{"id":22300,"date":"2026-06-28T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22300"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:34:33","slug":"climate-biodiversity-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/climate-biodiversity-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate & Biodiversity Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today’s daily create #tdc5280 #ds106 #dailycreate #ShowYourStripes<\/a> point toward the #ShowYourStripes<\/a> webpage that very neatly shows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country, region or city over the past 100+ years<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The site also links to #BiodiversityStripes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ‘biodiversity stripes’ provide a visual representation of the change in biodiversity over time, often since 1970. The highest level of biodiversity is coloured bright green. Lower levels move through yellow to grey, depending upon the level of decline. Darker greys appear with greater declines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This one shows the decline of UK moths from 1970 to 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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86% decline in only part of my lifetime. Horrific. I was 12 in 1970, I remember when cleaning insects from a windshield<\/a> was a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2025, the now-annual survey conducted by Buglife in Kent found a decline of 66% in flying insects since 2021.<\/p>\nKent bug splat survey shows ‘troubling’ fall in flying insects – BBC News<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I am currently reading Aurochs and Auks by John Burnside<\/a>, a wonderful book, which in part deals with the feelings around this terrible state of affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The daily create prompts users to explore the #ShowYourStripes webpage, illustrating over a century of temperature changes globally. Links to BiodiversityStripes which highlights the alarming decline in biodiversity. UK moths show an 86% drop since 1970. A recent survey indicates a 66% decline in flying insects in Kent since 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3mpedman75s27","https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/116828551142825579"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,953,6],"tags":[889,813,961,2108,2107],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-22300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-ds106","7":"category-posse","8":"category-wwwd","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-dailycreate","11":"tag-insects","12":"tag-john-burnside","13":"tag-moths","14":"post_format-post-format-status","15":"kind-article","17":"h-entry","18":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5NG","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22302,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300\/revisions\/22302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22300"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}