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Robert Frost on climate change.
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Experiencing amplified weather.
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Atmospheric rivers drench Pacific coasts.
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Calamities of heat and drought in California.
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Climate change amplifies weather events.
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NOAA releases maps of billion dollar disasters in 2018.
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Climate signals are flashing red.
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Signals of climate change are here now.
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In 1920, Robert Frost wrote his classic poem, Fire & Ice:
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great and would suffice.
The astronomer Harlow Shapley wrote in a 1960 "Science and the Arts" presentation that he inspired the poem.
According to a Wikipedia anecdote, Shapley describes an encounter ...