#glacier melt

[kp777]

#glacier melt #global warming #climate change #climate crisis #greenland #environment

[doomsayersunited]

#doomsday #human extinction #apocalypse #climate change #global warming #glaciers #glacier melt #peyto #edmonton #calgary #alberta

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the Washington Post:

A large glacier in Antarctica that could raise sea levels several feet is disintegrating faster than last predicted, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Thwaites Glacier — dubbed the “doomsday glacier” because scientists estimate that without it and its supporting ice shelves, sea levels could rise more than 3 to 10 feet — lies in the western part of the continent. After recently mapping it in high-resolution, a group of international researchers found that the glacial expanse experienced a phase of “rapid retreat” sometime in the past two centuries — over a duration of less than six months.

According to a news release accompanying the study, researchers concluded that the glacier had “lost contact with a seabed ridge” and is now retreating at a speed of 1.3 miles per year — a rate double what they predicted between 2011 and 2019.

Unlike some other glaciers that are connected to dry land, Thwaites is grounded in the seabed, making it more vulnerable to warming waters as a result of human-induced climate change. Thwaites already accounts for about 4 percent of annual sea level rise.

“You can’t take away Thwaites and leave the rest of Antarctica intact,” said Alastair Graham, a marine geologist at the University of South Florida and the co-author of the study, in a phone interview.

He described the consequences of losing Thwaites “existential.”

According to the United Nations, more than 40 percent of the world’s human population lives within 60 miles of the coast — areas that will be hit hard by rising tides.

“Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small time scales in the future — even from one year to the next — once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed,” said the British Antarctic Survey’s Robert Larter, a co-author of the study.

#Antarctica #Thwaites glacier #glacier melt #climate change

[bumblebeeappletree]

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow.

Think of a glacier and chances are, it’s a gleaming white ice sheet that comes to mind. But from the High Alps to the Himalayas, the world’s glaciers are marred by a black, windblown dust that contains soot from fires and fossil fuel consumption. In the state of Himachal Pradesh, efforts to curb local emissions aim to save the glaciers that are a major water source - and tourist attraction.

Credits:

Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla

Field Producer: Aditya Pande Script: Tejprakash Bhardwaj Video Editor: Amit Garg Associate Producer: Ipsita Basu

Director of Photography: Jagdish Jahagid, Aditya Pande

Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu

#scroll.in #eco india #solarpunk #india #Himalayas #glaciers #glacier melt #global warming #global heating #climate chaos #climate change #climate crisis #Himachal Pradesh #emissions #fossil fuels #Youtube

[suzilight]

#archeology #viking #glacier melt #climate change #Youtube

[pianokantzart]

I’ve noticed quite a few fans are hoping the movie’s sequel will take bigger risks than the first one and have more dark and angsty moments. While I would like to see it, too, realistically, it should not go overboard to the point where the rating becomes PG-13 instead of PG.

What do you think? What are the limits to how many dark/intense moments can be included in a future movie without it becoming PG-13?

Technically, there are a lot of things a movie can do and still have a PG rating. All Dogs Go To Heaven and Watership Down have a PG rating while having a good deal of violent imagery and themes revolving around death.

I don't think the threat of accidentally bumping things up to a PG-13 will be what keeps the second Mario Movie lighthearted so much as Illumination's child-friendly reputation. Then there's Nintendo, who... while not afraid to get serious at times... still have a very colorful/lighthearted vibe connected to their main mascot.

Honestly, I was surprised they went as dark as they did in the movie we got. They never shied away from the fact that Mario and Luigi could die at any moment, and Bowser was even more violent and threatening than his game counterpart. That "let's see how tough this Mario is when he watches me kill his brother!" line genuinely surprised me.

Overall, I don't think they're going to make the sequel much darker than the original. Will they up the anti? of course! but they'll do it in a fun, colorful, adventurous way rather than an angsty way. Our biggest hope is the 1-up mushroom coming into play, yet even then I suspect the (bloodless) death of the doomed character would last for a very brief span of time. But it would be wild if they had one of the Mario Brothers watch the other die, even if said death only lasts for a few moments.

#and if they do it had BETTER feel like a punch directly to the gut #live up to the suffering but make it short-lived for the sake of the kids #quickly remedy the sadness with a bro hug that'll melt glaciers #askbox #anon #mario movie #super mario bros #super mario brothers

[tsukana]

i miss monday morning phil logging on to do solo resource gathering for his team and saying fuck everyone else i only have the emotional capacity left to leave an attachment to my team because everyone other team has already betrayed us and left us behind for slaughter at the whim of a fucking eye like the last six months of village parenting and taking care of their kids has been nothing

#ok he didnt say that but hte vibe was there. #i want him RUTHLESS i wanth im being stone cold and melting like a fucking glacier to global warming when his team and family comes online. #thanks this has been tsu's ted talk #tsu talks #qsmp #q philza #q bolas rojas #im just watching videos of red losing their minds while i put together a desk organizer

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Melting Ice Cap

This award-winning photo by Thomas Vijayan shows waterfalls of ice melt off the Austfonna ice cap.  (Image credit: T. Vijayan; via Nature TTL POTY) Read the full article

#climate change #fluid dynamics #fluids as art #glacier #melting #physics #science

[citizenerased77]

crossing my fingers that we get a BHAR XX remixx in 2026

#maybe we’d get a smoother transition from take a bow to starlight? #or imagine if soldier’s poem was revamped to accentuate the backing vocals and make the drums and guitar clearer #i’m honestly a huge fan of soldier’s poem so i’d be super jazzed #or just cleaner audio on everything would be great #in supermassive the “glaciers melting into the da-da-da-da-“ and the part where chris whispers “supermassive black hooollleeee.” #just imagine all that like. 3x clearer. no. it’s too powerful. #dom’s drumming already sorta shapes the album in a sense but what if they defined it further #like especially in MOP and KOC #i feel like matt buries a little falsetto bit in almost every song so it would be cool if they brought that out a bit more

[so-very-small]

twilight baseball scene but its borrowers playing baseball on the giant’s living room coffee table

#g/t #GLACIERS MELTING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT…. #AND THE SUPERSTARS SUCKED INTO THE SUPER MASSIVE…..

[kp777]

Antarctic Tipping Point That Occurred 8,000 Years Ago 'Could Happen Again'

#west antarctic ice sheet #glacier melt #antarctica #climate crisis #climate change #thwaites glacier #sea level rise #tipping point

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this Washington Post story:

Pascal Egli has run on trails winding through the Alps for nearly two decades, but until this summer, he had never seen the mountains so bare.

Extreme heat waves had transformed the mountain landscape. Routes once considered easy were now dangerous. Snow bridges over crevasses collapsed, making certain areas impassable. Rocks had tumbled unexpectedly from glaciers and bare mountainsides, injuring and even killing some in their path.

“By mid-June, it was really, really kind of shocking,” said Egli, who received his PhD in glaciology from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland this summer. “It was getting so hot and things are melting so fast, you couldn’t safely do certain 4,000-meter [13,000-feet] peak routes anymore because some crevasse bridges were a bit unsure.”

By the end of June, many mountaineers stopped going out on the glaciers — months earlier than normal. While European glaciers have been shrinking for decades, data and field reports show that the melting this summer is the most severe on record. Some glaciers have melted one to two months faster than normal, which researchers say is the latest drastic example of the effect of human-caused climate change.

And there’s already been wide impact: Ski resorts across the Alps closed the summer ski season early because of unsafe conditions. In rare occurrences, normal, easier routes were closed on mountains including Mont Blanc and Matterhorn.

#Europe #glaciers #glacier melt #climate change

[ask-pakistan]

OP How has Umer been as of recent? We send our sincerest regards of concerns to you both.

He has become a firm believer of sleeping your problems off. "Everything's fine", he says as he laughs a little too hard. Domestic Pakistani politics have been a joke recently =_= and it doesn't help that climate change has begun to rear its ugly head in Pakistan :( , This last year has been particularly tough and unkind to Pakistanis. Inflation in particular, has me seeing tears :') I've gotten plenty of asks in the last few months asking if Umer and Mun were okay and I'm fine! Thank you so much for asking! To all the people who dropped by to check up on how i was doing, i appreciate your concerns a lot and you've got no idea how touched i was while reading those. <3

[FUNFACT]: "Khes" is the name of the thin cotton blanket that's wrapped around Umer. It's a piece of textile that derives its origin from Rural Punjab :D

#OOC #answered ask #thanks for asking! #hetalia #hetalia axis powers #hws pakistan #aph pakistan #hetalia world stars #aph #hws #oc #hetalia oc #ask blog #ask-pakistan #Our Glaciers are melting at an alarming pace; The weather is becoming more extreme with each passing year; #The Heavy Monsoon Rains we received last year combined with the previous mentioned factors caused devastating floods last year #Which were so bad it created a whole in-land sea in Southern Pakistan at its peak #Not to mention the clowns responsible for all things management of country have decided now's a good time to have some good ol' #Political instability #which is only adding to the suffering of the people :/ People are homeless and hungry and these people are busy clowning on national TV #It makes me angry x'D So so angry and also sad; I'm really not sure where we're headed but ehh i'll still try hoping for the best #sorry for the rant but i'm fine incase anyone was concerned about me; none of this has affected me really badly #but i lay my sympathies for the people that are suffering i sincerely hope we get our collective senses together and strive for a better #change in society because there has to be a limit as to how much we as a populace can endure all this chaos and negativity in our society :

[sepdet]

"Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places such as beech trees in Antarctica and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic. Uncovering the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests."

REALLY excellent NOVA special with bonus resources for teachers and homeschoolers.

The only way we're going to break decades of climate misinformation funded by fossil fuel companies is to catch people's imaginations with fascinating and oh-THAT-makes-sense! documentaries like this.

Recommend this show to family members. Leave it on during Thanksgiving, if you're American. Assign it for kids to watch as homework, so their parents will see it.

Facts aren't enough to fight lies, but facts plus rocks and mud, horse and mammoth bones, beech and gingko leaves, and a down-to-earth science communicator, Kirk Johnson, who's as stoked as a football fan watching a touchdown when he digs out a fossil leaf and tells you what it's telling him — that helps.

#geology #paleontology #earth science #arctic exploration #climate change #melting glaciers #queue #Youtube

[solradguy]

I had a dream last night that I was afflicted with some kind of exhaustion disease probably brought on by my irl subconscious resisting the no-dreams buff from the weed gummy I ate before bed, and in the dream Justice Guilty Gear was coming to my house and I didn't know why so I like struggled over to the door with my sword and constantly kept rubbing my eyes to stay awake

It turned out she wanted to apologize for being evil and wanting to kill people. She could tell something was wrong with me so I invited her into my house and idk what happened after that because the dream wasn't very vivid to begin with lol Idk if it was a Sol dream either because I couldn't see my hands. It probably was though, based on the everything else happening

#textpost #drugs cw #There was also a part where this very important lake home to GIANT man-sized otters was drying up #So Axl Low drilled a hole in a glacier on top of Lake Ontario and the water pooled in the top of the- #-glacier melted and filled the lake and saved these endangered gigantic otters #Ky was mad about it because he said that the bacteria in the glacier water could have been too different than the - #-bacteria in the water that was already in the lake and also the temperature difference - #- could have been too great. Which could have killed the otters and the lake's ecosystem #I told him that if someone didn't refill the lake the otters were going to die anyway #And he explained that there were so many other ways that the lake could have been saved #and I was like 'Come on let Axl feel like he's being useful for once' lmao #Actually yeah maybe this was a Sol dream #It cracks me up how my subconscious decides to deal with Axl. It's like mean about it but not really. Tough love?

[sevencardigans]

I just need to get it off my chest because I've been bothered by it since Saturday's race. I understand that protests like the one that happened during the slalom is hindering these athletes from doing their job and also has the potential to hurt their season tremendously, which is why the timing was definitely bad. But I 100% agree with Julian that violence and aggression against protestors is disgraceful and childish. The fact that Henrik's actions are celebrated by other skiers and fans is incredibly disappointing, and I'm really happy to see that most of the comments under his IG post are denouncing his behavior and calling him out on it. He and other athletes like him claim that they care too much about this sport to accept protestors, but I don't think they have realized that these protestors don't want to cancel the sport. They want to call on governments and FIS to do what is within their power to make the sport more sustainable for all children who, like Henrik's own son, should be allowed to have a future in a sport that, if nothing is done, is going to disappear in front of our eyes. And yes I'm just as much disappointed in Fede and Marco who apparently think that threatening people with violence is something that needs to be cheered for.

#and no ski racing does not have the largest impact on climate change #but I don't see how watching the glaciers melt away under you makes you go #yeah you know what let's attack non-violent protestors up to a point where you have to be physically restrained #only tagging this for my own archive's sake #alpine skiing #sad to say that I was not surprised to see Marco in his comments that guy #If I speak #this post might be my villain story