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For Ben Affleck & Matt Damon - Read this - 17 thrilling action film ideas - I encourage you to add your own ideas too and I'm sure you'll make these 17 ideas a million times better. Cheers!

Let’s create an exciting list of action film scenes that blend comedy, suspense, fights, and plot twists. Buckle up for a thrilling ride:

Skyline Raiders: In a world where cities float above the clouds, a band of rebels fights to overthrow a tyrannical sky lord controlling the floating metropolises. Imagine epic aerial battles, daring heists, and gravity-defying stunts as they challenge the status quo1.

Neon Samurai: Set in a futuristic Tokyo, a rogue AI resurrects ancient samurai to enforce its rule. A group of hackers must ally with the last true samurai to stop this digital menace. Picture neon-lit sword fights, cybernetic enhancements, and a clash of ancient honor and modern technology1.

Arctic Inferno: An elite team of firefighters faces their greatest challenge when a series of volcanic eruptions threaten to melt the polar ice caps. Think intense rescue missions, lava-filled landscapes, and frosty suspense as they battle nature’s fury1.

Gravity Runners: In a city where gravity can be manipulated, a group of parkour artists becomes involved in a heist to steal a device that controls this power. Expect jaw-dropping chase sequences, rooftop acrobatics, and unexpected double-crosses1.

Ghosts of the Sahara: A team of archaeologists unearths an ancient curse in the Sahara, unleashing spirits that they must now contain. Imagine desert shootouts, ancient artifacts, and a race against time to prevent catastrophe1.

Ocean’s Fury: After a rogue wave cripples their submarine, a crew must navigate underwater dangers to prevent a nuclear reactor meltdown. Picture claustrophobic tension, deep-sea battles, and high-stakes decision-making1.

The Last Library: In a future where books are banned, a band of rebels fights to protect the last remaining library from destruction by a totalitarian regime. Expect covert operations, hidden knowledge, and a battle for intellectual freedom1.

Cyber Gladiator: In a digital realm, a skilled gamer is thrust into a real-life battle when his online enemies materialize in the real world. Think virtual combat, glitchy landscapes, and a quest for survival across dimensions1.

The Maze of Minos: Modern adventurers discover the legendary Labyrinth of Crete, battling a monstrous new Minotaur with ancient secrets. Imagine deadly traps, mythical creatures, and a maze where every turn holds danger1.

Echoes of Atlantis: A deep-sea diver discovers the lost city of Atlantis, only to find it’s a high-tech civilization at war with surface nations. Picture underwater battles, advanced weaponry, and a hidden society on the brink of collapse1.

Ironclad: In medieval Europe, a band of warriors wearing experimental armor must defend their kingdom against an overwhelming enemy. Expect gritty battles, innovative weaponry, and personal sacrifices for the greater good1.

Chrono Clash: Time travelers from various eras are pitted against each other in a deadly game controlled by a mysterious force. Think historical clashes, paradoxes, and unexpected alliances across time1.

Shadow Boxer: A boxer gains the ability to become invisible and must use his powers to dismantle an underground fight club empire. Picture intense boxing matches, cloak-and-dagger tactics, and a quest for justice1.

The Sandstorm: A team of scientists and soldiers must survive a massive sandstorm that reveals an ancient predator stalking them. Imagine desert survival, shifting landscapes, and a creature straight out of nightmares1.

Neon Knights: In a neon-lit, dystopian city, a group of motorbike-riding knights protect the innocent from gangs and corrupt officials. Expect high-speed chases, neon-soaked visuals, and a fight for justice on two wheels1.

Blackout: An EMP blast leaves New York in darkness, and a group of survivors must navigate the chaos to restore power. Think urban survival, rival factions, and a race against time before society collapses1.

Vortex: A team of storm chasers gets trapped in a series of artificially created superstorms, uncovering a plot to weaponize weather. Picture tornadoes, lightning strikes, and a conspiracy that shakes the world1.

And there you have it—17 thrilling action film ideas! Feel free to mix and match, add your own twists, and create an adrenaline-pumping cinematic experience for your audience. Lights, camera, action! 🎬🔥

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kindlelovers · 2 years

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🌊🌊AWAL-LANTIS THE MERFOLKS RETURN🌊🌊 by ✍Ebrahim Navsa

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #fiction

Humankind has all but exhausted all of its options to prevent the #catastrophic effects of #GlobalWarming. The #polar ice caps have melted, becoming one with the seas. #Glaciers have left gargantuan crevasses in their wake and daily #temperatures are at record highs.

Amid the #chaos that is unfolding, a mystical orb appears in the Sahara Desert. A rare breed of humanoid creatures that have laid dormant since the Permian Era comes to the fore. It is then that we are introduced to three incredibly different families from opposite ends of the #earth. Their struggles to overcome the capitalist trap that caused this #infernal #meltdown seems too much to bear.

What will this discovery in the #Sahara mean for our three families? More importantly, what does this all mean for humankind as a whole? Is this the beginning of the end? Are prophetic visions of Armageddon finally coming to fruition?

Only time will tell in Awal-Lantis: The Merfolks Return!

SciFi #Kindle

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mst3kproject · 4 years

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The Atomic Submarine

I’ve had this one sitting around for a while. It’s a pretty dull 1950’s White Men vs the Saucer People movie, which attempts to differentiate itself from the crowd by taking place underwater instead of in outer space. It features Brett Halsey from The Girl in Lover’s Lane and a few moments of Jean Moorhead from The Violent Years, and has parts for Jack Mulhall and Paul Dubov from The She-Creature.

It is… the future. The US and the USSR are friends now, and passenger submarines regularly run between the two under the polar ice! But all is not well – the USS Sturgeon, largest of this arctic fleet, suffers a reactor meltdown somewhere just shy of the North Pole, resulting in the loss of all hands. The Pentagon convenes some guys in suits, and decides to send another submarine, the Tiger Shark, to figure out what happened. When the Tiger Shark encounters a mysterious electrical phenomenon, their scientists conclude that the only possible answer is creatures from outer space!

I seem to be making a tradition out of starting with the shitty science, so here’s a good one: the Flying Saucer’s source of power is stated to be magnetic – that’s why it has to return to the North Pole every time it sinks a ship, to recharge. Except… that’s not how the magnetic field works. In the late fifties and early sixties, the north magnetic pole was somewhere near the southern end of Bathurst Island in Nunavut (as of 2020, it’s on its way into Siberia and is actually closer to geographic north than it’s been in centuries). Sailors would definitely know that, making this plot point kind of hilarious to anybody actually in the navy.

I mentioned Moorhead… she and Joi Lansing (who was once in a movie called Queen of Outer Space) are the only women in the entire movie. They occur in the same scene, which seems to serve only to remind us that women exist, and have no effect on the plot whatsoever. Once we’ve entered the submarine where most of the film is set, the cast is entirely similar-looking guys in uniforms, and there are no romantic reunions at the end. The Atomic Submarine couldn’t even give us the requisite 50’s movie Cute Girl Scientist. I guess they were going for realism in their story about trans-arctic Soviet passenger subs and one-eyed semi-aquatic aliens.

On to the actual movie. The first ‘character’ we hear from is the deep-voiced 50’s narrator, who sounds exactly like the guy rhapsodizing about radar at the beginning of The Deadly Mantis, but I looked him up and Patrick Michaels has never narrated any other movie. I guess there’s just a category of men that have 50’s Movie Narrator Voice. His job is to sound portentous as he talks about things that are either irrelevant or else stuff the movie could have showed us but chose to tell instead. He falls silent for long stretches of movie and then pops up again, interrupting the flow of the story every time.

The special effects in The Atomic Submarine are okay – they’re nothing ground-breaking, but considerable effort seems to have gone into them. The saucer and the submarines are obviously small models but they’re nice and the underwater photography is quite atmospheric. I especially like the little submersible the Tiger Shark carries, the Lungfish, which was clearly designed based on ideas for such machines that were in the works at the time. There’s a shot of the saucer breaking through the ice cap and rising into the air which looks really good until the saucer itself actually emerges, wobbling on top of a rod. The one-eyed alien inside the saucer is nice and gooey and parts of it look like they’re made out of living sea creatures.

Like many movies on MST3K, The Atomic Submarine has some germs of good ideas in it, and like the rest of them, fails to do anything much with it. The flying saucer – maybe we should call it a swimming saucer – is described as a living organism, possibly the same organism as its pilot. The aliens themselves are biological engineers who will use humans as a template for altering themselves to live on Earth. That’s pretty cool, but is ultimately not important to the plot. Besides the pilot, who seems to have been assembled by a variety of marine organisms, the inside of the saucer doesn’t look particularly organic. If nothing else they had an opportunity for some really neat visuals here, but let it slip through their fingers.

The alien intelligence remains unseen and inscrutable for much of the movie. This theoretically builds suspense but there’s honestly not a lot of suspense here. A plot summary makes The Atomic Submarine sound like an exciting adventure, but the impression one gets from actually watching the film is that it’s kind of a day at the office. In a way, that’s fairly realistic – the crew of the Tiger Shark aren’t a ragtag group of misfits, they’re professionals doing their jobs which just so happen on this particular day to include saving the world. Unfortunately, this doesn’t make for a very exciting movie. An awful lot of scenes are just suspenseful music over footage of men in uniforms frowning at things. Rather than feeling any excitement, the audience just wants to get to the damn aliens already.

The movie’s only about half over by the time we do enter the swimming saucer to meet the one-eyed, tentacled beast within, but it feels like we’ve been here for hours. Once the boarding party enters the craft, some things do happen but they’re still not exciting. Three of the four men die, one by being cut in half by a sliding door and two getting melted by intense radiation – these deaths are surprisingly explicit and gruesome for a 50’s movie, but they’re drawn out far too long and don’t serve a plot purpose. If the alien killed the men to stop them cutting the Tiger Shark free of where it rammed the vessel’s hull, that would be one thing, but it appears to do it just because.

The main characters all sort of look the same, as lumpy-faced white guys in old movies tend to do. The only one who really stands out from the crowd is Dr. Nielson, the son of the scientist who invented the Lungfish and an avowed pacifist who’s only on this mission because he knows his father wanted to see the sub used. He has a running beef with an old friend of his father’s who thinks he’s a coward, all talk and no action. This is supposed to be the movie’s main arc and yet it fails to go anywhere on just about every level.

Neilson spends much of the movie insisting that he isn’t a coward, which one would assume is a lead-up to him doing something heroic. It’s not. He’s just here to drive the Lungfish and that’s literally the only thing he does – he takes the boarding party to the saucer, and then sits there and waits for the sole survivor to return. There’s a bit where the captain of the Tiger Shark decides to ram the saucer with the sub in order to get through its defenses, and Neilson speaks up, pointing out that this is a suicide mission. Nothing ever comes of this, and it might be evidence of his ‘cowardice’ but I’m not sure… the movie is not nearly as interested in his character as it ought to be. At the end he seems to have decided that war is cool after all… or maybe the guy he was arguing about has agreed that we need to set aside war with other humans in order to focus on war with aliens. It’s very unclear.

If there’s a regular passenger service between Alaska and Siberia, doesn’t that suggest that in this future we’ve already set aside war with other humans? I’m not sure this movie thought very hard about its worldbuilding.

In fact, watching the ending I don’t even know if the guy Neilson talks to at the end was the same man he was arguing with earlier, because, as I mentioned, the actors all look similar. Until that final conversation I thought the other dude had died aboard the saucer and honestly I’m still not convinced he didn’t. What mainly makes me doubt the idea is that it would mean there’s no closure to the feud at all, which would be the height of poor writing. I’ve seen movies where I would buy that they were just that careless, but other aspects of The Atomic Submarine are competent enough that I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

So what does this movie want us to think about war and the military? It certainly suggests that they’re necessary, since after all we have aliens to defend ourselves from. One of the scientists on board is British and another has what I think is supposed to be a Russian accent, so perhaps its extolling the virtues of international cooperation. This would fit with Neilson’s statements about how we need to leave war behind, but if that’s the movie’s point it hobbles itself by never talking about it in that light.

This is all made that much more annoying because, as I said, the effects are decent, the cinematography is pretty good, and while none of the actors are stellar they all do their best. There’s no real reason why The Atomic Submarine had to be so dull and messy, unless they were just saddled with a half-assed script. Even then, they made a pretty good effort to get some gold out of the dross. You might find The Atomic Submarine worth watching even if only to think about what might have been.

#mst3k #reviews #episodes that never were #the atomic submarine #50s

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blogie2705 · 3 years

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The great glaciatic meltdown

A titanic piece of Greenland's ice cap estimated at 110 square meters had split and started to float away towards the far northeastern Arctic, flagging a grave risks' that is bound will follow, and the glaciatic obliteration has recently gazed. The part that severed is toward the finish of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. It's 42.3 square miles (110 square kilometers) or around multiple times as large as Central Park in NY. This ice desert split away from a fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which is roughly 50 miles (80 kilometers) in length and 12 miles (20 kilometers) wide, as distributed in the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland diary. In any event, being the coldest spot in the outside of the world's air, this district has recorded an increment by enormous 3 degrees Celsius since 1980," as per Dr. Jenny Turton, a polar analyst working Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany. What's more, even with the European landmass recording the most noteworthy temperatures ever, in any event, throughout the mid year of 2019 and 2020.

The previous few months have seen heap features of chilly liquefying – especially in Greenland – and ice sheet breakdown. According to the report which was distributed in the diary Nature Communications Earth and Environment, Greenland's ice sheets have contracted such a lot of that regardless of whether an unnatural weather change were to stop at the present time, the ice sheet would keep contracting a similar distribution further cited satellite information, the Greenland ice sheet lost a record measure of ice in 2019, comparable to 1,000,000 tons each moment across the year. Another paper which was a paper distributed in The Cryosphere, educated that an amazing ice misfortune wasn't brought about by warm temperatures alone yet in addition credits to and non-occasional and remarkable environmental flow designs as the significant reason contributing gigantically to the way the ice sheets quickly of shed's their weight. As these environment models that project the future softening of the Greenland ice sheet don't consider for adjusting barometrical examples, there is an undeniable degree of plausibility that they might have been thought little of by a proportion of 1/2.

According to a report distributed in September 2020,, the last completely flawless ice rack in the Canadian Arctic – the Milne Ice Shelf, which is greater than Manhattan – fell, shedding an abundance of 40% of its space in only two days somewhat recently of July. Which frightened researchers to notice the example of a floated piece of a Mont Blanc icy mass – the same size of Milan basilica – was in danger of breakdown and occupants of Italy’s Aosta valley were organization to clear their homes? The most noticeably terrible was on the way. A British Antarctic Survey along with a group from the USA, planned depressions estimating a large portion of the size of the Grand Canyon that are permitting warm sea water to disintegrate the immense Thwaites icy mass in the Antarctic, speeding up the ascent of ocean levels across the world. As indicated by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, the icy mass measures bigger than England, Wales, and Northern Ireland set up and if it somehow happened to implode completely, worldwide ocean levels would increment by 65 cm (25 in). This isn't the finish of the story. Nature has planned glacial masses to go about as a scaffold or as a cushion between the warming ocean and different ice sheets. A breakdown is sure to convey adjoining ice sheets in western Antarctica down alongside it. This welcome with open arm a cataclysmic situation where the ocean levels will undoubtedly will be an ascent of ocean level by around by a stunning 10 feet, forever sinking some low-lying waterfront regions that incorporate those pieces of Miami, New York City, and the Netherlands, which is a visa for implosion.

An Earth-wide temperature boost as the actual name conveys, walks ahead unabated. While the Paris revelation on environmental change promised to confine a dangerous atmospheric devation to 1.5℃ in any event, during this century, a report by the World Meteorological Organization cautions that breaking point can be penetrated as ahead of schedule as 2024. As per Prof Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, it will be a judicious to anticipate an expansion in the ocean level more than five meter's, regardless the objective set up in Paris have been accomplished 100%Hence is the obligation of each person to be responsible for their activities, to do all that could be within reach under the sun, not anticipating other's to act. Each nation has distributed standard rules to be clung to, if which followed will bring down the chance of early disaster y striking us early. One of the potential risky Thwaites ice sheets is bigger than England, Wales and Northern Ireland set up and if the inescapable occurs, there is high likelihood of a significant part of England and Wales being gulped by the Atlantic.

In August '20, the last completely flawless ice rack in the Canadian Arctic – the Milne Ice Shelf, which is greater than Manhattan – fell, losing in excess of 40% of its space in only two days toward the finish of July. Researcher's admonished that that an enormous piece of a Mont Blanc ice sheet – which is in the same size of Milan house of prayer – was in danger of breakdown and inhabitants of Italy's Aosta valley were told advised to clear their homes. Further adding to the anguish, a British-American Antarctic review group planned depressions estimating a large portion of the size of the Grand Canyon that are permitting warm sea water to dissolve the tremendous Thwaites icy mass in the Antarctic, speeding up the ascent of ocean levels across the world. A report in the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration has cautioned that if the ice sheet measures bigger than England, Wales and Northern Ireland set up and if it somehow managed to implode completely, worldwide ocean levels would increment by 65 cm (25 in).

There is no sign that ocean levels won't increment further. Icy mass goes about as a guardian angel, go about's as a support between the warming ocean and different glacial masses. The impending breakdown has the ability to drag adjoining ice sheets in western Antarctica down with it. The most pessimistic scenario most dire outcome imaginable can be that see ocean levels ascend by almost 10 feet, for all time lowering some low-lying beach front regions including portions of Miami, New York City, and the Netherlands meets the substance of the Titanic, which was viewed as resilient and it is amusing that the landmass will be let go in a similar floor. An unnatural weather change is presently a really worldwide proceeding unabatedly. Paris statement expects to restrict a worldwide temperature alteration to 1.5℃ by end of this century, anyway worryingly, a report by the World Meteorological Organization cautions this breaking point might be surpassed by as ahead of schedule as 2024. As per Prof Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, there are high prospects of ocean level's expanding more than five meters, regardless of whether the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement are met. Over the year’s each administration has understood the degree's of obliteration that environmental change would incur in their nation and are taking each conceivable measure to even the smallest risk exacting the country. The aggregate exer

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earthstory · 6 years

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Our World, 14,000 years ago.

Graphic designer Martin Vargic has created this map of our world as it looked during the peak of the last glaciation in the late Pleistocene, using the best available geological knowledge.

Ice sheets cover large chunks of the Boreal regions, and spread outwards from the globe's tall mountain ranges. Alpine glaciers and the Patagonian, Greenland and Antarctic ice caps are some of the pitiful remnants of a once mighty cryosphere. Since the ice left, many of these lands have been steadily rising inch by inch over the millennia as the mantle adjusts to the removal of their vast weight.

The map also shows the expanded coastlines due to the roughly lower sea level, and the land bridges that united North America and Asia, the British Isles to the mainland of Europe. Our current oceans are around 120 metres higher than 14,000 years ago, and roughly another 60-80m resides in the remaining land bound ice.

Geologists contributed data on the location of now vanished lakes, sea levels and the size of the ice sheets in the last couple of millennia before the large scale meltdown kicked in. Other related maps cover the two polar regions and more detailed regional comparison charts with the present. Current political borders have been included, along with major cities so that people can assess how much their home area has changed.

Coastal areas were once far from the coast, and its a truism that much archaeology has been lost under the North Sea, off India and other places due to the rising seas drowning the relics of people who even then clustered closer to the shores. The famous painted cave of Cosquier near Marseille is in a now drowned cave in a sea cliff, and only accessible by technical divers. How many more lurk out there under the waves?

The artist is planning similar maps depicting the worlds of the end Cretaceous around 65 and Jurassic roughly 150 million years ago.

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Image credit: Martin Vargic

A link including a magnifiable online version of the map: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/sea-level-rise-map_n_4824483.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2630738/How-world-looked-ice-age-The-incredible-map-reveals-just-planet-changed-14-000-years.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

#science #map #ocean #coast #glacier #ice #the earth story

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kobee09-blog · 5 years

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Meltdown!

About 10% of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice. Almost 90% is in Antarctica, while the remaining 10% is in the Greenland ice cap.

Ice caps or polar caps plays a very vital role in maintaining Earth's temperature, they reflect back the excess heat back into the space.

Even if we significantly curb emissions in the coming decades, more than a third of the world’s remaining glaciers will melt before the year 2100. When it comes to sea ice, 95% of the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic is already gone.

Human activities are at the root of meltdown phenomenon. Specifically, since the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions have raised temperatures, even higher in the poles.

If we didn't stop this meltdown soon our costal areas will be underwater and will lead to huge human and property loss.

Scientists project that if emissions continue to rise unchecked, the Arctic could be ice free in the summer as soon as the year 2040 as ocean and air temperatures continue to rise rapidly.

The Greenland ice sheet is disappearing four times faster than in 2003 and already contributes 20% of current sea level rise.

If all the ice on Greenland melted, it would raise global sea levels by 20 feet.

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere on earth, and the sea ice there is declining by more than 10% every 10 years.

Wildlife like walrus are losing their home and polar bears are spending more time on land, causing higher rates of conflict between people and bears.

You know the good news is that individuals can play a big part on both fronts with just a few simple changes.

#ice #iceland #global warming #politics #earth #sea #ocean #nature #wildlife #photography

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opedguy · 3 years

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Kerry Misleads Glasgow Climate Summit

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Nov. 9, 2021.--U.S. 77-year-old Climate Czar former Secretary of State John Kerry was deliberately noncommittal and ambiguous on when the U.S. would stop using coal-fired power plants, currently about 19.3% of total U.S. electricity production. U.S. did not join 40 other countries at Glasgow’s COP26 Climate Summit, committed to ending coal-fired plants by 2030s or 2040s. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-N.Y.), who touts her Green New Deal of using renewable forms of energy like wind, solar and hydroelectric to replace coal and methane-fired plants, says 78-year-old President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Plan should end the U.S. dependence of fossil fuels. Kerry and Ocasio-Cortex mention nothing about the expected major investment by the Biden administration into nuclear energy. Kerry and Ocasio-Cortez have a problem with carbon emissions but not nuclear meltdowns and waste.

Whatever the new breed of so-called Small Modular Reactors [SMRs], they still, like all nuclear reactors, produce nuclear waste which must be buried underground to prevent radioactivity from seeping in ground water and the atmosphere. Yet when it comes to Biden’s Build Back Better plan, at least $600 billion of the total $1.75 trillion, about 40%, will go to the nuclear power industry. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel committed Germany to ending its dependence on nuclear fuel because the inherent dangers seen in the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi meltdown. Kerry and Ocasio-Cortez deliberately minimize or conceal Biden’s Build Back Better plan that plans to use nuclear power to replace coal and methane-fired power plants. Nuclear power accounts for 19.7% of U.S. electricity production, something the Biden administration wants increased to reduce carbon emissions.

If the Biden administration gets its way, it would put all its eggs into the nuclear power industry, something that’s fallen into disrepute by most scientists around the globe because of the dangers of more meltdowns and nuclear waste. Kerry and Ocasio-Cortez say nothing about what happens when the lion’s share of power plants go nuclear. Glasgow’s COP26 Climate Conference has whipped the press into a frenzy over the dangers of carbon emissions, blaming it on adverse climate events. At no time in world history, has the climate accommodated humans, without adverse events like earthquakes, fires, typhoons that lead to famine and disease, killing off the animal and human species. Demonizing carbon emissions creates the kind of panic that leads of bad decision-making, like shifting worldwide power production to nuclear. Biden and Kerry have deliberately minimized nuclear energy.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, former Michigan governor, has been selling COP26 attendees on the new breed of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors [SMRs], claiming they’re the “gold standard” for creating carbon-free energy. But when it comes to the possibility of future meltdowns or nuclear waste, Granholm and others in the Biden administration, drink the Cool-Aid from the nuclear power industry, like Westinghouse, that insists the old problems of meltdowns and nuclear waste aren’t part of the new breed of SMR reactors. Granholm talks a lot about “baseload,” a term used by the nuclear power industry to provide enough energy necessary to run communities, cities and states. When it comes to renewables, the nuclear power industry insists that wind and solar farms can’t produce “baseload” energy. Whatever the argument, it’s sheer lunacy to think there are not problems with nuclear energy.

No scientist at Glasgow can say how to stop the carbon pollution, other than draconic efforts by zealots like teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, seeking to ban all fossil fuels, forcing trains, planes and automobiles off the planet. Thunberg thinks if the world could turn back the clock on the Industrial Revolution that started in 1740, the planet could protect polar bears and preserve the polar ice caps. But Thunberg doesn’t want to admit that going off fossil fuels would create the world’s biggest famine and plagues, wiping out millions, may billions of humans. But to climate zealots it’s only about eliminating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to save the planet. No COP26 scientist can say with certainty that if the world went nuclear the planet would be better of creating massive amounts of nuclear waste, not to mention the potential for nuclear meltdowns and radiation leaks.

Kerry and other Biden administration officials aren’t leveling with the U.S. public that they’re planning, like in the 1950s, to go nuclear with energy production. “By 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal,” Kerry said. “We’re saying we’re going to be carbon free in the power sector by 2035.” “I think that’s leadership. I think that’s indicative of what we can do,” mentioning nothing of how he plans to replace coal and methane-fired electricity plants with nuclear plants. Kerry likes to focus on the coal industry but he doesn’t want to talk about the Biden administration’s plan to spend untold billions on nuclear energy production. Nuclear energy was tried for the last 60 years but it proved unsafe and deadly, especially disposing of nuclear waste that can’t be degraded for generations, if ever. Biden officials have whipped the world into a frenzy over carbon emissions, not realizing that nuclear is far more dangerous.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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ivandimarcofotografo · 5 years

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Meltdown: the urgent art of our disappearing glaciers

An arresting exhibition from activist charity Project Pressure uses conceptual photography to capture the decline of the ice caps

‘What is it about those melting glaciers and desperate polar bears that makes us want to look away?” the activist and author Naomi Klein asked in 2015. In her book This Changes Everything, she laid the blame on powerful global corporations and acquiescent governments, which both simultaneously underplay the scale of the climate emergency and exploit our collective sense of helplessness in the face of it. Since then, a new urgency has driven climate activism, most successfully in the disruptive protests of Extinction Rebellion. Can art, though, have a meaningful role in raising awareness of that urgency?

A forthcoming exhibition, Meltdown: Visualising Climate Change, at the Horniman Museum in London sets out to answer that question in the affirmative. It focuses on the fate of the world’s glaciers through the prism of art, photography and film. “We are using art as a kind of seduction to draw people in, then shock them,” says photographer Simon Norfolk, one of the artists involved.

The Lewis Glacier, Mt Kenya, 1963 (A), 2014. The image traces a line where the glacier’s front was in 1963 while showing where it is now. Using scientific maps and GPS, Norfolk marked out the older line using hidden flashlights. ‘I walked along the line dragging my burning stick, joining up the dots of the flashlights. It took about 20 minutes, which was hard work at altitude. The exposure for the mountain and the stars continues for the rest of the hour. I wanted it to be all in camera because climate change is surrounded by loons who will claim I faked it all.’

Ice Cave, Vatnajökull, 2014. Richard Mosse used a large-format plate-film camera and infrared film to photograph the ice cave under the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. Glacier caves usually form when air enters where water flows underneath the ice, the warm air slowly creates melting and forms a cave from beneath. The dynamic process is becoming more unpredictable as the weather changes and cave access may become impossible in the future.

Glacier 1, 2016, by Noemie Goudal. French conceptual artist Goudal is interested in the meeting of the organic and the manmade. This work was made on the Rhône glacier, where Goudal constructed a large-scale photographic installation printed on biodegradable paper that disintegrates in water. ‘All my work is about the fragility of the landscape,’ she says.

Mt Baker, 2014, by Peter Funch. Danish artist Funch uses old tourist postcards and historic photos as source material for his series Imperfect Atlas. In this case the images are re-creations of vintage postcards of Mount Baker [in Washington state, US] found on eBay ‘I located the positions from which the original postcard images had been made,’ he says, ‘and re-shot the glaciers from those positions to create comparative juxtapositions of then and now.’

Bone from 4000 BC, Switzerland, 2017: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin make photographic still lifes of the often perfectly preserved objects revealed by shrinking glaciers, such as this human bone which remained intact in the ice for thousands of years.

Shroud, 2018, by Simon Norfolk and Klaus Thyman: in an attempt to arrest the melting of the ice at an ice-grotto tourist attraction at the Rhône Glacier, local Swiss entrepreneurs paid for it to be covered up with a thermal blanket. ‘We chose the title,’ says Norfolk, ‘because it looks like they have created a shroud for the glacier’s death.’

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johnschneiderblog · 7 years

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Meltdown

Imagine where you’d be right now if you chose this particular winter to build a backyard skating rink.

Ankle deep in mud, I’d say, perhaps without having seen a single skater glide across the flawless surface of your dreams. Given the new normal of Lower-Michigan winters, is backyard ice skating - indeed, outdoor ice skating, in general - going the way of the Polar Ice Cap? The jury may still be out, but the trend seems obvious.

To read my LSJ Michigander column, click on the photo.

#John Schneider #backyard ice skating rink #Michigan winters #Me

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Meltdown: the urgent art of our disappearing glaciers

An arresting exhibition from activist charity Project Pressure uses conceptual photography to capture the decline of the ice caps

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ntrending · 6 years

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A claim-by-claim analysis of a climate denial 'news' story

New Post has been published on https://nexcraft.co/a-claim-by-claim-analysis-of-a-climate-denial-news-story/

A claim-by-claim analysis of a climate denial 'news' story

This story is a supplement for a longer feature on fake news, published in PopSci’s Intelligence Issue. You may want to read that first.

Below, an excerpt of a professional fact-checker’s claim-by-claim analysis of a climate denial “news” story.

Climate Blockbuster: New NASA Data Shows Polar Ice Has Not Receded Since 1979

Global warming alarmists claimed Arctic ice cap would be gone by now, but sea ice is 5% above 35 year average

By Steve Watson, InfoWars, May 2015

NASA has updated its data from satellite readings 1 , revealing that the planet’s polar ice caps have not retreated significantly since 1979, when measurements began. 2

Indeed, the polar ice has, for almost three years now, remained above the 35 year average. 3

The data shows 4 that the ice caps remained at more or less the same level until 2005, when they slightly receded for a few years. 5

However, the 1979 measurements represented the tail end of a 30-year cooling period, meaning that a higher level of ice was taken as the baseline measurement. 6 Everything since has been compared to those figures. 7

The figures show that by 2012, sea ice was down almost 10 percent from the figures measured in 1979. 8 This was used by warming proponents to forecast disaster. 9

Those alarmists, however, ignored the fact that total polar ice had only receded by a modest amount, no where near ten percent. 10

Al Gore used the 10 percent figure and even warned that the Arctic ice cap could completely disappear by 2014. 11

In reality, by 2012 ice quickly came back and even surpassed the 1979 readings, reaching a new record maximum in the Antarctic in 2014. 12 Since that time it has remained above that previous baseline. 13

According to NASA’s latest data, it is now 5% above the mean average. 14

This is not to say that the ice will not retreat again at some point. 15 It is generally considered that the Earth’s temperatures are still rising slowly 16 since the so called ‘little ice age’ which ended in the mid 1800s. 17 The rise is thought to be due to a combination of natural and, to a much lesser extent, human influence. 18

Still, alarmist headlines continue to be used in respect to polar ice, 19 with some claiming that satellite data shows ice is melting at an unprecedented rate. 20

1 Sort of true. The hyperlink doesn’t go to updated NASA data, but to a now-defunct site from the University of Illinois’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences called The Cryosphere Today. The website used to show maps of Arctic ice, as well as how that ice varied over time. U of I prepared the maps based on data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which in turn used raw data from NASA. Source: John Walsh, chief scientist for the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and former climate scientist at the University of Illinois.

2False. NASA’s data show the combined area of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice decreasing. Sources: Walsh; Claire Parkinson,, senior climate scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; National Snow and Ice Data Center’s “Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis.”

3 In 2015, when this was published, Arctic ice was receding, but Antarctica’s was increasing. If the author is considering the combined ice, as the headline suggests, it’s a half-truth: Ice coverage stayed above average in 2013 and 2014 but not in 2015, when it was below average. Sources: Parkinson, Global Sea Ice Coverage from Satellite Data: Annual Cycle and 35-Yr Trends,’ Journal of Climate, Volume 27, Issue 24 (2014); National Snow and Ice Data Center.

4 Here, the story linked to a Forbes blog post—a secondary source, rather than actual data. And the post’s author isn’t exactly unbiased: James Taylor, who is, among other roles, senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, a think tank that promotes climate change skepticism. (The Infowars article also appears to be borrowing liberally from the Forbes.com post.) Sources: “Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat,” Forbes.com, May 19, 2015; The Heartland Institute website (heartland.org).

5 False. In this time frame, the Arctic sea ice was decreasing, but Antarctica’s was increasing. Additionally, the statement about ice caps remaining at the same level until 2005 is untrue: Both Arctic and global sea-ice averages have shown a downward trend since 1979. Source: Parkinson.

6 There was a brief, 30-year cooling from around 1940 to the 1970s, but the larger trend from the 1880s to today has been warming. Infowars assumes cooling equaled more sea ice. We don’t know that. So we don’t know if the author took a higher level as a baseline. Sources: Parkinson; Walsh; The Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis.

7 It’s true that the sea-ice data uses 1979 as a starting point. But that’s only because that’s when the data collection started—not long after the relevant satellite, Nimbus 7, launched. (There is some data from earlier in the ‘70s, too, but these are from instruments carried on an earlier satellite, Nimbus 5, and aren’t usually used.) Sources: Parkinson; NASA.

8 The author appears to again conflate Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to support his position. Source: Parkinson.

9 The article doesn’t name specific “warming proponents,” making it difficult to confirm this one way or another.

10 It’s clear that “alarmists” refers to warming proponents, but, because the writer doesn’t name them, it’s impossible to fact-check who made the 10-percent claim or to find out if they, too, are conflating ice figures at both poles. Source: Parkinson.

11 False. The Al Gore claim links to a 2014 Daily Mail article, which incorrectly quotes Gore’s Nobel Lecture. Neither the Mail nor the speech cites the 10-percent claim. Sources: Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 29 Dec 2017; David Rose “Myth of Arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago…despite Al Gore’s prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now,” The Daily Mail, August 30, 2014.

12 If the claim refers to Arctic ice, it’s false. Ice there was receding at this time. The sentence then flips to a claim about Antarctic ice reaching a new maximum and staying above the baseline, which is true, but that’s not the Arctic. Sources: Parkinson; Walsh.

13 Once again, the author confuses Arctic and Antarctic ice. If this claim references Arctic ice, it is false; if it’s Antarctic ice, it is partly true—sea ice there was up at the time. Sources: Parkinson; National Snow and Ice Data Center.

14 Again: If the claims reference Arctic or global ice, false; if it’s the Antarctic ice, they’re partly true. Sea ice there was up at the time, although by more than 5 percent. Sources: Parkinson; National Snow and Ice Data Center.

15 Correct. This is a natural fluctuation in the ice, which will continue to expand and retreat. But these changes don’t reverse the larger trend of the ice disappearing. Sources: Parkinson; Walsh.

16 Mostly correct. It’s true that temperatures are going up, but whether it’s happening “slowly” is a matter of perspective. Sources: Parkinson; Walsh; NASA.

17 Correct, this period is indeed called the “little ice age.” Source: NASA Earth Observatory Glossary.

18 It’s true that both natural and human-made processes drive climate change, but the scientific consensus is that human influence is greater since the mid-20th century. Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

19 This sentence links to a Washington Post story about land ice, not sea ice, which isn’t relevant. And it also published several months before the University of Illinois published the visualization that Infowars uses as the foundation for its argument. So, even if the topic was relevant, the time frame doesn’t support the idea that headlines continue to be alarmist despite the new data. Sources: Parkinson; Joby Warrick, “An Arctic cap’s shockingly rapid slide into the sea,” The Washington Post, January 23, 2015.

20This links to an aggregated story on Truthdig.com about ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, which have different trends and impacts than sea ice does. Sources: Parkinson; Walsh; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Tim Radford,’ Satellite Mapping Shows Ice Caps’ Faster Melt Rate,’ Climate News Network (aggregated on Truthdig.com), September 1 2014“].

This article was originally published in the Spring 2018 Intelligence issue of Popular Science.

Written By Brooke Borel

#Science

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englishindubellay · 7 years

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Melting Arctic ice cap falls to well below average

Wednesday 20 September 2017 11.23 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 20 September 2017 17.03 BST

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer, according to data released late on Tuesday.

Climate change is pushing temperatures up most rapidly in the polar regions and left the extent of Arctic sea ice at 1.79m sq miles at the end of the summer melt season.

This is the time when it reaches its lowest area for the year, before starting to grow again as winter approaches. The 2017 minimum was 610,000 sqmiles below the 1981-2010 average and the eighth lowest year in the 38-year satellite record.

Arctic ice melt 'already affecting weather patterns where you live right now'

Scientists from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) said the rate of ice loss this summer had been slowed by cool mid-summer weather over the central Arctic Ocean. The record minimum came in 2012, when the ice area fell to 483,000 square miles below the 2017 extent.

Ted Scambos at NSIDC said the Arctic sea ice had set a record for the smallest winter extent earlier in 2017 and was on track to be close to the 2012 record minimum until July. But a cloudy and cooler than normal August slowed the melting.

“Weather patterns in August saved the day,” Scambos said. The fast shrinking Arctic ice cap is increasingly thought to have major impacts on extreme weather patterns much further south, due to its influence on the jet stream. Floods, heatwaves and severe winters in Europe, Asia and North America have all been linked to the Arctic meltdown. “It’s bound to have an impact on global climate,” Scambos said.

The 2017 sea ice level fits with an overall steady decline over the decades, but one that varies from year to year, Scambos said. “It’s not going to be a staircase heading down to zero every year,” he said. “[But] the Arctic will continue to evolve towards less ice. There’s no dodging that.”

Rod Downie, head of polar programmes at WWF, said: “From space, the loss of Arctic sea ice is the clearest and most visible sign of climate change, and human beings are responsible for most of it. We are engineering our planet and its climate.”

“That’s not good for the people of the Arctic who depend upon sea ice for their traditional way of life and for people across the world who depend on a stable climate,” he said. The Arctic could be virtually free of ice in summer within people’s lifetimes, he warned, and called for more action on climate change by reducing carbon emissions.

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The great glaciatic meltdown

The previous few months have seen heap features of chilly liquefying – especially in Greenland – and ice sheet breakdown. According to the report which was distributed in the diary Nature Communications Earth and Environment, Greenland's ice sheets have contracted such a lot of that regardless of whether an unnatural weather change were to stop at the present time, the ice sheet would keep contracting a similar distribution further cited satellite information, the Greenland ice sheet lost a record measure of ice in 2019, comparable to 1,000,000 tons each moment across the year. Another paper which was a paper distributed in The Cryosphere, educated that an amazing ice misfortune wasn't brought about by warm temperatures alone yet in addition credits to and non-occasional and remarkable environmental flow designs as the significant reason contributing gigantically to the way the ice sheets quickly of shed's their weight. As these environment models that project the future softening of the Greenland ice sheet don't consider for adjusting barometric examples, there is an undeniable degree of plausibility that they might have been thought little of by a proportion of 1/2.

An Earth-wide temperature boost as the actual name conveys, walks ahead unabated. While the Paris revelation on environmental change promised to confine a dangerous atmospheric deviation to 1.5℃ in any event, during this century, a report by the World Meteorological Organization cautions that breaking point can be penetrated as ahead of schedule as 2024. As per Prof Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, it will be a judicious to anticipate an expansion in the ocean level more than five meter's, regardless the objective set up in Paris have been accomplished 100%Hence is the obligation of each person to be responsible for their activities, to do all that could be within reach under the sun, not anticipating other's to act. Each nation has distributed standard rules to be clung to, if which followed will bring down the chance of early disaster y striking us early. One of the potential risky Thwaites ice sheets is bigger than England, Wales and Northern Ireland set up and if the inescapable occurs, there is high likelihood of a significant part of England and Wales being gulped by the Atlantic.

There is no sign that ocean levels won't increment further. Icy mass goes about as a guardian angel, goes about's as a support between the warming ocean and different glacial masses. The impending breakdown has the ability to drag adjoining ice sheets in western Antarctica down with it. The most pessimistic scenario most dire outcome imaginable can be that see ocean levels ascend by almost 10 feet, for all time lowering some low-lying beach front regions including portions of Miami, New York City, and the Netherlands meets the substance of the Titanic, which was viewed as resilient and it is amusing that the landmass will be let go in a similar floor. An unnatural weather change is presently a really worldwide proceeding unabatedly. Paris statement expects to restrict a worldwide temperature alteration to 1.5℃ by end of this century, anyway worryingly, a report by the World Meteorological Organization cautions this breaking point might be surpassed by as ahead of schedule as 2024. As per Prof Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, there are high prospects of ocean level's expanding more than five meters, regardless of whether the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement are met. Over the year’s each administration has understood the degree's of obliteration that environmental change would incur in their nation and are taking each conceivable measure to even the smallest risk exacting the country. The aggregate exertion will save our planet.

#climate change #glaciers #meltdown of glacier

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