GOOD NEWS!
Many countries are seeing the light
and jettisoning carbon fuels’ blight.
So with this global trend
foul fuel’s grip will soon end
and Net Zero come soon into sight.
It really is possible for those contemplating buying or changing household equipment to hasten the end of the dirty fuels era. The first word can equally be ‘home-builders’
Householders can hasten the fall
of dirty fuels, holding in thrall
the fate of the earth,
by giving wide berth
to appliances, gas coal and oil
When and wherever you eat
be reminded we have to defeat
fossil fuel’s devious ploys,
because they’ll destroy
food security: what a vile feat!
Climerick informed by UK National Security on Climate & Nature Briefing, 27th November 2025
Watch the event by clicking HERE
If you are someone who SERIOUSLY WANTS OTHERS to understand the urgency of the Climate crisis, you might think about producing the CHRISTMAS TABLE MAT BELOW
Let’s put pressure on the Investors (see list below)
Earth needs many savvy investors
to swiftly emerge as defectors
from all Carbon Majors,*
and now switch their favours
to eco-power planet-protectors.
*See Carbon Majors list of corporate entities at The Carbon Majors Entity list
which lists the ten largest Investor-owned companies as Chevron (USA), Exxon-Mobil (USA), BP (UK), Shell (UK), Conoco-Phillips (USA), Peabody Energy (USA), TotalEnergies (France), Occidental Petroleum (USA), BHP (Australia), Consol Energy (Australia)
This is a 'CLIMERICK at Christmas' card which draws together the horrors of the Israeli actions in the Holy Land and the existential threat of Climate change. The CLIMERICK reads
Bethlehem’s besieged with woes
because of its Zionist foes.
And climate could freeze
its last olive trees.
Round the manger, angst just grows and grows.
(The card is this year a concept design - but if still appropriate, and let’s hope it’s not, and there is sufficient interest, it may be made available next year)
Find out more about CLIMERICK cards via the owl image button in the right hand column.
Those OILigarchs, they lie, they lie,
when they proclaim they aim to be
great sources of clean energy:
when what they do, relentlessly
is drill and drill and drill and drill,
leaving gross scars beneath the sea,
in beauty spots quite brazenly,
or on First Nations’ territory.
They don’t care when pollution seeps
from poorly maintained fossil wells;
they spread miasma far and wide;
their bottom lines spew threats and smells.
Electric car switching contributes
to the health of the climate, a good route
to help cut pollution;
they’re a major solution:
so with an EV, show that you’re astute.
Climerick and image by Trevor Thorn November 2025.
Many more Climericks to help prompt Climate concern
conversations can be found elsewhere on this site
and some are available to raise awareness by sending a card
or displaying a poster . These are available from the CLIMERICK
CARDS(TM) shop at http://bit.ly/46aZeaK
Who might send
CLIMERICK
CARDS?
(Climate change wisdom
in five short lines)
· Mums and Dads to show the children you DO care about the world they will face.
· Children to let mums, dads and other grown-ups know that you are anxious or concerned about the planet.
· Students to let the ‘oldies’ know you want their urgent help to improve your future.
· Grandparents to show grandchildren you are ‘in touch’, feel sorry about climate chaos, and want to do something about it.
· Community leaders to affirm your commitment to the environment.
· Environmentalists to reinforce your messages in a non-aggressive, engaging way.
· ANYONE WHO CARES!
So, if you’re a MUM, DAD, YOUNG PERSON/CHILD, STUDENT, GRANDPARENT, COMMUNITY LEADER, ENVIRONMENTALIST head on over to the CLIMERICK CARD SHOP at http://bit.ly/46aZeaK where you’ll find a range of cards and POSTERS with which you can respond to the ideas above. That is at
Lots of people ask ‘What can I do
to build up a powerful world-view
that leaders must act
on dire climate facts?’
Talk about them! Help others chat too.
Many more Climericks to help prompt Climate concern
conversations can be found elsewhere on this site
and some are available to raise awareness by sending a card
or displaying a poster . These are available from the CLIMERICK
CARDS(TM) shop at http://bit.ly/46aZeaK
Don’t reach for that ignition key!
can you walk there? Or cycle? Just see:
there’ll be less greenhouse gas
and less flab on your ass -
a win-win for you and for me!
Many more Climericks can be found elsewhere on this site
and some are available in card or poster form from
Here’s the first poster available from the new Climerick Cards shop. It’s available in A3 and A4 sizes or can be downloaded. To find out more, go to the etsy shop by clicking HERE or typing http://bit.ly/46aZeaK into your browser. (underlining not needed)
As from today, you can obtain CLIMERICK CARDS and POSTERS from a newly opened CLIMERICK CARDS Etsy shop. Just follow the link in image below which, in case it’s difficult to read on a phone is http://bit.ly/46aZeaK
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Within a couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS, POSTERS and downloads for sale. These are all intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.
Ahead of the launch, we are publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop
Here’s the second and third of the second cluster
Though One Person's Commitment Is Small by John B. Hobbs
Free Pixabay image - edited
Though one person's commitment is small
In saving the Earth for us all,
If billions try,
There's a chance we'll get by,
So GET OUT AND DO IT, Y’all!
Young People All Over The Earth.
Young people all over the earth,
need leaders who realise the worth
of the next generations,
the hope of their nations,
threatened by fossil fuel’s curse.
Within the couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.
Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop
Here’s the first of the second cluster
Image credit: Pixabay Free images
Councils with streetlights bright
Are reducing insects in flight
Within the next couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.
Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop
Here’s the third of the first cluster
Image credit: Amazingly Wonderful free
AI image on Pixabay
As of old, a Prophetic Voice
goes unheeded by many, through choice;
now with prophets arrested
our leaders attested
their shocking pro-fossil-fuel ploys.
This CLIMERICK looks back to Mid-October 2023 when Greta Thunberg was arrested for joining a Climate change protest in London.
Within the couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.
Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop
Here’s the second of the first cluster
How can someone think on their feet,
when pavements store hideous heat
of some fifty* degrees:
they must long for a freeze.
but it seems torrid heats will repeat.
(During 2025, pavement temperatures of 130ºF *(54ºC) have been experienced in India and in the USA)
WE are back on the beautiful Island of Lindisfarne in Northumbia, UK. Here, at times when the island is cut off from the mainland is a deep peacefulness which could very reasonably be described as ‘balm for the soul’. We have been coming to Lindisfarne since 2013 when we visited in November and gained personal experience of why Lindisfarne is also known as The Isle of Winds! But that did not deter us. This ‘thin space’, inhabited by saints and evincing a beauty which can be breathtaking, has called us back again, and again, and we are always delighted to make it safely across the causeway and be welcomed by the deep-throated song of the seals. This poem emerged within a day of arriving.
ISLAND RETURN
With an hour of safe-crossing still to go,
we coast across the causeway
in our newly acquired, zero emissions car.
We are heading for our oft-visited
Lindisfarne retreat.
To our delight, the seals
are once again waiting
to slither off the sandbags
as the wavelets, inexorably wash over them.
Is it too fanciful
to imagine,
that the last heads
to bob above the ripples,
might be deniers
of the inevitability
of rising water?
September 2025
Within the next couple of weeks, we will be offering CLIMERICK CARDS for sale. These cards are intended to provoke Climate concern discussions, provide an impactful vehicle for conveying messages to MPs, Senators and others in power: and to alert your friends and acquaintances of your interest in, or passion for, this critical issue.
Ahead of the launch, we will be publishing three CLUSTERS of three CLIMERICKS to prepare the way for the opening of our ETSY shop
Here’s the first of the first cluster
If you take a regular shower,
turn it off while you soap,
keep it short to build hope:
you’ll be saving both water and power
We all need to take a new view,
that clean air technology’s tru-
ly a better investment,
by any sane judgement,
than fossil fuels’ oft fatal spews.
Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE
After the discovery of a gas field in Lincolnshire, Reform’s Greater Lancashire Mayor is demanding we “drill, baby, drill”and with Reform’s big party conference just days away, they’re trying to turn fracking into a rallying cry.
Here’s my response to that folly:
So Reform wants to push foolish fracking,
with little idea of the whacking
risks there might be
from tremors deadly,
and foul fumes spewed out from the cracking.
Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE
