Even the tigers are evacuating (Assam, India) . . . i’m so proud of you,
lawrence, kansas! lo yesterday: 67 f normal lo: 67 hi yesterday: 90 normal hi: 90 (heat index 105 or so, but whatever) precip yr. to date: 21.54” normal y.t.d.: 21.58 all of which means we’re normal again! we like being normal. new normal or old? either, so long as it’s the same way everywhere else . . . but it's not: hottest temp on earth since 2017: mon., death valley, 128 f; all-time hottest temp recorded any- where, on this warming planet? 129 f in 2013 (also @ death valley) moral? don’t move to death valley. better yet, don’t move, period, full stop. helas, the climate keeps on moving no matter what we do: that’s why ⅓ of bangladesh is underwater w/1.5 m people affected; "our homesteads have been flooded. we had a little road left which got destroyed last night. so, we're taking away all our crops like rice and corn," sez the farmer, rabiul islam; & farmer samsud doha sez “we're having issues regarding food also. the cooking ovens have been flooded. even our beds are also underwater" (cooking! the things you don’t think about til it happens to you); & across the border in assam, same story: 85 dead so far; 44 k people in “relief camps” (& as for the endangered one- horned rhino, well, it ain’t looking good for them either) (“but of course it’s flooding in bangladesh — it’s monsoon season! those people are used to dealing with this.” not for at least a decade they aren’t; tho back then 1000s died, which shows it pays to prepare) & while trump is golfing, pakistan in glofing: that’s g.l.o.f.: “glacier lake outburst flooding,” up in the mountains -- see, the glaciers are melting (duh) & when they melt, water collects on top (duh) and it gets deeper & forms a lake, but then one of the “banks” also melts, it breaks, and you’ve got a wall of water barreling down the valley, washing out roads, washing away homes, stranding 500 families, etc. etc. (the things you don’t think of) 27 of 31 chinese provinces inundated -- “many people lost their houses in my village,” sez a mr. zhang; “the floodwaters are still increasing… authorities are discharging waters from the poyang lake” — not to mention 3 gorges dam; w.h.o. sez don’t drink the water, don’t eat food that’s been in it, bleach all clothes that’ve been in it; but what if the waters cover all your stuff & foodstuffs & your up to yr waist in it? 50 villages cut off in n.w. iran; 11k peeps evac’d in w. japan (that wasn’t meant to rhyme, but all these incidents rhyme); worst floods in 80 yrs for ethiopia . . . & those swarms of locusts you haven’t been hearing about? that stretch from kenya to india? they’re “expected to peak this month, as a wetter-than-normal monsoon arrives, and to flourish as the rains continue through october.” all those cyclones in the indian ocean, don’t you know; "people couldn’t make all that happen, no way; sure, it's warming, but, well, the lord giveth . . . " tho ghulam sarwar panhwar, farmer in hyderabad, sez “each time it is like a black cloud descending from the sky. there are millions of them, and they attack the cotton and other crops, eating all the green leaves in just 3–4 hours before moving on. half of my cotton crop is gone. we chase them off by beating drums and banging metal plates. what else can we do?” wow, you say, must be a lot of farmers in those countries; you’d think they’d get out of the business; which many would if they could -- but climate is all about money. hence nobody seems to care to record heatwaves in sub-saharan africa — no money down yonder . . . but there are a lot of record hi’s & heat waves recorded in the u.s.: san antonio; washington, d.c.; new orleans; even the water in the great lakes meanwhile don’t ask me about how big the fires in siberia are; don’t ask me about how much methane they now think is in the atmosphere (or what it does — esp. not that); don’t ask me about pink glaciers or what micro- plastics do to arctic ice; for i am in the middle of the 1st world, where things are normal & we have our own problems to worry about now don’t we?
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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. |