Still No Joy in Mudville (A short short story for Blog Action Day)

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"polar bears", flash fiction

There was no joy in Mudville. Quite literally. Oh sure…you could blame it on that whole Casey at the Bat thing, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, now that I think about it, an iceberg is actually an important part of the story.

Clara had heard that the arctic ice was melting because of global warming. This really bothered her, not only because the Polar Bears were losing their homes – as if that weren’t bad enough – but she was afraid that the magnificent icebergs, so much a part of the environment, would just piddle away one day, becoming nothing more than a bunch of drops in the ocean. And she’d never even get to see one.

And so she came up with a plan to bring an iceberg to Mudville,

Weird Arctic Clouds May Signal Global Change

A phenomenon called noctilucent clouds is possibly one more sign that the times they are a changin’. “The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don’t know why” according to an article I just found on AOL: Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out of the Arctic.

Satellite technology now allows us to view and track these strange clouds that are forming above both poles. We don’t seem to fully understand why the clouds form or what is behind the changes that are being seen, but hopefully new technology will allow us some insight. Some think it might be part of atmospheric changes caused by global warming, but as of now, we just don’t know.

All I know for sure is that they are magnificent to look at. And just a little scary.

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Photo credit: Space.com / Starry Night