On the 25th of June, I selected, played, and sang the song Rain Down for the closing song to mass. It was a recommendation from a publication for Catholic music ministers. However, I received quite a few comments about my choice--especially after it proceeded to rain for the next five days. I will assure all of you: I do not have that kind of power.
Even without the song this past week, we had another week full of rain, making it difficult to get much done outside. In fact, our entire summer has been considerably cooler and wetter than average. It makes it hard for people here to believe that this past Monday held the hottest global temperature average in the history of meteorology. Global Warming (sometimes called Climate Change because it turns out that the average person doesn't have an appreciation for "global" phenomena) is accelerating. In fact, we are currently on the high side of most worst case scenarios that were projected for the 2020s back at the turn of the millennium--such as in Al Gore's 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth."
I have Facebook reminders of the hot and dry summers that we had in Soldotna in 2018 and 2019 which led to the massive fires in the latter year. Right now, our forests on the Kenai (and up into Denali) are absolutely loaded with dead spruce trees from our plague of beetles. As bad as the fires were in 2019, I can vividly imagine what they will be when we have another hot and dry couple of summers.
Thus, even though it has made my lawn an absolute frustration to mow and I wouldn't mind for there to be more sunshine coming through, I'd rather the summer rain down than burn up.
Even without the song this past week, we had another week full of rain, making it difficult to get much done outside. In fact, our entire summer has been considerably cooler and wetter than average. It makes it hard for people here to believe that this past Monday held the hottest global temperature average in the history of meteorology. Global Warming (sometimes called Climate Change because it turns out that the average person doesn't have an appreciation for "global" phenomena) is accelerating. In fact, we are currently on the high side of most worst case scenarios that were projected for the 2020s back at the turn of the millennium--such as in Al Gore's 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth."
I have Facebook reminders of the hot and dry summers that we had in Soldotna in 2018 and 2019 which led to the massive fires in the latter year. Right now, our forests on the Kenai (and up into Denali) are absolutely loaded with dead spruce trees from our plague of beetles. As bad as the fires were in 2019, I can vividly imagine what they will be when we have another hot and dry couple of summers.
Thus, even though it has made my lawn an absolute frustration to mow and I wouldn't mind for there to be more sunshine coming through, I'd rather the summer rain down than burn up.
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