Antarctica

Whispers From Antiquity | John Michael Greer

June 30, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things I find fascinating about the deepening twilight of industrial society is how rigid our modern notions of technology have become. Most people these days, asked to imagine a society with technology about as advanced as ours, present something all but identical to what we’ve got now; asked to imagine a society with less advanced technology, they spr ...

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Antarctic Ocean carbon dioxide helped end the Ice Age | J. W. B. Rae

Deep-sea coral – data was generated on deep-sea corals from 1000m below the sea surface in the Antarctic Ocean. Credit: University of Bristol Oct. 25, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A team of scientists, led by ...

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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein

Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, ...

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Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica (Update) | AFP

Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf a ...

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Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute

A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offsh ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- March 10, 2015 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Scheduled national and international events related to nuclear weapons and proliferation issues. March 10, 2015 March 6-15 House of Repre ...

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Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre | Alan Rusbridger

As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger explains the thinking behind the Guardian newspaper's major series on the climate crisis A polar bear in the arctic wilde ...

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Antarctica's Retreating Ice May Re-Shape Earth | Luis Andrews Henao and Seth Borenstein

THE BIG MELT In this Jan. 22, 2015 photo, a zodiac carrying a team of international scientists heads to Chile's station Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctica. Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melt ...

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Climate-Change Summary And Update | Guy McPherson

Guy McPhersonEditor's Note: Here are a few links discussing Guy McPherson's ideas about the climate. John Michael Greer dismisses him as a crank. Judge for yourself. --Francis Goodwin https://worldne ...

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Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)

Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arcti ...

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Revolution and Repression in America (Andrew Gavin Marshall)

This is Part 2 of the series, "The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom." Part 1: The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order Introduction June 29, 2010 (Global Research) -- ...

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