Posted June 1, 2026
Blog Topic:
​World Oceans Day
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It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, at 90 miles/hr with your hair on fire, totally worn out, and shouting,
"Wow! What a ride!"

Anna-grams​

● No news is good news.​

Anagrams

● Environmental disaster = Never mind as it's not real. ~ Rick Rothstein

● Planet Earth-= The plant era. ~ Mark McNamara

● Earth Matters = Master threat. ~ Mick Tully

● Sea pollution = Gulls urinate; oops! ~ V. Rabin

● Ocean's pollution = Spoil: too unclean. ~ Tony Crafter

● Pollution of our seas = Foul, poisonous alert.
~ Tony Crafter
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Quotes
​● “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.” ~ Jennifer Donnelly

● “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” ~ Alain Gerbault

● “Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.” ~ Sarah Kay

● “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”
~ Sir David Attenborough

● “Conservation is the preservation of life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.”
~ Rob Stewart 

● “The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.”
​ ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

​You Had One Job...

Environmentally friendly trash can?
One opening for recyclables; one for trash; but everything goes into one can.

MY BOOKS

Works By R Ann Siracusa
Tour Director Extraordinaire Series
Humorous Romantic Suspense
Book 1 - All For A Dead Man’s Leg
Book 2 - All For A Fistful Of Ashes
Book 3 - Destruction Of The Great Wall
Book 4 - All For Spilled Blood
Book 5 - All For A Blast of Hot Air
Tour Director Series Short Stories
First Date
Halloween in the Catacombs
Christmas Plans Gone Awry
Elves For Christmas

​Other Books and Short Stories
A Timeless Melody 
The Last Weekend In October
All In the Game
Family Secrets: A Vengeance of Tears
Tiffany
Time in a Bottle

​Amazon Link to R. Ann Siracusa Books
Barnes & Noble Link to R. Ann Siracusa Books

Granny Mythbuster Rides Again
Commonly Believed Myths that Aren’t True...Now. Knowledge is a Work in Progress.

TRUE OR FALSE: IS THE LEVEL OF THE WORLD’S OCEAN RISING?

The Age of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Fake News
Today one of the world’s dilemmas, among the overwhelming many, is knowing what is true and what is not. Perhaps that even includes the problem of understanding what the words “true” and “false” really mean. We are bombarded constantly from every direction with mis-information, disinformation, misunderstandings, and fake news. This has undermined trust in our sources of information and among us as a people.

Knowledge Is A Work In Progress
Since most of what we know and learn about what is happening in our world, comes from other sources -- and not our own eyes, ears, and senses -- the average individual does not have personal or direct access to information.

We each have to make a determination regarding what we believe or don’t believe based on information from others. Even the experts and witnesses to actual events or data observe different things and often don’t agree on events, data, and interpretations.

Scientists claim our knowledge base is always changing, but when the preponderance of evidence supports a theory, the general consensus of experts in the field acknowledge it as “true” based on what is known and accepted at the time. But things can change with new knowledge and data.

What Is The Sea Level?
The definition of “sea level” is the average height of the ocean’s surface, used as the baseline for measuring elevation on Earth. When a sign says a mountain peak is 4,000 feet above sea level, it means 4,000 feet above this standardized reference point.

But the ocean’s surface is not flat and, at any given moment and in different locations, where the water hits the short is affected by tides currents, air pressure salinity, and the pull of the earth’s gravity.

According to scienceinsights.org, the word “average is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that definition.” The constant fluctuations make it very difficult to perform accurate measure-ments for analysis purposes. To account for this, the variations are averaged over a period of 19 years. In The US the cycle is called the National Tidal Datum Epoch. The period captures a full cycle of the moon’s gravitational influence on tides. The result is called mean sea level: a smoothed-out reference point that irons out all the daily, seasonal, and lunar noise.

What Causes Sea Level Changes?
According to www.britannica.com, the increase in the global average sea level is caused by the addition of both water and heat to the oceans.
Increased water is the result of melting glaciers and ice sheets. It is also driven by thermalisation  – the  process of physical bodies reaching thermal equilibrium through mutual interaction – because as ocean absorbs heat its water molecules expand. The ocean absorbs about 90 percent of excess heat trapped by the atmosphere, and Earth’s average near-surface air temperature has risen by more than 1.8 °F since the start of the 20th century.

In addition, water that is removed from land (through groundwater pumping) or impounded (through dam building, for example) can cause a net change in the total water found in the ocean.

The global mean sea level rose by 8.3 to 9.5 inches between 1880 and 2023. The annual rate of sea level rise seems minuscule -- 0.13 inch – but the rate of rise went up to 0.14 inch per year between 2006 and 2015. It is the rate of increase over time that is of concern to many. Source: www.britannica.com

​Global Warming
In most of the information available online attributes the rise in sea level to global warming, and most of the nay-sayers are not so much debating the rise as the cause being global warming and the burning of fossil fuels. Another cogent argument is that measurement errors can lead to misinterpretation of the data. This is another whole discussion.

Sources:
https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=345925&p=7772376
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
https://www.britannica.com/science/sea-level-rise
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/overview
https://scienceinsights.org/changing-water-levels-what-the-science-really-shows/
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/studies-missed-sea-level-rise-oceans
https://www.ioc.unesco.org/en/articles/new-unesco-report-rate-ocean-warming-doubled-20-years-rate-sea-level-rise-doubled-30-years
https://scienceinsights.org/what-does-sea-level-mean-and-why-does-it-matter/
https://principia-scientific.com/ground-breaking-study-shows-no-sea-level-rise-from-climate-change/
https://ijr.com/sea-levels-not-surging-despite-years-of-climate-activists-and-corporate-media-freaking-out-study-finds/
https://7eew0v.tubbournes.com/click.php?CAMPAIGN_ID=1402523&COST_CPC=0.052050&PLACEMENT_ID=27940404&PUBLISHER_ID=444020&SUB_ID_SHORT=646717ea09bdf23b3320cec8e2fa4fa2&ZONE_ID=4839057&_fd=retileupfis.com&_pd=retileupfis.com&key=d6p977d92fb3jf62vqs0&landing_i
https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-facts/is-sea-level-rise-exaggerated/
https://climatefactchecks.org/debunking-commonn-myths-co%E2%82%82-sea-levels-and-the-reality-of-climate-change/
 

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• Fathers' Day
  ​Sunday
  June 21

June Observations
● African American Music
    Appreciation Month
● Alzheimer’s and Brain
   Awareness Month
● Audiobook Appreciation Mo.
● Caribbean American Heritage
   Month
● Great Outdoors Month
● International Surf Music Mo.
● National Adopt-a-Cat Month
● National Camping Month
● National Foster a Pet Month
● National Men’s Health Month
● National Microchip Month
● National Migraine and
   Headache Awareness Month
● National Oceans Month
● National Pollinators Month
● National PTSD Awareness
   Month
● National Rivers Month
● National Rose Month
● National Zoo and Aquarium
   Month
● Perennial Gardening Month
● Pride Month
● Professional Wellness Month
● Women’s Golf Month
● World Infertility Awareness
    Month

​​Weekly Observations
● Stepparents’ Week (1–7)
● National CPR and AED
   awareness Week (1–7)
● National Garden Week ( 7–13)
● National Fishing and Boating
   Week (6–14)
● National Headache Aware-
   ness Week (7–13)
● National Little League
   Baseball Week (8–14)
● National Nursing Assistants
   Week (11–17)

​Enhance Your Vocabulary

● fastuous = (adj)
1. Haughty, arrogant
2. ostentatious, showy.

● frass = (n)  Debris or excrement produced by insects.

● hegemony = (n) 1. Strong influence or authority over others: domination.
2. The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.
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● imprecatory = (adj)  (chiefly British) Of, relating to, or being imprecation: invoking: cursing

● in nuce  = (latin phrase) In a nut: in a nutshell.
 
● logodaedaly = (n)  Arbitrary or capricious coinage of words
 
● nisus = (n)  a mental or physical effort to attain an end : a perfective urge or endeavor.

● micellar = (n)  a unit  of structure built up from polymeric molecules or ions: such as (a) An ordered region in a fiber (as of cellulose or rayon); or (b) A molecular aggregate that constitutes a colloidal particle.

● nosh = (v)  To eat a snack; munch.

Source: 
​https://einsteinptsa.org/Doc/2024-2025/2025_words_of_the_champions.pdf

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