claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "Child's Grip""Child's Grip" While I'm walking, time passes. Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly…claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "Pen""Pen" I'm drowning in nonsense once more, and I'm saying Nothing. Something is required of me. Specific.…claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "Free""Free" I'm a private eye. Trying to keep track of everything. The truth gets even more enlightening. As I…claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "The outskirts of the universe""The outskirts of the universe" I'm on the outskirts of that universe. Same spot, different time... I, too. The…claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "The clairvoyant""The clairvoyant" I attempt to view the picture clearly as history unfolds in front of my eyes, flinging truths…claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "Hope""Hope" May the fog of war come upon us So the curtain closes This troubled theatre Only but a prayer And there…claudia (74)in #poetry • 3 years agoFrom My Poetry Diary - "Goodbye"Goodbye, my love Time is precious, but sometimes lost in the night I cry every single day don't pray for me the…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: November 2017 was the third warmest November on record [From "NASA"] 🌍A global map of the November 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly, relative to the 1951-1980 November…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Scientists Have Beaten Down The Best Climate Denial Argument [From "The Guardian"] 🌍Clouds don’t act as a climate thermostat, and they’re not going to save us from global warming Climate deniers…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Climate Change Is Increasing Forest Fires, And The Cost Will Be Huge 🌍 [From "Futurism" Website]IN BRIEF This year is poised to be remembered as one of the worst years on record for the severity of its wildfires.…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Four Decades And Counting - New NASA Instrument Continues Measuring Solar Energy Input To Earth 🌍By Kasha Patel, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Global Warming Made Hurricane Harvey Deadly Rains Three Times More Likely, Research Teveals 🌍The unprecedented downpour and severe flooding was also 15% more intense due to climate change, which is making…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: The North Atlantic Right Whale Faces Extinction 🌍HALIFAX, CANADA—In a sad reversal of fortune, the North Atlantic right whale is in deep trouble again after rebounding…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: The US Is Penny Wise And Pound Foolish On The Climate 🌍As America is battered by climate-intensified weather disasters, Republican politicians are trying to slash climate…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: China Is Officially Enacting A Plastic Waste Import Ban 🌍IN BRIEF For years, the world has imported plastic waste to China and Hong Kong. In a recent development, China…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Tropics May Now Emit More Carbon Dioxide Than They Absorb 🌍The assessment suggests that damage to forests can dramatically change how much carbon they can store Severely…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: US Government Report Finds Steady And Persistent Global Warming 🌍All of nature’s thermometers indicate a rapid rise in global temperatures. The US Global Change Research…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Why Are Ferocious Wildfires Plaguing Southern California? 🌍A combination of short and longer-term events have conspired to spark a ring of fires that have dotted the Los Angeles…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Four Decades And Counting: New NASA Instrument Continues Measuring Solar Energy Input To Earth 🌍The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), launched in 2003, currently measuring total solar irradiance from…claudia (74)in #newslink • 7 years agoEarth Newslink: Long-lost Congo Notebooks May Shed Light On How Trees React To Climate Change 🌍Decaying notebooks discovered in an abandoned research station contain a treasure trove of tree growth data dating…