{"id":18446,"date":"2021-09-04T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18446"},"modified":"2021-09-04T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T14:45:08","slug":"overnight-news-the-practical-ontology-of-climate-change-sounding-out-the-truth-in-a-cacophony-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18446\/overnight-news-the-practical-ontology-of-climate-change-sounding-out-the-truth-in-a-cacophony-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: The practical ontology of climate change: Sounding out the truth in a cacophony of\u00a0lies."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou think it\u2019s hot. I find it pleasant. But try being an Akita in this\u00a0desert.\u201d<\/p><\/div>I sing the praises of practical ontology because we live in a cacophony of lies: You either take personal responsibility for understanding what is actually happening around you, or you mimic the mouthings of professional mouthpieces. Do you see why? If you have no way of checking up on reality, you have no way of checking up on them, either.<\/p>\n

So: Ignoring whatever might be the cause \u2013 which is most emphatically not<\/em> the point \u2013 is the Earth warming? Or is it cooling? How could you tell, one way or another, all on your own, using only your own senses as your measuring apparatus?<\/p>\n

Here in the Sonoran Desert, we are gifted in late Summer with a seasonal delight we call the monsoon. South Asians quibble about terminology, but the monsoon used to have an objective definition based on the waxing and waning of persistently high humidity (for us): Wet air for weeks with big storms in the late afternoons and early evenings.<\/p>\n

The source of the moisture is the Gulf of Mexico. When the Gulf gets very warm in late Summer, the airflow moves from East \u2013 around Florida, up the coast and off to Europe, the Gulf Stream \u2013 to West \u2013 across West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, all the way to Las Vegas and Palm Springs.<\/p>\n

That’s the monsoon, for the whole of the desert Southwest. England and France flock to the beaches in August because their bad weather comes our way for a while. In Phoenix, the monsoon used to commence around July 15th, ending around September 15th. That rule-of-thumb has been failing for a while, such that they revised the official definition to hide all the missing moisture.<\/p>\n

What is happening, observably to the senses and apprehensible in secondary consequences \u2013 e.g., changes in barometric pressure put my guitars out of tune \u2013 is cooling, not warming. The Gulf gets warm later and for a shorter span of time, sending less moisture West and more East \u2013 not out and under Florida Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou think it\u2019s hot. I find it pleasant. But try being an Akita in this\u00a0desert.\u201dI sing the praises of practical ontology because we live in a cacophony of lies: You either take personal responsibility for understanding what is actually happening around you, or you mimic the mouthings of professional mouthpieces. Do you see why? 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