In the far north you build the sun room where it gets what little sun there is during the dark winter. You take advantage of the sun and put your face into the light while breathing some fresh air from outside. Good time for tea and a book. Cures what ails you.
(at 66 degrees north/south sunrise is around noon so I like to call it the Nordic Siesta.) 
The loud mouthed pundits and self proclaimed experts in denying everything but their own carved in stone opinions were out in full chorus since the big snowstorms. Somehow it occurred to them that snow or cold weather in winter equals more proof that climate change is a hoax. Clever is that they proclaim a desire for some of that warming, taunting those that worry about our changing climate. It is the Olympics of opinion, gold will go to the team that can sway public opinion. Let’s all concede that opinion is indeed moving toward denial as we come down to the last laps. It is a relay race and we’re passing the baton to the next generation. We are passing the baton but I don’t see it as a race, we’ll all be part of the outcome no matter what our personal ego makes us feel is the right thing to do, or not. There is no podium and no prize for anyone in the end. There is no finish line.
It is more likely that extreme weather including relentless snowfall is an effect of climate change rather than any kind of proof that all is well with mother nature. But nobody can proclaim that huge snowfalls are caused by climate change or that it is proof otherwise. Are the deniers so ignorant to think that cold days and snowflakes will never happen again or are they simply perpetuating a myth and hoping to keep everyone else ignorant? Are there opportunists on all sides of public debate? Surely there are greedy loud mouths and false prophets anywhere there is a chance to make money with face time in the arena of media and common conciseness. It isn’t about the long term path of human progress but instead is the short term goals of our own ego. A potentially hazardous game of diversion.
The Earth and nature is the only expert, we’re only trying to unlock the formula and understand how it works. Regulating a planet’s temperature range is like a giant heat pump. Weather is there to move heat. That is what a hurricane does, what a nor’easter is there for, why the weather changes and why we look to weather forecasters for what is happening. All that change and seemingly unpredictable weather is there to keep things within a range where life can survive in all its diversity. We can only push those natural capabilities just so far before that heat pump must create ever more extreme events to maintain the natural balance. When an extreme event passes over your head you might have to batten down the hatches and pick up a shovel. Complaining won’t help. Snow happens.
Tags: Energy, Phenomenon, rants, weather
I stumbled on this video and find it rather nice. Reykjavík was pretty interesting even back then. “Population 21 thousand, police force of three”. A few buildings in the film are still there and the hot spring laundry is still there but only as an historical artifact. Enjoy.
I hate war. War is hell. And any other combination of words you want to make that says that I despise war. But I maintain that if are involved in war then your country’s primary goal must be to finish that war and get back to the business of running a country. Your country has already had the arguments for and against war so stop that once you’ve made the call to do it anyway. Now focus on getting your sons and daughter’s out of harms way, bring them home.
However I’m also of the mind that no matter how advanced we become or how enlightened we think we are we have to stop pretending that war is anything but a brutal and barbaric way to settle arguments. So while you’re doing it, do it right and go all in. Stop talking about nation building, stop saying it isn’t about the oil, stop all the talking. Shoot to kill and finish it quickly. And when you’re done making a mess, take the gold. Or the oil, or whatever it is that is that country’s resource. We don’t fight in places that have nothing of great value. It just happens to be how it works. Take the gold and stop pretending you are compassionate. People are dead and you’ll never convince the survivors of anything else. One man’s collateral damage is another man’s son. You can fool the people that are safely back home but not anyone else. So take the money, how much worse can that be?
There isn’t any way to have a nice war so go all the way and finish the job by stealing the resources. You’ve already destroyed everything else. Now go home with the booty. And then fix your economy or whatever it is that you keep talking about instead.
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