you know how they always say
you can’t say what damage is directly caused by climate change? well, i see in the paper where some scientists have tried to do it: how much less wd superstorm sandy have cost, w/o the wacky climate? ~$8.1b, they figure; & 17k fewer people affected. well, new york city is doing something about the weather: they’re spending $1½ b for 2½ mi. of flood walls, flood gates, &c. along the east river bank; plus which, they’re razing a park in order to raise it 8-10 ft., by dumping more dirt on top; all of which is great, if you’re manhattan meanwhile, cyclone tauktae kills 91 so far -- strongest storm ever hits indian w. coast, sez c.n.n. -- right in the middle of pandemic surge the arctic marge of the barents sea clocks higher temp than beaches in s. of france, sez the meteorologist; while siberian zombie fires rise from the dead & grow meanwhile, 17 greek villages evac’d as smoke paints athens’ sky orange from burning pine forest (8 sq mi worth); & business insurance magazine reports on a dam break in slovakia (they got the actuaries) another 5k humans displaced as lake tanganyika rises again; 30k displaced since jan 1 alls i can say is all these places had better start building sea-walls and fire-walls and heat-walls, ‘cause the funny weather just keeps coming, huh?
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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. |