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Winter Solstice 2019 In Northern Hemisphere

Saturday, December 21 Military Time 2319 (According to website: https://earthsky.org/astronomy- essentials/everything-you-need- to-know-december-solstice.) Hark the herald angels sing yea, only one hundred ten days, I started counting until spring as proclaimed courtesy yours truly, a fellow Earthling. Mine tolerance to endure brutally cold weather quite plain decreases in direct proportion as orbitz around El Sol increase, hence subsequent heft to weather old man winter doth wane, no matter majority mein kampf birthdays lived hashtagged Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvanian. Climate change slated to ratchet up temperatures, thus quaint Currier and Ives existence dated, whereby relics portraying old man winter curated within (ironically enough) climate controlled and heavily gated surveilled environment freighted replete with trappings created, back in the day when bomb cyclones nsync with polar vortex precipitated, where global warming naysayers skated on thin ice ignoring strong voice dictated by diminutive Swedish activist Greta Thunberg severely castigated passive grownups, said slip o' lass generated cult like following despite her petite, yet enervated larger than life presence, especially venerated by young people cohort, who felt infuriated unheeded apocalyptic warnings inadvertently kickstarted, motivated, and promulgated green revolution proudly designated government, née said youth zealously, vociferously, righteously, opportunistically arrogated take charge attitude (think) wartime economy escalated forcing drastic paradigm shift diminishing nightmare demise calculated to reign death and destruction, nonetheless untolled cruelty permanently and wantonly eradicated multitudinous swaths of life forms.

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