warmest jan. on record,
actually — i mean worldwide . . . the global heating ye have always with ye sayeth the lord, who also adds: but i guess you knew that huh? meanwhile, climate crisis became americans’ 11th most important issue in a recent poll! meanwhile, all the climate models look worse, of a sudden. they forgot about clouds. “clouds reflect some sunlight that hits them, & as the planet warms from co2 emissions, cloud cover will decrease. this in turn causes a positive feedback loop & further warms the climate” sez the lead researcher (& “winds are picking up worldwide” — did you notice?) s. zimbabwe looks worse: “no dams drought un- bearable make ends meet cattle no- thing to eat never good harvest no rains appealing to govt. help us we are stranded no money & you are in trouble kindly appealing to govt. money for boreholes vegetables to sell to eat” australia getting the drought-then-deluge treatment (or the drought- then-wildfires-then-deluge): a “rain bomb” “lashes” e. coast — most rain in years, actually; for a week, actually; meaning flash floods sluice across dry, compacted dirt last month wettest ever in norway, & temps as hi as 108 f in argentina, & n.z. issues first ever “red weather warning” (flooding displaced 2 k, cut off parts of s. island) & 46% ↓ snow since 1970 in u.s., & -- “yeah yeah the world is in horrible shape etc. — we know we’ve heard it all before why listen to it again -- everything’s global warming” but “a record, whether you’re talking about a baseball game or record-high lake levels, should be rare. we don’t want to set them on a recurring basis” sez the policy analyst but now the ball is juiced --
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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. |