{"id":204,"date":"2007-11-20T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-11-06T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T14:01:08","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NaBloPoMoNovember 20, 2007
\nTuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are seven or eight categories of phenomena in the world to talk about, and one of them is weather.<\/em>
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Thoreau doesn’t say what the other six or seven categories are. I’m choosing the weather to talk about, again, because even though I had a very productive day, writing about what I produced would be too much like a conventional diary entry. (Really, do you want me to list the writing exercises I did and describe the research that led me to an announcement of the fifty-ninth annual convention of the Catholic Cemetery Conference next year?)<\/p>\n

Yesterday<\/a> I posted a picture of the sunrise I enjoyed out here on the high plains, and contrasted it with the chilly scene of winter that I’d have beheld were I at home. Here’s what greeted me this morning:<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/p>\n

The weather forecast last night called for light snow ending today and then ten days of “partly cloudy.” I thought I might rent a car when I am taken into town tomorrow and do a little sightseeing on the weekend.<\/p>\n

By this morning the forecast\u00c2\u00a0had changed: 1-3 inches in the lower elevations, 6-8 inches in the higher (where I am).<\/p>\n

I stopped reading when I got to the avalanche warnings.<\/p>\n

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