Yup. Yup. North America out West has been pretty darned dry. And folks are yelping it up about Colorado's snowfalls. Mother Nature can do anything she wants; but the question is, "Will Mother Nature want to make up precipitation levels to make up for an unusually dry December through January?"
We'll see.
Meanwhile, ABC news is on some October 2011 news by reporting on the Pine Island Glacier for the masses. The other question is, "Why is mainstream America so late on global climate issues when we have world class publications like Orion dedicated to nature preservation or awareness of how 'nature bats last'?
This from NASA:
"In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extending for 19 miles (30 kilometers), the crack was 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep. Eventually, the crack will extend all the way across the glacier, and calve a giant iceberg that will cover about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers). This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NAS's Terra spacecraft was acquired Nov. 13, 2011, and covers an area of 27 by 32 miles (44 by 52 kilometers), and is located near 74.9 degrees south latitude, 101.1 degrees west longitude."
Wanna know more?
Check out the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs; which has funded an investigation of the ocean circulation and ocean-ice interaction in the seawater-filled cavity below Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.
btw: Orion Magazine has been a cold crush of ours for years. Catch up.
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