Global cooling? Local at least.
So here in the San Francisco Bay Area we’ve had the the coldest and wettest May I can remember in 27 years. I wore my wool coat this morning, in the sunlight! Had this month been 10° warmer than usual instead of 10° cooler, the politicians would be calling urgently for more new taxes to save the world from immediate calamity (translation: lining the pockets of themselves and their contributors while damaging the earth even more). I hope it warms up, because the past 3-4 years have been cooler than usual where I live!
I know firsthand from “bathtub rings” in enormous eskers in the far north of the Thelon Wilderness that things are changing (permafrost is melting, allowing the 10,000 year old water to drain out). And the glaciers in Yosemite are just piddling ice fields now that the Little Ice Age ended 100 years ago. But the religious hysteria of climate change has got to meet reality while people go jobless here in the US, the richest bankrupt country in the world.
So how does this relate at least tangentially to photography? Well, it means that my June 9/10/11 photo tour will enjoy a rare June opportunity for a goodly amount of lingering snow, and if it warms up, even more water than usual.
