121420d

 

overcast day 

I feel like I'm living

in the UK

022120b

don't believe they say
in the wobbly jet stream
sure feels cold

021020

Today's Forecast


Alabama's trying hard
to get its 56" in
before summer's drought

sloshing through the yard
in a 4-wheeled open chair
tracking mud on in
dirt clods everywhere

well, that's enough
it's almost true

102319b

We killed the grubs
when we found them
if we had known what the mature form was like
we'd have been more thorough
if any of us
survive the winter
we will move towards the poles
hoping for a climate zone
where these things do not thrive

092718d

We are still in a water deficit from previous years, but this week it's been welcome to the rainforest. Under the weather both meteorologically and physiologically. Any rare moment I don't feel cold is bliss.

092618b

this time of year
is usually bone dry
flood warning

071218

on this world of many seasons
second spring caught us by surprise
we'd thought those things were stones

020918c

winter rainfall bakes
out of chill soaked soil
spring shoots forth

120717b

cold air
summer flowers
had a good run

082017b

Ode to a Southern Summer


Inside
Winter blows from the vents
Summer streams in the windows
Eastern, then western
Smokin'

Outside
Cicadas' siren song
Drowns out everything
But the freight's warnings
"Stay offa my tracks, kid!"
Air holds you close
Like those wool comforters
You never needed down here
For only a half hour before dawn
You can breathe

If this crepuscular breeze
Could last all year!

081217b

Alabama steambath
long long summer, everywhere
Finnish steambath
special room
dark 8-month winter night

010817b

a teensey day
may break 20F
70s b4 week's end
that's Bama 4 u

Unclarity of Thought

Know, man is an island. This is why climate change is so dangerous!

121513

Let it Snow

Fimbulfall ends in 5 days
then Winter begins in earnest

061713

And in those days the seas failed to boil

He wore a red hat, a phrase that maybe referred to the Santa delusion, but more likely the mythical time when water, so tis said, would sometimes cease to move, an event celebrated with
the wearing of hats. "Gloves," also mentioned in this context, cannot have existed.

020312 hat couture

We have not yet had winter in Alabama, but we still have three or four weeks during which could occur. I hope it does, at least for a couple of days, because I have a new elf hat and moebius scarf made by my daughter. I can wear the hat in my office, which is refrigerated year-round, but I can only wear the scarf if it gets cold outside. As climate change progresses, it will soon become impossible for me to wear the winter accessories my children have made for me except when I visit them. So, for my sake, stop wasting fossil fuels!

Global climate changeth

The IPCC is the international group responsible for the best information/science on climate change, but the U.S. has a large federal research initiative independent of the IPCC. The "United States Global Research Program" has hundreds of scientists and policy-makers from many different agencies. Their assessments (last 2009) are published. Here are some links. Note also under Key Findings the following:

"Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.
Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years. This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. (p. 13)"

You can download the 2009 report.

http://www.globalchange.gov/

http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/key-findings

http://www.globalchange.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=417&Itemid=401

http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/download-the-report

Thanks to Leslie Rissler for summary and links.

090611

102 one week and 58 the next what is wrong with this climate?! oh yeah, forgot

climate change

The rice-cake ziggurat


the 100-year drought

ended with

a frog strangler


course

there were

no frogs

turn it up

Getting old


All winter I fantasize
about a solar flare
a gigantic gout of fire
erupting from the Sun's
unsettled belly.

I'm not greedy
I want just enough
to make it about 10 degrees
warmer
at my house.

Until spring.

And never wear my scarf indoors again.


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