That, of course, is a provocative statement, however, from the point of view of the Earth, it is actually true. The Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith and Kohler Glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica (see the map below), have been the stars of many alarm...
Still, the jolly iteration of the character didn't appear until 1931, when Haddon Sundblom created the rosy-cheeked version we know and love today. Sundblom continued to make ads of Santa Claus for Coke until 1964, after which future illustrations were modeled after his original drawings. You ...
400 years since the end of the lastIce Age, sea level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone." (Christopher Monckton)...
In 2011, Antarctica noted its warmest temperature ever at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, clocking in at -12.3 degrees Celsius.2012: Federal workers get a long weekend The Obama Presidential Library 2012: Federal workers get a long weekend Christmas fell on a Tuesday this year, leading t...
late."Everything is connected - Antarctica may be a long way away but it is an important part of the Earth's system," said Johnson."It contains 90% of the world's ice, 70% of the world's fresh water and that is enough, if it melts completely, to raise sea levels by 63 meters...
(~ 1130 °C; calculated at 0.1 GPa using Rhyolite-MELTS code53; TableS1), the back transformation of coesite into a more stable form of SiO2would be expected to occur, making the retrieval of coesite in MP26 quite surprising. Glass et al.10argued that the froth layer surrounding the...
--"nor 50 years’ cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002)"Ozone holehas a regional effect there, and I can't take Monckton's word for it that the Antarctic has cooled for as long as 50 years. Anyway, at least a part of it have warmed. --"and the Arctic (Soon, 2005);" ...
Mars is basically a colder Antarctica that looks like the Arizona desert with air you can’t breathe and a sun that radiates you to death if you’re exposed to it for long. Every part of Mars is dramatically less livable than the least livable place on Earth. But the conditions are reas...
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” - Richelle E. Goodrich The holiday season is a magical time when friends and family gather together. It's a time for cozy nights by the fireplace, sipping hot co...