Petermann Ice Island Revisited
Petermann Ice Island (2010) Calved on August 05 2010. The calving had been anticipated for some time and had been predicted to occur in summer 2010 by a number of people, including myself. The actual calving event was observed in near real-time images by a number of people - credits at the foot of this article.
I give here some more background to my observations and my predictions of the Petermann calving event in a wider context of mechanical forces which may act on glaciers.
Greenland under observation
M.A.D. 2.0
The greatest fear of mankind after World War 2 was the real possibility of a World War 3.
It was a rational fear of a very real threat: the global destruction of civilization.
Nations, most especially the USA and the former USSR, found themselves in a mad race to build more bombs, more powerful bombs, megadeath bombs.
The military theory behind this madness was that if a nation had weapons enough to utterly destroy any enemy then it would not be attacked. But a first strike might reduce the ability to launch a counterstrike powerful enough to utterly destroy the enemy, so it was thought necessary to keep in constant readiness far more than enough weapons to destroy any enemy.
Day-Trip
Every once in a while I post a poem in my blog.
I hope that my readers may enjoy my poems and that educators may find them helpful as teaching aids.
For a very long time in the UK people would travel by train to the seaside during the summer. The day-trip to the seaside was something of a national institution. For small children, such a day-trip was a grand adventure.
DAY - TRIP
Sitting on the sea - shore
licking on an ice - cream
The Chatter-Box Friend's Forum - A Discussion Of Economics
This is your forum for discussing scientific, economic and political solutions to the problems of climate change and fossil fuel dependency.
I have invited
Neven to kick off the discussion.
I am very short of energy at the moment after suffering from very high blood pressure. This is not conducive to accuracy in ratiocination. Translation: it makes me prone to making mistakes. :-)
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