Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
March 20-22, 2022 Update — Fiona Harvey at The Guardian reported “Heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists.” The article noted “Antarctic areas reach 40C [70 degrees Fahrenheit] above normal at same time as north pole regions hit 30C [50 degrees Fahrenheit] above usual levels” and “Startling heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles are causing alarm among climate scientists, who have warned the ‘unprecedented’ events could signal faster and abrupt climate breakdown.” Alarmist-averse Michael Mann was quoted, “[. . . ] extreme events are exceeding model projections.” The article added, “James Hansen, former NASA chief scientist and one of the first to warn governments of global heating more than three decades ago, told the Guardian the heating of the poles was ‘concerning’ [ . . . ]” Harvey wrote climate “scientists warned that the events unfolding were ‘historic’ [ . . . ] and ‘dramatic’.”
In a related matter, possible collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier ice shelf within five years has been widely reported.
Thank you to 426 visitors the past three days. Here is a poem I wrote this morning walking my dog about disconnect between climate reality and many people living as if everything’s okay.
Law of Unintended Consequences
You collected
dog poop in small bag,
tossed
it over fence near garbage.
Your
wife’s howl meant she thought
it was
a package from Amazon
like
buying her a new Camry and
flying
to Hawaii for her birthday
or hiking
in Columbia Gorge
wildflowers
instead of nonviolently
bringing
down oil companies that
at this
rate will kill her someday
and
everything you love.
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