{"id":2510,"date":"2021-06-30T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:27:15","slug":"warming-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"Warming to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

This wouldn’t have to happen if we raked\u00a0our forest floors.<\/p>\n

Now the Oregon\/Cal border’s only good for cooking smores.<\/div>\n
Fire waves and furnace heat are bouts of climate change.<\/div>\n
It ‘s irony but adds a new light to ‘home on the range.’<\/div>\n
And this time the inferno’s booked for a cross-country tour,<\/div>\n
with temps well past one hundred, really too much to endure.<\/div>\n
In the west, thirty five cities set temperature highs.<\/div>\n
Portland scored a one-sixteen. Now that was a surprise.<\/div>\n
Climate change affects the jet stream. We’re told that’s the reason.<\/div>\n
Who knows how bad things will get in this year’s wildfire season?<\/div>\n
And, if one thinks Canada’s a cooler place to be,<\/div>\n
they just hit a record one-eighteen up in BC.<\/div>\n
Rolling blackouts result from need of A\/C and fan.<\/div>\n
They’ve already happened two straight days now in Spokane.<\/div>\n
We’ve still got two months of summer hot spots to\u00a0endure.<\/div>\n
Climate change has gone deranged. We’re hurtin’. That’s for sure.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This wouldn’t have to happen if we raked\u00a0our forest floors. Now the Oregon\/Cal border’s only good for cooking smores. Fire waves and furnace heat are bouts of climate change. It ‘s irony but adds a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2700,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2700","url_meta":{"origin":2510,"position":0},"title":"Court and Sparks","author":"Rick Young","date":"July 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court favors pollution. It's their fourth straight bad solution. Open carry was the first. Ban abortions was the worst. 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