Tag: Climate change

Iceberg!

An iceberg’s seismic breakup, believed to be the largest ever caught on camera, is described by the person who filmed it as the equivalent of watching “Manhattan… breaking apart in front of your eyes.”

Filmmaker Jason Balog recorded the spectacular calving event while making his documentary “Chasing Ice” about global climate change. He had set up his camera on Greenland’s Ilulissat Glacier, which has retreated approximately 10 miles in the last 12 years.

Balog figures almost 2 cubic miles worth of the Ilulissat broke up over the course of 75 minutes.

“Pieces of ice were shooting up out of the ocean 600 feet and then falling,” he says in the film, which contains bass-thumping audio that makes it almost as impressive to listen to as watch.

“The only way you can really put it into scale with human reference is if you imagine Manhattan, and all of a sudden all of those buildings just start to rumble and quake and peel off and just fall over and fall over and roll around.”

via higher powered: Iceberg!.

http://youtu.be/YoA_Z7y8f6Q

 

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Do You Need A Bad News Detox?

Terri Cole writes:

The onslaught of bad news in the media continues to fester. The climate of fear has reached epic proportions. We are inundated with bad news about our crumbling economy, the rising unemployment rate, executive greed, lack of affordable healthcare, etc. So the question is how can YOU stay positive and productive in a relentlessly negative climate and NOT drink the Armageddon Kool-Aid?

Well, as you may have guessed, I have a few ideas.” Get Terri’s ideas here: Do You Need A Bad News Detox?.

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GLOBAL WARMING

Very Demotivational – The Demotivational Posters Blog via GLOBAL WARMING.

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We Only Trust Experts If They Agree With Us

We think we trust experts.   But a new study finds that what really influences our opinions, more than listening to any expert, is our own beliefs.

Researchers told study subjects about a scientific expert who accepted climate change as real. Subjects who thought that commerce can be environmentally damaging were ready to accept the scientist as an expert. But those who came into the study believing that economic activity could not hurt the environment were 70 percent less likely to accept that the scientist really was an expert.

Then the researchers flipped the situation. They told different subjects that the same hypothetical scientist, with the same accreditation, was skeptical of climate change. Now those who thought that economic activity cannot harm the environment accepted the expert, and the other group was 50 percent less likely to believe in his expertise. The study was published in the Journal of Risk Research.

via scientificamerican.com
I’ve joked before about searching for data to confirm my preconceived notions. Little did I realize how close I was to the truth…
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