Sunset over Indian Ocean, showing layers of atmosphere (which are changing in width). (NASA via The Guardian) first-ever “alert phase” in iceland --
what in these parts we call a “red-flag warning”: outdoor burning prohibited -- due to the wildfires & dry conditions & a man in finland tweet-reports 82.6 f in oulu, just s. or arctic circle -- earliest-ever temp that hi in country; while in russia, a polar bear schlepped 300 mi. s. of arctic circle, wandered around village, ate dog food, slept in backyards; “villagers were advised to keep their children at home” floods hammer w. africa, clobbering uganda, rwanda, kenya, somalia: 100s homeless, bridges broken, crops ruined; in c. african republic electrical towers collapse in storms, leaving the capital, bangui, w/o electricity for weeks, disrupting water supply (bad time to cut off the water to hospitals) & did you know the stratosphere is shrinking? yep. 400 m since 1980s; prediction of another 1 km by 2080. culprit? yep. greenhouse gases. first we shift the earth’s axis; now this. it may disrupt satellite communication, including yr g.p.s. . . . so if you're tired of being called a chicken-little, just tell 'em "the sky is shrinking! the sky is shrinking!"
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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. |