"The canary in the coal mine is dead."

     The wind gusts were ferocious all last night....80+ mph.  They kept me awake much of the night wondering if my house would blow away with me in it, not an impossibility these days.  A glance out of my windows this morning confirmed branches down but the trees appear intact.
     I re-read the book "Flight Behavior" by Barbara Kingsolver for a book club I have started attending. It is a fictional account of one family, the plight of monarch butterflies, and global warning.  It was a scary read.  Kingsolver, a novelist, started her career as a biologist and scientist.  She conveys well the problems of global warming.
     She said,  "the canary in the coal mine is dead".  "There is no life raft, you're just freaking swimming all the time."
     It reminded me of the Butterfly Effect of chaos theory.  Per Wikipedia:

 The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks earlier. 

     If tiny effects, such as a butterfly flapping its wings, can cause such huge effects, what happens when huge changes take place, such as extinction of the butterflies?  Like I said, it was a scary book.




Lovely days don't come to you,
you should walk to them...
                Rumi