Aside from proving to myself that I have no artistic talent (by using my newly-acquired acrylic 'starter set' to create a hideous imitation of art), I spent this morning reading blogs from around and about. During the past several weeks, I've added several more blogs to my list of links (right side of this page), including
Perils of Caffeine in the Evening and Learning to Sequence (several weeks ago) and Journeys with Jood, The Gypsy's Caravan, The Refugees, The Fat Lady Sings, Everybody Knows, and, just this morning, What Do I Know?.
I don't make the time to read every one of them every day, but I enjoy wandering through them when I can. Journeys with Jood has a posting today with an incredible picture of lightening, with a narrative dealing with a lightening strike on Catalina Island last night and resulting fire. She says 1200 acres have burned.
The heat across California and, indeed, all across the west, is horrendous. Even in normally cool Seattle, temperatures have spiked well into the 90s. Temperatures in many places in California have risen to nearly 120. I'm afraid we have, indeed, gone past the tipping point with our climate. I'm afraid that, even if we turned off every combustion engine and power plant on the planet this morning, we would not be able to recover. Some climate experts have begun talking about the potential for cataclysmic weather changes within 50 to 100 years. I'm not an expert, but my gut tells me that we may well be in the throes of one right now; I'll be pleasantly surprised to see cool weather in Texas in November.
2 comments:
Hi. Thanks for visiting my blog and giving me a shout, too.
Yeah, the heat is getting pretty ridiculous. I'd like to think that this heat wave is just a politically convenient coincidence for we tree-saver types, but I'm worried that it is not.
I agree with what KathyR said. But then we usually do! Thanks for the blogroll link, too. I'll check back in here--I'm horribly myopic too.
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