Why isn't anyone connecting the dots between global warming and the recent heat waves? Why isn't anyone doing anything? Well, I can't say no one is fighting the good fight because my friend Sourfish is: check out her blog at http://nosweatclimatechange.blogspot.com/.
The heat actually hasn't been so awful in southern Mississippi. It's been raining a lot (another symptom of global warming, I know), which means it's been fairly cool here for the past week or so while the streets are melting in New York City. I'm off to write a few letters and do what I can to join the fray for awareness about global warming.
Me in a Book
- Jesmyn Ward, writer
- DeLisle, Mississippi
- In the haziness of the alcohol Meme thought with pleasure about the scandal that would have taken place if she were to express her thoughts at that moment, and the intimate satisfaction of her roguishness was so intense that Fernanda noticed it. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
What I've Been Working on in my Lonely Rooms (or we got it for cheap)
You'll Like It, Mikey (or some links)
Cake for my Brain (or what I'm reading or have read recently)
Sonically Challenged (or what I'm listening to)
- Shlohmo: Shlohmotion Deluxe--This kid performed at Janelle's show. His beats are textured, intergalactic, and surreal. Beautiful, too.
- Janelle Monae: The Arch Android--I went to her concert in SF and she blew my, uh, circuits. She's amazing.
- Prince: Any Album- He's a genius. For the longest time, he made me want to be Vanity when I grew up.
2 comments:
I think some people are, but they hold back a little because scientists warning of global warming and, lately, global climate change are leery of pointing out spikes in global climate change because their critics, during the winter, point to record cold snaps as signs that the planet isn't warming.
But that's just it: it's about an overall temperature increase, and that temperature increase does lead to the spikes and the anomalies (as I'm writing this, Hurricane Irene is making landfall on the US mainland) and even the cold snap is part of that.
I think the problem is that the climate change deniers have taken over the narrative. Like with so many other policy issues (health care, taxation, the debt, etc.), they are defining the debate, often in unreal or unrealistic terms.
Anyway, I was heartened when one of the climate change consensus skeptics came along and basically agreed. Of course, that probably won't get passed around among the Newsmax and Fox News crowd.
(By the way, I stumbled across your site after listening to your interview on Newshour, which I listen to regularly. It sounds like an interesting read. I might pick it up, but being a busy grad student [public health], it might be too long on my shelf, maybe until the end of the semester.)
I should be asleep, but your response is so thoughtful and right-on that I had to respond. Thanks for making such strong points. I keep hoping that climate change advocates/educators (?) will be able to wrestle their way into that narrative and contribute to it, but it isn't happening.
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