It's been all over the news today—the report on global warming that states that 1) it most certainly is happening and 2) it's most probably caused by human activity.
Pretty strange that we calmly discuss things like the seas rising a foot or more in the next century. While that doesn't pose a big threat to Cleveland, it will drastically alter much of the world. And the response from the U.S. government is that we must avoid any drastic action because it might "harm the U.S. economy." I'm sure that's a compelling argument throughout the rest of the world.
Today was clear and sunny at about 4 pm, when I took this picture looking east from Edgewater Park. On the horizon you see some NE Ohio's big contributors to the problem. At far right, about five miles away, is a CEI plant just off the Shoreway; at far left is another in Fairport Harbor.
Very faintly
visible in the center is
the steam plume from the Perry nuclear power plant, about 50 miles away.
I know, I know, many claim that nuclear power is a solution to global warming, not a contributor, but somehow that seems to me like a deal with the devil. So I'm keeping it as part of the problem, at least until a good solution for handling nuclear waste is developed.
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