Support the Arctic Sea Ice Forum and Blog

Author Topic: Arctic Café  (Read 722819 times)

Lynn Shwadchuck

  • Frazil ice
  • Posts: 190
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #350 on: July 02, 2014, 11:00:29 PM »
Beautiful photos of Greenland, Anne. Have you seen the film, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
Still living in the bush in eastern Ontario. Gave up on growing annual veggies. Too much drought.

Anne

  • Grease ice
  • Posts: 531
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 2
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #351 on: July 02, 2014, 11:19:03 PM »
Thanks, Lynn. I would love to see that film and will order it. I have never yet seen a Herzog film that I didn't want to watch again immediately.

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #352 on: July 03, 2014, 09:09:34 PM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #353 on: July 04, 2014, 08:52:51 AM »

Anne

  • Grease ice
  • Posts: 531
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 2
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #354 on: July 13, 2014, 08:09:28 AM »
Point Barrow, Alaska 1915.



HT The Mudflats.

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #355 on: July 14, 2014, 06:31:03 PM »
Viva la revoluzione.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-kanner/meatless-monday-its-basti_b_5525717.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

Well, I am afraid they are a bit opmistic with the French being so good...The sugar industry is everywhere nearly like in US. Few have some consciousness of what is going on...

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #356 on: July 16, 2014, 09:16:30 AM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #357 on: July 16, 2014, 05:29:09 PM »
Church takes 'important' long-term view on fossil fuel
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25903-church-takes-important-longterm-view-on-fossil-fuel.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|environment#.U8aZmlFJzlc

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #358 on: July 17, 2014, 08:57:37 AM »
Over 60% of breads sold in the UK contain pesticide residues, tests show
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/17/pesticide-residue-breads-uk-crops

There is no wonder why we find these sh*ts in our breads...farmers are allowed to spread them while growing but also again after harvesting they can put pesticide and fungicide on the grains and the miller add his own stuff...

Clare

  • Frazil ice
  • Posts: 167
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 5
  • Likes Given: 1
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #359 on: July 17, 2014, 09:49:08 AM »
Cinema on Ice- I thought this looks pretty nice! Article here:
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/03/ciril-jazbecs-cinema-on-ice/

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #360 on: July 18, 2014, 09:34:23 AM »

Anne

  • Grease ice
  • Posts: 531
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 2
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #361 on: July 23, 2014, 03:42:06 PM »
Surfing the Arctic

Chris Burkhard photographs surfers at Unstad Beach in Arctic Norway. Astonishing stamina and dedication:


Interview with Burkard in the Smithsonian magazine here:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/meet-insane-surfers-who-travel-arctic-ocean-catch-wave-180952113/

solartim27

  • Grease ice
  • Posts: 599
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 42
  • Likes Given: 75
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #362 on: July 28, 2014, 06:39:14 AM »
I had heard about Roger Ebert's petrified fascination with climate change, but had not read his post until today.  I find it surprisingly accurate:  Blizzard, Flood, Heat and Fire.
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/new-seasons-with-new-names
FNORD

Anne

  • Grease ice
  • Posts: 531
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 2
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #363 on: August 06, 2014, 11:43:17 AM »
The Cook Inlet Tribal Council of Alaska has funded the first video game made by native Alaskans.

Quote
Money's not the only thing that the Alaskan native society—made up of eight tribal communities—is investing into Never Alone. The upcoming video game will also hold their culture, artwork and folktales in a vessel designed to carry a sense of the Inuit spirit far away from their southcentral Alaskan homeland. But, yes, the game's origins initially came from a more pragmatic concern. "We wanted to find a way to chart our own destiny financially," tribal council CEO Gloria O'Neill told me recently. O'Neill, who came to New York City recently with E-Line Media development partner Alan Gershenfeld to show Never Alone to press, explained that the Cook Inlet community remains reliant on government funding to help maintain services.
Quote
So, why a video game? "I just had a sense that we as a people have so much to offer the world," O'Neill told me. "We want to take back our culture out of the museum. I wanted to make an investment where we could share who we are with the world, we could have a part in creating it and it wasn't somebody creating it for us." Gershenfeld said Artists, tribal elders and storytellers from southcentral Alaska are lending their talents to the game.

The game's main character is a young Iñupiaq girl named Nuna who's trying to rescue her homeland from an endless blizzard. She meets a mystical arctic fox that help her and their bond isn't just cute. It also reflects the importance of interdependency, one of the core Alaskan Native values that O'Neill says the community wants to transmit through Never Alone. "We have stories that have kept us alive [as a community] for 10,000 years," O'Neill said. One such story casts the Northern Lights as the glowing spirits of children who died in the cold. In the folktale, those lost spirits want to snatch up the heads of still-living kids and use them to play with, like soccer balls. To prevent that, kids need to make sure that their hoods are pulled tight on their heads. The purpose of the story is to drive home the importance of bundling up, by invoking the fearsome power of the arctic cold.
Not sure there is going to be much in there about AGW. More here, including trailers: Link

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #364 on: August 12, 2014, 12:06:55 AM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #365 on: August 12, 2014, 09:28:19 AM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #366 on: August 12, 2014, 09:34:21 AM »

Anne

  • Grease ice
  • Posts: 531
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 2
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #367 on: August 12, 2014, 12:05:14 PM »
The bay is full of ice today.


Hotel Arctic

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #368 on: August 13, 2014, 09:39:23 PM »
DigitalGlobe launches super-sharp WorldView-3 Earth imager
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28772742

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #369 on: August 14, 2014, 09:44:06 PM »
Whant to see the glaciers on the Everest Mount ?
http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #370 on: August 16, 2014, 09:21:16 AM »
http://www.masterpiecesoftheearth.com/

Quite an impressive collection.

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #371 on: August 16, 2014, 11:22:30 PM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #372 on: August 16, 2014, 11:32:25 PM »
What Can a 19th Century Arctic Shipwreck Tell Us About the 21st Century's Most Wicked Problem?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-nichols/what-can-a-19th-century-a_b_5679342.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #373 on: August 19, 2014, 01:44:58 PM »
On Books Since 1988, Ohio River Dam Project Keeps Rolling Along
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/us/19dam.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #374 on: August 20, 2014, 08:16:45 PM »

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #375 on: August 20, 2014, 09:42:37 PM »
Hi guys!

I brought the latest edition of TATW — The Arctic This Week — which is actively publishing again after its summer hiatus.

Always some interesting reads, and I'm personally especially heartened by the news of a joint Swedish — Russian — US polar expedition to scientifically study the mysterious 'Dragon Breath' CH₄ emissions from the submerged Russian tundra. So all in all — Oden the Icebreaker breaks the ice and leads the way.
[]

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #376 on: August 21, 2014, 01:09:58 PM »

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #377 on: August 22, 2014, 10:16:13 AM »
Avaaz this morning:

Quote
Dear friends,



Click to pledge so our movement to save the world can hit the streets on September 21st:

kr15    kr30    kr60    kr120    kr240

Pledge another amount
Scientists are screaming from the rooftops that climate change isn't just a bit of warming and some more storms. No exaggeration, our actual *survival* is at risk -- this is a fight to save the world.

Our biosphere is in a fragile balance. Warm it a bit, and feedback loops start to kick in. Warming melts the arctic ice that reflects sunlight, which means more sunlight absorbed, which means more warming, which melts more ice etc. etc. These feedback loops have begun, and they're approaching 'tipping points' where they spin out of our control, threatening everything we love.

The UN understands this, and they've called an emergency summit of world leaders in New York to discuss action, even inviting our movement into the meeting! The problem is, our heads of state are politicians, not scientists, and they respond to public pressure. They see the polls, but they ask, "where are the protests?" Sept. 21st is our answer.

With thousands of organisations from unions to faith groups, and hundreds of thousands of people already signed up, we're about to launch the biggest climate change mobilisation in history, with marches from New York to Paris to Rio. On September 21st, we need to shake the world. To get there, we need to mobilise thousands of organisers, saturate subways and airwaves with ads, and mount an effective media operation.

If 50,000 of us contribute just a small amount in the next 5 days, we can make it happen. It's time to save the world, let's launch the movement that can do it.

Click to pledge now. Avaaz will only process our pledges if we raise enough:

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr15

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr30

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr60

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr120

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr240

To pledge an amount other than the ones listed above, click here.

This mobilisation has one goal: to show turnout. For a full 15 minutes, world leaders at the summit will have to sit and listen to our message, through images, videos, and more. The more of us hit the streets, the more powerful message we send to politicians that urgent action is their priority. New York is the focus, since that's where the summit is, and a huge turnout in the United States (which has traditionally lagged on climate change) will be most politically powerful.

Small donations from 50,000 of us in the next 5 days will allow us to:
purchase hundreds of radio and subway ads in New York and key cities to drive turnout
recruit hundreds of organisers to engage thousands of volunteers and hundreds of thousands of marchers
mount a serious media operation and engage celebrities to ensure the march gets covered
create big and bold stunts to create buzz in the media
bring 'climate survivors' and spokespeople from vulnerable communities to provide the media with powerful voices from the front lines of climate devastation
build an offline network of organisers, volunteers and allies that will deepen and strengthen all of our campaigning for years to come
We have 5 weeks left and not one day to lose to go as big as possible. Click to pledge now and Avaaz will only process the pledge if we raise enough:
         
   
YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr15

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr30

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr60

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr120

YES, I'LL PLEDGE kr240

To pledge an amount other than the ones listed above, click here.

Climate change threatens all of us. And in that way, it brings all of us together in a shared cause. Our obstacles are not just the short-sightedness of profit-hungry oil companies and the politicians they buy, but also our own willingness and choice to hope, and to act, before it's too late. Let's make that choice right now, and from it, build a movement to save the world.

With hope,

Ricken, Mia, Antonia, Emily, Ari, Nic, Alice, Emma and the whole Avaaz team.


MORE INFORMATION:

Climate change is upon us and we must act (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/18/climate-change-global-warning-calamity-floods-observer-editorial

Climate Summit 2014: Catalyzing Action (United Nations)
http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/

World must end 'dirty' fuel use - UN (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352

Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science (The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html

Climate change is here, action needed now, says new White House report (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/06/politics/white-house-climate-energy/

 
Avaaz.org is a 38-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

You are getting this message because you signed "Copenhagen: The Fight Continues!"
[]

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #378 on: August 22, 2014, 10:28:35 AM »
Be careful with Avaaz and the like, if the cause is most of the time real and urgent, they are seeking donation more than anything. The recent case of Avaaz saying they were involved with vandana shiva and some others organization to fight against Monsato ...none of them were contacted or involved with Avazz...
« Last Edit: August 22, 2014, 10:55:08 AM by Laurent »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #379 on: August 22, 2014, 10:56:35 AM »
The secret of marketing.


The power of willfull ignorance...Remind me something about AGW.

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #380 on: August 25, 2014, 06:22:43 PM »
A bit of Emotion from scientifics...quite scary...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/25/nick-bowers_n_5701202.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

I am adding Mme Shakova listening mister Semiletov...I know it is not fair...
« Last Edit: August 25, 2014, 06:31:50 PM by Laurent »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #381 on: August 27, 2014, 12:53:56 PM »

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #382 on: August 27, 2014, 05:14:31 PM »
The Arctic This Week August 19 - 25, 2014


Statoil moves forward with Rosneft cooperation in Barents Sea 
 
Statoil and Rosneft began exploratory drilling in the Barents Sea this week in spite of extensive western sanctions against Russia’s oil and gas industry (BO). The sanctions only apply to future contracts and projects and as such this current cooperation is technically licit within the current regime (FT). Statoil isn’t the only one getting in on the action, either. The Norwegian company North Atlantic Drilling concluded a far reaching deal with Rosneft this week that will give the Russian company access to Norwegian offshore technology and expertise (BO). While Norwegian companies continue to work with their Russian counterparts on both sides of the border, a lobbying group for the Norwegian oil and gas industry expressed its worry that the sanctions against Russia will eventually slow oil and gas exploration activity in Norway’s Arctic (Reuters).

SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE
 
Climate
New publication: Climate change and primary industries (AJ).
Sunlight, not microbes, key to CO2 in Arctic (Phys.org).
Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space (EOTA).
NASA scientists watching, studying Arctic changes this summer (NASA).
An extended Arctic proxy temperature database for the past 2,000 years (Nature).
Here’s How Arctic Sea Ice Could Shrink Even More (CC).
Sunlight controls the fate of carbon released from thawing Arctic permafrost (R&D Mag).
Solving the polar climate conundrum (MIT).
 
Wildlife
Orphaned Yukon black bear cubs off to Calgary Zoo (CBC).
Life Found 800 Meters Down in Antarctic Subglacial Lake (Scientific American).
 
Expeditions, initiatives and blogs
Field Notes from Greenland: A Glacier Calves (Cryopolitics).
Narwhal Tagging 2014 – Polar Bear Watch (Vancouver Sun).
Rancho Palos Verdes teen returns from once-in-a-lifetime Arctic research expedition (Daily Breeze).
Russian Hydrographic Survey Vessel Leaves for Arctic (RIA).
Harper joins Arctic search for lost ships of Franklin expedition (CTV).
 
Technology
News: Coast Guard Research and Development Center deploys Unmanned Surface Vehicle during Arctic exercise (DVIDS).
News: Coast Guard Arctic Craft Project looks to older technologies to tackle new challenges in Arctic (DVIDS).
 
Miscellaneous
Heacox's compelling narrative tells how Alaska's glaciers moved John Muir (AD).
PM announces launch of the National Research Council Arctic Program (AJ).
Dancing in the Arctic (New Yorker).
PM launches construction of the new Canadian High Arctic Research Station (Prime Minister of Canada).
[]

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #383 on: September 01, 2014, 11:48:08 PM »
Footage of powerful solar flares released by Nasa
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29008576

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #384 on: September 03, 2014, 01:53:41 PM »
Economic success 'drives language extinction'
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29037168

New plants will no longer have Latin descriptions
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29041225

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #385 on: September 03, 2014, 09:35:09 PM »
Great video on the position of our star in the known universe.
http://bcove.me/1mzgnsnl
The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v513/n7516/full/nature13674.html

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #386 on: September 04, 2014, 10:12:22 PM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #387 on: September 06, 2014, 06:11:12 PM »
Rethinking Emissions Reduction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-hone/rethinking-emissions-redu_b_5720400.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

Quote
In this context, what really matters is the cumulative amount of carbon dioxide being released over time -- a fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognized in its recently released Fifth Assessment Report.

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #388 on: September 06, 2014, 06:16:28 PM »

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #389 on: September 07, 2014, 12:21:00 AM »
Thanks, Laurent! :)

In other news, the old army base in the New Siberian Islands (1933–1993) will have fresh and renewed activity, basically defence and scientific research. Maybe to do with the methane situation in the Laptev Sea around the islands? And no, Harper, the Russians are not invading Canada this time either. Talk to your doctor about medicines for your extreme paranoia.

RT.
[]

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #390 on: September 09, 2014, 09:13:53 AM »
« Last Edit: September 09, 2014, 09:26:09 AM by Laurent »

pikaia

  • Frazil ice
  • Posts: 395
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 121
  • Likes Given: 39
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #391 on: September 09, 2014, 05:11:02 PM »
"One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic more than 160 years ago has been found"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29131757

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #392 on: September 09, 2014, 08:55:32 PM »
Avaaz this morning:

Avaaz again today:

Quote
Dear friends,

I can sincerely say this is the most important petition we've ever done.

Sorry for the language, but one top scientist just warned that we are all "f*cked" if global warming releases gigantic amounts of methane gas from the arctic tundra. The UN knows this is one of several catastrophic climate threats we're facing, and is bringing world leaders to New York for a major summit on this global emergency.

Hundreds of thousands of us will take to the streets for the People’s Climate March just before the summit. Let’s make sure that on that day we deliver the largest Avaaz petition ever, for the only solution: mobilize the world to shift to 100% clean energy. Click to sign the petition below with one click and tell everyone:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/100_clean_final/?bdBqMab&signup=1&cl=5761704580&v=44869

Here's the petition:

To national, local, and international leaders:
Scientists warn us that climate change could accelerate beyond our control, threatening our survival and everything we love. We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero. To achieve this, you must urgently forge realistic global, national and local agreements, to rapidly shift our societies and economies to 100% clean energy by 2050. Do this fairly, with support to the most vulnerable among us. Our world is worth saving and now is our moment to act. But to change everything, we need everyone. Join us.

Sign it with one click here:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/100_clean_final/?bdBqMab&signup=1&cl=5761704580&v=44869

Whether it's the 'arctic methane bomb', the rapid acidification of our oceans, or apocalyptic flooding, climate change is the biggest threat humanity is facing, and we need the biggest petition ever to meet it. If we make it massive, the number of us who sign will be read out to all leaders at the summit, published in hundreds of media articles, and be delivered by our marches worldwide.

100% clean energy is a realistic goal. Already, 20% of the world's electricity comes from clean energy, and solar power is cheaper than coal in many countries! We just need to get our leaders to agree to put their foot on the accelerator.

We're gearing up for the largest climate mobilization in history on September 21. Already hundreds of events are organised and hundreds of thousands of people signed up. But the events are designed to deliver our petition to decision makers. Let's make it the largest call to action ever. Join now and tell everyone - sign the petition with one click below:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/100_clean_final/?bdBqMab&signup=1&cl=5761704580&v=44869

We're all different, and beautifully diverse. But whoever and wherever we are, climate change threatens everything we love, and brings all of us together. Let's come together now.

With hope,

Ricken, Danny, Lisa, Judy, Alex, Iain, and the rest of the Avaaz team

PS - Every signature does count! Add your voice here with a single click: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/100_clean_final/?bdBqMab&signup=1&cl=5761704580&v=44869

MORE INFORMATION:

Climate scientist drops the F-bomb (Salon)
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/06/climate_scientist_drops_the_f_bomb_after_startling_arctic_discovery/

EU to beat 2020 climate targets, split over 2030 ones (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/eu-carbon-idUKL6N0O06BG20140514

The most influential climate change paper today remains unknown to most people (Inside Climate News)
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140213/climate-change-science-carbon-budget-nature-global-warming-2-degrees-bill-mckibben-fossil-fuels-keystone-xl-oil?page=show

Floods, storms and searing heat for 2050 as TV forecasters imagine climate change (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/01/us-climatechange-idUSKBN0GW2OT20140901

IPCC climate change report: averting catastrophe is eminently affordable (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/13/averting-climate-change-catastrophe-is-affordable-says-ipcc-report-un

Renewable energy capacity grows at fastest ever pace (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/28/renewable-energy-capacity-grows-fastest-ever-pace

Solar price parity arrives early (MSN)
http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=0040731b-4941-432a-b1bd-3b0a04149068

«In days, when the UN holds an emergency summit on climate change, we need to deliver the largest petition ever for a world powered by 100% clean energy. The petition number will be read out to every world leader at the summit! Sign the petition AT LEFT with one click!»
[]

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #393 on: September 10, 2014, 09:12:09 AM »
Volcano Eruption in Papua New Guinea Mont Tavurvur the 29th of August.

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #394 on: September 10, 2014, 01:48:12 PM »
Interesting video, what does that mean a world without ice cap ?
Peter Ward Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1621454731&feature=iv&src_vid=r4jKo2-dS4M&v=HtHlsUDVVy0

That one I like it also :
Climate Change – With Head and Heart
« Last Edit: September 10, 2014, 02:02:41 PM by Laurent »

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #395 on: September 10, 2014, 04:52:57 PM »
The Arctic This Week:

Iceland’s volcanoes have a long history of being an international nuisance
Irritating the world since 937 (at least). What could be a great marketing slogan attracting tourists to Iceland is actually an examination of the country’s volcanoes and their power to wreak global havoc over the last centuries. Among others, their eruptions have been blamed for the French Revolution (AJ).

Russian Forces Headed to Permanent Military Base on New Siberian Islands
Six ships from Russia’s Northern Fleet–accompanied by nuclear-powered ice- breakers–are en route to a newly reopened military base on the New Siberian Islands. According to Northern Fleet commander Admiral Vladimir Korolyov, “The main task of the latest expedition by a number of Northern Fleet ships to the Arctic is to deliver staff, equipment and supplies to the taskforce that from this year will serve on the New Siberian Islands on a permanent basis” (Telegraph, RIAN, Daily Mail, RBTH). The base–which originally became operational in 1933 but was abandoned some 60 years later following the collapse of the USSR–is part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing strategy to reinvest in Arctic platforms and increase Russia’s presence in the region (newser). According to Russia Today, while “Moscow sent a first batch of equipment and supplies to the New Siberian Islands last year...This time, the staff and taskforce will be staying on to serve...” Meanwhile, pilots attached to the Northern Fleet have begun training at the Nitka training range attached to the Novofedorivka air base in Crimea for the first time in four years (BO).

Statoil forced to halt Arctic drilling after environmental challenge
Statoil has stopped drilling on its Arctic Pingvin prospect this week due to a court challenge to its environmental permit (Reuters). The ruling will now go before the Norwegian Environmental Agency, where environmental groups are ready to ask for Statoil to permanently halt exploration on the prospect, its most northern in the Norwegian Barents (BO).

Climate & Cryology:

Update on Sea Ice and the Northwest Passage (Accuweather).
Northern Profiles - Giving a little help from above (AJ).
Uncovering the mysteries of Sweden’s mountains (EOTA).
Some important context on Arctic sea ice melt (Carbon Brief).
Polar Vortex Escape: Arctic Ice Melt Lets Cold Air Flow South: Study (NBC). Arctic sea ice coverage similar to conditions this time last year (AD). Investigating underwater sound: seismic testing in Nunavut (NN).
No, You Can’t Claim Arctic Ice Is “Recovering” (Slate).
Polar vortex chills linked to melting sea ice (CBC).
Snow has thinned on Arctic Sea Ice (Reporting Climate Science).
Sea ice wears white after Labor Day (NSIDC).
Adapting to Arctic change (phys.org).
[]

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #396 on: September 11, 2014, 07:06:35 PM »
A Gathering of the Tribes, Unity in the Black Hills
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-devaney/a-gathering-of-the-tribes_b_5801880.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
It is a pitty we don't have Indians here.  ;) (There use to be people speaking the language of Oc, there was a lot before1900, they were connected to the land not only because it was before industrialisation but also because of the language)

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #397 on: September 13, 2014, 09:28:08 AM »

Laurent

  • Young ice
  • Posts: 2546
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 13
  • Likes Given: 50
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #398 on: September 16, 2014, 10:27:51 PM »
The SOLARKIOSK creates a local marketplace.
http://www.solarkiosk.eu/?page_id=6

That seems to be a good initiative bit like any industry it must quantify the amount of Green house gazes that are emitted along all the industrial processes, the well being of people is important but the well being of our climate is even more important. Contrary to what it is said around we don't have a carbon budget but a carbon debt, to stay under 300 ppm we should have acted 100 years ago, when you are at the limit, it is to late. But never to late to do well...
« Last Edit: September 17, 2014, 09:12:55 PM by Laurent »

viddaloo

  • Nilas ice
  • Posts: 1302
  • Hardanger Sometimes
    • View Profile
  • Liked: 1
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #399 on: September 17, 2014, 08:51:08 PM »
[]