{"id":12765,"date":"2018-11-19T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2018-11-19T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:18:19","slug":"things-to-be-grateful-for-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=12765","title":{"rendered":"Things to be grateful for: Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Thanksgiving coming up, I will devote this week’s musings to things I am grateful for.<\/p>\n

As so often, that puts nature in first place, particularly the nature that surrounds me where I live, a place of astounding beauty.<\/p>\n

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That is true even if – or perhaps particularly if – you can’t see it very well, since in November it is often shrouded in mist.<\/p>\n

I now know to call it mist, since I looked up the difference in definition between mist and fog: they both are\u00a0‘Obscurity in the surface layers of the atmosphere, which is caused by a suspension of water droplets’.\u00a0<\/em>They differ, though, in the range of visibility:\u00a0By international agreement (particularly for aviation purposes) fog is the name given to resulting visibility less than 1 km, however the term in forecasts for the public generally relates to visibility less than 180 m.\u00a0<\/em>Mist simply has a lower density of water droplets and you can look farther than 1000 meters.<\/p>\n

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And in case you also want to know the meaning of haze, another visual phenomenon:\u00a0it is a suspension of extremely small, dry particles in the air (not water droplets) which are invisible to the naked eye, but sufficient to give the air an opalescent appearance.<\/em><\/p>\n

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All this, of course, stands in benevolent contrast to the horrors of air pollution and smog created by the fires in California.\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/16\/us\/air-quality-california.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the article: The precise biological mechanics of how people develop chronic lung problems, while not fully flushed out, lie at the intersection of two seemingly disparate scientific areas, immunology and environmental study.<\/em><\/p>\n

Immune cells that respond to foreign particles douse the particles with toxins, among other tactics, to destroy them. But an intense event like extremely poor air quality can prompt such a strong immune response that it can throw the body\u2019s delicate network out of balance, particularly in people predisposed to asthma or allergy.<\/em>A vicious cycle can begin where each time a person experiences even small, related stress \u2014 like smoke \u2014 the body overreacts, leading to constricted air flow and intensifying the risk of heart attack and stroke for some people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Researchers say that climate change leads to this kind of ill health through wildfire, but also through prolonged pollen seasons, dust storms and other events that affect air quality.<\/em>\u201cWe\u2019re setting up a tipping point in the immune system that leads to more inflammation and disease,\u201d said Dr. Sharon Chinthrajah, a pulmonologist and allergist at Stanford, speaking of the way climate change has put increased pressure on human defenses.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cCalifornia,\u201d she added, \u201cis being reset to a new reality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Grateful, then, for these election winners to tackle climate change, air and water quality, and persuading others in congress to sign on:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/12112018\/election-congress-climate-change-environment-activists-osasio-cortez-casten-tlaib-escobar-levin<\/a><\/p>\n

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And the swans are grateful that they aren’t turkeys…<\/p>\n

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