Fun with photos, Russian-style: empiricism
@ lat: 39.01° n, lon: 95.21° w, elev: 830 ft.: sat hi temp = 101 f (norm 90) sun hi temp = 85 f (norm 90); but this morning i felt chilly: only w/difficulty will you convince people who live where the weather has always seemed extreme that it has gotten extremely extreme (recent meme: “the 12 seasons of kansas” – haha lol – currently we’re in “on the doorstep of hell” – visions of clint eastwood painting the town red), global heating a conceptual con- struct one merely assents to until yr city runs out of H2O, & then you’re living in a sci-fi film that’s neither “fi” nor filmed. french farmers seek e.u. bailouts for crop losses: “people are thirsty & the cows are hungry”; & in u.s., drought after deluge: “there are farmers who are the 1st in their family for 3 generations to not grow crops on their fields” & “we’ve never planted this late in the year” & “heat wave causes wet soil to crust & compact, stunting root development & ruining crops,” & remember those cyclones in mozambique? . . . . . . right – didn’t think so. anyway, now 1.6 m folks suffer “extreme food insecurity” as a result: “the upcoming lean season [oct. – march] will be very difficult”; “climate change increases the probability of heat waves, but it’s still difficult to link any one event to climate change,” say the scientists, even when they are so depressed they can’t get out of bed.* weather is not climate weather is not climate weather is not climate . . . meanwhile, in uttar pradesh lightening kills 33 in massive t’storm, (& i can’t keep up w/ who’s in deluge & who’s in drought over yonder: crops shrivelled in some places, tigers and rhinos running from rising water in others); 700k bangladeshis displaced by floods: what do you do in bangladesh when it floods?; & jiangxi still inundated; & “10s of 1000s” (more) evac’d from kyushu. meanwhile, siberia still burning, background blotted w/smoke, & temps on its n. coast = 8 c + normal (“as wildfires increase in intensity, how can farmers safeguard their animals – and their way of life?” – those pictures from spain of sheep roasted alive in their pens) but every shrinking ice sheet has a silver lining: “fears over melting glaciers are also fueling a tourism boom in alaska” – 2 m visitors expected (“go while you can”) – “tour companies report a huge increase in demand for glacier- related activities, while cruise ships experienced a record season last year, up 33 % compared to 2010” heraklitos leans over the gunwale, vomiting & weeping, while demokritos plays shuffleboard & chuckles -------- * Listen to the second segment of the July 12th show.
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I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |