3rd Warmest May in history
According to www.weatherandradar.com, May 2023 was a scorcher globally. It was the third warmest May in the 174 years of reliable data.
The average global May temperature was 1.75 degrees F (0.97 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average. This was the 531st consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th century average.
The western hemisphere had its warmest May on record while Africa, Asia and Europe ranked in the top 20 all-time. The developing El Niño in the equatorial Pacific pushed global ocean surface temperatures to record levels.
The warmer-than-normal global temperatures continue a trend that has occurred this year. The year-to-date global surface temperatures rank fourth warmest, and it is running 1.82 degrees F (1.01 degrees Celsius) above the 1901-2000 average. There is a 99 percent chance that 2023 will rank as one of the top 10 warmest years on record.
Essay
I think at some point, anybody who comes in contact with this information is going to go in just a few directions with it. If they are like my neighbors, they will simply not have enough empathy to allow information to touch them that they personally do not wish to be touched by. This is part of their idea of personal freedom. They have the right to refuse any information that comes to them that they find displeasing or uncomfortable. Self pleasure and comfort being the true goal of every human being by their thinking.
Perhaps someone else will actually have a button pushed. What does this mean? Is this climate change business real after all? But eventually they will just walk away from it because they have no particular sense of personal responsibility for the world. They were trained by the people of the previous paragraph to believe that selfishness, adherence to the benefits of regular money and a complete disregard for anything outside of their service to the bosses. Well, no. That’s not true. They are welcome to use their money at the company stores and make sure that they keep a lot of very similar industries afloat by making sure that chemicals and plastics always have a place in our lives. God forbid we should ever live without them.
How many are left to hear this message? It seems that the measurable science says that that pesky to degrees we are supposed to be afraid of is actually right here and right now and this is really the coolest news for those of us who are interested in the coming solstice. The Longest Day. What the fuck? We are dead and we have taken the whole world with us? No, it’s not like that. When we have died and however many hundreds or thousands of years it takes for our residual poison to be taken deep enough down below the surface that even the groundwater can’t touch it anymore, life will return. Nature is amazing and it’s resiliency and its ability to tolerate our sadism towards the environment. Life will come back at least until we nova, and we will just as sure as your life begins and ends just like every living thing on the planet Earth begins and ends, so will our sun and everything not only we have ever been and learned but every other thing that ever decided to live on this rock will also extinguish without further whisper.
In the meantime, what can we do about people who demand to poison our rock? What kind of protest can we stage that will make them stop and look and listen and even allow just a trickle of that thought down deep inside of them to mingle with their own sticky, smelly, fatty plaquey ideas.
Is there a trick to getting past that brick of shit they have covered their brains with? Is there a way to heal Tommy?
I say we begin physically protesting now and do not stop stopping them until the job is done.
Probably on another day I would make a rousing speech and wave a sword in a call to arms Shakespeare would be proud of. Personally, to speak rhythmically and then a bit louder and then a bit louder and then a bit louder until people can tell that you have great emotion for the words that you say is effective. The problem is how long people will pay attention to you. I think we need a different type of protest. I think we need a very quiet, very matter of fact and an extremely un-dramatic way of telling certain people no.
