"Giant hail punched through roofs in Sabinal, Tex." (Twitter @vortexrfd via Washington Post) (what good does it do to recite
the rolls of the dead?) massive t’storm packs 100 mph winds, kills 11 human beings + thousands evac’d, near shanghai; flash floods in yemen kill 13; san antonio receives four-month’s worth of rain in four days (none of this proves anything) “thick bank of hazardous brush fire smoke” chokes sydney (again): stay indoors, they say, to all 5 m people; ferries can’t see to run corn futures ↑ 3% to $6.97/bushel (highest since march 2013); brazil harvest ↓ 8% (drought) (well, ok, that might land here -- but the american consumer is resilient!) record hailstone recorded in texas in the bashing they took last week -- 6.27-6.57” (the subject melted prior to exact measurements); record dry april in oregon; record sunny april in scotland (also one of coldest ever); worst agricultural disaster of the century in france, some say (e.g., ⅓ of wine harvest perdu); record hi spring min. temp for europe (85 f, crete, yesterday) (but if it’s happening some places, it’s not happening most places, look at it that way) lake tanganyika rises again: 2k human beings displaced; “these waters have destroyed everything we had in the house,” sez one of them, emelyne narugo; “children have to use boats to go to school. their notebooks have spoilt because they got wet from the first days of flooding” (all very regrettable, of course, but doesn’t that sort of thing happen there?) brazillian amazon now a net carbon emitter, not absorber; permafrost melt could emit much more carbon than expected; “epidemics of tree-destroying diseases on the rise” (and dead trees don’t absorb carbon, either; but they emit it when they burn, which they do do, in greater numbers & quicker than ever before; sea-level rise from melting antarctic ice sheet could be 30% > estimates (david wallace-wells sez c.e.o.s’ paying lip service to renewables is a positive development; and sure, greta blahblah & whatever, but still . . . (even as jenny price sez ask not what can i do ask what needs to be done --
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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. |