joshcryer
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Fri Sep-11-09 11:40 PM
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Extreme glacial melting (TED video, Greenland is a *must see*) |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjeIpjhAqsMhttp://www.ted.com/talks/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.htmlI would normally write a short blurb, but I had a big meal and after seeing this, I just, can't really write anything. Just watch the video. Greenland melt off starts around 14:30. If you watch any of this watch that part.
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My family would take a picnic out to one of the parks on the Copper River in Alaska, and watch the glaciers calve.You really don't get much perception of how big they are, because you have a flat river, and then an expanse of what looks like that blue styrofoam stuff. Then it rumbles, and a chunk falls off. it looks like a boulder the size of a car.
It's actually an iceberg the size of a large house.
These are small glaciers compared to what that video shows in greenland. TINY glaciers. But when they hit the water, they can knock truck-sized granite boulders from the riverbed and throw them across the river to the shore where we picnicked. There were warning signs all over the place basically telling people "If you come here, you're on your own"
Seeing that glacier calving in Greenland scared the shit out of me.
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:38 AM
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I mean I've been reading about this for several years, and sorta "knew" the basic facts, but SEEING it - incredible. So much for the thermohaline current..... Ms Bigmack
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Sat Sep-12-09 12:36 PM
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4. Yeah, one reason I couldn't comment on it. |
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*sigh*
Incredible. I personally think we've already gone past any recovery point.
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Sat Sep-12-09 04:08 PM
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9. I have seen segments of TV video on how tourists on Alaska cruises applaud |
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Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 04:11 PM by truedelphi
When the huge glaciers calve due to melting.
It's aad to watch people applauding the death of a planet. Especially if it is a planet that we all must liv eon.
It was researchers and fishermen in Chile that first got up in arms about Global Climate change back in 1994 and 1995. The researchers would actually weep when they saw the huge glaciers in Anatartica falling apart and melting.
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Sat Sep-12-09 01:54 PM
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The pictures speak for themselves.
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Sat Sep-12-09 02:10 PM
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7. Wow. That is mind-jolting. |
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Even with his scale references added, it is hard to wrap your brain around the scope and scale of these things.
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Sat Sep-12-09 02:37 PM
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8. Yeah, when he said the first one was "32 stories high" I couldn't see it. Then the helicoptor was... |
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...shown in the later video (not the same glacier) and it put things into perspective.
This is just mind bogglingly insane. Just watched the video again. I still have no words. How. How can an ice sheet the size of a small town ... just ... disappear. :(
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Tue Sep-15-09 05:29 AM
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most of us have no words to respond to this. :(
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