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Swearing in Latin via @ http://www.liveinfographic.com/ targetgoldengoose, August 24, 2020 at 12:32PM
The breakdown of some of the oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has occurred for the first time in recorded history. Not once, but twice this year, the breaking ice has opened waters north of Greenland that are usually frozen even in summer.
It’s partially the result of climate change-driven heatwaves and warm winds that have swept the Northern Hemisphere this year, and among the short-term consequences, it could threaten the survival of Arctic seals and polar bears, scientists say.
Satellite imagery from NASA Worldview has shown the ice, which has become brittle and mobile, retreating back from the Northern coast of Greenland, blown aside by the wind in early August. This exposed a swath of sea that had previously been completely covered.
“The fact that it has become mobile shows it is thinner than it used to be and this last holdout of heavy ice is now becoming as mobile as any other part of the Arctic,” physicist Peter Wadhams, director of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at Cambridge University, told The Independent.
“In the past, most of the ice in the Arctic has been multi-year ice, but that has been shrinking and now nearly all the ice in the Arctic is first-year ice.
“The only zone where multi-year ice has survived is north of Greenland, but this last holdout is now opened up and moving away from the coast.”
This region has been where climate scientists believe the last of the perennial ocean ice will linger. But now that it’s retreating, they may have to reconsider which part of the Arctic they believe will survive climate change the longest.
The ice there is usually extraordinarily thick and compacted. It’s pushed by the Transpolar Drift Stream, one of the major currents of the Arctic Ocean, which transports ice all the way from Siberia and shoves it up next to Greenland.
Trump thought Snowden should face tue ultimate consequence. Wants to give himself a free pass. That is the foundation of all things Republican: rules for others, none for me.
If he were Obama or Clinton the Go Fuck Yourselves (GOP) would have already started impeachment proceedings. But they all have their heads so far up the Pouch brothers asses they won't do shit.
Trump thought Snowden should face tue ultimate consequence. Wants to give himself a free pass. That is the foundation of all things Republican: rules for others, none for me.
If he were Obama or Clinton the Go Fuck Yourselves (GOP) would have already started impeachment proceedings. But they all have their heads so far up the Pouch brothers asses they won't do shit.
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InDEED…
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Aerial view of Mono Lake and Owens Valley, California. Island in the center is a small volcano, as are the cones to the side.
While one report of Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina following Donald Trump’s election as president was debunked, the real KKK has announced a rally in the state.
Oh.shit, here we go.
