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Paul Douglas, local weatherman, Republican and a critic of the climate change deniers has various locutions for our heat wave. \u00a0Today it was: Dubai (with lakes). \u00a0Also, Phoenix heat with Louisiana bayou humidity.<\/p>\n
We’re like fish out of winter in the soupy steam that passes for our daytime air.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile our vegetables soak it up, the leeks looking dark green, potato plants now leaping above the mounding (considerable) I did last week. \u00a0Tomato plants stand tall, some with fruit. \u00a0I’m going out now to harvest chard and beets. \u00a0Over this weekend I’ll plant beets, chard, collard greens and carrots.<\/p>\n
The heat makes me much less interested in working outside unless I get it done early in the morning; a shift in time I’ve found in hot countries I’ve visited. \u00a0In Merida, for example, capitol of the Yucatan, the city park filled up with people by 5:30 am, most of whom had gone on \u00a0to something else by 9:30 or 10:00.<\/p>\n
As humans have done since we left Africa (and there, too, for that matter), we will adapt to whatever change occurs. \u00a0We will have no choice. \u00a0Just how much change we have to endure remains a choice; though anyone familiar with the CO2 loading numbers, which steadily increase, will have a pessimistic attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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