California Gov. Gavin Newsom extends drought emergency to 41 of state's 58 counties, in news conference at bottom of San Luis Reservoir in the Central Valley. (AP via WeatherBug) early may
& california’s gov. declares drought emergency for ⅓ of state’s population ¼ of world’s cities can’t afford climate protection plans (guardian) maybe the pandemic-lockdown helped us practice for even worse remember hurricane zeta? last oct. 28? no? well, it played hell with s.e. louisiana. turns out it was the latest major hurricane ever to make landfall in the u.s. (a cat 3), which wouldn’t be significant except for all the other early & late major hurricanes we’re having (funny weather, huh?) japanese insurers shell out $3.2 b: damage from cyclone haishen + jan. snowstorm while 15k people in e. timor still w/out help, 3k still homeless, after storms a month ago; 25 humans dead in somalia this week b/c of punishing rains; 7 dead in sumatra landslide; 6 more in afghanistan; + heavy flooding in dushambe, capital of tajikistan (“whatistan? humph — never heard of it!”) wildfires in manitoba wildfires & drought in iceland (iceland??); 766 acres torched in kazakhstan; record hi temps in new zealand; brazil’s corn crop shrivels up -- but good news: la niña means 2021 probably won’t be a hottest-ever year — tho, as axios points out, “lack of a new warmest year record in 2021 could sap some of the sense of urgency among policymakers” see, you gotta make it bigger & stronger & faster & worser than ever, if you wanna keep people’s attention. #5 or #10 hottest year? forget it. they’ll be too wrapped up in fixing this hurricane disaster here, that famine there, & the big, pervasive, looming, invisible disaster spreads unnoticed, like a virus, b/c it’s not something you can put under a microscope, it’s not something people can agree on, so i guess we’ll just have to disagree to disagree, but i still feel compelled to write these things b/c these things are happening even though i don’t agree
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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. |