I suspect I am making an unseemly big deal about the return to reality. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Worse things exist in this world than Sarah Palin. (Although, sometimes as the she-alien moves, unbidden, across my TV screen, and Frank Rich validates the monster in the NYT, I find them hard to enumerate.) One of those worse things might well be today’s discovery that – while we freely accept the North Pole is rapidly turning into a salt water Slurpee – the South Pole is in much worse shape than we ever previously imagined…
“The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study. Published Sunday in Nature Geoscience, the same study shows that the smaller but less stable West Antarctic icesheet is also shedding significant mass.
Scientists worry that rising global temperatures could trigger a rapid disintegration of West Antarctica, which holds enough frozen water to push up the global ocean watermark by about five metres (16 feet).” (Click here for the whole story)
The secret word is Malfunction
“The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study. Published Sunday in Nature Geoscience, the same study shows that the smaller but less stable West Antarctic icesheet is also shedding significant mass.
Scientists worry that rising global temperatures could trigger a rapid disintegration of West Antarctica, which holds enough frozen water to push up the global ocean watermark by about five metres (16 feet).” (Click here for the whole story)
The secret word is Malfunction
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5 comments:
Bring forth Kevin Costner, that he might slay Dennis Hopper and prevent future wars... then, a great undertaking that consists of building a great many of floating devices of all shapes & sizes shall follow.
Pogs, with their majestic abilities to be both very floaty & particularly entertaining to slam with similarly shaped objects that carry greater weight, shall be used as tender for trade & barter. The most shiny being of highest value, the least floaty being of the lowest value.
Most importantly, every tuesday has requisite of the monday previous to the monday adjacent to the current tuesday having been spent in preparation of the following week's free taco tuesday that lasts through mid-wednesday.
It's getting surreal around here.
I'm building an Ark out of beer cans. Just off to open a new case.
It's the fnords...
Finally, a man with a brain.
I'd prefer an underwater city, bio-shock style... hydroponics are awesome.
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