NEW! CLIMERICK CARDS AND POSTERS at the CLIMERICK CARD SHOP

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)

The same theme is available from the shop on A5 cards or in a set with two further climericks in A6 size.

What better way of letting friends who visit you know of your concern - with a light-hearted touch? 

Not serious enough for such a major concern? Take a look at some of the CLIMERICKS that have been posted to this blog in the last couple of years. You will find the hopeful, the challenging, the thoughtful and the downright daft! Together they give some idea of how our card and poster portfolios might develop over time. Whatever mode they are, they are intended to provoke discussion on the biggest issue of today - and thereby help many people to realise they can take action that will help to hasten the end of the dirty, dangerous fossil fuels era and help usher in the new era of Clean air technologies - already outstripping COGS (Coal, oil, gas and shale) in delivery terms, mainly due to investment by developing nations, and China (according to a BBC report 7th October 2025).

The CLIMERICK posted on 12th September looks forward to reinforcement of that trend. You can have a look at that by clicking HERE .

TODAY’S CLIMERICK: RACHEL REEVES, LISTEN - GROWTH IS FOR FOOLS

Edited Pixabay Image

What folly! -More Runways to kill the planet

Rachel Reeves, listen! Growth is for fools,

if it leads to the planet’s downfall.

The Earth’s urgent need

is to swiftly impede

power-making, with foul dirty fuels

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: O COP WHERE YOU DIGITALISE

A CLIMERICK for COP 29 Digitalisation Day

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O COP where you digitalise,

the world needs you all to be wise,

and drive global trends

that will bring to an end

excessive resource use and lies!

And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: The Chant of ‘Drill Baby Drill'

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So - can a UK poet plead with a former US President and be heard?

I doubt it; but it’s worth a try. And maybe some of my US friends .... will want to send this to their friends..... who will.... 

I can but hope.

Here’s the Climerick plea

The chant of ‘Drill Baby Drill’

is one that will totally kill 

any Climate-wise hope: 

Trump, please kill that trope

while there’s time for R-ecovery still.

Trevor Thorn

And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

Image credit: Pixabay free image - edited

CLIMERICKS: Encouragement from HM Charles III

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My resolve to post Climericks at least twice a week has been maintained, other than a short break recently because we have been away on the beautiful island of Iona where we experienced gales too gusty to walk in safely and cancelled ferries - almost certainly pointing to a future of more similarly adverse weather due to climate change.

And as we return to home to pick up our regular lives, and watch our King and Queen in more exotic locations where climate change threatens island homes, it feels time to remind ourselves of the recognition of the Climericks project, by the King whose Correspondence Secretary, earlier in the year (April) wrote to us from Buckingham Palace:

 

'His Majesty greatly appreciates you sharing your ideas with him on this significant matter, and enjoyed hearing about your creation of climate-themed limericks in order to raise awareness for environmental issues’.

And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: Materials Science is Where You Will Find, by Trevor Thorn

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Materials Science is where

you will find a great body of care

for sustainability

at scale capability.

Financiers, Go! Invest there.

 

In the September 2024 issue of Materials World are articles on bringing colour to solar panels making them more attractive to architects; recycling of critical metals from spent alkaline batteries, improved recycling of solid state lithium batteries; The next generation of smart offshore windfarms; how precise measurement is vital in the race to net zero and 3D printing of natural material flooring panel (to replace steel) and more

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

NEW CLIMERICKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS SITE TWICE WEEKLY - SO KEEP LOOKING TO STAY UP TO DATE.

CLIMERICK: When Next You are Eating a Spud by Trevor Thorn

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When next you are eating a spud,

Think! Its flowers, stalks and leaves were just crud.

But research has found

that this garbage abounds

with fibres for fashion – that’s good!

 

Article in The New Scientist 7^th September 2024 reports on the findings by a team at Imperial College London that the fibres from the above-the-ground waste from potatos (estimated to be 150million tonnes a year) can be used as a cotton fibre substitute,with the potential of saving huge crop space and diminishing water usage.

  

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

NEW CLIMERICKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS SITE TWICE WEEKLY - SO KEEP LOOKING TO STAY UP TO DATE.  

Climerick: If Top Level Sport is Your Dream by Trevor Thorn.

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If top level sport is your dream,

watch out! Who’s financing your team?

If they thrive upon coal,

Gas or foul diesel fuel,

‘Kick ‘em out!’. Raise a real head of steam.

 

BBC Climate news reported on 18.09.24

Fossil fuel companies have invested more than £4bn in sports sponsorship "in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health”, according to a new report. 

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

NEW CLIMERICKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS SITE TWICE WEEKLY - SO KEEP LOOKING TO STAY UP TO DATE.

CLIMERICK:Too Many of Earth’s Lovely Places by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

St Cuthbert’s Island in Northumbria (above) is by no means the only heritage site threatened by rising sea levels - in the not-far-distant future. So, if you are aware of places you love that are likely to succumb to higher tides, make a resolve to redouble your efforts to make political leaders aware of just how rapidly they need to move to prevent such unrecoverable losses. And take this thinking into your voting decision (This coming Thursday in the UK)

Too many of Earth’s lovely places

Will soon disappear without traces

Unless we can green

The energy scene

So their glory can still light our faces.

 Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE   

CLIMERICK:It’s a Nonsense that ‘Wealth trickles down’ by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

This Climerick lies at the heart of the issues that face the world as it heads towards more and more challenges to curb climate change

 

It’s a nonsense that ‘Wealth trickles down’.

That’s a mantra we need to disown:

for wealth ever sticks

in the hands of the rich

who want more and more wealth of their own.

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE   

CLIMERICK: A Bumblebee Searching for Pollen by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

 

A bumblebee searching for pollen

 

buzzed angrily 'Z-z-z-zodem’:

on every side

 

there’s nicotinide.

For us bees, a life and death problem.’

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE   

CLIMERICK: This Islet Calls Out for Its Life by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

Another CLIMERICK warning of the outlook for this Heritage and Holy place

The Islet Cries Out For Its Life 

 

The islet cries out for its life,

Pilgrim, see that I’m on a knife-

Edge of existence,

Less massive resistance

To fossil fuels grows to be rife

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: A Climerick for Sunak - You Claim To Have Policies Bold:

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

A Climerick for Sunak - You Claim To Have Policies Bold:

 

You claim to have policies bold:

They make many people go cold

With their absence of green,

For the young, they’re obscene

As they mean they might not grow old.

 

On Monday 13^th May 2024, Sunak argued his ‘bold ideas’ can create a more secure future for Britons (Source BBC politics reporting). These claims persist as we in the UK near Election Day

 Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

'The Letter’: A film showing an outworking of 'Laudato Si’ The Pope’s Leadership Encyclical on Climate Change & CLIMERICK

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

We were meeting with a local group of  members of The Iona Community, a dispersed community of people concerned about Justice and Peace issues. One of the group recommended that we should watch 'The Letter' which is a You Tube Original looking at the issues of Climate change through the lens of five representatives of groups of people profoundly affected by the changes which are already happening. For anyone sharing these concerns this is well worth the hour and a half it takes to watch - and I thought it appropriate on this website to frame this invitation in a Climerick!

If you want our sick world to get better,

Take an hour or so watching The Letter.

It’s there on You Tube

And it’s written for YOU,

From The Pope: a true Eco-trendsetter.

The film ‘The Letter’ can be accessed at

https://youtu.be/Rps9bs85BII?si=N1L0dTCwSq2brGyB

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE 

CLIMERICK: If You’re Feeling Lonely or Down by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

If you’re feeling lonely or down,

Then seek out the nature-in-town.

Then add to its stock.

For a small window box

Can ease your and the planet’s meltdown.

 

In an Observer report on 19.05.24, Andrea Michelli, Professor of early intervention in mental health, Kings College London says ‘People are 28%less likely to feel lonely when they are in an environment that includes natural features.

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Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE 

CLIMERICK: Australian Students Walk Out

 Australian students walk out

Image Credit: BBC Climate News 17.09.23

Australian students walk out

To make politicians take note

Of the stress and despair

That so many share:

their sick planet syndrome‘s no joke!

BBC News 17 Sept 2023 reported

Thousands of Australian students have walked out of class to attend School Strike 4 Climate rallies, backed by a "sick note" from "climate doctors".

Signed by three prominent scientists, it concludes: "It is my recommendation that they take a sick day to protest for a sick planet."

The students called for greater climate action, as the country faces another summer with natural disasters.

CLIMERICK: Said an islander “I hate to beef ‘ by John Hobbs

Photo Credit  Earth Org

Early victims of Climate change

Said an Islander “I Hate to Beef ‘ by John B Hobbs 

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Said an islander “I hate to beef,

“But my atoll has shrunk past belief!

“As the temperatures soar

“It de-cays more and more.

“And soon it’ll be but a reef!”

Find the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

CLIMERICK: LET'S ENCOURAGE CREATORS OF ART

 

Christian Climate Action have just posted this image of an imaginatively altered copy of the 15th Century Virgin and Child by Lippi. This was held up in the UK’s National Gallery. But the staff interrupted and the public were moved away as the CCA team started a silent prayer protest. You can read the full story on CCA’s website.

This incident is a helpful reminder of how effective art can be in helping to raise the issue of the dangers of Climate change non violently. 

With this in mind, I offer the latest Climerick (ClimateChangeLimerick) which is addressed to ALL CREATIVES and their friends and family.

LET’S ENCOURAGE CREATORS OF ART

to play a significant part,

in a visionary storm

that will make it the norm

to have climate change on every heart.

Find the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

 

CLIMERICK: YoungPeople all over the earth

Image Credit: Free images from Pixabay

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.

Find the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

CLIMERICK: If Wood Can Build Taller Than Steel

Photo credit BBC/Modvion

If wood can build taller than steel

It gives it a heightened appeal

For huge turbine towers

Giving yet greener power

With a low weight and cost -What a DEAL!

 

BBC Climate News 28.12.23 features a Swedish Company (Modvion) which is building modular wooden turbine towers for land-based constructions. Transport of the modular units is easier than moving huge steel towers, so there are many benefits to this system approach

Find the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE