The Selective Giving Of Fucks

 David has always been much inspiration!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/25/magazine/david-sedaris-interview.html#commentsContainer

*I have more many musings on this but don't wanna write right now...

A Thought Re Atmospheric Rivers In The PNW

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/11/were-sumas-floods-caused-by-global.html

Atmospheric rivers are certainly one facet of the sphere of effects.  Nothing new on their own, but frequency and intensity...?  Following the hottest summer I can recall?  I'd have died for a summer like this as a kid. 

Having lived all around the Sound for 90% of my fifty-plus years it is certainly interesting to see how things have evolved...though certainly no more than spittle in an ocean in natural, climatological terms.  At least sans a major solar, asteroidal, tectonic or volcanic event.  Tracyton, Silverdale, Sequim, Shelton, Olympia, Bellingham, Bellevue, Bainbridge Island, Seattle.  All have their own nuances that have made this subject immensely interesting to delve into.  Not to mention the rest of the PNW that I have revisited much of over the years.  

Watching salmon cross Highway 101 in the 'Skok's' floodplain was certainly something to witness.  Easy enough to imagine them swimming over a beaver dam or other obstruction prior to human influences.  

Observation, research, data, evaluation, point, counterpoint, personalities, intent.  Hopefully sound conclusions.  

That 'something is going on' is undeniable.  Causal?  Correlational?  I love the continuing research and perspectives, evaluating the people as well as the information they provide:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/devastating-pacific-northwest-floods-could-carry-a-climate-warning/

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019WR024950


Trends in not just weather but human proclivities, individual and en masse.  I, for one, stopped eating land animals years ago for health and environmental reasons.  Fish and cheese...ok...a few times a year but *far* less.  Constantly looking to reduce my personal impact on the planet...sitting here annoyed at the plastic I am typing this on.  Dreaming of an EV, til the day I no longer need to own one.  

Obviously this subject is updated by the minute.  I completely agree with the idea of continuing to modify our behavior over any attempt at altering the climate by chemical (or physical...?!) means.  And even if it turns out we aren't the direct cause, why wouldn't we at least try to mitigate any impact we know we are having?  

But...please.  When you consider the chemical and energy composition and density of the organic material that had been composted, aged and stored over what is estimated to be the last four billion years, and our insanely efficient methods of collecting and burning it, any attempt at a countering argument is nothing more than a cow fart.