Meet BP’s littlest humanoid victims. The miniature cement men mourning over a concrete “oil spill” are Isaac Cordal’s latest. See also: homeless businessmen, climate change swimming holes and sidewalk suicides – all glued permanently into urban sites and ruins. Read more »
Eduardo Gold, one of the winners of World Bank’s “100 Ideas to Save the Planet” contest is using his $200,000 prize to whitewash three mountains in Ayacucho, Peru. 70% of the world’s glaciers are in Peru and 22% of those have melted. Read more »
The Greenland iceberg and Ap Verheggen’s “Dog Sled Riders” sculpture should have been floating slowly towards Newfoundland for two to four years, but late last week, the iceberg’s GPS disappeared from the radar. The iceberg sank. Read more »
The iceberg carrying Ap Verheggen’s “climate change = culture change” sculpture is melting fast, the artist blogs. Uummannaq Bay in Greenland was filled with icebergs last week, instead of September as it normally would be. The ice was cracking into pieces so loudly, you could “hear it in your beds.” Between the noise and White (sunny) Nights, good luck on getting a good night’s sleep in Uummannaq.
Dutch artist Ap Verheggen and his team erected the abstract “Dog Sled Riders” sculpture on a Greenland iceberg in March. The iceberg has just broken loose and is being tracked as it floats off to its eventual melty death. Vergheggen hopes the project will demonstrate that “Climate change = culture change.” Read more »
Oh Jesus…The Washington Post has once again given Trixie Klondyke, Alaskan Warrior Princess, a woman who believes dinosaurs and humans roamed the earth together, editorial space to “debunk” a scientific theory she has an issue with. They might as well let Carrot Top opine about Obama’s plan for winning the war in Afghanistan. Read more »
While it’s true that global warming is a threat to national security and rising sea levels will ultimately flood almost all of the coastal populations on the planet, NYC especially, it’s not all bad. With the Earth scheduled to start “shifting back towards conditions that will ultimately lead to another ice age” any minute now, at least there’s some solace in humanity’s ability to keep the planet toasty: “Due to greenhouse gas emissions the Earth has already warmed as much in about the past 200 years as it ordinarily might in several thousand years.” |ScienceDaily|
By the year 2100, New York City might look a lot like Venice, Italy. New research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) indicates that Greenland’s melting ice could “cause sea levels off the northeast coast of North America to rise by about 12 to 20 inches.” |ScienceDaily|
“A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said last week. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.” |ADN|
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