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The month of two sunrises is over. The sun came over the mountain today, so bright in fact that I couldn't get it to register even with Photoshop help. But you can see the sunlight on the snow in the trees for the proof,

And while we are on the subject of the grand scheme of geography, climate and weather, this chart  from the Media Matters website showed up today.
While the deniers pound desks on the East Coast of the United States, claiming the harsh winter is proof climate change is a hoax, it turns out that worldwide January was the fourth warmest on record. In the perspective of the globe, only one small area had colder than normal temperatures and unfortunately it happened to the science deniers on the House and Senate science committees and Fox noise.  So, here we go again. Ignorance is political justification.