you know how they say
weather isn’t climate? well, it kind of is, now, b/c techniques have improved: “it’s a signal-to-noise question,” the researcher sez -- the “signal” here = difference between what the models pre- dict & what temps & humidity actually are, to find “a pattern lurking in the fuzzy chaos of global daily weather, like a radio station waiting to be tuned in.” the result? you can see global heating in day-to-day weather #s every day since 2012. a climate scientist “could sit on the space station, look down at earth & actually see the fingerprint of climate change on any given day,” sez a climate scientist . . . so this daily x-treme weather chronicle really is a poem of our climate . . . i feel vindicated & worried: no alfred e. newman, i. on this given day, super- abundance of water in news: torrentials in e. africa now followed by locusts, scarfing up what crops are left; 18 m gal. of raw sewage poured into thames on london’s rainiest jan. day ever (1/11); more rain for israel, after record-breaking downpours earlier in jan., storm sewers spewing, roads cut off; river bursts banks in kwazulu-natal; inundations in indonesia; 4 dead, 100s of 1000s w/o power in e. spain, 70 mph winds & waves 28 feet high; & yes, hailstorms & floods in e. australia & bushfires still burn . . . signal or noise? from your station, what do you see? is yr house on fire, underwater, literal, figurative, or both?
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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. |