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>> I don't see any confusion there. "And as it grew, also became wider — by 2015, yawning some 200 meters in length." They use "wider" and "length" to describe the same 200 meter span.
no, they use length to describe the measurement of the crack's width. totally valid afaic.
> "I have spent so much time now looking at the satellite images, and I really love this ice shelf, it would be such a tragic thing to see this thing go." Reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. We humans can fall in love with large chunks of ice just by looking at them long enough. How will we ever bring ourselves to terraform another planet?
Let's see how terraforming this one works out before we go off terraforming another.
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Or -- while we're thinking geoengineering -- could we limit how much ice breaks off by deliberately making a cut (or a series of breaks in the ice) from the current end of the crack straight out to sea?
If that would work, then there wouldn't be a crack there in the first place.
It's kind of amazing that humanity's overall response can be summed up in a gif. https://media.giphy.com/media/z9AUvhAEiXOqA/giphy.gif
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The faster that levels rise the sooner we are to get off our collective asses and make a difference.
True, but the longer we have to sit on our asses, the more likely we are to succeed in our effort to make a difference when we finally get around to it (due to technological progression).
Not that this is reason to celebrate or think that this is any more than a continuation of the ongoing and forthcoming climate excursion.
If you're ready to do something about this, consider volunteering for http://brandnewcongress.org
What is anybody else going to do that you can't do yourself already?
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True, but the longer we have to sit on our asses, the more likely we are to succeed in our effort to make a difference when we finally get around to it (due to technological progression).
I wouldn't count on this - markets don't seem to care about sea level rise at the moment
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>> I don't see any confusion there. "And as it grew, also became wider — by 2015, yawning some 200 meters in length." They use "wider" and "length" to describe the same 200 meter span.
no, they use length to describe the measurement of the crack's width. totally valid afaic.
It's kind of amazing that humanity's overall response can be summed up in a gif. https://media.giphy.com/media/z9AUvhAEiXOqA/giphy.gif
I don't think serious conversation like this is a place for reaction GIFs.