{"id":2786,"date":"2023-12-16T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T23:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T21:25:23","slug":"skiing-at-afton-alps-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2023\/12\/16\/skiing-at-afton-alps-today\/","title":{"rendered":"skiing at Afton Alps today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just took quick notice of the fact that my climate change-related posts increase dramatically each winter as the warming of the planet is felt here in Minneapolis more than other places in the country.<\/p>\n<p>They tell us that it is a &#8220;brown&#8221; Christmas about 30% of the time for as long as records were kept, however, I think that conflates the lack of precipitation with the warm temperatures. My phone tells me it rained about .4&#8243; today &#8211; that should&#8217;ve been good enough for 4-6 inches of snow, but instead, we got mud and big ruts on the hill where the kids were practicing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6779.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_6779.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The impact on my kids&#8217;s (and my) psyche is pretty strong. The sound of rain all last night on the roof did not make for an easy wake up to go skiing this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/13\/climate\/cop28-climate-summit-takeaways.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU0.gwuF.CME6iMKP4gKS&#038;smid=url-share\">Four Takeaways From the COP28 Climate Summit<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It took 28 years of climate negotiations for world leaders to agree to wean the global economy from the principal source of climate change: the burning of fossil fuels.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great. They&#8217;ve been working on this almost as long as I&#8217;ve been blogging.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime &#8211; as I told the kids this morning, we need to keep on loving the things we love to do outdoors so we don&#8217;t lose the reason to keep up the fight for the climate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6780.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_6780.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just took quick notice of the fact that my climate change-related posts increase dramatically each winter as the warming of the planet is felt here in Minneapolis more than other places in the country. They tell us that it is a &#8220;brown&#8221; Christmas about 30% of the time for as long as records were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}