An ode to us

In Today's Issue


An ode to us
Global Warming
(Not so) Trivial Top 10
Random Joke of the Day
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Finish with a Song

ODE TO US


You sell
Your Soul
For Oil
And Coal

For Money
And Greed
The world
Bleeds

Short term
Gain
Leaves long term
Pain

Head in the
Sand
Hides under
Land

Is the irony
Missed?
That Earth that is
Kissed

Will reject us one
Day
And blink us
Away

NR 2017

Global Warming

Here's a simple definition of global warming. Over the past 50 years, the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. And experts see the trend is accelerating: All but one of the 16 hottest years in NASA’s 134-year record have occurred since 2000.

(Not So) Trivial Top 5

Five unusual facts about global warming

1.) Loss of biodiversity

With every tree cut down we lose countless species of animals and plants. If the rate of global warming will be moving at this rate we will end up loosing million species. If we take polar bears for example in the past they were heavier, less hungry and much bigger than they are now.

2.) Natural disasters

Natural disaster is an effect of earth´s natural hazards – floods, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, heatwaves, landslides…. They can lead to massive financial, environmental or human losses.

3.) Disappearance of Great Barrier Reef

This is the largest coral reef system which can be seen from outer space. Increasing ocean temperatures bleach the coral reefs. Mass coral bleaching events due to elevated ocean temperatures occurred in the summers of 1998, 2002 and 2006, and coral bleaching is expected to become an annual occurrence.

4.) Global warming creates opposites

Global warming turns some areas of the earth hotter or drier while others are turned the opposite direction wetter and colder. Global warming creates opposites in the nature – on one side Amazon rain forest is turning into desert and Sahara is becoming greener and greener.

5.) Disappearance of islands

With the glaciers melting and the ocean levels raising some of the islands will disappear. But some popular cities will be lost as well, such as London, New York, submerge 2,100 Indonesian islands, flat and low countries. Some of most beautiful beaches will be lost as well.

(Cheer me up)

Random Joke of the Day

I've got a French stepdad. He's my faux pa.

That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

The German word kummerspeck means excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

Finish with a Song

Given the theme this is Earth Song" by Michael Jackson released in 1995 (27 years ago!)