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Ah, the mundane days before everything changes and becomes wholly, infinitely worse :)))
arievaal & I are slowly working (very, very slowly) on an deep-sea-but-make-it-extraterrestrial webcomic with these two except all grown up. There will be trauma (duh), both before and after the submarine
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The cryosphere (from the Greek κρύος kryos, "cold", "frost" or "ice" and σφαῖρα sphaira, "globe, ball") is an all-encompassing term for those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). Thus, there is a wide overlap with the hydrosphere.
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cryosphere i love you
“Cryosphere.”
“Whaa-at?”
“Promise me you aren’t going to scare Beck. He needs to rest after training, not go into lockdown from stress.”
Cryosphere remained where she was for a moment, as if contemplating his words. Then she suddenly turned on her heel and started to book it for the opposite direction.
“Cryo!” Pyrogen hollered after her. “Cryosphere! Mighty No 2, get back here NOW!”
#mighty no. 9#mighty number 9#mighty no 9#mn9#mno9#writing#writing stuff#writers on tumblr#my writing#cryosphere#pyrogen#mighty no 1#mighty no 2#fanfiction#fanfic#fan fiction#fan fic#cryo#pyro#can you tell they're siblings? 🤣
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The cryosphere, which refers to the frozen parts of the planet, currently comprises almost 10% of the Earth’s surface. But as rising temperatures from human-caused emissions melt ice caps, glaciers and sea ice, it has become a percentage in decline.
“In the last two years we have lost a gigantic part of the Antarctic Sea Ice,” said Antje Boetius the director of German polar research hub, and co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the summit.
“All parts of the cryosphere, in the last three years, have exceeded the predicted range of change last forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” she said.
It’s a loss that has potential impacts for billions of people around the world in myriad ways.
Currently at least 1.9 billion people are estimated to depend on fresh water from snow and glacier melt that is carried downstream for drinking and agricultural irrigation. As glaciers melt due to warmer temperatures, they initially release more water, but eventually supplies dwindle.
Changes in the cryosphere can alter atmospheric circulation patterns, leading to extreme snow and rainfall, which in turn can cause flash floods and glacial lake outbursts. In Pakistan, unprecedented flooding as a result of extreme monsoon rains and melting glaciers killed more than 1,700 people last summer.
More than 2 million people lost their homes and the total damage was estimated at over $15 billion (€14 billion) according to the World Bank.
Equally, as ice melts, sea levels in certain regions rise.
According to a study published in the scientific journal, Nature, the homes of up to 410 million people living in coastal areas and on low-lying islands could be affected by an increasing frequency of flooding resulting from rising seas by 2100.
Hopes for the Polar Summit in Paris
The first ever summit devoted to melting ice sheets aims to bring together researchers and scientists from over 40 glacial and polar nations to share their findings with other experts and political leaders from countries “present in the Arctic, Antarctic and glacial worlds.”
Boetius hopes the Paris meeting, which comes just before the 28th UN climate conference (COP28), will serve as a platform to convince politicians to speed up their efforts to reach climate neutrality and “absolutely engage with biodiversity goals.” She says the loss of Antarctic sea ice has already prevented breeding in some penguin colonies.
Other species are also at risk of habitat loss due to melting ice.
The extinction of the world’s mountain glaciers
“The best outcome of the summit would be for the heads of state present to make a clear statement and communicate the urgency of absolutely committing to the Paris climate goals,” Boetius said.
The central aim of the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change signed by 195 parties, is to keep global temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius, and pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Boetius is also calling for agreement on greater scientific research “to beat the pace of crysopheric change,” thereby allowing countries and communities to be better prepared in the face of glacier collapse and unpredictable snowfall.
“Even well-adapted countries like Norway have lost people time and again,” she said. “There is no scaled-up risk monitoring, risk assessment and risk warning for people.”
Citing international cooperation on tsunami early-warning systems in Indonesia, Boetius said a similar approach could be used to predict extreme precipitation, that could save lives and protect against property damage.
Pressure to reduce emissions
Ahead of the summit, NGOs published a six-page letter urging leaders of participating countries to accelerate efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, implement biodiversity frameworks and strengthen protection and conservation in polar regions and high mountains.
The letter emphasized the need for transparent monitoring efforts and the involvement of the international community to raise awareness of glacier conservation.
“There’s a lot of excitement about opening up the Arctic to shipping, to resource extraction, to all kinds of development,” said Jan Dusik, senior lead of the Arctic Governance Program with conservation organization WWF.
“This summit will hopefully help to create more protected areas and make sure we don’t get into adventures like deep-sea mining,” he said.
He said the establishment of a network of marine and terrestrial protected areas in both the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as in high mountains, must be based on the best available science and knowledge from Indigenous communities.
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Arctic permafrost is melting an is a "sleeping giant" of greenhouse gases.
The cryosphere is a top priority, given the increasing impacts of diminishing sea ice, melting glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost and snow on sea level rise, water-related hazards and water security, economies and ecosystems.
#sea level rise#water-related hazards#glaciers#ice sheets#permafrost#Earth's concern#Soil#greenhouse gases#climate change#World Meteorological Organization (WMO)#mapping specialists#cryosphere#snow
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Une Atlantide arctique
Nous étions si fragiles…
Le souvenir de Martens m’obsède… Une sorte de force vitale primitive prend le pas sur ma volonté et ma lucidité recule, au point que je laisse se développer en moi l’idée que Martens ait pu non seulement survivre mais aussi trouver le moyen de retourner se mettre à l’abri dans cet État imaginaire évoqué au fil de nos conversations… Mais est-ce vraiment absurde?… Des…
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#2016#absurde#américain#Arctique#Atlantide#église#énergie#équipement#éternité#étude#banquise#base#café#canadien#cinéma#cité#climatique#collapse#cours#cryosphere#effondrement#enfouir#entrailles#Etat#exhumer#faire surface#fonte des glaces#force vitale#forer#Geophysical Research Letters
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Everything about Cryosphere Loss
Everything about Cryosphere Loss
Cryosphere Loss
Q. Why is this in News?
At COP27, a broad coalition of 18 governments joined together to create a new high-level group ‘Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI) on Sea-level Rise and Mountain Water Resources’.Q. What is AMI Group?
The “AMI” group aims to ensure impacts of cryosphere loss is understood by political leaders and the public, and not only within mountain and polar regions,…
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i have decided that my legacy in this lab will be giving every single instrument a fun and funky name. i've already named two of our incubators, the one that can shake cultures around is lil shaky and the one that can go up to 75 degrees c is megan thee incubator (bc she's a hot girl, she does hot shit)
#i put their names on them with lab tape so they're official#absolutely love that i joined a cryosphere lab and immediately started doing high temperature experiments lol#we ordered megan within two weeks of me joining the lab#granted the stuff i'm growing comes from hot dirt underneath ice but still
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December 2023 reading - so how did that go??? 😬
At the end of any December, I tend to do one big round up post of the month and the year, together with plans for the new year; however, because of the hand fate dealt us this Christmas (COVID!) I’ve decided to subdivide and do some shorter posts! So here’s the first one, a brief look at what I read in December 2023 – and brief is the right word, because my reading has gone from the sublime in…
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#charles dickens#lessons in stoicism#maeve brennan#patti smith#philip lopate#simon armitage#the chimes#the cryosphere
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Psychoangel - cryosphere (psionic assauIt mix)
#sth#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sonic fanart#sth fanart#sonic au#sc:au#sonic: crystallized#cyberpunk#y2k#i love my little sc:sonic boyo#he's my babygirl
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A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10 per cent of its ice volume in just two years, after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter.
Switzerland — home to the most glaciers of any country in Europe — has seen four per cent of its total glacier volume disappear in 2023, second only to the six per cent drop in 2022, the academy's commission for cryosphere observation said.
Experts at the GLAMOS glacier monitoring centre have been on the lookout for a possible extreme melt this year amid early warning signs about the country's estimated 1,400 glaciers, a number that's now dwindling.
"The acceleration is dramatic, with as much ice being lost in only two years as was the case between 1960 and 1990," the academy said. "The two extreme consecutive years have led to glacier tongues collapsing and the disappearance of many smaller glaciers."
Continue Reading.
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HiPOD 19 Jun 2023: A Flooded Impact Crater in Hebrus Valles
This image targets a potential flooded impact crater in Hebrus Valles, which is a well-preserved example of early-to-middle Amazonian outflow channel system carved into bedrock. These channels exhibit a diverse set of shapes indicative of formation by one or more liquid water outflow events, possibly initiated by magmatic intrusion, melting and cracking of the cryosphere.
ID: ESP_073686_2010
date: 15 April 2022
altitude: 283 km
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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Did Gabriel Agreste die??????? So I only watched up to season three of Miraculous but I know there's been like two movies and at least one new season since then. And I knew Adrien's mom was in some weird cryosphere garden type preservation thing but last time I watched Adrien's dad was still alive??????? DID THEY GIVE THAT POOR SWEET BOY MORE TRAUMA!? 😭😭😭
My lips are sealed
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New Report: Dire Sea Level Rise up to 20 meters (66 ft) Locked-In Even if Climate Goals Met
New climate change reports are being released every single day as we approach the start of the 28th version of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP28 - Conference of Parties 28)
In this video I chat about the new report on the vanishing cryosphere with massive sea level rise called: “State of the Cryosphere 2023: Two degrees is too high: We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice”; link is in this article: https://apple.news/AaPaaajMYT-iWfWXxc...
Essentially, this report argues that Earth is facing dire sea level rise — up to 20m — even if climate goals are met and the global average temperature is stabilized at 2 degrees Celsius relative to the IPCC baseline 1850-1900 average.
I discuss the main findings in this report, and have a look at what the figures tell us in specific areas of glacier melt, permafrost thaw and emissions feedbacks, Arctic and Antarctica polar temperature amplification and sea ice loss, polar ocean acidification, and changes to ocean circulation patterns and consequences.
By the way, we are heading to a 2023 global average temperature of 1.54 degrees Celsius or higher, and on November 18, 2023 the daily average temperature reached 2.0 degrees C above the IPCC baseline for the first time.
It appears that by the start of next year, we will only legitimately and honestly be able to discuss the 1.5 C temperature goal in the past tense. Recall that in the James Hansen video recently, I chatted about 1.71 C by 2030 and 2 C by 2038 with James.
Please donate to http://paulbeckwith.net to support my research and videos as I join the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
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The Arctic is Getting Rainier
The Arctic is known for its cold temperatures, which allow precipitation to fall as snow. But as temperatures warm, that snow is being replaced by rain. These changes can affect sea ice in the Arctic and weather patterns throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
NASA scientists examined rainfall trends over the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans from 1980 to 2016 and found an increase in the frequency of rainy days. They also found that the length of the annual rainy season grew longer. The results were published in the Journal of Climate.
The most dramatic changes took place in the North Atlantic, where it rained on average five more days per decade at the end of the 36-year study period than at the beginning. The rest of the study region—the central Arctic Ocean and its peripheral seas—saw an average of two additional rainy days per decade. This comes as temperatures in the Arctic are warming four times faster than the rest of the planet.
The map above shows the change in number of rainy days per year, which has contributed to this decadal trend toward a rainier Arctic. It is based on the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2), a global reanalysis product developed by NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office. The product takes in-situ and satellite observations, including from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the Aqua satellite, and uses them to reproduce conditions that have occurred across the globe.
Here, much of the North Atlantic is shown in deep blue, which indicates a larger increase in the number of rainy days per year (between 1980 and 2016) compared with light blue areas. The Barents Sea north of Norway and the Kara Sea north of Siberia are also shown in deep blue.
“One thing to note is that there really is no dark brown anywhere, so in no way are we seeing any significant decreases in the number of rainfall days,” said Chelsea Parker, a weather and climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of the study.
When temperatures are above freezing, clouds are more likely to contain liquid that drops as rain than ice that falls as snow, said Linette Boisvert, a cryospheric scientist at NASA Goddard and lead author of the study.
When rainfall hits the snow-covered sea ice, it darkens the surface and can amplify melting that in turn leads to more warming—a process known as the ice-albedo feedback loop. Snow on top of sea ice acts as insulation, reflecting solar radiation back to space and keeping the surface cool. Rain eats away at this snowy buffer.
“If it rains during the sunlit months, the surface is going to be a lot darker because the snow is wet compared to a fresh, dry and thick snowpack. This wet snow surface is going to start absorbing more of that incoming solar radiation,” Boisvert said. When the snow melts, it forms ponds on the ice, creating a darker surface and absorbing more solar radiation. This sets off a loop of continued warming and melting.
Meanwhile, water vapor drives its own feedback loop. The atmosphere can hold more water vapor as temperatures rise. As a heat-trapping greenhouse gas, this water vapor warms the Earth’s surface and contributes to melting the snow and ice. This melting exposes open ocean, allowing evaporation to take place, which releases more water vapor into the atmosphere.
Feedback loops in the Arctic impact other parts of the world, too. Changes to the amount of heat in the Arctic can influence weather patterns farther south. For example, Parker pointed to extreme temperature swings in the U.S. and polar air masses that form over the North Pole and move south over North America.
“All of that,” Parker said, “is dependent on the extent to which the Arctic is experiencing climate change.”
NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using data from Boisvert, L., et al. (2023). Story by Julia Tilton/NASA’s Earth Science News Team.
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The Angry Robots movie Duology (Angry Birds Movie Parody) cast
The Angry Robots Movie 1: "When an island populated by happy, robots is visited by mysterious techno-organics, it's up to three unlikely outcasts - Ratchet, Aviator and Fireman - to figure out what the techno-organics are up to."
The Angry Robots Movie 2: "After saving Robot Island from an all-out techno-organic invasion, the isle's always cranky local hero, Ratchet, still finds himself doing battle with Predacon Island. As the prank war between techno-organics and robots is raging, massive plant projectiles coming from the Scarlet Witchcraft tyrant Spike Rosered's overgrown Maverick Island threaten the security of both havens, unless Ratchet and Cyborg Cookie agree to form a difficult but honest truce. Now, Ratchet, Fireman, Blast Hornet, Aviator, and his brilliant sister, Arcee, have to join forces with Cyborg Cookie's mighty techno-organic team to thwart the megalomaniac Spike Rosered's bold schemes for world domination. However, is Ratchet capable of change?"
Ratchet (Transformers Animated) as Red
Aviator (Mighty No. 9) as Chuck
Fireman (Megaman 1) as Bomb
Blast Hornet (Megaman X3) as Mighty Eagle
Cyborg Cookie (Cookie Run) as King Leonard
Waspinator (Beast Wars) as Ross
Aquaman (Megaman 8) as Matilda
Neptune (Megaman V) as Terence
Splashwoman (Megaman 9) as Stella
Knightman (Megaman 6) as Judge Peckinpah
Bubbleman (Megaman 2) as Cyrus
Scrapper (Transformers animated) as Hal
Mixmaster (Transformers animated) as Bubbles
Sheepman (Megaman 10) as Old Lady Bird
Clownman (Megaman 8) as Mime Bird
Various Robots as Various Birds
Woodman (Megaman 2) as the Hug Trader
Predacons (Beast Wars) as The Pigs
Quickstrike (Beast Wars) as Earl
Wheelie (Transformers), Kikmee and Burgertron (Transformers Botbots) as Jay, Jake, and Jim
Arcee (Transformers Animated) as Silver
Spike Rosered (Megaman X5) as Zeta
Lilybell Cookie (Cookie Run) as Debbie
Blackarachnia (Transformers Animated) as Courtney
Dinobot (Beast Wars) as Garry
Flame Stag (Megaman X2) and Blaze Heatnix (Megaman X6) as Jerry and Carl
Infinity Mijinion (Megaman X6) as Glenn
Overdrive Ostrich (Megaman X2) as Axel
Cryosphere (Mighty No. 9), Ion Cookie Robot (Cookie Run), and Iceman (Megaman 1) as The Hatchlings
Strongarm (Transformers Robots in Disguise) as Pinky
Windblade (Transformers Cyberverse) as Ella
Mavericks (Megaman X series) as Eagles
#angry birds movie#angry birds movie 2#crossover cast#megaman classic#megaman x#transformers#transformers animated#cookie run#beast wars#transformers botbots#transformers prime#transformers cyberverse#transformers robots in disguise#mighty no. 9
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