Spare a thought for
me melting over here in Australia as we gear up for another hot summer.
Not exact matches
All I am
here to tell you is, it ai nt gonna go away so get used to it, your time in the sun is
over and you are jnow ust one of the many faiths that make up the
melting pot of America.
And now... we're all thick in the fog of babyland
over here - those post-baby moments that vascilate between: ouchy engorgement to milky bliss; the sibling meltdowns and squabbles that come with change to sibling love and adoration that
melts a heart; sore, um, everything to endorphines and strength unlike any other; but mostly and most importantly, a whole lot of falling in love.
«The usual climate
here is that we come out of winter with a pretty good snowpack, and then that slowly
melts over spring into summer,» State Climatologist Nick Bond said.
You'll find it
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over 32,000 words of panty -
melting menage passion in this collection of fun and hot threesome short stories
[Response:
Here's a simple back - of - envelope consideration for the future: if the Greenland ice sheet
melts completely
over the next ~ 1,000 years (Jim Hansen argues in the current Climatic Change that the time scale could be centuries), this would contribute an average flux of ~ 0.1 Sv of freshwater to the surrounding ocean.
Here we can look at the PIOMAS volume, and consider how much further thinning can occur before the sea ice becomes so thin
over most of the ocean that it will break up and
melt away.
Over all, the directives reinforce an idea I've been exploring for many years now, in the paper (see the «Big
Melt» series), our prize - winning «Arctic Rush» documentary, and my prize - winning Times book, «The North Pole Was
Here» — essentially, the combination of a warming climate and rising thirst for oil and gas and shipping routes guarantees that the Arctic Ocean of our history and lore, an untouched, forbidding frontier, is now really history.
Here's the main graphic, which shows the dramatic recent expansion of open water (dark blue) at the peak of summer
melt, and the decline in thick old ice (white is ice that is
over five years old) and thin ice formed the previous winter (light blue).
Whilst we speculate on what all this might mean for the Atlantic side of the Arctic
over the coming
melting season,
here's our new Svalbard Sea Ice page which contains a variety of graphs and maps to help us keep track of events on that part of our planet.
Here's an overview from NASA: By the mid-Holocene period, 6000 - 5000 years ago, glacial
melting had essentially ceased, while ongoing adjustments of Earth's lithosphere due to removal of the ice sheets gradually decreased
over time.