Good morning!
We have now nice moistened air and abundant green, and we may have rain again. We have been having a long spell of rain, with storms and tornados.
Typhoon season is beginning now in Japan, in springtime – we used to have it only in autumn. In the States, Hurricane effects now reach up to our place here in Missouri.
A recent report on the arctic climate told us the temperature will rise 3 to 7 degrees Celsius (double this number in Fahrenheit), and the sea level will rise 0.9 to 1.6m (triple this number in feet) by 2100. The less and lighter icecap on Greenland has been causing more earthquakes.
I forwarded a news piece this morning to our elist, reporting that Ishinomaki, the city closest to the epicenter in Japan’s recent M-9 earthquake, sank 1.2m. So, even though their houses were not destroyed, the two daily tides are damaging their house foundations.
The earthquake raised the North American tectonic plate 5m at the epicenter; having been pulled, it suddenly bounced back and up, under the sea, causing the devastating tsunami.
Our climate is, so to speak, moving southward toward the tropical zone, making the climate warmer and more turbulent. It is sinking down, just as this earthquake illustrated, 1.2m, which is the average sea level rise estimated in the recent study.
Hamaoka nuclear power plant is now to stop production, because that area has been expecting a big earthquake with 87% certitude within 30 years. The government has now announced it will scrap its plans to increase nuclear energy to 50% by 2030, and it will review and revise its energy policy.
Each individual’s way of living affects the global climate, its crises and calamities, and perhaps even the earth’s movement. Therefore, we must live our awakened life concretely, not just thinking globally and acting locally.
It is essential for us to cultivate our minds and bodies, verify truth, peace, harmony, and holiness (the wholesome whole) with our actual actions and inaction (a-karma).
5/10/11
