C. S. Stewart

“The British definitely like their tea. It’s their solution to everything, all problems and concerns. If there’s ever a major crisis, a cup of tea will help.””

“for the next century could raise the world’s temperature some 4°C (7.2°F), bringing serious coastal flooding and other damage.” The Conservation Foundation urged renewed funding for Keeling’s CO 2 project and pressed the National Academy of Sciences to pay attention to the subject. From then on, awareness of climate change ascended right along with the Keeling Curve. In 1971 Barry Commoner’s environmentalist bestseller, The Closing Circle, gave an early public warning about greenhouse gases. In 1978 a young congressman from Tennessee, Albert Gore, held hearings on global warming, starring his Harvard teacher Roger Revelle, who had sponsored the Keeling CO 2 research””

“The Poe Toaster by Stewart StaffordThey call me The Poe Toaster,A sixty-year mourner, no boaster,With roses and cognac, I paid homage,To gothic Quarles’ eternal foggage.Some call me ghoul, stalker, graver,Obsessed fan, tombstone trader,Let him sleep unbroken, still his ghost,Tomahawk, overdue a tribute toast.Three roses; in-law, Eddy and wife,Cognac, exorbitant luxury in life,Relax, for I was kind, my friend,Pouring amontillado until the end.Why I stopped, if I'm woman or man,Are mysteries for C. Auguste Dupin,Shipwrecked on Night’s Plutonian shore,Allied with the silken darkness of yore.© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.””