Greenland ice from space
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airiefairieIce Swirls off the Coast of Greenland…For Now
Global warming is real. Temperatures are changing, climate is changing, and most importantly, arctic ice is changing, melting. It is absolutely critical we understand this process better so that we can better understand the implications, and some of the most formidable tools in our possession are Earth-observing satellites. Their keen and unblinking eyes watch the planet below, recording a host of characteristics so that we may record their changes.
NASA’s Aqua satellite is one in this fleet, mapping out the entire surface of the Earth—and in particular the water covering our world—every day or two. On December 30, 2012, it took this incredible picture of the southeast coast of Greenland in the late afternoon:
Global warming is real. Temperatures are changing, climate is changing, and most importantly, arctic ice is changing, melting. It is absolutely critical we understand this process better so that we can better understand the implications, and some of the most formidable tools in our possession are Earth-observing satellites. Their keen and unblinking eyes watch the planet below, recording a host of characteristics so that we may record their changes.
NASA’s Aqua satellite is one in this fleet, mapping out the entire surface of the Earth—and in particular the water covering our world—every day or two. On December 30, 2012, it took this incredible picture of the southeast coast of Greenland in the late afternoon:
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Date: 2013-01-09 11:36 pm (UTC)I do like his speech "Don't be a dick" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmP9XozKEV0) regarding talking to people about pseudoscience (link part 1 of 3).
His book Death From The Skies inspired a song of the same name, in which Phil himself does the reading portion. (Easily searched, sadly only poor quality pub videos seem to be up.)
Oh, and I forgot his TED talk (easily searched). One of the more entertaining.
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