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It’s October and I’m running the blankety-blank air condtioning for Pete’s sake.

. . . and the outlook is getting darker.

In a recent comprehensive assessment by PLOS, the Public Library of Science, firefly experts estimate that at least 14% of North American firefly species are threatened; classified as critically endangered or endangered.

Scientists at PLOS say their numbers are dwindling due to climate change and the use of pesticides.

When I was a young ‘un growing up on the farm about forty miles north of where I type this, we saw fireflies flashing throughout the summer evenings.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a firefly.

Dick Polman has more.

inside a larger story about a house fire on North Carolina’s Outer Banks is a warning that the climates they are a-changing, and they’re coming for all of us:

The cottage was built in 1948 and was placed on the town’s “local historic landmark” list in 2011. It had twice been moved west to protect it from being lost to the Atlantic Ocean, according to town records.

So says the fungus among us.

Afterthought;

Yesterday, we finally got a break from two weeks of oppressive heat.

I must say, I cannot remember a heat wave which felt so oppressive as this one. I’ve been known to ride my bicycle in 90s Fahrenheit weather and still enjoy the ride, but this time I stuck to the inside bike.

I am not sanguine.

I fear we are well past the tipping point.

Current events do not give cause for complacency.

It’s a flood where there’s never been a flood before.

Climate change is no longer a prediction.

I fear that we are well past the tipping point, for it’s all around us every day.