Antarctica Wind Chime
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Recession of the Jorge Montt Glacier, Patagonia (click to animate)
The above picture is the year 2000. Drastically different from the lower picture, the year 1975,
A NASA Study of the Patagonian Icefields of South America's Argentina and Chile. (Click on)
This is a picture by nature explorers.
Photographer states :: I visited El Calafate and the made an excursion in a ferry called Upsala Explorer around 7 glaciers in Lago Argentino. I couldn't go to Perito Moreno, but for sure will return!!! This was a great experience, a great place and a great opportunity for us people, to remember we need to take care of our nature and our world!
The Patagonian Icefields are just as inviting to heat as the Peninsula of Antatctica. It absorbs large amounts of heat calories as does the Peninsula and the continent of ice. It is also at higher latitudes from the Peninsula and adds to the conductivity of heat from the equator.
So the dynamics include much more than the Antactica continent in the Southern Hemisphere.
There is the culprit. Heat transfer system from the equator directly to the Antarctica Peninsula.
June 27, 2006. 0921 gmt.
Pacific Global Satellite.
The South American continent serves as a 'conduit' if you will. Terra Firma is warmer than the ocean. The southern aspect of the continent facilitiates the heat from the equator to the Peninsula which is at highest latitudes of Antarctica.
Click here to animate. It didn't take long to put heat back on the Peninsula.
June 26, 2006. 9:00 AM.
One week past the Northern Solstice and at first opportunity the heat from the sun, still lingering in the north has shifted over Antarctica already.
I waited until today for it to become clear before putting the 'map picture' here but the signs were there the entire time. Last week even when the 'on the ground temperatures' were far below zero across the continent there was still a high 'dew point' which told me there was melting/sublimination in the face of the lack of sun.
Yesterday, there was a warm wind that blew across the southwest corner of WAIS (West Antarctica Ice Sheet). I knew the heat was coming back at the first travel of the solar radiation south. Today's map proves it. Human Induced Global Warming is ever present. I'm sorry, but, as people on this planet we have to take a stand. It is why Steven Hawking is so vocal about space travel. He means it. It's his way of contributing to the urgency of the circumstances we all face. No one is immune.
Morning Papers - concluded
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
--
-24.0°
Updated Tuesday 27 Jun 8:00PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
46 °F / 8 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
81%
Dew Point:
41 °F / 5 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.16 in / 1021 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Overcast 7500 ft / 2286 m
(Above Ground Level)
end
Scott Base
--
-24.0°
Updated Tuesday 27 Jun 8:00PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
46 °F / 8 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
81%
Dew Point:
41 °F / 5 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.16 in / 1021 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Overcast 7500 ft / 2286 m
(Above Ground Level)
end
A hand delivered message from God
June 26, 2006. Buena Vista, Virginia.
Photographer states :: Maury river in Buena Vista, coming out of banks during heavy rainfall.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Fundamental
Conflict in the Middle East will never result in peace ...
... because when oppressed people are faced with greater tragedy than they had before a war; they will seek what they know and can rely on.
What any people know is 'fundamentalism.'
Fundamentalism is 'safe' in the lives of those at high risk for death, as in war zones. That is why the rise in 'fundamentalism' goes hand in hand with war and why it abates when there is not.
Fundamentalism is the enemy. It gives sympathy to 'extremes' as it 'shelters' the soul in the afterlife.
War is an extreme. It is failed diplomacy. In an administration with NO diplomacy as Bush's administration chronically reveals, there is always war.
In the case of Islam and perhaps not unlike most people, when threatened with war the 'citizens' react to embrace those that seem 'strongest' to RETURN to values less oppressive than war. They want to avert their own deaths.
Those that appear 'strongest' in Islam are often the extremists of Jihad or Fatwa. Example is the majority election of Hamas in Palestine. The extremists get their 'clout' by finger pointing leaders as 'fundamentally weak' and a danger to everyone's soul that follows them. That leads to a vicious cycle and more fundamentalism, more war, etc. A quagmire as witnessed in Afghanistan with the Taliban before the retaliation of the USA. Even today, as al Qaeda's most recent video reviewed, President Karzai came to pressure to retaliate in a speech regarding the change in military power in Afghanistan that has lead to hundreds of deaths of the Taliban. In order to stay in control, President Karzai felt he needed to 'one up' al Qaeda as if they would sincerely be able to carry out their demands for the people to rise against their government. Hamid Karzai is in a fight for his country due to the desire to be rid of a now nearly five year war. One that seems to have no end. One that was poorly fought by the USA and left the leaders of al Qaeda intact to continue to cause a worsening problem rather than ever assigning enough of a strike force that would completely dismantle al Qaeda and capture or kill it's leadership. The retaliation into Afghanistan by the USA let the world down with additional attacks into London, Madrid, Amman and Sharm el-Sheikh. The retaliation into Afghanistan has left the USA more vulnerable with terrorist networks springing up in nations all across the globe where before there was none. The retaliation into Afghanistan was never sincere so much as a foothold to a war Bush wanted to fight and that was in Iraq. The truth is, Cheney wanted Iraq more than Bush and Bush wanted it because his father was seen as a failure in the first attack of Iraq that would push Saddam Hussein back to his own borders. Iraq was completely insignificant to the destruction of al Qaeda.
Conflict fuels and rearms extremists. The citizen then seeks comfort to their war torn lives with the 'idea' of a life lived within fundamental values has a reward to the afterlife.
It's a no win situation in the Middle East when instability, conflict and war increase uncertainty in movement toward First World values due to an always impending death by the citizen. It is the masses, mob if you will, that rules the extremists ideology. When death due to war seems the only alternative to living under oppression; many begin to welcome the oppression and will sympathize with it.
The alternative is to kill masses of people for a 'nation building' status with sympathizers ONLY of First World Values. That is an atrocity. That is the current agenda of Bush's War. Nukes are the most extreme of war. The most extreme of lost diplomacy. Genocide is not an option and why war in the Middle East will never resolve to a peace.
I hope I am not too abstract. It is not abstraction I seek. It is understanding. There are dynamics to these circumstances in Iraq, Islam that are beyond the control of war leading to numbers of dead civilians. We see it everyday in bombings that kill fifty or more Iraqis at a time.
It is those 'dynamics' that are addressed in dissent of the war and administration, no matter what form of public opinion takes. Call it intuition. Call it political dynamics. It sincerely is a movement toward a successful ideology and not a demised one. It is why a change of direction/strategy is needed. The dynamics of the conflict demand a breaking of the cycle leading to greater sympathy with extremists.
Fundamental values have a huge impact on the politics in the Middle East. When war fuels that fundamentalism those that preach are very powerful men. UNLESS a religious leader such as The Grand Ayatollah al Sistani is also a man of peace (by strategy as survival under Saddam) then the war is lost right from the start. The USA knows it and has tried, in a plot, to demonize clerks that little understand/understood the politics of democracy. The USA tried to kill large amounts of people through their propaganda campaign while destroying a precious temple of an Imam. Innocent people that did not understand the world they now were faced with. A world of destruction far greater than any hardship they had to endure under Saddam. Fearless religious leaders with nothing they felt they had to lose. The reward of standing up for their faith would provide the world of comfort beyond this life. The USA is assured a 'legal genocide' in Islam by the simple fact the opposition can be coined 'insurgents' rather than citizens in the fight of their life for the preservation of their faith.
Diplomacy is paramount to ANY peace. What the president of Iran is hoping is that his fundamental ranting by invoking the eradication of Israel will 'spin' so much Islamic sympathy (for the perfect soul for Allah/God) that there is 'no dealing' with Iran or Hamas or any of the extremist elements and he can proceed by buying time in negotiations to master his war craft.
What Bush's 'posture' promotes is more resistance to the step away from that fundamentalism. He is not a man of peace. He has labeled himself 'The War President.' To a vast many in the USA that is political dogma. To the countries of the Middle East, less powerful than the USA, that is a horrible reality. And if Bush could replace Islam with Christianity, he would by the sheer fact Jesus and Mary are seen as significant figures in Islam and Bush sees them 'correct' saviors and not just prophets. I have very little doubt the fundamentalism of Bush is a severely a threat to the USA as is that of Islam.
Democracy has to prove itself to be benevolent to the lives of the people of the Middle East otherwise it won't be accepted and fundamentalism will win out every time giving a foothold to extremists. Democracy by nature is a choice. It cannot be forced on people. War will not instill democracy in any Islamic country. Quite the contrary it will force the victory of a return to fundamental values.
... because when oppressed people are faced with greater tragedy than they had before a war; they will seek what they know and can rely on.
What any people know is 'fundamentalism.'
Fundamentalism is 'safe' in the lives of those at high risk for death, as in war zones. That is why the rise in 'fundamentalism' goes hand in hand with war and why it abates when there is not.
Fundamentalism is the enemy. It gives sympathy to 'extremes' as it 'shelters' the soul in the afterlife.
War is an extreme. It is failed diplomacy. In an administration with NO diplomacy as Bush's administration chronically reveals, there is always war.
In the case of Islam and perhaps not unlike most people, when threatened with war the 'citizens' react to embrace those that seem 'strongest' to RETURN to values less oppressive than war. They want to avert their own deaths.
Those that appear 'strongest' in Islam are often the extremists of Jihad or Fatwa. Example is the majority election of Hamas in Palestine. The extremists get their 'clout' by finger pointing leaders as 'fundamentally weak' and a danger to everyone's soul that follows them. That leads to a vicious cycle and more fundamentalism, more war, etc. A quagmire as witnessed in Afghanistan with the Taliban before the retaliation of the USA. Even today, as al Qaeda's most recent video reviewed, President Karzai came to pressure to retaliate in a speech regarding the change in military power in Afghanistan that has lead to hundreds of deaths of the Taliban. In order to stay in control, President Karzai felt he needed to 'one up' al Qaeda as if they would sincerely be able to carry out their demands for the people to rise against their government. Hamid Karzai is in a fight for his country due to the desire to be rid of a now nearly five year war. One that seems to have no end. One that was poorly fought by the USA and left the leaders of al Qaeda intact to continue to cause a worsening problem rather than ever assigning enough of a strike force that would completely dismantle al Qaeda and capture or kill it's leadership. The retaliation into Afghanistan by the USA let the world down with additional attacks into London, Madrid, Amman and Sharm el-Sheikh. The retaliation into Afghanistan has left the USA more vulnerable with terrorist networks springing up in nations all across the globe where before there was none. The retaliation into Afghanistan was never sincere so much as a foothold to a war Bush wanted to fight and that was in Iraq. The truth is, Cheney wanted Iraq more than Bush and Bush wanted it because his father was seen as a failure in the first attack of Iraq that would push Saddam Hussein back to his own borders. Iraq was completely insignificant to the destruction of al Qaeda.
Conflict fuels and rearms extremists. The citizen then seeks comfort to their war torn lives with the 'idea' of a life lived within fundamental values has a reward to the afterlife.
It's a no win situation in the Middle East when instability, conflict and war increase uncertainty in movement toward First World values due to an always impending death by the citizen. It is the masses, mob if you will, that rules the extremists ideology. When death due to war seems the only alternative to living under oppression; many begin to welcome the oppression and will sympathize with it.
The alternative is to kill masses of people for a 'nation building' status with sympathizers ONLY of First World Values. That is an atrocity. That is the current agenda of Bush's War. Nukes are the most extreme of war. The most extreme of lost diplomacy. Genocide is not an option and why war in the Middle East will never resolve to a peace.
I hope I am not too abstract. It is not abstraction I seek. It is understanding. There are dynamics to these circumstances in Iraq, Islam that are beyond the control of war leading to numbers of dead civilians. We see it everyday in bombings that kill fifty or more Iraqis at a time.
It is those 'dynamics' that are addressed in dissent of the war and administration, no matter what form of public opinion takes. Call it intuition. Call it political dynamics. It sincerely is a movement toward a successful ideology and not a demised one. It is why a change of direction/strategy is needed. The dynamics of the conflict demand a breaking of the cycle leading to greater sympathy with extremists.
Fundamental values have a huge impact on the politics in the Middle East. When war fuels that fundamentalism those that preach are very powerful men. UNLESS a religious leader such as The Grand Ayatollah al Sistani is also a man of peace (by strategy as survival under Saddam) then the war is lost right from the start. The USA knows it and has tried, in a plot, to demonize clerks that little understand/understood the politics of democracy. The USA tried to kill large amounts of people through their propaganda campaign while destroying a precious temple of an Imam. Innocent people that did not understand the world they now were faced with. A world of destruction far greater than any hardship they had to endure under Saddam. Fearless religious leaders with nothing they felt they had to lose. The reward of standing up for their faith would provide the world of comfort beyond this life. The USA is assured a 'legal genocide' in Islam by the simple fact the opposition can be coined 'insurgents' rather than citizens in the fight of their life for the preservation of their faith.
Diplomacy is paramount to ANY peace. What the president of Iran is hoping is that his fundamental ranting by invoking the eradication of Israel will 'spin' so much Islamic sympathy (for the perfect soul for Allah/God) that there is 'no dealing' with Iran or Hamas or any of the extremist elements and he can proceed by buying time in negotiations to master his war craft.
What Bush's 'posture' promotes is more resistance to the step away from that fundamentalism. He is not a man of peace. He has labeled himself 'The War President.' To a vast many in the USA that is political dogma. To the countries of the Middle East, less powerful than the USA, that is a horrible reality. And if Bush could replace Islam with Christianity, he would by the sheer fact Jesus and Mary are seen as significant figures in Islam and Bush sees them 'correct' saviors and not just prophets. I have very little doubt the fundamentalism of Bush is a severely a threat to the USA as is that of Islam.
Democracy has to prove itself to be benevolent to the lives of the people of the Middle East otherwise it won't be accepted and fundamentalism will win out every time giving a foothold to extremists. Democracy by nature is a choice. It cannot be forced on people. War will not instill democracy in any Islamic country. Quite the contrary it will force the victory of a return to fundamental values.
"Fundamental" by Bonnie Raitt
Let's run naked through these city streets
We're all captives of captivity
Let's wear madness like a crucifix
Let's tattoo Bible quotes across both our hips
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's get back to the elements of style
Let's get back to simple skin on skin
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's dance barefoot over broken glass
Slither like a snake does through the wet, cold grass
Howl and tremble in a sleepless grind
Let's do the braindrain, leave it all behind
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's get back to the elements of style
Let's get back to simple skin on skin
Let's get back to the fundamental things
You can sit in your room and worry
You can contemplate the end
Or let your house burn down behind you
Run bare-ass through the streets again
You can hide out on your rooftop
Wishing you had never been
Or go down to Hal's bar and grill
Find your innocence again
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's get back to the elements of style
Let's get back to simple skin on skin
Let's get back to the fundamental things
We're all captives of captivity
Let's wear madness like a crucifix
Let's tattoo Bible quotes across both our hips
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's get back to the elements of style
Let's get back to simple skin on skin
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's dance barefoot over broken glass
Slither like a snake does through the wet, cold grass
Howl and tremble in a sleepless grind
Let's do the braindrain, leave it all behind
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's get back to the elements of style
Let's get back to simple skin on skin
Let's get back to the fundamental things
You can sit in your room and worry
You can contemplate the end
Or let your house burn down behind you
Run bare-ass through the streets again
You can hide out on your rooftop
Wishing you had never been
Or go down to Hal's bar and grill
Find your innocence again
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Let's get back to the elements of style
Let's get back to simple skin on skin
Let's get back to the fundamental things
Friday, June 23, 2006
From Oklahoma to Canada torrential rains and vicious wind. In Arizona. Drought and fire. Human Induced Global Warming.
June 22, 2006.
Leamington, Canada.
Photographer states :: This photo was taken today after we had torrential rains all day yesterday showing the rain water washing all the sand and silt out of the marina into Lake Erie on the southern shores of Ontario, just east of Leamington.
June 22, 2006.
Leamington, Canada.
This photo was taken today after we had torrential rains all day yesterday showing the rain water washing all the sand and silt out into Lake Erie on the southern shores of Ontario, just east of Leamington. It is a very hazy day and we are expecting a chance of more severe weather.
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