Earth at night, from the Smithsonian website
The general wisdom is that you can't do anything about the weather. That it would be like trying to put in an order with God: "Today we'd like a sunny afternoon for the baseball game, please, and some rain tonight for the tomatoes."
The growing consensus is that we have already done something about the weather, but there are measures we could take to counteract the mistakes of the past or at least slow down the present pace of deterioration. There are others, including good friends of mine, who say it's foolish and arrogant trying to alter God's plan…we get what we get.
I'm not going to go into the arguments right now, first I need to do some homework. I'll just point out the blue badge to the right, announcing this year's Blog Action Day for Thursday, October 15. Click on the badge and you'll find out probably more than you'd ever want to know about this very well-organized event.
Climate change was the overwhelming choice this year when the Blog Action Committee put several topics to a vote. And the vast majority of them don't even live in San Carlos/Guaymas/Empalme where Jimena roosted for two days like a hen on her eggs, soaking us in more than 25 inches of rain and forcing 75,000 of our less fortunate out of their homes.
Last year I didn't find out about Blog Action Day until the day itself, when quite a number of fellow bloggers sounded off on the subject of poverty. What a coincidence, I muttered. Duh!