OK, I guess I’ve gotten up. It’s taken me more than seven months since my last entry. I’ve got some wishy-washy excuses, but not really good enough.
Going somewhat against my second last entry, “Stop fighting Climate Change!”, here is an eye-catching graphic of global warming, from https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/warming-stripes-2025
“The global warming stripes, created by Professor Ed Hawkins, are a visual representation of the long-term rise in global temperatures due to human-caused climate change.
Each stripe represents the global temperature averaged over one year, from 1850 to 2024. Red stripes are years that were hotter than the 1961-2010 average; blue stripes are years that were cooler.
The global warming stripes graphic shows a rapid shift from blue to red stripes in recent decades as heat-trapping pollution has warmed the planet”.
And BTW, my previous entry on climate change did not really mean that we should stop fighting it. I have always said is that we need to look at “Biosphere Degradation” in total. Climate Change leads the charge, but Biodiversity, Waste and Pollution, Depletion of non-renewable Resources, all deserve equal billing.
As does degradation of humanity. We are part of the biosphere after all – even when we think we are so special that we can ignore that fact.
Happy solstice tomorrow – especially to my friends in the southern hemisphere – longer days for you!