{"id":8515,"date":"2024-09-30T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:08:12","slug":"minnesota-is-not-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/minnesota-is-not-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota is Not Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20240813ff\/20240930-US-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"National Weather Service map: U.S. (September 30, 2024, 19:22 UTC)\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">National Weather Service map, Monday afternoon. (September 30, 2024)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking about something else this week, but I&#8217;ve noticed that the stalking specter of climate change has shifted from California to the east coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/hurricane-helene-how-climate-change-is-making-floridas-big-bend-more-vulnerable-tropical-threats\/15363572\/\">Hurricane Helene: Climate change is making Florida&#8217;s Big Bend more vulnerable to tropical threats<\/a>&#8221; <br>Julia Jacobo, ABC News (September 27, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/corral-fire-climate-change-california\/\">Corral Fire in California has firefighters worried as climate change threatens to make fire season worse<\/a>&#8221; <br>Ben Tracy, CBS News (June 3, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, here in central Minnesota, we&#8217;re under a Red Flag Warning. In other words, conditions are right for wildfires to get out of hand. If we let them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we&#8217;re both encouraged to not set our homes ablaze, and allowed to take common-sense precautions, wildfires in these parts seldom if ever make national news. I suspect that Minnesota&#8217;s status as a non-coastal state is a factor, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a Freeze Warning in effect, by the way, for western North Dakota \u2014 over on the other side of the Red Flag Warning area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed an expert analysis of this week&#8217;s situation, explaining how Minnesota is dry and windy: and therefore climate change is dooming us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, I suspect it&#8217;s because Minnesota isn&#8217;t all that important \u2014 or maybe it&#8217;s because experts read somewhere that the Upper Midwest goes through this every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We call it autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think Earth&#8217;s climate has been, is now, and will continue to be, changing. I think taking that into account when deciding on whether or not to build high rises on sand bars, or subdivisions in canyons, is prudent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also think studying how we&#8217;re affecting those changes makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I would be far less uncomfortable, discussing such things, if my betters would turn the hysteria down a bit in their pronouncements of perilous portents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/climate-neighbors-bogeymen-and-responsibility\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20170501ff\/20170909-_96858213_040495977-1-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Getty Images, via BBC News: 'Many of the protesters in Hamburg were demonstrating against Donald Trump's position on climate change' (BBC News; 2017) used w\/o permission.\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve talked about this before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/hurricane-beryl-sort-of-good-news-and-taking-the-long-view\/\">Hurricane Beryl: Sort-of-Good News, and Taking the Long View<\/a>&#8221; <br>(July 13, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/a-house-in-yellowknife-northwest-territories-canada\/\">A House in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada<\/a>&#8221; <br>(August 20, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/climate-neighbors-bogeymen-and-responsibility\/\">Climate, Neighbors, Bogeymen and Responsibility<\/a>&#8221; <br>(November 5, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/green-sahara-environmental-and-climate-news\/\">Green Sahara, Environmental and Climate News<\/a>&#8221; <br>(July 30, 2022) (<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/green-sahara-environmental-and-climate-news\/#were\">We&#8217;re <em>Not<\/em> Doomed?!<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cyclone-tauktae-covid-19-and-the-siloam-lesson\/\">Cyclone Tauktae, COVID-19 and the Siloam Lesson<\/a>&#8221; <br>(May 22, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be talking about something else this week, but I&#8217;ve noticed that the stalking specter of climate change has shifted from California to the east coast. 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