A most wonderful summer
February 21st 2012 13:44
I grant you, you'll most likely be seeing titles like that on the headings of American school papers, most certainly NOT from a resident of Sydney....
But its no secret to my readers that I am not a fan of hot weather. I was downright traumatized in primary school to learn that at summer, the sun is directly perpendicular to Australia. The rays are vertical. Vertical! Come on, use what little imagination you have, realize what that means! No buffering. No relief. Just full on UV.
There have been days within this summer where the mad hissing of insects and the blistering heat with no sun almost drove me insane. However, all I had to do was turn my thoughts to the 40 degree days of last year...(lets not forget I was pregnant then, too) to realize how much kinder a bit of misty humidity was compared to blazing fire in the sky.
Not just has the sun been covered, he's been robbed of his power. On the days he has ventured out, he hasnt managed to actually burn anything. And once covered up again, even the residual heat dissipated, meaning that on average, we have been enjoying a lovely 24 degrees.
And over the last few days its gotten so very crisp. Oh, just feel it, that nip in the air that whispers frost and snow and clear cool cold. We are going to slide right into winter without ever having known summer. Its particularly blissful for me, as I have seen the summers slowly get hotter and hotter, and fully expected this year to top them all. What a lovely surprise, to see that the weather has actually turned and done a reverse.
Now Id like to mention something truly terrifying.
Even though people have been moaning about where summer has gone, they havnt actually realized that the weather is that different. When I sit down and explain to someone the difference between the weather now and 20 years ago, they say "Wow. You're right" but thats it. It actually has no impact on them.
Do the majority of people actually walk around not continuosly observing the world around them? Its literally frightening to me to realize this. It enrages me when people say climate change does not exist, is a myth, when not only is it a scientifically confirmed fact, it would be completely freakin obvious if you just looked around!
Is it because, every single human is guilty? They know its the over consumption, the cities and the general misuse of the earths gifts that caused it?
Well guess what. You need to let that guilt go. You need to realize no amount of recycling is going to turn this tide now. Someone needs to say it - its DONE. Its OVER. You cannot stop climate change with any amount of pollution restriction.
Killing half the worlds human population and destruction of every major city without the use of heat. That is the only thing that would effect climate change now, and you'd have to do it in a week or less, this year.
But guess what.
Even that action would not save us now. It might have five years ago, but now the changes are too far advanced. Now taking away the catalysts that sparked the changes would only cause a complete tailspin. The results would be completely unpredictable.
Now all we can do is ride this pony out, wave goodbye to any species that cant adapt, and hope to hell we can.
How do I know this? Because I observe the world I live in. I spend every day balancing the delicate eco systems of the land I live on, so I notice its changes. And Ive seen shit I aint never seen before.
Hang on humans, its gonna be a bumpy ride.
But its no secret to my readers that I am not a fan of hot weather. I was downright traumatized in primary school to learn that at summer, the sun is directly perpendicular to Australia. The rays are vertical. Vertical! Come on, use what little imagination you have, realize what that means! No buffering. No relief. Just full on UV.
There have been days within this summer where the mad hissing of insects and the blistering heat with no sun almost drove me insane. However, all I had to do was turn my thoughts to the 40 degree days of last year...(lets not forget I was pregnant then, too) to realize how much kinder a bit of misty humidity was compared to blazing fire in the sky.
Not just has the sun been covered, he's been robbed of his power. On the days he has ventured out, he hasnt managed to actually burn anything. And once covered up again, even the residual heat dissipated, meaning that on average, we have been enjoying a lovely 24 degrees.
And over the last few days its gotten so very crisp. Oh, just feel it, that nip in the air that whispers frost and snow and clear cool cold. We are going to slide right into winter without ever having known summer. Its particularly blissful for me, as I have seen the summers slowly get hotter and hotter, and fully expected this year to top them all. What a lovely surprise, to see that the weather has actually turned and done a reverse.
Now Id like to mention something truly terrifying.
Even though people have been moaning about where summer has gone, they havnt actually realized that the weather is that different. When I sit down and explain to someone the difference between the weather now and 20 years ago, they say "Wow. You're right" but thats it. It actually has no impact on them.
Do the majority of people actually walk around not continuosly observing the world around them? Its literally frightening to me to realize this. It enrages me when people say climate change does not exist, is a myth, when not only is it a scientifically confirmed fact, it would be completely freakin obvious if you just looked around!
Is it because, every single human is guilty? They know its the over consumption, the cities and the general misuse of the earths gifts that caused it?
Well guess what. You need to let that guilt go. You need to realize no amount of recycling is going to turn this tide now. Someone needs to say it - its DONE. Its OVER. You cannot stop climate change with any amount of pollution restriction.
Killing half the worlds human population and destruction of every major city without the use of heat. That is the only thing that would effect climate change now, and you'd have to do it in a week or less, this year.
But guess what.
Even that action would not save us now. It might have five years ago, but now the changes are too far advanced. Now taking away the catalysts that sparked the changes would only cause a complete tailspin. The results would be completely unpredictable.
Now all we can do is ride this pony out, wave goodbye to any species that cant adapt, and hope to hell we can.
How do I know this? Because I observe the world I live in. I spend every day balancing the delicate eco systems of the land I live on, so I notice its changes. And Ive seen shit I aint never seen before.
Hang on humans, its gonna be a bumpy ride.
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