twice the global average.

So that’s Earth Day 2014, plus one — long road home.