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The planet Gaia, Terra, Blue Planet, our home has continually adapted from a fiery smouldering lump to what we see today.

She, Gaia, is an old lady now and is lurching towards what may be an extinction phase that may include the bipedal hominid. We are the result of this continual process and as far as we know the only part of the ecosystem capable of altering the outcome. It seems to be our intelligence that has brought the whole ecosystem to crisis.

I wonder if AI can help us to find a way forward. Kicking the ball down the road hoping that something may turn up is the only game on the table. We invent the future and it is not logical so maybe we should try intuitive approach and get off the logic train.

Do you ever think about Doggerland?

Like how fucked up is it that it’s just….. gone.

I tend to forget about it and then when I remember it again I’m like “Oh yeah! There’s like an entire country sized stretch of land that’s just fucking GONE.

well…. “gone”….

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from Tolkeen, another hands on adventure

Mushroom Fairy Houses // Fairy Realtor

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Ideal spot for special time with Gaia, sun meadowland and fun.

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Perhaps the road needs to be behind barriers with wildlife corridors crossing it. Time we took conservation seriously. It is the planet that is at risk. The biggest risk we have to Gaia is Homo Stupido and there is no time left to develop Homo Sapiens. Maybe the robots will do better?

For many animals, fall is a time for migration. Within the last few weeks at Grand Teton National Park, five bison, one elk, one pronghorn, and additional wildlife were all struck and killed by vehicles in the park.

Slowing down saves lives. #TeamPublicLands

Photo of a grizzly bear crossing the road at Grant Teton National Park, by Adams, NPS. Photo description: A large brown bear crosses a road.

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Survivors in another continent.

Indigenous people of Central Highlands, Vietnam. Credit to Nguyễn Sơn Tùng.

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The home of the forked tongued vampire.

Ask the indigenous peoples on whom was inflicted genocidal holocaust and forced resettlement for the surviving few in Indian reservations [euphemism for concentration camps]

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Is it true?  World leaders in Glasgow committed to change?

In 1975 my Dissertation on Climate Change was rubbished by my examiners. Sad souls who wanted to believe what they wanted

Now we and our children/ grand children must face that future due to the denials and inaction of those representing the selfish, greedy and power-hungry.

We need perhaps to read “The Ages of Gaia.” and listen to David Attenborough’s “Blue Planet” and “The Mating Game” to understand why humans should retire from Planet Earth or at least breed at most one per couple per lifetime. Perhaps time for a new Papal Encyclical? Or allow our extinction?

Breed less should be the new Mantra for survival -mayhap?

In a recent article for the Guardian James Lovelock wrote:

“I don’t know if it is too late for humanity to avert a climate catastrophe, but I am sure there is no chance if we continue to treat global heating and the destruction of nature as separate problems.That is the wrongheaded approach of the United Nations, which is about to stage one big global conference for the climate in Glasgow, having just finished a different big global conference for biodiversity in Kunming.This division is as much of a mistake as the error made by universities when they teach chemistry in a different class from biology and physics. It is impossible to understand these subjects in isolation because they are interconnected. The same is true of living organisms that greatly influence the global environment. The composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and the temperature of the surface is actively maintained and regulated by the biosphere, by life, by what the ancient Greeks used to call Gaia.Almost 60 years ago, I suggested our planet self-regulated like a living organism. I called this the Gaia theory, and was later joined by biologist Lynn Margulis, who also espoused this idea. Both of us were roundly criticised by scientists in academia. I was an outsider, an independent scientist, and the mainstream view then was the neo-Darwinist one that life adapts to the environment, not that the relationship also works in the other direction, as we argued. In the years since, we have seen just how much life – especially human life – can affect the environment. Two genocidal acts – suffocation by greenhouse gases and the clearance of the rainforests – have caused changes on a scale not seen in millions of years.Because subjects like astronomy, geology, and meteorology are taught separately in schools and universities, few people are aware of the natural forces affecting the Earth’s surface temperature.For billions of years the Earth’s surface temperature has been determined mainly by the radiant heat coming from the sun. This energy increased over time because it is the nature of stars like the sun to increase their heat output as they grow older. But temperatures on Earth remained relatively stable thanks to Gaia: forests, oceans and other elements in the the Earth’s regulating system, which kept the surface temperature fairly constant and near optimal for life.The global warming that concerns all of us, and which will be discussed this week in Glasgow, includes a great deal of extra heating that comes as a consequence of extracting and burning fossil fuels since about the middle of the 19th century. That releases methane, carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere. They absorb radiant heat and stop it escaping from Earth. This is what causes global warming.The amount of global warming depends hugely on the properties of water. When cold ice forms, much of it is white snow. This reflects the sunlight back to space and is cooling. But when it is warm, the water vapour in the air is a powerful greenhouse gas that makes it warmer still.Much of the confusion over global heating comes about because of the huge quantities of heat needed to change the state of water. Few are aware that to melt a gram of ice takes 80 calories, enough heat to raise the temperature of 1ml of water to 80C. Try an ice cube in your boiling hot tea.Then imagine how much heat was needed to melt large areas of the polar ice cap during the recent summer and how much hotter the world would have been if the ice had not been there. No wonder there is confusion about whether there is global heating or not.Warnings that once seemed like the doom scenarios of science fiction are now coming to pass. We are entering into a heat age in which the temperature and sea levels will be rising decade by decade until the world becomes unrecognisable. We could also be in for more surprises. Nature is non-linear and unpredictable, never more than at a time of transition.Lowering these risks and adapting to those we can no longer avoid will require a mobilisation of resources on the scale of a war economy. We have no choice but to reduce the burning of fossil fuels or face even worse consequences.But we should also not become over-reliant on renewable power, which will leave us with an energy gap. We need to build more nuclear power stations to overcome that, though the greens will first have to get over their overblown fears of radiation.The dangers are nowhere near as bad as they are often painted. I’ve travelled millions of miles by air, and all that time I have been exposed to levels of radiation that are ten times as great as at ground level. The dangers are exaggerated.We also need to address the problem of overpopulation and to urgently halt the destruction of tropical forests. Most of all, we need to look at the world in a holistic way.I am not hopeful of a positive outcome at Cop26, knowing who is participating. I was not invited to Glasgow, though that is hardly a surprise. As well as being 102 years old, I am an independent scientist, and the university academics have never been comfortable with that.But my fellow humans must learn to live in partnership with the Earth, otherwise the rest of creation will, as part of Gaia, unconsciously move the Earth to a new state in which humans may no longer be welcome. The virus, Covid-19, may well have been one negative feedback. Gaia will try harder next time with something even nastier.

James Lovelock is the originator of Gaia theory and the author, most recently, of Novascene. This op-ed was told to Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s global environment editor “

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Sad, but the push-back from politicians is inevitable as they get their funds from the real culprits ravaging the Blue Planet.

Brazil has suggested deforestation to end by 2030. The current rate of loss of forest in Amazonia will leave very little remaining by 2030. Saudi Arabia has suggested it could become carbon neutral in 2050, about the time its oil is expected to run out. Where are the solar panels generating green power in the Arabian desert., in the Sahara, in Australia.

We have had words devoid of action for too long.

At the end of WWII we took the perpetrators of crimes against humanity to Nuremburg. As of 2021 we have crimes being committed against our planet home, against humanity’s home and nobody held responsible. Those culpable are few in number, exceedingly selfish and should expect to be brought to account.

A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change.

The leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.

It also shows some wealthy nations are questioning paying more to poorer states to move to greener technologies.

This “lobbying” raises questions for the COP26 climate summit in November.

It shows countries pushing back on UN recommendations for action just days before they will be asked to make significant commitments to slow down climate change and keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.

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It  has to be: watch this space. If it looks too good to be true, it may be just that. Still I hope that the Eastern Kuku Yalanji have been given an honest chance.

Queensland, Australia’s third most populous state, said on Wednesday it has given ownership of the world’s oldest tropical rainforest to a local Indigenous group.

The Daintree Rainforest, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, has been growing for 180 million years and is famed for its rich biodiversity but has come under sustained pressure from climate change and industries such as logging.

In striking a new deal to manage the rainforest, Queensland said the Daintree would be returned to the traditional owners of the land, the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people.

“This agreement recognizes their right to own and manage their country, to protect their culture and to share it with visitors as they become leaders in the tourism industry,” Queensland Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon said in a statement.

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HiPOD 30 Sept 2021: Almost Like an Ancient Shoreline…

This observation is located in a region of Meridiani Planum that is rich in hematite, a common iron oxide compound widely found in rocks and soils. Our science goal is to examine the surface characteristics and layering of the light and dark-toned rocks. The dark sand is likely basaltic.

Black and white image is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km.

ID: ESP_064458_1815 date: 27 April 2020 altitude: 271 km

NASA/JPL/UArizona

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Perseids Meteors, Star Rain

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30 September 2021 massive solar storm caress of the Van Allen belt

Mads Peter Iversen

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See what I mean, size does not matter.

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Big lioness wants some pets 

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Feline love is all hugs and purrs

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I was adopted today. She hid under the stove all day till I gave her some wet cat food. It was love at first bite. 

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Truly beautiful

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