tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post4719440997406459330..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Back to the BurdenGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-54097886986136687682011-03-23T04:50:37.540-04:002011-03-23T04:50:37.540-04:00Great combination of material in this post. I rece...Great combination of material in this post. I recently had the opportunity to visit Los Angeles & the San Bernadino mountains. Astonishing dieback of the forest in the San Jacinto State Forest, and elsewhere in urban areas most trees exhibit signs of sickness. Much dieback starting at the tops of the crowns as you have noted. As with the "gorilla in the room" experiment, this seems to be barely noted or worthy of comment.<br />Coincidentally I also watched a documentary about the Sea of Japan last week. I visited there in about 1990 & I was impressed by the beautiful clarity of the air. From the documentary images it appears to have declined greatly in the past 20 years - if fallible memory is a guide.JohnGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613781884378953465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-43930505836038652792011-03-21T10:46:09.167-04:002011-03-21T10:46:09.167-04:00The air is very bad, Morocco Bama. Last summer on...The air is very bad, Morocco Bama. Last summer on the really hot days it was so suffocating, it was downright frightening. When it is rainy and foggy, the lichens expand and get brighter, which is an amazing sight in the woods. I have just been watching a video about the coming financial crash - a much bigger one due to the dollar no longer being the currency of the world - and it went on about "normalcy bias" which is even better at explaining the almost universal blindness than the concept of shifting baselines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias<br />Right up there with the Black Swan concept.<br /><br />I know so many little children who have had seriously runny noses and coughs their entire lives, whether they have a cold or not - and heard many anecdotal stories of unprecedented nosebleeds.<br /><br />My lungs are on fire much of the time, but then, I smoked for years!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-22874883215691251212011-03-21T09:49:54.091-04:002011-03-21T09:49:54.091-04:00Of interesting note are the comments to the articl...Of interesting note are the comments to the article linked about the Wyoming Smog. In the comments, a poster alludes to the propensity of this area for periodic and consistent temperature inversions. I believe my wife, children and I drove through an area affected by a temperature inversion coming back from Mobile, Alabama late at night shortly after Christmas. We had to allow the humidified outside air in, versus the recirculated filtered air, to keep the car windows from fogging up, otherwise I could not see the road ahead. Almost half way through the trip the smell in the air became sour and acrid, so I switched to recirculated, but the windows quickly fogged up and I nearly ran off the road because I couldn't see, so I switched back to outside air, and we grinned and bared the odious air. The next day, both my wife and I had severe respiratory symptoms absent the typical cold symptoms. We haven't been right since. We have had one cold after another....colds that last forever, and I don't get colds all that much. I've had bloody mucus and a persistent cough....so bad, that I think I may have cracked some ribs. I feel like I have lung cancer, but I don't want to be a hypochondriac. Keep in mind that I am a runner nad have not been able to run since the beginning of the year because of this compromised condition. I use to run six miles several times a week, and since I am always sick, I don't want to tax my lungs any further. It scares the hell out of me. I'm too young to die. Also, my allergies are horrible this year to further compound the situation. NO doubt this is due to being respiratorily compromised, and my wife is experiencing exactly the same thing. The children are not, but maybe that is because they are younger and not yet as subsecptible, even though damage may have occurred.<br /><br />I have noticed that there has been a significant increase in these temperature inversion events in Atlanta this past year. A still fog collects over the city creating cloud cover with very little movement of the trapped cold air at ground level. It's quite eerie, actually, and it is happening with increased frequency....like yesterday and today, for example. The cloud cover does not show on radar, so it appears as though it's a sunny day, but I assure you it's not. This was not even forecast for today, so it wasn't expected by the weathermen.<br /><br />All of this reminds me of an article I read about the deadly mists in the middle ages.....the deadly mists and their descriptions of them and what was responsible for them.<br /><br />Of course, take this with a grain of salt, but it's interesting, nonetheless:<br /><br />http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/chemtrails_thru_ages.htmMorocco Bamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-36022252561012900592011-03-20T00:21:05.961-04:002011-03-20T00:21:05.961-04:00I can confirm how fast it is happening in the PNW ...I can confirm how fast it is happening in the PNW as well. I can nearly watch the lichen/mosses grow before my eyes. Something aint quite right here. This only started happening the last few years, the massive lichen growth and super fast tree dieoff. The pollution is no doubt always rising and getting out of control, but it should not necessitate a 100x+ increase in the speed of growth of these species. Something just doesn't seem right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-92061907836148298952011-03-20T00:02:45.604-04:002011-03-20T00:02:45.604-04:00Beautiful post, as usual, Gail!Beautiful post, as usual, Gail!Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-32130127756038395792011-03-19T23:33:35.377-04:002011-03-19T23:33:35.377-04:00Bravo, Gail. Thank you so much for all your sleuth...Bravo, Gail. Thank you so much for all your sleuthing and photographing. I guess I am more and more feeling like the poor fellow in charge of Japans melting power plant. I can't help but feel sorry for all of them working so hard, even if they should have known the risks. I feel sorry for all of us. I guess it is a bee melt down and a tree melt down, and even a sea melt down. I guess a lot of us are waking up to the risks of this culture.<br /> What a great service you do for us. Thanks again.<br />Rita <br />(had to sign in as anonymous to get this thing to post)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-17713781972352642312011-03-19T20:57:04.425-04:002011-03-19T20:57:04.425-04:00Fortunately, none of this is effecting the Pacific...Fortunately, none of this is effecting the Pacific Northwest, which, according to Jim Bull-Dim, remains clear of any consequences from those annoying industrial pollutants.<br /><br />Oh wait. I forgot. Those things have nothing to do with climate change. Pardon the interruption.UnReal2rhttp://unrealclimate.netnoreply@blogger.com