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@pvonhellermannn Splendid, Pauline…great minds!

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**LAUNCH** of #ClimateDiary
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I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday observations, experiences, thoughts, feelings relating to the #ClimateCrisis

I would like to try out simply using a #Hashtag - #ClimateDiary - here on #Mastodon to create this and I would like to invite you all to join in and share widely! 1/4

A Few Thoughts on Guarding Your Mental Health These Days

"Most of what passes for mental health advice involves suppressing negative emotions and pretending to be happy for the sake of others. Those of us who refuse to play along are labeled “negative” and identified as a threat."

~ from @jessicawildfire's latest missive:

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-on-guarding-your-mental

#MentalHealth #OKDoomer #ClimateCrisis #Covid #doomer

@VicTheMac You're welcome, Vicki. Really glad you went!

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Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle for the 1st time. What a treat - so many brilliant pieces, including some @RNLI inspired paintings ⚓️

'The Women' by John Charlton is spectacular (and huge! Difficult to convey in photos!)

I was also really moved by the 'These Are Our Treasures' exhibition (I was so engrossed, I forgot to take photos).

I'll be back very soon!

Thanks so much @jacklowe for the recommendation ✨️

#NorthEast
#Art

'The Women' by John Charlton, featuring the women of Cullercoats pulling the lifeboat back in the early 1800's

The building of the Tyne Bridge, by Edward Montgomery O'Rourke Dickey

Sunderland Old Pier and Lighthouse, by John Wilson Carmichael

Barred Out, by Ralph Hedley. Features a group of schoolchildren barring the teacher from the classroom until holidays were agreed - apparently an old North East tradition!

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Looking back at temperatures over the last 3 months - find your location...

🟥 Warmer than average
🟦 Colder than average

Data available at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/.

Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for the October to December 2022 period. Most all areas are warmer than average, except for parts of the equatorial and eastern Pacific Ocean along with Australia, near the South Pole, and the western United States.

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Amid the looking, listening, learning, despairing and raging, I've built something new and I'm very pleased to share it with you.

I hope it helps us. All is explained here in my latest blog post called:

'Climate Emergency: Be The Sentinel'

👉 https://jacklowe.com/2023/01/19/climate-emergency-be-the-sentinel/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #community #protest #activism

A colour photograph of a dreamy scene looking across the Irish Sea from the Welsh coast near Aberarth. White and grey fluffy clouds are hanging over the glass-like sea.

@breadandcircuses Indeed. I find Richard Crim's assertion much nearer the mark and the final paragraph is among the most affecting of all the words I've read not the topic:

https://smokingtyger.medium.com/short-takes-07-fb41fa37411f

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This is George Orwell, from his novel "1984" -- talk about predicting the future!

A photograph of George Orwell, along with this quotation form his novel: "Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult… All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.”

Amid the looking, listening, learning, despairing and raging, I've built something new and I'm very pleased to share it with you.

I hope it helps us. All is explained here in my latest blog post called:

'Climate Emergency: Be The Sentinel'

👉 https://jacklowe.com/2023/01/19/climate-emergency-be-the-sentinel/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #community #protest #activism

@Joanie Wow! My wish has come true!

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@KarlHeinzHasliP 4000 tonnes per year of CO₂ removal is a time machine that takes us back 3 seconds per year.

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We've seen this many times before: motorists, etc, get frustrated by climate protests when they're immersed in their own unthinking daily grind, but set any 12 ordinary folks down with the time to actually listen to the case for protest - and they support it.

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Over three billion people depend on marine and coastal ecosystems for their livelihoods.

And we are cooking the oceans.

If this makes you feel sick with fear, attend our next talk and find out what you can do: http://bit.ly/JSOevents

#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/11/oceans-were-the-hottest-ever-recorded-in-2022-analysis-shows

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Astronomers using the near-infrared vision of #NASAWebb found a lot of dust surrounding still-forming stars in NGC 346. Previously, researchers thought the Small Magellanic Cloud had very little.

Unwind the discovery: https://webbtelescope.pub/3ioD7st #AAS241

A star cluster within a nebula. The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink gas that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink gas expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are more of these white stars and a few galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image.

@JohnAltringham Love it, John! 👏🏻

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I usually paint the 'wilder' aspects of the countryside. I painted this #watercolour during a #pandemic #lockdown for our daughter who lives in #Edinburgh.

Watercolour. View of an Edinburgh tenement at night under a starry sky. Many of the lights are on, a few people are seen getting on with their lives.

“Despite all the odds I am thankful that 12 of my fellow citizens were able to see the bigger picture and even when directed by the judge to find us guilty, they were able to understand that the unprecedented times in which we live calls for us all to step out of the box and make courageous decisions. Thank you jury.” ~ Rev Sue Parfitt (80) for #InsulateBritain

https://insulatebritain.com/2023/01/11/breaking-four-insulate-britain-supporters-vindicated-after-jury-returns-unanimous-not-guilty-verdict/

#ClimateCrisis #NotGuilty #protest #activism

@ansolasoir I do indeed… ☺️💭

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