2/13 hi: 10 f / norm: 45
lo: -1 f / norm: 22 -8 this a.m.; wind chill -26 predicted hi of 0 & lying in bed, my wife sez she doesn’t think it snowed b/c it wd be brighter inside from the reflection & b/c she doesn’t want it to snow; i get up & open the blinds: it’s snowed & it’s snowing; it still isn’t snowing, sez she, b/c i haven’t put my glasses on, so i can’t see it . . . i told her that approach works for climate chaos, too. i don’t want millions of people to go without electricity in arctic cold, or gas pipelines to freeze; i can’t see my home- town covered in ice, shivering; i don’t want half the country under winter weather advisories; i can’t see all the pile-ups in texas, okla., tenn., & ark.; i don’t want to know it’s colder right now in lawrence, kansas than in novosibirsk, siberia (-6 vs. 22 f, btw); i can’t see moscow paralyzed by a record-breaking snow; i don’t want britain & wales to suffer record-breaking cold; i can’t see new glacial lakes forming, ready to break loose & demolish every- thing & -one downstream; & i don’t want the arctic ocean to be record warm, skye & devon to be burning, river thames frozen over, or tornadoes in turkey; i definitely can’t see projections of morocco’s rainfall loss (10-30%); or reports of india’s loss of 8.5% of crop- land due to flood; or drought sereing the southwest u.s. (prepping another blowout wildfire season); or doubling wind-speeds of hurricanes over bermuda; or plant life growing in antarctica -- nuh-uh — not to us -- not here — pull the blinds shut -- go back to bed
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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. |