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Columbus Circle globe, installed outside Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York
Global warming or not. This shot is taken the 5th of Januari 2014.
A "normal" Winter the ice is thick and the snow covers the ground. My forest walk felt like one in september-october...
Finally also in Munich! I think there's no need to cover the plate because every petrolhead on flickr already knows this car.
Sorry for the bad shot, I arrived at the scene when Jon Olssons friend was already getting in the car.
As you may know, this particular Superleggera has a Quicksilver-exhaust which makes it insanely loud. Really crazy.
Munich 2012
Lakagigar - Laki - Iceland
Zicht op de top Laki op 818 m
Laki or LakagÃgar (Craters of Laki) is a volcanic fissure in the south of Iceland, not far from the canyon of Eldgjá and the small village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. LakagÃgar is the correct name, as Laki mountain itself did not erupt, as fissures opened up on each side of it. LakagÃgar is part of a volcanic system centered on the volcano GrÃmsvötn and including the volcano Þórðarhyrna. It lies between the glaciers of Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull, in an area of fissures that run in a southwest to northeast direction.
The system erupted over an eight-month period between 1783 and 1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjoining volcano GrÃmsvötn, pouring out an estimated 14 km3 (3.4 cu mi) of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide compounds that killed over 50% of Iceland's livestock population, leading to a famine which then killed approximately 25% of the island's human population.
The Laki eruption and its aftermath caused a drop in global temperatures, as sulfur dioxide was spewed into the Northern Hemisphere. This caused crop failures in Europe and may have caused droughts in India. The eruption has been estimated to have killed over six million people globally, making it the deadliest in historical times.
The Lakagigar craters are named after MT. Laki . They were formed in one of the largest eruptions in recorded human history.
Lakagigar, ofwel Laki's kraters is een fascinerende plek, met allerlei spectaculaire kraters, ongebruikelijke, bergen en meren, waardoor er een kleurrijke samenspel van natuurlijke elementen is ontstaan. Bezoekers kunnen hun geluk niet op bij het ontdekken van dit kratergebied.
Men kan hier wandelen over de kiezelsteenpaden, die omgeven zijn door lavavelden en heuvels, die voor een prachtige omlijsting en achtergrond van het hele gebied zorgen. In juni 1783 barstten de kraters van Lakagigar uit, waardoor er veel schade ontstond in Europa. Veel delen van Europa kregen met rook en vulkanische neerslag te maken. Deze vulkanische wolk bracht allerlei vreemde meteorologische afwijkingen met zich mee. Zo kende 1783 bijvoorbeeld een extreem hete zomer en een extreem strenge winter. Bovendien betekenden de uitbarstingen ook een regelrechte ramp voor de omliggende natuur. Het pittoreske landschap van IJsland werd bedolven onder 30 miljard ton lava. De giftige gassen die tegelijkertijd vrijkwamen door de ‘hongersnood-door-gassen’ doodden duizenden IJslanders. De uitbarsting van 1783 veroorzaakte ook nog een 25 m lange vulkanische spleet en 100 zogenaamde sintelkegels.
I'm still impressed by the distances people travel just to get to this event. There are teams from not only across Europe and the Middle East but also north and south America.
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Is Climate Change Making Us Sick?
More floods, heat waves, insect-borne disease... Doctors are worried about how global warming will affect our health
By Barbara Lantin (*)
You might think that a little climate change would not go amiss in the British Isles. We’d have more warm summers and fewer freezing winters. What’s wrong with that?
Ask the people of Yorkshire. As a result of global warming, many homeowners this week are up to their waists inmuddy water. Andflooding could be just the beginning of our worries. This week a paper in the British Medical Journal gave warning that climate change could be particularly damaging to the health of people in the developing world, but research also suggests that it could be bad news for Britain. Delegates at a conference in London on Tuesday will be told that global warming will drive up rates of cardio-respiratory disease, diarrhoea and insect-borne diseases such as malaria in the UK.
Global warming is believed to be occurring because human activities, particularly burning fossil fuels, have released into the atmosphere huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” that are trapping more heat in the Earth’s lower atmosphere. Average global surface temperatures are already rising and are predicted to increase by between 1.4C and 5.8C over the next century, bringing a higher risk of floods, droughts and heat waves.
“We are already witnessing the effects of climate change on health,” says Dr Hugh Montgomery, the director of the Institute for Human Health and Performance at University College London, who has organised next week’s conference at the Royal College of Physicians. The heat wave of 2003, when temperatures in the northern hemisphere reached the highest on record, killed up to 35,000 people – 2,000 of them in the UK. Last summer’s floods have been shown to increase rates of mental illness (see box, left). And milder weather is likely to be behind the arrival here from Europe of the midge-borne cattle disease bluetongue.
“Each of us is, in effect, moving 6km (4 miles) south a year or 60km a decade,” says Dr Montgomery. “The result will be fewer deaths from colds and flu, but more from strokes and heart attacks because of the heat. Global warming means a higher baseline temperature from which there will be more surges and extreme events.”
Every one degree rise means 75 deaths
By the 2080s we can expect to see weather like that of August 2003 every year. This is bad news. Studies by the Department of Health have shown that in June 2006, when temperatures in the UK soared, there were 75 extra deaths for every one degree rise on the thermometer, with children, older people, those living in built-up areas and the chronically sick most at risk. Deaths can be caused by the body’s inability to adapt and cool itself sufficiently. However, the main causes of death and illness are cardiovascular and respiratory disease.
When it’s hot, large quantities of blood are circulated to the skin to keep it cool, placing a sometimes catastrophic strain on the heart. In addition, heat causes ozone concentrations and pollution levels to rise. This increases asthma rates and causes extra deaths from a range of respiratory illnesses.
The heat is also likely to bring more unwelcome insects to these shores. While it is unlikely that malaria will take hold – the disease is controllable in countries with good healthcare – other disease-carrying insects (known as vectors by scientists) may arrive.
“Climate change poses a significant risk of the introduction of vector-borne diseases into Europe and indeed there is evidence that such change has already happened,” says Paul Hunter, a professor of health protection at the University of East Anglia. “Several vector-borne diseases not previously described in Europe have appeared, including chikungunya [a virus carried by Asian tiger mosquito that causes fever, headache and joint pain]. There was an outbreak in Italy last summer.”
Warmer, drier weather could change our landscape, too. Professor Ian Crute, the director of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s Rothamsted Unit, predicts more maize grown, a possible regeneration of the tree fruit industry and the movement of greenhouse-grown fruit and vegetables to the north. “But I don’t expect we’ll ever have acres of sunflower fields or olive groves,” he says.
However, climate change will have a big impact on the way we live. “Events like the drought that has caused Australian wheat crop failure – and affected worldwide wheat prices – will become common. The era of cheap food that we have enjoyed since the Second World War is ending and people on low incomes will find it increasingly difficult to eat a healthy diet.”
What can we do about it?
Failure to act could have catastrophic consequences but striving to cut carbon emissions could produce unexpected benefits. “What we do to deal with climate change could bring about a revolution in public health,” says Ian Roberts, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For example, reducing our dependence on cars should mean that more people walk and cycle, leading to a decrease in obesity. It should also reduce road accidents, which kill more than 3,000 Britons a year.
“At the moment we are in a vicious cycle,” says Professor Roberts. “We use our cars more and get fatter because we are not exercising. As we get heavier, we become more dependent on fossil fuels because we are reluctant to walk or cycle at all. We need to break this loop.
“If we design climate change policy to max-imise the health benefits, it will be the silver lining to the cloud of global warming. It’s the only bit of good news in the whole story.”
Rising woes
Increased risk to our physical health won’t be the only result of climate change, our mental health may also be affected.
Sara Wolcott* and family were among the 1,950 people made homeless by floods last July in Gloucestershire (see picture above). “After two months, I had panic attacks when my two sons or my husband left me alone. I kept thinking about all the things we’d lost, reliving it over and over,” she says.
Wolcott, who saw her GP and was prescribed antidepressants, isn’t alone. Soon after the floods, Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) had an increase in reports of mental health problems. In response, it set up the People Recovery Group to help those suffering stress and anxiety.
“There is evidence that disasters can increase incidence of mental health problems,” says Dr Nevila Kallfa, of Gloucestershire PCT. " People are living not just with the loss of their homes and posessions but with the constant fear that it will happen again.”
Wolcott agrees: “If floods become the norm, it would add an extra level of stress that’s bound to affect people’s health.”
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(*) Barbara Lantin is a freelance health writer who has contributed for many years to national newspapers, magazines and websites. Her work appears regularly on The Daily Telegraph health-and-wellbeing pages and on the Telegraph website. She has also written consumer information materials for Government departments and others. She is vice-president and former chair of the Guild of Health Writers.
The above article appeared on http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
Aircraft: Bombardier BD-700-1A11 Global 5000
Operator: Qatar Executive
Location: Fortaleza Pinto Martins Intl - SBFZ
Registration: A7-CEV
Serial Number: 6534
Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China - May 29, 2015: Global Center reflecting in a basin at dusk with a cloudy sky.
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Do you remember the first time you and your very lovely lady visited the fabulous Mirage Resort & Casino? Of course you do! It was way back during that very blazing hot summer of 1994!
You and your very lovely lady, and her best girlfriend Bernice, were visiting Las Vegas and the Fabulous Las Vegas Strip for the first time. The Mirage at that time was five years old, and her sister hotel, the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino, where the three of you were staying for that weekend, was less than a year old. On the second night of your stay, the three of you watched the late setting summer sunset as y’all rode the Treasure Island Jungle Tram down to the Mirage. The three of you were all dressed up semi-formal for your dinner reservations at the luxurious Moon Dragon Chinese Restaurant that night. Back in the early 1990’s, the Moon Dragon was regarded as the top Asian restaurant on the Vegas Strip! And during that time, the Mirage Resort & Casino was regarded as the top destination on the Vegas Strip — Bigger than even Caesars Palace! The three of you had a delightful visit that night! 😌😊
The 2019 emergence of the deadly Coronavirus Global Pandemic created hard times for the Mirage! Most of the other MGM Resort Properties opened during the Summer of 2020, but unfortunately the Mirage didn’t re-open until October of 2020 and remained a Ghost Town until late in the Spring of 2021!
So how much does it bother you to hear that someone wants to destroy the grand old Mirage Resort & Casino and then stick a gigantic 600 foot Hard Rock Hotel Guitar 🎸 in its place! 😡
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A Bombardier Global 5000 [N486KL] departing Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport bound for California with the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles onboard following a loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
Your computers, shoes, solar panels, socks, i-phones, underpants, pens, cameras and much, much more come from THIS.
I am gonna have to be horrible to bring this message across to the considerable number of people still blind to the ways of their media out "West".
You / your parents did not want this where you lived in the 70's and 80's so your respective governments, in order to retain your "democratic vote" , started outsourcing this to China in the late 1980's (yes, a willing victim, we all agree). Still, all in the name of you wanting clean air you kept on voting for the people who brainwashed you into believing they are doing it all for you and your kids - all so they could earn a salary as an MP / Senator or whatever for another 10 or 20 years ... sadly never giving a second thought about the kids here having to breath in this rubbish you see in my photo.
Now, at last, the wheel is turning and slowly but surely the sh*te we breath here in China is reaching you and as horrible as it to say, terribly sadly, also your kids.
The solution?
Let's all start looking in the mirror, let's ALL stop blaming others and let's ALL do something about this global catastrophe we as a human race is facing.
On the way to Dundrum early one morning I spotted these two out grazing .......... The effects of global warming, eh ! ; )
A triumvirate of three-holers! Avgeeks in MSP have been excited to see the FedEx and UPS MD-11s on a regular basis as they enter the twilight of their careers, so there was lots of excitement today when we got smart flight alerts for this Western Global flight, operating with a Camber callsign, on behalf of the US Military. Odds are fairly high this will be the last time MD-11s from three airlines are at MSP at the same time.
MD11 / N513SN / CMB513 (HHN-MSP) June 2, 2023