I Am Earth

Gleaned from Twitter in Sept, 2017.

I can’t remember the day when I was born
I can’t recall the creation of that very first morn
I have been through a lot of changes since that day
And I have decided that I am here to stay

Life has abounded on me for millions of years
But now I am changing, it brings me to tears
My temperature is rising and so are the seas
My air is polluted and I struggle to breathe

Ice shelfs are melting, glaciers as well
Eventually it’s going to be hotter than hell
My symptoms are there for all to see
And my condition is caused by humanity

I would be fine if it wasn’t for man
And that’s what is so hard to understand
I can exist without you, but not you without me
So shouldn’t you be taking better care of me?

I am the planet, third out from the Sun
There is no other like me, not a single one
Live on me and look after me, show your worth
For I am your life stream, I Am Earth.

Komrade (@recneps51) on twitter

Musing

Feline Fury

A Sabre Toothed Kitteh

Pelican Posing

I convinced a pelican to pose for me the other day.

Cyclone Marcus and Perth

One advantage of being unnecessarily ancient is that one (yes, third person reference) can remember odd events and facts.

For instance, back 4th April 1974 a very big (as in wide) cyclone named Alby strode purposefully southwards in the Indian Ocean. Its centre was some 400Km off the coast as it passed Perth’s latitude yet I remember that day for its extreme winds (maximum gust of 130Kmh in Perth City and 143Kmh in Fremantle) as I was out on the road doing delivery work. Five people in the State’s south-west did not survive the day.

Cyclone Alby has been recorded by the Weather Bureau as one of the notable cyclones on its website.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/wa/alby.shtml

I have been watching Cyclone Marcus for the past couple of days, (ht to eldest son and family in Darwin) and found the Meteye map on the BOM site to be eerily reminiscent of Alby.

Be aware that we could be in for a late season cyclone affecting the South West. Do the necessary preparations and clean-ups just in case!

And hope that it doesn’t happen!

 

Addendum – overlay of Marcus-estimated on the Alby-actual track

MAKE HURRICANES GREAT AGAIN

Three Cat 5 Hurricanes in a month – or is it five weeks?

A couple of Cat 3’s in between.

Never happened before.

 

Climate Change is still a load of Codswallop according to the Koch Brothers and those whose intelligence have been bought by Koch money!

 

Trump is still wanting out of the Paris Climate accord unless there are terms favourable to the USA.

 

What does he want? The Paris Accord to keep its Hurricanes to itself?

 

Or a donation to the USA to cover the Trillion Dollars it will take to recover from this year’s hurricanes?

 

Let’s not think ahead to next year – – – –

A few Budgies

Just a few budgerigars  in the Great Sandy Desert

And just a few more.