Polar Ice Caps

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The perverse fantasies of XR's founder

The Spectator 04 Nov 2021

If we don’t cut carbon emissions, your mother will be raped. This is the deranged prediction of Roger Hallam, the weird-beard co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. Eco-doomsters used to say the ice caps would melt and polar bears would perish unless we all went green. Now they’re upping the ante ... Better get recycling ... The whole thing is nuts ... .

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Climate change and methane hydrates

Principia Scientific 04 Nov 2021

These indications – including measurements of the methane content in ice cores, for instance – are still controversial ... In the course of the Earth’s warming, it is also expected that sea level will rise due to melting of the polar ice caps and glacial ice ... Massive mass movements occurred during the last ice age and the following deglaciation.

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Could Humans Really Live On Arrakis, The Planet From Dune?

IFL Science 03 Nov 2021

The books describe Arrakis as a world without rain, but the model revealed occasional showers on the polar highlands in summer and autumn. This might be an understandable error for a visitor to make, but the model produced no support for references to a northern hemisphere polar ice cap.

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A Methane Pledge Is the First Good News Out of COP26. Nothing Else Will Be as Easy

Time 03 Nov 2021

Tuesday’s announcement that more than 100 countries have joined a U.S ... But while important, the announcement doesn’t necessarily set the stage for a cascade of similarly game-changing climate pledges going forward ... When the sweater is removed, the immediate effects of warming, such as melting the polar ice caps, slows down.

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A Methane Pledge Is the First Good News Out of COP26. Nothing Else Will Be ...

Time Magazine 03 Nov 2021

Tuesday’s announcement that more than 100 countries have joined a U.S ... [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] ... When the sweater is removed, the immediate effects of warming, such as melting the polar ice caps, slows down. That has a global impact ... Leaky pipes can be fixed, valves can be closed, and oil rigs capped with existing technology ... .

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Dune: We simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there

Phys Dot Org 02 Nov 2021

The book also mentions that polar ice caps exist, at least in the northern hemisphere, and have for a long time. But this is where the books perhaps differ the most from our model, which suggests summer temperatures would melt any polar ice, and there would be no snowfall to replenish the ice caps in winter.

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A tiny water fern found in our area changed the world's climate

The Gainesville Sun 02 Nov 2021

Homo sapiens is apparently not the only species to have single-handedly changed Earth’s climate ... Global climates 49 million years ago were much warmer than today, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were 10 times higher, sea levels were substantially elevated and there were no polar ice caps ... Francis E ... Join the conversation ... .

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Scientists Simulate the Climate of Arrakis. It Turns Out Dune is a Pretty Realistic Exoplanet

Universe Today 01 Nov 2021

Herbert’s Dune also has polar caps, but the model was unable to reproduce those ... “But this is where the books perhaps differ the most from our model, which suggests summer temperatures would melt any polar ice, and there would be no snowfall to replenish the ice caps in winter,” they write.

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The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism?

The Observer 31 Oct 2021

Hurricane Sandy caused significant damage to public housing near East River Park. Photograph ... Photograph ... The city, like countless others around the world, is obliged to protect itself and its residents in the face of melting polar ice caps, intensifying hurricanes and the storms that are, in a manner of false reassurance, termed “rain events” ... .

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Pleaful song: Film on climate change for Cop-26 summit

The Telegraph India 29 Oct 2021

For the next few days, the world will be focused on Cop-26 in Glasgow ... I found the Scots to be the most generous people in the world ... Advertisement ... The film follows a little girl, Asha, a “climate refugee from Bengal, as she searches for her missing father through the flood banks of the Sundarban delta, burning forests and melting polar ice caps” ... .

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Indian-origin artist’s climate action film to premiere at COP-26 Summit in Glasgow

Business Line 29 Oct 2021

Also read ... The 24 minutes long film is animated by Indian illustrators Sachin Bhatt and Anjali Kamat and follows Asha, a young climate refugee from West Bengal, as she searches for her missing father through the flood banks of the Sundarbans delta, burning forests and melting polar ice caps ... Also read ... ....

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Dune: Scientists simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there

Raw Story 26 Oct 2021

The book also mentions that polar ice caps exist, at least in the northern hemisphere, and have for a long time. But this is where the books perhaps differ the most from our model, which suggests summer temperatures would melt any polar ice, and there would be no snowfall to replenish the ice caps in winter.Hot but habitable.

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Could humans survive on Dune’s Arrakis?

Popular Science 26 Oct 2021

The book also mentions that polar ice caps exist, at least in the northern hemisphere, and have for a long time. But this is where the books perhaps differ the most from our model, which suggests summer temperatures would melt any polar ice, and there would be no snowfall to replenish the ice caps in winter.

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How astronomers probe the Sun’s explosive past

Astronomy 26 Oct 2021

RELATED TOPICS. SOLAR FLARES . SPACE WEATHER . THE SUN. The Sun is an active star ... The vestiges of such violent solar events lie hidden in the rings of ancient trees and deep under the layers of ice at Earth’s polar caps ... Ice cores store beryllium-10 and chlorine-36 isotopes, which provide similar albeit slightly less accurate dating information ... .

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Climate change: How do we know it is happening and caused by humans?

BBC News 25 Oct 2021

The ... Tree rings, ice cores, lake sediments and corals all record a signature of the past climate ... Tree rings and polar ice both record changes in atmospheric chemistry ... Around 92 million years ago, for example, temperatures were so high that there were no polar ice caps and crocodile-like creatures lived as far north as the Canadian Arctic ... Features ... .