This is a quick post for informational purposes.
Why is the IPCC post important? This link helps clarify the reasons:
https://www.desmog.com/2021/08/07/scientists-ipcc-climate-report-what-to-know/
The IPCC AR6 consists of several parts. This is what was just released: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
Meditation on Grief
“Grief is so individually expressed, so uniquely experienced, that we have no capacity to experience another's pain. Sadness rooted in painful memories, triggered by anniversaries, are reminders merely of the passage of time, not of ability or desire to cope with the pain. There is no balm that can be applied or received from afar that will magically assuage our grief, eliminate the pain, or speed up its passage. Grief lives like a tree, growing at its own pace, fruiting and leafing at its own pace until one day a branch rots and leaves drop. Then on another day, perhaps distant in time, or sooner than expected, another branch breaks. The tree has fewer branches, fewer leaves, less fruit. The tree still lives but in a diminished capacity, it no longer takes the same amount of time to rake up the leaves in Fall. Even if this tree were to fall over in a hurricane, the wood would still be on the ground. The rotten carcass of grief slowly absorbed into the dirt. It might take a lifetime for that grief to disappear, or it might take a little less.”
The color of pain
The color of pain is grey
And it is brushed across the land
Where it remains impervious
To considered attention
Where it is dry in the rainfall of
Winter.
The sound of pain is grey
And it wafts from the sky
Penetrating the shield of
The window,
The shingle of the roof,
The ears of the mendicant.
The smell of pain is grey
It’s malodorous presence
Remains impervious to wind
And rain;
It colors the air, the air of
Winter;
Grey.
Feb. 14, 2018
Copyright Elmore Nimrod Scott Jr.
