not all those who wander are lost

stevielittle: Let’s go hiking!!

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:15:44 -0500

stevielittle:

Let’s go hiking!!

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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:15:10 -0500

lovecantakeusaway: Weather Report Fri 13 May 2011 by Birmingham...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:14:36 -0500

lovecantakeusaway:

Weather Report Fri 13 May 2011 by Birmingham Selly Oak Weather on Flickr.

sensedelirium: This cartoon is awesome.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:14:15 -0500

sensedelirium:

This cartoon is awesome.

uafairbanks: Cold Climate Housing Research Center CCHRC...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:13:17 -0500

uafairbanks:

Cold Climate Housing Research Center

CCHRC designers fashion a wood pile.

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uafairbanks: Clearing a place where the sustainable village...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:13:01 -0500

uafairbanks:

Clearing a place where the sustainable village will be built.

explorationimages: AIM: CIPS noctilucent cloud mosaic for 31...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:12:13 -0500

explorationimages:

AIM: CIPS noctilucent cloud mosaic for 31 January 2012

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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:11:54 -0500

rhamphotheca: Enormous Fucking Crack In Antarctic Ice About to...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:11:43 -0500

rhamphotheca:

Enormous Fucking Crack In Antarctic Ice About to Spawn Iceberg the Size of New York Up In Here

by Richard A. Lovett

With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica’s fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger than all of New York City, scientists say. The crevasse stretches 19 miles (30 km) long and up to 260 ft (80 m) wide, as shown in a picture taken by NASA’s Terra satellite in October and featured this week as a NASA Image of the Day.?

Snaking across the floating tongue of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica, the crack is expected to create an iceberg 350 square miles (907 sq km)?versus 303 sq mi (785 sq km) for Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx combined, according to NASA.

As for when the iceberg might shove off, “that is very difficult to predict,” said oceanographer Eric Rignot of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “but in the coming months for sure.”

When “that point of rifting starts to climb upstream, generally you see some acceleration of the glacier.” That means that the ice will flow into the ocean at a faster rate, contributing even more to sea level rise…

(read more: National Geographic)?? (image: NASA/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS)

lifeisjustanadventure: Storm clouds over the Andes Mountains in...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:11:38 -0500

lifeisjustanadventure:

Storm clouds over the Andes Mountains in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile by Independent Picture Service on Flickr.

theoriginalchingy: Bill Gates Endorses Large Scale...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:09:55 -0500

theoriginalchingy:

Bill Gates Endorses Large Scale Geo-Engineering Projects - “Geo-engineering?(the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to combat anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry)?has long been touted as a way to?counteract the catastrophic effects of global warming, but has been considered dangerous by some as it interferes with the world?s delicate ecosystems.?However the controversial practice has now received a boost from some of the wealthiest men in the world ? including Microsoft founder Bill Gates.?The group of billionaires has been funding a?small team of leading climate scientists and?are lobbying governments and international bodies to back geo-engineering experiments to avoid catastrophic?climate change.”

via Inhabitat.

revkin: Great Jeff Masters explainer on Europe’s brutal &...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:07:58 -0500

revkin:

Great Jeff Masters explainer on Europe’s brutal & US’s mild winters via jet stream and AO/NAO patterns.

revkin: January temperatures and weather in the lower 48 states...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:07:26 -0500

revkin:

January temperatures and weather in the lower 48 states were far from normal — even as other parts of the Northern Hemisphere had (and continue to have) brutal wintry conditions. Here’s NOAA monthly summary for USA, with global summary coming next week.

laboratoryequipment: Deforestation Does Not Impact Glacier...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:06:59 -0500

laboratoryequipment:

Deforestation Does Not Impact Glacier Loss

A new study shows that land-cover changes, in particular deforestation, in the vicinity of glaciers do not have an impact on glacier loss. However, the study, in which Innsbruck climate researcher were directly involved, also shows that deforestation decreases precipitation in mid elevation zones, which affects the quality of life of the population living in the surrounding areas.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Deforestation-Does-Not-Impact-Glacier-Loss-020712.aspx

dreamhamar: Rain hut, Bergen

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:05:59 -0500

dreamhamar:

Rain hut, Bergen

treehugger: A Disturbance in the Force? Rare Snowfall Blankets...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:05:30 -0500

treehugger:

A Disturbance in the Force? Rare Snowfall Blankets Tataouine

As any Star Wars fan can tell you, Luke Skywalker’s planetary home of Tatooine is one of the driest, hottest worlds in that fictional galaxy far, far away — but much closer to home, things are looking oddly frosty. In the real-life Tataouine, a Tunisian desert town nearby to where scenes from the 1977 blockbuster were filmed, unusually cold weather has brought rare snowfall not seen since, well, a long time ago.

keep reading…

u-kno-ure-from-d-caribbean-wen: Submitted by?andizaninja

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:04:19 -0500

u-kno-ure-from-d-caribbean-wen:

Submitted by?andizaninja

thesherd: A look at some of the many factors that may have led...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:03:12 -0500

thesherd:

A look at some of the many factors that may have led to the decline of Neaderthals. “Neanderthals’ legacy lives on in our biological genome and possibly in our cultural knowledge” (via Neanderthal demise due to many influences, including cultural changes)

dreamhamar: The Sulzer-Areal by Vetschpartner Landscape...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:02:38 -0500

dreamhamar:

The Sulzer-Areal by Vetschpartner Landscape Architecture

roguesquid: RogueSquid says: “Any scientists out there want to...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:01:11 -0500

roguesquid:

RogueSquid says: “Any scientists out there want to explain this? I reread this and I get the point, but I would like to know a little more on what they are saying…”

(via Climate Change News: Carbon Link to Snowball Earth reassessed)