“some say global warming
is the result of human activity” (tina fey qua sarah palin), “but i think it’s just a naturally occurring part of the end of days” (or something like that – “quoted” from memory) a new heaven & a new earth, we were promised – new and improved! – why worry about the old ones? the one we had yesterday in lawrence, kansas, u.s.*: hi: 81 / norm: 84 / record 107 (1953) lo: 50 / norm: 63 / record 44 (1985) & any record not in the twenty- first century i choose to take as a hopeful sign however it was a record hi in central lithuania (although six people drowned in floods as well) & ukraine – where “roads are poured w/water” meanwhile s. china: floods, mud- & land- slides killed 61, 4300 rescued, 9300 homes collapsed, 356,000 people evac’d, > 9,000,000 acres farmland damaged, & $1,930,000,000 lost – cars, trucks swooshed away cities swamped, islanded – (picture = thousand words, but only numbers count) australia still bedroughted after hottest summer ever – murray-darling basin ag getting pretty dry. hottest spot on planet monday and tuesday? (hint: not kuwait) : hermosillo, sonora, mexico: 118 f / 48 c (why won’t they get in line and do it the legal way?) record highs in british columbia; while here, barron’s, forbes, & al. fretting about midwest corn harvests; & in rajasthan, they’re marrying frogs to try to stop the drought, & i must say varuna and varsha look pretty cute in their nuptial duds (tho 28% of sugarcane fields remain unplanted) meanwhile “large, aggressive” siberian wildfires near the “megaslump” (depression 1 km long, 800 m wide, 100 m deep caused by soviet clearcuts, where “scientists found a perfectly preserved prehistoric baby horse, extinct foal of cold-resistant lenskaya species. there are hopes dna from the foal will allow scientists to clone the species back to life”); britain in drought, reservoirs parched & cracked, as other parts get 2x june rain in days: 500 rail passengers stranded 8 hrs. in lincolnshire; while around lake como they’re fleeing rising waters as rest of italy enters drought but flooding in kenya flooding in yemen (more cholera); flooding in in- donesia displaces 5,703. > 1k may wildfires in the holy land: are we lake of fire yet? clone us back to life, o lord! “weatherwatch: melting arctic ice brings u.s. heatwaves”; humph – that’s as may be; all’s i know is what i see out my window; local weather the only verifiable news
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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. |