It's spring?

It was too warm today.
It is almost spring....?
Wait! Today is the 31st of January!
The maximum temperature was 15 degree Celsius
in Maebashi city today.

The Haruna lake in Gunma has not been frozen over.
There is a famous lake that is fishing pond smelt.
However, this year, anglers cannot go fishing there.
It is a case of unprecedented magnitude.

I ran the Katsuta Marathon.

I went to Hitachinaka city in Ibaraki to run a marathon.
It was warm day today.
I normaly wear a long sleeves T-shirt.
But I wore a half sleeves T-shirts today.

5000 runners ran the marathon today.
And 1000 volunteers helped us.
I enjoyed to run a marathon today,too.

It was too cold every year.
Does it make an impact on the Grobal warming?

I bought a book.

This book is speach by 12year-old lady about 14 years ago
at the UN Conference of Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.
That is called "Legend speach in Rio".

This book is written
"I'm only child yet I know if all the money spent on WAR was spent
on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful
place this Earth would be."

"At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the
world.
You teach us:
not to fight with others, to work things out
to respect others, to clean up our mess
not hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy
Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?"

What do you think?
How do you feel when you read this?

The first day of the coldest season.

It is the first day of the coldest season today.
But it was not too cold ,not blowing the dry wind in Gunma.

It was snowed in Tokyo and Kanagawa.

12 years ago.

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake striked aroound Kobe city.
I watched smoking city on TV.
I was shocked when I had known that was destroyed Kobe city by the earthquake.

I have been living in Gunma.
I have experienced an earthquake of the 5th degree
on the seismic scale 3 years ago.
But The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake was stronger than that.

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake took the lives of a lot of
people.
The earthquake was got a severe heavy blow.

"Life"
Please value your life.
Please value her or his life.
Please value all life!

How to do?

Russian sea doesn't freeze.
It doesn't snow in Germany.
It is warm in U.S or France or some country.

Easy but long way.
We do energy conservation.
using public traffic facilities or reduce
or reuse or recycle or repair.
We have a couple of pot plants.
The grass is planted in a square.

Difficult and long way.
Plant trees in the desert.

Nature power.
Volcano goes into eruption.

All in our hands.

Global warming is becoming worse.
Japan sea in winter was very cold.
However, in this year, fishermen catch fish of
the Pacific ocean or tropical fish.
That is extraordinary condition.

In couple of year, global environment is changed
good or bad.
That is all in our hands.

Too scary...

It was the highest average temperature of the world
in December,2006 since 1891, that was announced by
the Meteorological Agency.
It was 0.41 degrees C higher than a normal year.

It makes an impact on the grobal warming or the El Nino phenomenon.

Hmm...it's horrible.

Cold, but...

It was cold today.
However, the sun was warm.
It did not blow a dry wind.
Why?

Maebashi City

Hirose river flows centre of Maebashi.