Reconstituting Public Opinion around the Exigence of Global Warming Despite the cold east wind, the dark orange maple leaves cling tenaciously to the trees on the streetscape. The yellow mulberry leaves, however, dropped last week and have now been blown out my yard, across the street. Things don’t seem that different; this feels like November in Albuquerque. Fall is almost over and its last remaining days have finally killed the plants in my garden. Winter moves in as I chop firewood, change air filters on furnaces, dig out gloves and warmer clothes. This is November, not all that different from every November. Yes, we have seasons and sometimes it feels as if life will continue apace as it always has. Yet, just last week the World Meteorological Society stated that “… 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850” (WMO). That is a not an illusion; things ...
Confessions of a Human Nerve Ending: Poet-Writer-Rhetor-Monologist- Photographer-Dudeist Priest