Global Heating Claims Its First Martyr

Britain’s highest temperature ever was recorded on July 25 at Cambridge University’s botanical garden: 38.7 Celsiue, or 101.7 Fahrenheit.  This beat the previous record of 38.5 C, in 2003 at Faversham in Kent.

The botanical garden staff “felt as if we’d melted”; or, in the words of the staff member who took the reading, “It felt like an out-of-body experience.”  Her name was Katie Martyr.

 


My painting of the “Backs” at Cambridge.

 

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8 thoughts on “Global Heating Claims Its First Martyr”

    1. I think the world’s front systemic problem at present is global heating (somewhat ahead of poverty, diseases, oppression of women…) and the front immediate problem is the slaughter of civilians and bombing of hospitals in northwest Syria (somewhat ahead of the slaughter in Yemen, Afghanistan, Cameroon…). Meaning that the priority is to get governments to use sanctions and whatever else they can against Assad and Putin.
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/03/syria-idlib-child-deaths-airstrikes-assad-putin-russia

  1. It’s not nice to make jokes about someone’s name!

    Sincerely,
    Amanda B. Recondwith

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