BlogHide Resteemsclaudia (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, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, Getting rid of the remnants of the day in my…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. Valuable. The missing words crumpled sheet after sheet Mourning for irreversible…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 progress, it becomes increasingly enigmatic. Into the psyche's depths. It's the…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 bridge, see her washed-out face. "It isn't late for you," the faraway voice…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 through an intermediate. The clairvoyant Have foreseen the bleak future for a…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 is only loneliness I hope that you liked it. Claudia Source of imageclaudia (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 sadness torments me But I am still here I hope that you liked it.…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 average. Part of Antarctica is gray because data from some stations there were not…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 have come up with a lot of arguments about why we shouldn’t worry about global…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. North America is counting the cost. The skyrocketing cost of putting out…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, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket us with warmth and…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 weather more violent around the world Hurricane Harvey’s unprecedented deluge…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 in recent decades from centuries of hunting. Recent population trends are so…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 research funding. The United States is great in many respects. But we…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 will ban the import of this waste starting in 2018. Full article in…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 degraded forests, such as this one in Bolivia, are helping convert the tropics —…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 Program recently released a Climate Science Special Report. It is clearly written – an…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 area. The exhausted firefighters battling fires that have menaced Los…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 space, observed a dip in the irradiance during intense solar flare activity in…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 from 1930s A cache of decaying notebooks found in a crumbling Congo research…