Alright, I WANT to think this is bunk
I didn't know what it was, found that I don't really *like* a number of the people on this board who babble about it. But thought I'd look into it anyway.
While I *want* to think this is bunk, I don't. I've been wondering the last couple of years why the skies aren't blue anymore. Why there are no clear days. I remember clear days. I know that they used to happen. I've been becoming rather concerned about it, more every year. At first I thought maybe it was a couple year pattern, like el-nino or el-nina, or such. But every summer more days pass, and only a couple of days every summer are clear blue days.
I thought maybe because I work now, that I just don't notice them. Then I've been at home with my babies, taking them out in the day. Still no clear blue days. Those lovely dark blue clear skies.
I live in the middle of the prairie - if there isn't a chinook the sky should be blue most of the time. And it used to be. Now I'm sure of it...it isn't just my imagination that the "blue skies of my youth" memories aren't just prettied up memories (my youth wasn't that enjoyable that I should have romanced it up.)
I've watch contrails that just seemed to spread, and spread and spread. I watched contrails when I was young all the time, and I never remembered them doing that then. Not once, looking up into a blue sky, would a contrail do that. I was confused, but thought maybe technology had changed - even though I know that the tech hasn't significantly changed in 20 years on most flight tech.
This makes me so sad. Why steal the most basic joy of the sun? Even plants can have that joy. It is more than criminal - it smacks into the very basic nature of life.