87 degrees in chicago the other day

sposed to be 66. i really like how the weather dude says this like its nothin important and the news continues getting reported like any of it makes the slighest difference if we cant save the planet.

on a side note, i feel like im about to go environMental lately. the first three days of this week i was woke up to the sound of lawn mowers and edgers, like a rooster singing reallllly out of tune each morning for me. cant help but wonder if these mother fuckers are deaf or they have just been totally raped and numbed down by our culture as those ripping machine sounds rip through my heart. then after the lawn mowin was finally finished, i was woken to the sounds of chain saws ripping through 2 perfectly healthy pine trees in my neighbors backyard, to build a fucking garage. course me bein the wrid hippy i am, i had to drum and play friend of the devil and pray for them and everything else through the window. then, fuckin today, i see a mimosa tree murdered along with a whole handfull of brush around it to make room for... a lawn? and another nice thick log was on the curb there from another tree from their backyard i assume...

these peoples yards are gettin to look as empty as these peoples souls... and then a buncha lights somebody just put in their front yard to decorate as if the street light isnt wayyy more light than there needs to be out there at night. idk what the fuck these people are thinkin with rising energy prices.. its so amazingly obvious we need to stop using oil now that i cant help but think this world isnt gonna take much more of this. another thing that bothers me while im at it, is those censor lights that i always forget to avoid when im walking.

aughta take a buncha rocks to them and some other lights and things people leave on at night to make up for the coal or whatever i burn when i do that. if everyone just accepted personal responsibility for what they take, things would be lookin so much better on planet earth right now. it really isnt much to plant a couple trees and be conscious of what the fuck you take and how to give back to the earth.

i wish i was gonna get to live longer than it looks like im gonna be able to now, with the way were fucking this planet up....

 

The temps are pretty high here in Detroit too (well, they were, it's gonna cool down now). I think it was our Indian Summer. Relax man, this isn't THAT rare.

But I really hear you man as far as the lawnmowers, tree cutting, and lighting goes. Round here the city is going around "trimming" trees away from power lines. Really they are mutilating them. Some trees now look like giant Vs, the whole center section cut out to make room for those precious, precious wires. Others had a whole side chopped off. We have a tree growing up around a wire, the city hasn't gotten there yet. It's a shame because it's a very beautiful lotus tree, perfectly shaped, and it will be a damn tragedy to have it get mauled like that. We'll cut the whole thing down if that happens, if I know my dad at all.

And it's an absolute tragedy that we can't see the stars here in the city. That is very wrong. I have seen the Milky Way twice in the last two years. Twice! That should be there for everyone, every night! You're right, this oil glut needs to stop (and I think it's in the process of doing so). Sometimes I wish I'd be able to live longer too, to see how things turn out, but the way it's going, I think I'm glad I won't, or I might cry myself to death at the destruction I'd witness.

 

warm here too in cali.

great bicycle riding weather for sure, but i could use a rainy day.

 

urban heat bubble....

 

i gets in the 90s here so dont complain.

 

ehh, i think the global warming monster is alive beyond doubt and the boulder is rolling, and its bigger than any of us and beyond our control. it seems it needs to be manifested though for mans collective destiny to unfold and evolution to take place... through a great crisis will emerge a world closer to utopia, closer to nature, and closer to love. these are of course just hopeful ideas im reading about in a book right now, but god their beautiful ideas.

i had something really weird happen a while back, i bought these 2 trees right. and they'd been in shade when i bought 'em, so when i brought them home, i put them in sunlight to they could get adjusted to sunlight before i introduced them to the ground and sunlight all at once. so i had them in the sun for like 30 minutes, and i walk on my backporch to see if their doin alright or need water or need to be adjusted more gradually or something, and the SECOND i step on my porch, i turn to look at the trees and my attention shifts to this HUUUUUUUGE branch from a tree in another yard that just totally let go right when i stepped on my porch. i have no clue what this meant really, but this branch alone was probably 10x larger than my two little trees. so the thing will happen regardless i think, and the earth is going to manifest and create what it wants, regardless of our little wills. thats what i took it to mean anyway...

i saw an article in the newspaper today about all the economic benefits of global warming. trying to claim the new artic territoy and stuff, and the oil tha tmight be there. and alot of the countries arguing arent even going to be there if the oceans rise like their going to. so it looks like there are going to be rough times ahead, lol. and those precious polar bears they showed carelessly in the picture, i hope they survive this whole mess too...

 

The record high for Chicago on October 6 was 92°F.

That was 1963.

Global warming is here! EVERYBODY PANIC!

 

Well, it's 45 here at 10am right now in CT, supposed to get to 51 today, which is actually like 10 below normal for this time of year.

 

Well all I can say is that it is damn cold in Chicago now.

 

i'm a couple hundred miles north of chicago, we had flurries just the other day.

send the heat up, man.

 

I believe global warming is on its way, but far from hitting us even in our lifetimes, our childrens life times, and before it becomes a globally catastrophic event, im sure our technology will be so far advanced im sure we will figure out a way to stop it of even eliminate it-

 

I have a hard time seeing technology as the savior of mankind, when it was this obsession (addiction) to technology that got us into this mess in the first place.

 

But technology has done much for us, yes even though horrible things where created through it such as the Nuclear Bomb and pollution-
But where would we be without technology today, think of all that it has done for us it has extended our life span over 50 years in the past 100 years. Before technology, medicine and ways to ensure that we get the kind of nutrition of vitamins that we essentially need, the average lifespan was 40 to 50 years old if you didn't catch a disease before that time. Without technology we wouldn't have a cure for the simplist of diseases like chicken pox and we would easily die from a simple disease such as that or even strept throat.
If we can split atoms and create new elements Im sure in a matter of time we could easily figure out the problem and solve it.

But then again I'm just a realist that put real situations at hand.