Comments on: Robinson Jeffers poem predicted global warming in early 1960s

By: to zero our dial « syncwpmu

to zero our dial « syncwpmu — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:52:46 +0000

[...] about a California poet, Robinson Jeffers via wikiquote on Jeffers: Something utterly wild had crept into his mind. The seabeaten coast, the fierce freedom of its hunting hawks, possessed and spoke through him. It was one of the most uncanny and compete relationships between a man and his natural background that I know in literature. [...]

By: to zero our dial « Thought Shop

to zero our dial « Thought Shop — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:09:58 +0000

By: Let us pass on a healthy Planet « Shoote's Blog

Let us pass on a healthy Planet « Shoote's Blog — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:41:15 +0000

[...] I stumbled upon this beautiful environmental poem from a blog by Jeff McMahon. [...]

By: Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth – No Federal Writers Project for our Great Recession, but great writing sure to come - True/Slant

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:57:49 +0000

[...] did find the Robinson Jeffers poem that predicted global warming in 1960, which will make a nice first entry in the anthology. And in [...]

By: bobshanbrom

bobshanbrom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:05:31 +0000

Wouldn’t it be great if Jeff lead a eco/poetic literary tour of Big Sur–Jeffers, Kerouac, Snyder, Ferlinghetti, Ginsburg . . . .?

By: russellhodin

russellhodin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:23:08 +0000

No one personifies or illuminates the primitive Big Sur coast as well as Jeffers. Thank you very much for reminding us, his lifetime of prescient expression. He had every gift save transformation. Others picked up that sacred torch, inspired by the same granite and redwoods and surf.

By: Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth – Robinson Jeffers poem predicted … | antarcticas

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:57:09 +0000

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By: bobshanbrom

bobshanbrom — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:03:47 +0000

Jeff, I wonder if Jeffers was prophesizing or metaphoring. I feel it is more the latter. He might well have said that in the fullness of time bananas will grow Antarctica, but that would not necessarily mean that he knew of plate tectonics.
In the fullness of time all things come to pass and human hubris made ludicrous by all the possibilities within “geology, astronomy” and even digestion.

By: Coldfront

Coldfront — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0000

[...] McMahon at True/Slant has recently reported on an under-read climate change-anticipating poem by one of America’s great under-read poets. [...]

By: Coldfront » Jeffers poem predicted global warming

Coldfront » Jeffers poem predicted global warming — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:55:52 +0000

[...] McMahon at True/Slant has recently reported on a an under-read global warming-predicting poem by one of America’s great under-read [...]

By: rong

rong — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:33:22 +0000

Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean continues to rebound from the abnormally low 2007 season, when a shift in regional wind patterns sent much of the sea ice south into the North Atlantic Ocean.

As this year’s summer ice approached its annual September minimum, satellite photographs revealed more ice in 2009 than in 2008, which in turn retained more ice than 2007.

After the 2007 summer ice season, alarmists proclaimed the beginning of the end for Arctic sea ice and predicted an ice-free North Pole in 2008 or 2009. But summer ice coverage in 2008 and 2009 have confirmed the low sea ice coverage in 2007 was an abnormality, rather than the first act in a new summer ice-melt regime.

In 2007, Arctic sea ice covered approximately 4.5 million square kilometers at its summer minimum. In 2008, the ice covered nearly 5 million square kilometers at its summer minimum. This summer, Arctic sea covered approximately 1 million square kilometers more than 2007 sea ice as the season approached its September sea ice minimum.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html