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Oslo, Norway
From the New York Times:
We Charted Arctic Sea Ice for Nearly Every Day Since 1979. You’ll See a Trend.
By NADJA POPOVICH, HENRY FOUNTAIN and ADAM PEARCE SEPT. 22, 2017
Arctic sea ice has been in steep decline since the late 1970s, when satellite images were first used to study the region. NASA says that the extent of ice covering Arctic waters has fallen by 13 percent per decade. The 10 lowest ice minimums — measured each September, after the summer thaw — have all been recorded since 2007.
Scientists say the disappearance of sea ice is largely a result of climate change, with the Arctic warming at a faster rate than any other region.
This year, sea ice reached its minimum on Sept. 13, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. At that point, ice covered 1.8 million square miles, or 4.6 million square kilometers, of Arctic waters. That makes this year’s minimum the eighth-lowest on record.
The 2017 minimum could have been even lower. Scientists look closely at both the maximum extent each winter and the minimum at the end of summer.
Arctic ice hit a record-low maximum extent of 5.6 million square miles this March, following an exceedingly warm winter. But a record maximum does not necessarily translate to a record minimum: cooler temperatures this summer reduced the amount of melting, keeping the ice extent well above the record low, which was set in 2012.
“What happened is that weather patterns got in the way,” said Mark Serreze, director of the snow and ice center. “This is part of the natural variability in the system.”
Regional ice patterns vary as well. Ice in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, has retreated during summers for years now.
This year the melting was even more widespread. “You had open water extending almost 80 degrees north — way the heck out there,” Dr. Serreze said.
The retreat of the ice is not good news for polar bears, which are already in decline in the southern Beaufort. The bears depend on the ice for hunting seals, a critical part of their diet. But as the ice recedes farther north — this month it was some 600 miles from the Alaskan coast — there is less prey to be found.
Another difference this year, Dr. Serreze said, is that the ice loss began very early.
“If you see the ice leaving early in the season, you expose these dark open ocean areas, which are going to absorb more heat,” he said. That early melt starts a feedback process as the exposed warmer waters accelerate the ice loss.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/22/climate/arctic-sea...
This photo was for the biggie smalls challenge when I got so put the two pictures together to make it look like she was in a shoe.
From wild plums. I halved the plums to get the stones out and was amused to find how the pastry shrink-wrapped itself over them! Another first for yours truly, photographed on the car rug, all set for a picnic... :-)
This photo was taken during the phobia challenge just for me to edit when I was bored. Then a few weeks later it turned into a real assignment.
tiger 1 shrinked to minifig scale
compared to king tiger (accurate ) 2/3 of stud lower and 2 studs shorter
See all three photos in Shrinking Comox Glacier Album (Set)
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The top of the glacier used to be as high as the highest piece of the mountain that now sticks up higher than the ice. It's not only shrinking in area covered but also depth of ice is shrinking too - latest estimates are that the glacier is 60 meters thinner than it was in the 1930s. Some of our drinking water comes from the glacier but most comes from melting accumulations of snow in the mountains and spring rains. Recent years have been drought-like in this rainforest due to cooler, drier winters and springs and hotter drier summers and autumns.
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/glacier-melt-worldwide-now-cau...
In the 1970s there were 170 glaciers on Vancouver Island, there are now only 4 and the Comox Glacier is the largest remaining glacier.
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i can`t call you. I can`t write.
i can`t reach the phone, can`t reach the light,
that`s why I never, never wanna go from here.
Shy and introverted. Double whammy. Even confident people can be introverts :-)
Good Sunday to you all. One behind in this project, hope I can bang another out today!
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The FAO’s Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) reports global gross deforestation to be 130,000 km2 annually for the decade 2000–2010, and 160,000 km2 for the previous decade 1990–2000. Out of this, forest in ‘rainforest basins’ (using a wider definition than used in this report) lost on average 63,000 km2 annually (1990–2010). Other studies, and recently also a remote sensing study by FAO and JRC indicates that the deforestation rates reported by FRA 2010, although dramatic, may be too optimistic. The remote sensing study by FAO and the European Commission Joint Research Center JRC reports that global gross deforestation (reduction in ‘forest land use’) over the 1990–2010 period was 155,000 km2 per year. The tropical forest area was reduced by 1.3 million km2 in the same two decades, and as this figure is net change the deforestation figure would be even higher if one excluded plantations.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Hugo Ahlenius
as Dan was walking his dog all of a sudden he shrunk and now he's small in giant grass and by the paw of his giant dog Hector
silence.
the sun beats down, the snow caught in the branches begins to shrink. drips of water crawl across the wood, and drop quietly into the bed below, and return to their frozen slumber.
surrounded.
trees are scattered in every direction. some droop with the weight of the fallen clouds, others stand tall and display their strength. each so incredibly different, embracing their scars and imperfections.
freedom.
escaping from reality, out here nobody else exists. just the forest, and the fresh air. everything is pure, no roads to follow, make your own path. no cars, building, or factories to pollute your oxygen, it's enters your body only to fill your lungs with relief.
today was a lot of fun. nature isn't exactly my strength, but another photographer and I went snow shoeing in the woods, and it was so beautiful.
(:
March 1, 2011
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(day 3 of the photography 30 day challenge)
I know most of what is grown here but I haven't a clue what this is and of course the Name Brains are never around when you need them..........so Shrinking Violets seems as good a title as any. If you know...Wire Tisdale in the Boonies. Thanks for the look and have a large Tuesday.
This card is for the Hero Arts October challenge (holiday card theme). I was playing around with shrink plastic the other day and got the idea of making baubles out of shrink plastic. To make these, I first cut the baubles out of the plastic and then stamped the images with Stazon ink. The three baubles were coloured in different ways. The snow on the round one and on the village one was coloured with a white pencil before shrinking. The sky on the round one was coated with two shades Stickles, after shrinking. The houses were coloured with alcohol ink before shrinking and after shrinking I added snow to the roofs with a gel pen. The tree bauble was coated with Glossy Accents and sprinkled with glitter after shrinking.
The snowman was dry embossed on watercolour paper and then the whole paper was covered in Rock Candy Distress crackle paint. It gave a snowy glittery effect that was hard to capture on the photo. The background was sponged with Distress Ink Stormy Sky and Tumbled Glass. The sentiments were stamped with alphabet stamps on the plastic before shrinking and translates ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Christmas peace’. I posted close ups of the baubles on my blog. TFL!!
Blogpost: layersofink.blogspot.com/2011/10/shrink-plastic-baubles.html
Supplies: Hero Arts stamps: Winter Scene K5524, Classic Evergreen K5515, Snowing Village CG396, Basic Lowercase Letters LL188; Ranger and Panduro shrink plastic; Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder; Distress crackle paint Rock Candy; Distress Ink Stormy Sky and Tumbled Glass; Stazon Jet Black; Stonewashed alcohol ink; Waterfall, Jeans and Diamond Stickles; silver glitter; white pencil; white gel pen; silver DMC floss; Kaisercraft rhinestones.
This is a manipulated photo for the Down Under Challenge
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With the temperatures soaring high in the northern part of India, touching the levels of 46-47 degree centigrade, everybody is eagerly waiting for rains to arrive.
The amount of shrinkage in the six weeks since the August 14th photo suggests that the ice visible then was very thin and now even more bare rock is what is showing. It's still hazy from forest fire smoke in the air.
In the Glacier Album the August and September photos are next to each other so it's easy to click back and forth to see the shrinkage. Or use the thumbnail below this photo.
This is the August 14th, 2015 photo of the Glacier
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