If you are a runner, today is a hard day for denying climate change, thanks to near-record temperatures at the Boston Marathon. While history will have to ultimately weigh in on the name of today’s infamous contest, the 2012 edition will have a hard time topping the 1909 race, known as “The Inferno.” You just can’t beat Dante.
…new torments and new tormented souls I see around me wherever I move, and howsoever I turn, and wherever I gaze.
That’s about how I felt on my first marathon! Now double the temperature.
Really, Dante makes for perfect captions when depicting this year’s race.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…
Canto III: The Gate of Hell
Let us descend into the blind world.
-Canto IV: First Circle
There is no greater woe than in misery to remember the happy time, and that thy Teacher knows.
Canto V: Second Circle
Without fame, he who spends his time on earth leaves only such a mark upon the world as smoke does on air or foam on water.
Canto XXIV: Eighth Circle
Get up! breathe with the soul, for it is brave in every battle, and will always win, unless the heavy body be its grave.
Canto XXIV: Eighth Circle
One thing I’m pretty sure of: The folks who deferred their Boston Marathon until next year are believing in climate change.
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