Abu Dhabi, enhancing T.F. out of rain. (Gulf News) running on fumes? how bout you?
(boy, there’s a carbon-based metaphor for ya!) meanwhile i see some archaeologists found some prehistoric scraps of food that prove n. australia is the driest it’s been in 65,000 yrs -- not b/c there’s less rain now but more heat, so more evaporation pretty dry on arabian gulf, too: they’re in their longest meteorological drought ever: 21 yrs & counting “warming over the seas, a rise in maximum temperatures, precipitation drying. also an increase in number of cat 4 & 5 cyclones”; u.a.e. invests in “rain enhancement technologies” (e.g., “cloud seeding” — careful, tho: plenty of places in the middle east got deluged this year, too . . . speaking of wch, remember phoenix’ record summer heat? mon. aft. tied for coldest ever. it even snowed . . . snowed, too, in lincoln, nebraska: 13” in 1 day, a jan. record; "gives you kind of a man versus nature feel,” sez the announcer meanwhile, 70% of madrid trees broken under snow; & an ef 3 tornado in alabama; & sydney’s hottest australia day in 60 yrs & . . . & none of this adds up to anything; take it for what it’s worth & monitor your own responses -- the powers that be are clear: the non-rich are on their own it’s playing hell with the lions & the lions are on their own it’s playing hell with the bees & the bees are on their own it’s playing hell with gray whales & the whales are on their own it’s playing hell with the forests & the forests are on their own it’s playing hell with england’s flood defenses — 3400 deemed “almost useless” (and britain voted to be on its own) it’s playing hell w/the ice sheets: i.p.c.c. worst-case already, sez the scientific report & our local electric co. sells us wind energy (kansas the “saudi arabia of wind,” blah blah), even as it makes no move to phase out coal hard to see how this battleship can turn around in this bathtub, esp. w/the water level dropping so why do people act like there’s no emergency? “we’ll cross that bridge when . . . “there are more immediate . . . “it’s not happening here . . . “i can’t think about that . . . “just live in the present . . . “part of god’s plan . . . “cost prohibitive . . . what is to be done i ask my friend the eco-poet & they say, “just try to be kind to each other” — wch is in our control but amounts maybe to the same thing
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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. |