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Robert Frost on climate change.
250
Experiencing amplified weather.
360
Atmospheric rivers drench Pacific coasts.
562
Calamities of heat and drought in California.
503
Climate change amplifies weather events.
669
NOAA releases maps of billion dollar disasters in 2018.
568
Climate signals are flashing red.
590
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 ...