Yes we have a light dusting of snow but the trains are still running this cold morning. Lillie in London on the phone to her mum last night, demanded to see outside the window, of course in overheated London snow is rarely found.
Which brings me to climate change, deniers please turn away now, you don't have to read what I write. I have been watching the footage of the misery and full scale landscape change the hurricane Helene brought on the people of Ashville in North Carolina. Tons of mud and trees swept down the hill sides, houses sailed along the river, roads disappeared, the tarmac picked up like cardboard by the rushing water. Bridges disappeared.
The volunteers came to help, but lives have been shattered, rumours are fueling worry that children might be taken away by social officers. Water and electricity is slowly being brought in. The river water is poisonous the cadaver dogs die after drinking it.
People make do, don't they ever? But in as much as the Ashville and surrounding district is in a terrible state, so the same thing has happened in Spain in the Valencia floods. Cars piled up like toys in narrow streets, 200 odd dead, I think it is similar for Ashville dead.
The weather has suddenly become heavier and wilder, the rain beats down with fury, the icebergs and glaciers breakdown and flow more freely and the scientists warn us that this is definitely climate change.
Natural or manmade make your choice.
Now to something more cheerful, how our young adapt. Let us introduce 'Wet Leg' theme song on Morris dancing, it is so full of splendid gaiety, Aril will love it (or maybe you won't) . How myths and magic light up a sometimes very dark world.
BBC news Morris Dancing
I must admit that I enjoyed that performance by Wet Leg. I had never heard of them before. Regarding climate change, Trump's pick for head of the Environmental Protection Agency is a fellow called Lee Zeldin who has in the past been a climate change denier and fracking enthusiast. He knows as much about protecting the environment as I know about astro-physics.
ReplyDeleteLooking it up, the Wet Leg band was formed in 2019 in the IoW so they are fairly new. This push for continuing use of coal and oil and the very dangerous process of fracking is of course detrimental to the planet, hopefully such people as Lee Zeldin will not be long in office.
DeleteMorris Dancing looks fun with everyone hopping about to the music.
ReplyDeleteOh, we are wrecking the earth. Is it too late to make a difference? Frump's group won't help and can do much harm.
Morris dancing is very traditional in England, mostly done at pubs or in the town square Ellen.
DeleteMan seems determined to wreak havoc on this earth, and earth seems to have had enough of our nonsense. I had to wander off for an extended kitten cuddling today.
ReplyDeleteWell at least the kittens are losing their feral nature and becoming tame Debby. Will you have them neutered?
DeleteWhich is exactly what climate scientists have been predicting for decades, not the slow increase in temperature and we all feel hotter but the wildness of the weather. Although fire fighting has become so sophisticated, it is no match for climate induced wild fires. May young people and new leaders take climate change much more seriously than ours have.
ReplyDeleteI remember the wild fires Australia had, and the little Koala bears drinking from the water bottles of the firefighters. Humans and wild animals alike are affected of course.
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