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The Change
A change is happening and it needs to soon if we are to keep our planet fit to live on China with her communist muscle & control is charging on with her solar & wind renewables G in 2015, y now z times in A shrt years While the laws of Commerce in the rest of the rest of the world have their teeth and claws in the thighs of the hydrocarbons S in 2025 f now with the graph streaking up So Communism and Commerce are linking arms to combat the threat Will their combined power be enough to limit world temperature enough and in time? Or will the inherent delay in the sky mean that the ugly giant climate change will win the...
Read MoreLoud
Writers Week should it not be Weak Writers? audible murmurs were heard from the Audience whenever renewables were mentioned - but were not responded to Should we not be shouting our dismay As the skippers of our countries Not only don’t see the iceberg But deny it exists And steam straight for it We will strike soon unless things change Some say in 50 years Some 20 I say from the NASA data so far Four & a half years Then what? At 1.5C, much will be the same as now With more storms and weather events And 2C? Flooding around the world Whole cities sunk And the wheat crop torpedoed Not the right way to tackle the world obesity...
Read MoreThe Race is on
In the black that wise old horse ‘World temperature rise’ accelerating now a gain to +.99C last year .87C the year before .74C the year before that and .65C the year before that Not spent & running freely no end in sight And in the Green ‘The Renewables Filly’ young yet but accelerating fast up a third over the last 5 years from a slow start Computers were from the same stable And grew 36% a year And soon swamped the market Either could still yet win the race And dominate the world And the race organisers could fix the outcome but either are not watching or counting their winnings Will there be a paddock for them to retire to at the...
Read MoreHead for the hills
Head for the hills we have ‘Runaway’ sell that beachfront house if you live in-land lag that house Each of the last five years has been hotter last year by .94C burn what you like – solar, vegoil – wood! but best leave hydro carbons in the ground mother nature clearly can’t take much more being...
Read More18 Signs That Show We’ve Reached the Tipping Point
Extremes Attempts at Climate Reform Increasing Wildfires Across Western North America The Amazon Continues to Emit More Carbon Than it Absorbs A Large Increase in Methane Emissions Global Warming Psychology NOAA Ice-Sheet Collapse Warning Antarctic Ice Shelves Deteriorating Rapidly Ocean Heat Content Doubles in Recent Decades First Tipping Point Timeline for Collapse of the WAIS Dynamical Ice-Sheet Collapse Modeling Arrives Larsen C Ice Shelf Collapsing Alternatives and Renewable Energy Stratospheric Geoengineering With Limestone, Not Sulfates Sequestration Through Mineralization: Faster Than Previously Understood Carbon Capture Using Fuel Cells Generates More Net...
Read MoreThe devil and the deep blue sea
Life may be tolerable if we warm our world 1.5 degrees C at 2 degrees that’s unlikely To keep below 2C will mean all that coal and oil will need to be left in the ground and that will cause a financial crisis eight times bigger than the last Financial ruin versus planet ruin the suits versus the greenies it’s our choice suspect Homo sapiens is leaning towards the suits for whatever the individuals’ reasons will the wise one day steer us back to a happy medium? or are we stuck between that devil the dollar and the gradually deepening deep blue...
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Water boatman is a unit on the water, that takes in polluted or sea water, distills it & either stores the pure water – or pumps it ashore. Water boatman is a unit on the water, that takes in polluted or sea water, distills it & either stores the pure water – or pumps it ashore. 
