lo yesterday: 49 f / month to date: 0.94
normal hi: 82 f / thurs. sunset: 7:25 pm that’s what the paper sez this morning; there must be some mistake . . . “wildfires & weather x-tremes: it’s not a coincidence, it’s climate change” “slow meandering hurricanes are often more dangerous -- & they’re getting more common” (one hammers u.s. gulf coast; another hits bermuda) “think 2020’s disasters are wild? experts predict worse in the future” “atlantic hurricane season may need whole new alphabet to name all storms” (they’re about to go to greek letters instead, alpha and omega time) “the climate crisis is a national security threat to the u.s.: we already see the effects” therwer must b some misstake “72% of americans believe that [gravity] is happening. at a local level, kansas is not far behind, w/a little more than ⅔ believing that [gravity] is happening . . . but only 37% of kansans believe that [gravity] will affect them personally” meanwhile: 9k sq mi. burned so far in s. america’s pantanal, world’s largest wetland -- windy, dry, no rain til nov.; rainforest deforestation reaching “a tipping point”; & fires in u.s. w. coast forests make for worst air on earth; somw misrak4 floods destroy 20% of rice crop in nigeria; in ethiopia, 217 k humans homeless due to inundation; $1.44 b aid needed (not forthcoming); & dig this: summer 2020 hottest ever in n. hemisphere . . . and there is no mistake: everything is going just as we knew it would, like it did in the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum 50 m yrs ago. then it was volcanoes, now it’s exxon/mobil, w/help from you and me
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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. |