Remember this? Eastern Australia from space, Jan. 4, 2020. lawrence, kansas, u.s.a.:
jan. 4 temps: hi: 49 f / normal 39 lo: 31 f / normal 18 we ended 2020 in a “moderate drought,” due to almost no precip sept. - dec.; but we ended it with a snowstorm, too, so that’s something. i thot 2021 was supposed to be when everything started getting better, but the climate still looks the same (viz., worse): 85” of snow in n. japan in 48 hrs: 140 flights cancelled, bullet train stopped, traffic trapped; all this caused by highest air pressure ever observed on planet earth (over mongolia) on one side; and deepest low-pressure ever recorded in n. pacific, on t’other; japan in between = big wind off the sea = lotsa snow = this is what i mean by “chaos.” meanwhile, in s. japan, 4200 humans still in shelters 6 mo. after floods, mudslides meanwhile, in malaysia, > 20k humans evac’d -- punishing monsoons (the forecast for china, the tornados in n. california, the flash flood in sucre, bolivia, the ongoing flooding nr lake victoria, the rainfall in dehli & luzon & n. queensland — there is a lot i leave out of this chron) more 2020 records: hottest yr on record in france (since records began, 1900); hottest yr on record in estonia (in 102 yrs); hottest yr on record in portland, maine; hottest july & aug. ever in phoenix; juneau, ak., withal, just got soaked under its rainest day ever recorded (dec. 1); & 2021 resolutions: i will not write about the disappearing glaciers 100s of millions rely upon for h2o i will not write about ice sheets’ melting & how it's helping coastal inundations i will not write about rainforests’ turning into grasslands, or grasslands turning into deserts, or loss of mangroves, leaving low coasts exposed to storms i will not write about where all the people who lived in all these places may go next i will not write about the arctic ocean’s turning into an ocean, complete with year-round ship traffic & year-round geopolitical jockeying, complete with nuclear-powered this and that i will not write about what’s happening to the world’s rarest tree, or the cute li’l animals, because you know about all that stuff already. no, i’ll keep writing about now, as it happens to human beings: all the things that don't belong in consciousness; all the things that don't belong in any poem at all
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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. |