@kentpitman@climatejustice.social
Post #3536372
2026-07-02 14:28 UTC
arctic thirty-eight?
well, at least not three eighty.
THEN we'd have to care.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #Arctic #heat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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@kentpitman@climatejustice.social 2026-07-02 14:35
For anyone who's curious, the screenshot accompanying the haiku upthread was from a DuckDuckGo news summary yesterday. The original article from the World Meteorological Organization used a superscript "0" instead of a degree-sign, and it got reformatted without the superscript in the news summary. The thing is, we're all going to look at it and say "Phew, all is well, the 380 was a typo." But 38C (104F) is already bad enough! All is, in fact, not well. https://public.wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-recognizes-new-arctic-temperature-record-of-380c