{"id":12392,"date":"2019-09-05T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12392"},"modified":"2019-09-03T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T02:47:30","slug":"skywatch-friday-beach-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12392","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Beach Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hae76B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48674806261_91f08b282b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Beach Skywatch 1-Edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from one of our trips to Orange Beach, Alabama when we had a windy day. It makes for a nice photo.  Right now though I am thinking about Hurricane Dorian and the people who suffered from the destructive force it unleashed on the Bahamas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"567\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorian-forecast.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorian-forecast.png 693w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorian-forecast-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorian-forecast-624x511.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><figcaption>(Current as of 9\/3, check  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov<\/a>  for updates)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I write this, the storm is expected to travel, excruciatingly slowly up the coast of the US and who knows what it will do. I sat through a category I hurricane back in the 1980s. It was Alicia and I lived one hundred miles from the coast so its force was much attenuated by the time it go to me but it was scary enough. Next time I vowed to go to Nebraska. (Since then though I have decided that Oklahoma is far enough.) I have no idea what it would feel like to be on an island just a few feet above the ocean and no safe shelter from the storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no way to point at any one particular storm and say that it is caused by global warming. I am convinced though that we are experiencing human caused climate change and increased hurricanes are just one of the many results of this. I found a web site, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SkepticalScience.com (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticalscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SkepticalScience.com<\/a> that provides a lot of information presented in such a way that even I can understand it. It also has a guide on common myths and misconceptions presented by climate change skeptics. Check it out, bookmark it and keep it handy. The first step to solving a problem is admitting that you have a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Skywatch Friday (opens in a new tab)\">Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from one of our trips to Orange Beach, Alabama when we had a windy day. It makes for a nice photo. Right now though I am thinking about Hurricane Dorian and the people who suffered from the destructive force it unleashed on the Bahamas. As I write this, the storm is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2502,1271],"class_list":["post-12392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change-skeptics","tag-skywatch-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12395,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12392\/revisions\/12395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}