I took the above photograph of sunset over the University of Denver's Ritchie Center from the balcony of my condo a couple of nights ago. Granted, the sky is a very dramatic color, but that is because there are several forest fires in the state that have been burning for weeks now, and it is the smoke from those fires that make the sky so dramatic. Back on Labor Day, when I was up in Fort Collins, which is pretty close to the Cameron Peak fire, the intense smoke caused the town to be in perpetual dusk the entire day. I'm afraid this is the new reality here in the west. I think those horrendous forest fires in Australia last year should have been a warning. Climate change is definitely having it's effect on the world, and it's about time politicians took it seriously, no matter how upset their campaign donors might become. After all, we are used to public tantrums by this time, thanks to our glorious leader. Who says he hasn't had a positive effect?
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