Sustainability and Politics: First Half of 2012 Hottest on Record

Monday, July 9, 2012

First Half of 2012 Hottest on Record

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/blogs/lookout/first-half-hottest-ever-record-214906847.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US

Rank	Consecutive 12-month Period	Temperature Departure (from 20^th Century Average)
Warmest	July 2011 — June 2012*	+3.23°F
2^nd Warmest	June 2011 — May 2012*	+3.18°F
3^rd Warmest	May 2011 – April 2012*	+2.83°F
4^th Warmest	November 1999 – October 2000	+2.70°F
5^th Warmest	October 1999 – September 2000	+2.65°F
6^th Warmest	April 2011 – March 2012*	+2.61°F
7^th Warmest	September 2005 – August 2006	+2.56°F
8^th Warmest	August 2005 – July 2006	+2.54°F
	September 1999 – August 2000	+2.54°F
10^th Warmest	July 1999 – June 2000	+2.51°F
11^th Warmest	June 1999 – May 2000	+2.46°F
	August 1999 – July 2000	+2.46°F

* – Preliminary Data

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/6/supplemental/page-6/
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/climate-extremes-just-got-even-crazier

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.