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A quick re-work of a shot from Ham wall back in 2017... If you missed the clip on 'WinterWatch' about our local Egrets here's a link:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081zd1w
One of our 'Global warming' success stories, with numbers rising year-on-year since they first bred here back in 2012.
For the Great White Egret colonies on the Avalon Marshes, 2024 was another record-breaking year, with 100 young fledged from 54 nests !!
*Working Towards a Better World
We have to be environmentally responsible in what we do, global warming is a reality!
Wikipedia:
'Bug of the Day'... Classed as a 'Rare vagrant', we had at least five males and one female which was observed mating and ovipositing at Knighton reserve in Dorset today. A sign of Global warming...
'Bug of the Day'... Classed as a 'Rare vagrant', we had at least five males and one female which was observed mating and ovipositing.
A sign of Global warming...
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Independent
David Attenborough says the world must act now on plastic after witnessing its impacts filming Blue Planet II
"Weāve seen albatrosses come back with their belly full of food for their young. You think itās going to be squid, but itās plastic".
āWe may think we live a long way from the oceans but we donāt. What we actually do here ... has a direct effect on the oceans and what the oceans do then reflects back on us".
āIt is one world. And itās in our care. For the first time in the history of humanity, for the first time in 500 million years, one species has the future in the palm of its hands. I just hope he realizes that that is the caseā.
"Almost 80 percent of the 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic produced over the past 70 years has been discarded into landfill or the environment, including the ocean".
"The plastic is thrown away since the 1950s will eventually form a layer sedimentary rock detectable by future generations".
"Tap-water samples from more than a dozen nations were recently analyzed for an investigation by Orb Media. Plastic fibers were found in more than 83 percent of the samples, meaning billions of people are drinking water contaminated with plastic particles".
"It is not yet known how the human body processes plastic after it is swallowed, including whether chemicals leach out of the plastic into the body and cause inflammation, or whether body tissue just seals over plastic".
"Blue Planet II returns to the oceans 16 years after the first series, The Blue Planet, was broadcast.
Its production team had noticed changes such as plastic in the ocean over years of making underwater films, said it's executive producer James Honeyborne".
"Greenpeace praised Sir David for speaking out. It called on the Government to introduce ādeposit-return schemesā, whereby consumers receive a small deposit back when they return plastic packaging such as bottles for recycling".
āThe good news is that there are things we could do right now to stop this plastic scourge,ā said Greenpeace spokesperson Louise Edge.
Ms. Edge also called on companies to set a date for reducing the number of single-use bottles they produced and asked consumers to use less plastic".
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... and we do behave
as if we were the last
to switch off the light
on this beautiful blue planet ...
Macro taken of a melting ice cube with a candlelight behind it.
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Tea lights gratuitously contributing to CO2 emissions and fossil fuel burning in the parish church at Longnor, Staffordshire
In the air at 10:45 on a Monday morning. Just a snapshot of a moment in time, and so it goes on and on. Makes you think doesn't it.
And they blame us for leaving our tv's on standby!!
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4% - Damn! Drought - You're walking on it.
The Victorian side of Lake Hume, about 5km to Hume Weir.
Australia is finally having a debate on global warming!
This brave woman was one of several people arrested in Trafalgar Square for daring to peacefully resist the government's inaction on the climate and cost of living crisis. She had been participating in a "Just Stop Oil" demo, by sitting on the road, on the south side of the square and had been holding a placard declaring "We will not pay for greed."
Another activist explained his own interpretation of the placard - "We refuse to go hungry to feed your profits, we refuse to sacrifice our planet on the altar of greed."
This and other similar protests occur as a tiny corporate minority are profiteering from the surge in the oil price, inflicting misery on working families, and while also benefiting the government's backing for new oil fields.
The UK's mainstream TV network Sky News network reported in August 2022 that "the country has seen a huge spike in the number of people becoming billionaires." - Yes, that's right, a "huge spike" in the middle of the UK's longest decline in working families' living standards in 200 years.
news.sky.com/story/sunday-times-rich-list-2022-uk-has-a-r...
The UK government claims that it doesn't have enough funds to support the NHS, the disabled, the homeless or working families who can't afford to heat their homes. It also explains its inability to take any of the steps desperately needed to avert catastrophic climate change, due to the supposed cost.
All the while it allows UK oil companies to profit from the Ukraine War by setting the maximum possible market price thereby plunging ordinary families into poverty. It also continues to allow individuals and corporations to hide their wealth in tax havens, hands out billions by propping up, via the Bank of England's open market operations, the assets of wealthy bond holders and it still privileges multinationals with the lowest corporation tax, by a significant margin, in the G7, and also in the G20.
According to the Just Stop Oil website, just a few days prior to when this photo was taken, a spokesperson for the activist group set out their demands -
āRishi Sunak is about to U-turn on attending COP27. We demand that he also U-turn on new oil and gas. This genocidal policy will kill millions of people, while failing to address the worst cost of living crisis this country has ever seen.
āIts time for a serious windfall tax on big oil, without the get-out-of-jail-free tax credits that will encourage more oil and gas that we cannot afford. Vulnerable people will be freezing to death in their homes this winter, unable to afford a can of soup, while his government refuses to tax the rich and the big energy companies that are profiting from our misery.
āWe owe it to our young people to stop fossil fuels, we owe it to our workers to create a just transition to a zero-carbon economy, we owe it to our old people to enable them to live with dignity. We are not prepared to stand by and watch while everything we love is destroyed."
juststopoil.org/2022/11/01/day-32-just-stop-oil-target-do...
Ha, try saying that three times in a row! ;)
I normally ignore Glasbake, but couldn't resist this sweetie and even thought the tab handles kinda cute.
The last Friday of each month sees the regular Speakeasy night at the award-winning Edinburgh Bookshop - some socialising, book browsing, chat, some gin and tonics then a talk with an author or other speaker.
For April's Speakeasy it was a very timely subject with Patrick Dunne talking to us about taking part in the Extinction Rebellion movement which has been staging demonstrations and protests in numerous cities in the UK and Europe and further afield (with young Greta Thunberg being one of the most publicly visible demonstrators).
It was a terrific evening, generating a good bit of debate about what individuals can do to try and play a part in not just trying to avert environmental catastrophe, but in changing our politics and economic system to something more humane and fair, that involves us all.
Patrick and others will have a Fringe show in Edinburgh this August on this time, you can follow him here twitter.com/paddywpd
The Speakeasy takes place the last Friday of each month from 5.30pm in the Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield, right on Holy Corner, and is free, all welcome to come along: www.edinburghbookshop.com/
What a night we had here at Fern Bay, the rain just bucketed down and oh my, the wind, the rain has stopped for the moment, but the wind is still gusting and cold. Miss Cheeky wanted to dash out for a quick walk to the river, another noticeably big high tide once again, but as usual she enjoyed her walk albeit a little shorter today due to the wind, she most certainly does not like the wind. Due to this unusual cold and wet spring we have not been to the mountains yet, this would be the first time in over 20 years that we have missed spring at Mount Wilson which is part of the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains. So much for #GlobalWarming š
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He Is a Real Magical Man
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
He is a real magical man
Walking down the magical span
Making so much magical for everyone’s treat
Not everything needs to be true
Though it’s going to be like it seems too
In its way on every walking street
Magical man, please have a try
There is deep and there's blue sky
Magical man, make your own magical plan
He’s exited for what he is
Reaching the earth in watery bliss
Magical man, never reaching your own feet
Magical man keeps on flying
Go all the way in your trying
Bringing it all up into reality
In magic’s for all to see
Not everything needs to be true
Though it’s going to be like it seems too
In its way on every walking street
Magical man please has a try
There is deep and there's blue sky
Magical man, make your own magical plan
He is a real magical man
Walking down a magical span
Making so much magical for everyone’s treat
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The poem appeared on www.poemhunter.com/peter-s-quinn/
Forest fires continue to rage across Washington, Oregon, and California. Smoke from these fires has blown north into British Columbia. Today, the air had a metallic taste and Environment Canada has posted an air quality warning of "Very High Risk 10+".
People complained in June and July this year of the supposedly wetter summer weather. I was quite happy with what felt like a summer from my childhood. The rains didn't last and here we are again with Mordor-like skies. I grew up in Abbotsford and never really saw skies like this until I was in my 30s.
I really miss living further north. This kind of summer smoke is only going to get worse in future years.
I was hoping for an epic sunset, but there was so much smoke that once the sun was low enough, it was entirely obscured and just became a faded red blob that turned to grey. Night fell blandly 20 minutes later.
Ruff Winter 2018
Image by Carl Klitzke
#Fantasy #adventure #polarbears #globalwarming #digitalart #carlklitzkeart
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