EARTH DAY #51
High pressure, after a cold start in Canada has arrived in the US and dropped temps far below late April norms. Alas, our realization of the crises we humans have created on this lovely planet, while 51+ years in awareness continues; saying norms, what does that even mean anymore. There really are no norms, just new extremes setting new records, that should be considered the new normal. While there seems to be a light breeze about, it is calm compared to the wildness of yesterday. Tomorrow morning will see another freeze warning issued (this morning's was pretty much the entire, eastern US) before clouds and the next system arrives Saturday; sometime afternoon the forecast for rain to arrive. Warmer air will win back northern ground before April ends.
Another very low shake day, 24 on the list. Only one above 5, a mag. 5.5 off the central Chile' coast.
Volcano activity remains fairly normal (always about 18-20 on the list)but with new comers occupying a bit of room on the warning list. La Soufriere on St. Vincent has calmed a bit but is still in explosive eruption mode. Basalt continues to ooze from fissures on both Iceland and half a world away in the Indian Ocean on Reunion Island (actually not really that far, one north one south but longitudinally not that far apart). Sangay in Ecuador and Sabancaya just to the north in Peru, both on the list for several years, keep up the explosive attitudes with many blasts; daily, every day!! Popo outside La Ciudad in Mexico returns to the list, but has been rumbling, gassing and belching debris fairly regularly for over 20 years. Hawai'i is still spewing basalt in the middle of the Pacific. Indonesia, Kamchatka, Japan, all with mountains still letting the heat out!
A CME is headed Earth's way from our nearby star, a light zapping, auroras the likely outcome.
TrumpVirus numbers climbed back into an unsettling range yesterday, down from recent highs but still where we were last August - when we had no vaccine and still a idiot, lying douche bag for president; sad we have not made more & better progress. Still, a lot of racist idiots conned by donny the douche into thinking they were special and all that mattered. An anti-science attitude looks pretty stupid on someone holding a cell phone...Earth don't care and your god ain't showing up to help...deal with that!
Bird activity is up today in my yard, young gold finch still sitting stunned at my door after a mass flock exodus that lead him into the glass, I think he'll be ok as long as no big brown dog suddenly returns; he's still sitting not sure what he just hit...
With a still raging pandemic, Earth Day celebrations will be subdued, quiet, virtual again this year. At a time we need the awareness to grow, we must remain hunkered. Still mostly talk and promises but no real concrete action to change things; our cancerous growth, a worldwide economic pyramid scheme that would make recently dead Bernie MadeOffWithYourMoney blush, the extraction industries still seeking the last drop of crude, the last kilo of ore, plastic littering the ocean from shore to shore, wave to seafloor, temps still rising on land and sea, trapped by an atmosphere we have altered rapidly and dramatically (dumbass republican greed heads, but it's cold today..remember that in a week when it closes in on 90..).
Promises of change by 2030 or 35 or 40 or 50, all far too little and far too late. Protecting an unfair economic system, polluting industries, worldwide war fears, with the cries of it'll hurt the economy will one day be looked upon for the lying evil it is; There Is No Economy On A Dead Planet!!
That's the sad reality, the coming future for humans and while we'll take a lot of other species with us, Earth and life will go on, without us...sometime soon..but not, Today On Earth.
Wanna help, take a walk, park your car, Today On Earth.
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