(the idea being to continue this record until i die which may or may not be long) here at 38° 58' 18" N / 95° 14' 6" W yesterday hi 64 norm 72 hi 50 norm 48 (which over time "Siegelman is using data from a single tagged southern elephant seal to study small-scale ocean features in a little-known part of the ocean around Antarctica." (may or may not 36 tornadoes in tx, ok, ar, mo, la the usual suspects – that’s not news may or may not be related to (prove anything) 1,200,000 humans evacuated, n.e. india – cyclone fani Kolkata flights grounded 5k shelters in odisha state everybody’s thatched roofs blew away meanwhile u.s. d.o.d. lacks money to rebuild bases (they take it seriously) flood and wind reports: paraguay; australia: n.e. victoria (as 1 ½ yr old toddler in adelaide sees rain for the first time) c. sulawesi, indonesia but in malaysia: “Limbang, Bintulu, Mukah and Daro districts are hit by floods while Mulu National Park is facing water shortage. Folk living near the national park in remote northern Sarawak are facing dry taps. Add your reaction: awful, upset, sad, agonized, grieved, scared” [only 1 response: scared] highest april temps ever in hong kong, saskatoon, and d.c. but then again it’s not april anymore, and it's always a record somewhere, so let’s move on – 5 more humans dead mississippi valley floods 3,000 homes here, state of emergency there, closed mississippi r bridges at t'other - record crest at davenport tigris and eurphrates burst banks in iraq; deaths from duststorms in the south hunger after cyclones in mozambique farmers already water fields in europe b/c of last summer’s drought (“after the drought is before the drought”) ditto for caribbean lowest-ever temps in scotland for mayday hightest-ever temps last year mayday u.k. parliament declares climate emergency (here, here; hear, hear) no money, no regulations, no action
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
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. |