@magiamma

I will read more carefully, and follow your links when I have more time. Thank you for insisting on attention to the environment while sharing its beauty. I may be mistaken, but I believe it will become the most significant issue to date, soon.

and happy Friday. Beautiful photos as always. Love the arms sticking up with the tiny boats in the background. Strikes my funny bone. What is under the water I wonder?

Still very stuck on the lack of conversation about climate change. Bit of a long rant today. Here are a few happy photos from my garden interspersed with an article which has a good comparison between 2008 climate-change status and now. Interestingly the 'media', for the most part, is just not talking about climate change/global warming in spite of many articles written about record-breaking temperatures, heatwaves and wildfires. Nada. Then I found this article at The New Republic: The Media’s Failure to Connect the Dots on Climate Change

A record-breaking heat wave killed 65 people in Japan this week, just weeks after record flooding there killed more than 200. Record-breaking heat is also wreaking havoc in California, where the wildfire season is already worse than usual. In Greece, fast-moving fires have killed at least 80 people, and Sweden is struggling to contain more than 50 fires amid its worst drought in 74 years. Both countries have experienced all-time record-breaking temperatures this summer, as has most of the rest of the world...And yet, despite these facts, there’s no climate connection to be found in much news coverage of extreme weather events across the globe—even in historically climate-conscious outlets like NPR and The New York Times. These omissions, critics say, can affect how Americans view global warming and its impact on their lives.

Ya think? What is not written in the 'media' affects how folks 'connect the dots' on climate change/global warming? What a surprise.

This article has a good comparison between the 2008 status and now. This 2008 check-up was done for three reasons. (1) exposure, (2) making the issue controversial, and (3) to make people think about the prospects.

2008 Carbon Dioxide was at 387ppm.

as of May 2, 2018 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Mauna Loa Observatory/Hawaii reading for atmospheric CO2 registers 408.90 ppm, still climbing higher and higher, year-by-year.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)

according to NASA, since 1990, North Flow is down 30% and South Flow down 50%.

Now

in 2018 is in a very weakened state—the most anemic it has been in the last 1,600 years

Arctic Ice

As of August 17, 2017 U.S. Naval Research Lab measurements of Arctic sea ice over a 30-day period “shows that the multi-year sea ice has now virtually disappeared.

Greenland

As of 2008, cumulative acre-feet loss equals 3-4 billion acre-feet, an amount that would cover the entire US with two feet of ice.

Antarctica,

The recent tally of ice shelf collapses: 1995- Larsen A Ice Shelf collapses, 2002- Larsen B Ice Shelf splinters and collapses, 2017- Larsen C Ice Shelf falls apart

The Amazon

as referenced in National Geographic: “In the time it takes to read this article, an area of Brazil’s rainforest larger than 200 football fields will have been destroyed. The market forces of globalization are invading the Amazon.”

Permafrost

Recent measurements in Alaska show biological sources of permafrost alone emitting 220M tons of GHG over a two-year time period, which is equivalent to all U.S. commercial emissions per annum.

As for the Oceans

An update, as of 2018, too much CO2, too much heat, and too much acidification in the oceans would require an additional 100-page article. It’s that bad!

Methane

The world’s foremost authority on the region, Dr. Natalia Shakova, stated: “As we showed in our articles, in the ESAS (East Siberian Arctic Shelf), in some places, subsea permafrost is reaching the thaw point. In other areas it could have reached this point already. And what can happen then? The most important consequence could be in terms of growing methane emissions… a linear trend becomes exponential...When Dr. Shakova mentions “exponential versus linear,” she references an astounding fact, to wit: Thirty (30) linear steps to the water cooler across the room would be equivalent, if 30 exponential steps, to circumnavigation of the planet. That’s exponential.

@boriscleto

For me, the last photo is the most emotive, in its expression of the fragility of life.

Here's a few from the last time I did.

@Socialprogressive

is especially luscious.

Thanks for Friday Photos tonight. I really like that first shot of the tree silhouette in the moon light.

These are a few shots from Tuesday morning.

@QMS

the pickles grow at night (this is a strange perpendicular world).

@QMS

a veiled moon. The eye of god with a cataract.

@mimi

I know what you mean, and I have asked myself that same question.

“… I heard someone saying that to know where you are at home, you have to ask yourself where you want to be buried. That is then where you probably feel most at home.”

I am at my mom’s in Florida, and would like to die in NZ, or at the side of my daughter wherever she is.

reminds me that none of my African family members could swim. My husband and my niece struggled a lot and learned it only while in United States as adults. When I was in Cameroon at the beaches of Kribi I remember women telling me that fishing is strictly a "man's job" and no woman ever went into the water. None of them could swim. But that's forty plus years ago.

Nobody is alive anymore and I miss not knowing where my former husband is buried. I am getting upset about it still after so many years.

For people that migrated a lot in their lives and forget where they are at home, I heard someone saying that to know where you are at home, you have to ask yourself where you want to be buried. That is then where you probably feel most at home.

Are you and your mother at home in New Zealand or in the US? I don't feel at home in Hawaii and don't feel at home anymore in Germany (though it's the easiest place to re-adapt to). I asked myself where I want to be buried. I think it would be on the piece of land my son would like to buy and live on. At least my son should know where his mother is buried after feeling very lost about the fact that he was denied to know where his father was buried. voodoo burials ...

Jeez, I have some weird comments today. Must be the weather, I am melting in the heat and lose my clear thinking capabilities.