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hmmm More on Global, er uh, Warming?

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:56:49 GMT

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Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

"It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance," Molnia said.

Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:11:56 GMT

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Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

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Beautiful deep blue ice...

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:20:21 GMT

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Midsummer

Annette and Jon were touring in Torres Del Paine National Park in Chile, Southern Patagonia when they found an amazing site.

Here's the story in their own words: "When viewing the terminal face of a glacier, typically you only see 10% of the glacier on the surface. Calving, a natural occurrence where the glacier loses ice from its' terminus, results in large free-floating chunks of ice. This particular ice had broken off from the glacier the evening before from underwater / lower portion of the glacier.

"Witnesses heard a cracking and a loud "boom," and then the ice surfaced. We understand ice this large breaks off from under the glacier approximately once a year and we were fortunate to be able to photograph it. The ice is a very deep blue as it is deprived of oxygen. Within 24 hours it will be white as the typical floating ice pieces."

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:22:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Glacier Bay OPP 8 In. Two-Handle Kitchen Faucet w/Spray Chrome
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Snow and Ice ~ Patterns in Nature

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:23:21 GMT

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Peaks and valleys ripple across the ceiling of an ice cave in Bavaria, Germany.

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Fractures create ribbon-like patterns in thick ice on Ellesmere Island, Canada.

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A salmon-colored rock stands out from a background of patterned glacier ice on Baffin Island, Canada.

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The sun casts shadows on snow-covered hills in North America.

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A snowflake appears translucent when photographed up-close.

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Frost covers the windshield of a car in Tuscarora, Nevada.

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Ice frosts a layer of snow in Fairview, North Carolina.

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Air pockets are frozen in place in Lake Bonney in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

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Ice creates patterns in a glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

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Cracks spider through Arctic sea ice in Franz Josef Land, Russia

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:26:34 GMT

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NASA Dispatches Rubber Ducks for Science

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:02:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When a sophisticated science probe failed to return any data about whether pools of melted glacial ice were showing up in the ocean, a NASA researcher turned to a decidedly low-tech solution: a brigade of rubber ducks.

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NASA Dispatches Rubber Ducks for Science

Sept. 23, 2008 -- When a sophisticated science probe failed to return any data about whether pools of melted glacial ice were showing up in the ocean, a NASA researcher turned to a decidedly low-tech solution: a brigade of rubber ducks.

Robotics expert Alberto Behar, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., wants to figure out if water shooting through tunnels in Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier makes it into Baffin Bay.

The work is part of ongoing studies by NASA and other agencies to understand changes in the levels of Earth's seas, which may be tied to global warming.

Behar, a robotics expert, dispatched a probe with a positioning sensor and satellite telephone into one of the glacier's water tunnels in hopes of tracking where the water ends up. In the summer, ice melts on glacier's surfaces and pools into shallow lakes and streams that then fall into water tunnels in the ice known as moulins.

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Pornography Addiction

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:41:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whatever the case, it is hard to dispute that the internet has at the very least, facilitated our ability to look at pornographic images by removing some of the restrictions—cultural or physical—that once inhibited that ability. As a result, the debate over the relative merits and dangers of pornography has exploded, bringing with it like glacier debris a variety of issues relating to legality, morality, and of course, addiction.

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Is there such a thing as a Pornography Addiction? It depends on which ‘expert’ you ask, since there is no consensus in any credible community of health professionals. One need only browse the web to find just how divisive the subject is.

In a WebMD feature , sex therapist Louanne Cole Weston said she sees three chief reasons why people view pornography in the first place:

to see their fantasies acted out

to avoid intimacy in a relationship

to aid masturbation.

It would seem that the majority of people who watch pornography, either on TV or online, have little trouble walking away from it, while others might spend hours and hours and be unable to walk away so easily. Colloquially, these people may self-diagnose themselves as ‘porn addicts’, using the term loosely without taking into consideration its implications.

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Pyrenees Glaciers Disappearing

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:26:12 GMT

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Glacier of Monte Perdido, Pyrenees. Credit: SINC / Juan José González Trueba

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: Glacier of Monte Perdido, Pyrenees. Credit: SINC / Juan José González Trueba

By Andrea Thompson, Senior Writer

The crisp, white glaciers of the Pyrenees, the mountain range along the border between France and Spain, have substantially receded in the past 15 years and could disappear by 2050 due to global warming, a new study suggests.

The retreat of glaciers in Greenland and areas like Glacier National Park have been well-documented, but less well-studied are the situations of alpine glaciers around the world.

"High mountains are particularly sensitive areas to climate and environmental changes, and how glaciers evolve there in response to climate change is one of the most effective indicators of current global warming," said study leader Juan José González Trueba.

21 glaciers in the Pyrenees (10 on the Spanish side and 11 on the French side) covering an area of 1.7 miles squared

4,500-year-old ice shelf breaks away

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:52:48 GMT

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4,500-year-old ice shelf breaks away

A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles -- or 60 percent -- and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.

Muller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.

unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier

earlier this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated

ice shelf loss

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Greenland Ice - Nick Cobbing

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:06:15 GMT

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'Old ice' An iceberg made of older dense ice, off Greenland.

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The edge of a 'melt lake' on the Icecap on Greenland.

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The Greenlandic town of Narsaq viewed through a hole in an iceberg.

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A heart shaped 'melt lake' Greenlandic ice-cap.

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Melt rivers cut through a glacier's surface, Greenland.

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Artwork drawn near 'starwars' base on the ice off Greenland.

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