Posted on 08/01/2024 9:47:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Be scared. ((My tires are black))
Odd patterns north and south of the equator.
Since 2007-2008, there has been no decrease of the Arctic Sea Extent - a trend now continuing for nearly 1/3 of the 46 year history of measured sea ice.
From 1992 through 2016, there was a near-continuous INCREASE in the area of sea ice around Antarctica. In fact, as recently as 2013 - 2014, the daily “excess area” of sea ice around Antarctica exceeded the entire area of Greenland several times.
However, the staff at University of Illinois at Cryosphere Research Center (Normal IL) was changed/retired out. And, since then, Antarctic Sea Ice Extents are 3-5 million km^2 less. Now, for the last two years, Antarctic Sea Ice Extents are setting new record-lows.
Really just clicked to see some cool never before seen sea life, maybe some unexplainable centuries old shipwrecks laying under the ice cap, but instead, spent several minutes reading about how the ice melts and freezes down there, bummer.
Well the caps are not melting— the entire premise of the “formations” found or said to be, is shot down by the fact of a super freeze back. See Greenland history of shelf. Thule Sea.
“....study of the ice shelf will be crucial in order to refine existing models”
Those same models of infinitely complex chaotic natural processes that are 100 per cent wrong to continue the government funding.
Nah, Cthulhu is based in the warm South Pacific.
This is being caused by Shoggoths.
Tekeli-Li!
“Hail, Atlantis”
Nice catch.
That’s a good one to lead this month’s Musical Interlude!
At the Mountains of Madness...
The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its content.
We live on a placid island of ignorance amidst the black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far...
Lovecraft
The ambient air temperature has not changed much in the Arctic and Antarctic. Ice thickness is a function of the amount of heat generated by the earth’s core and released by underwater volcanoes and innumerable smokers. If the earth’s core cuts down significantly the amount of heat generated, a new ice age will be upon us.
Love some Lovecraft!
Now if someone could just make a really decent movie on his stuff already. There’s a few not so bad ones, but a lot of the attempts leave much to be desired.
Just watched “Older Gods” which can stream for free on Fandango, which isn’t a total Lovecraft movie, but it is pretty good.
I dunno. I’d be awfully disappointed if the Elder Gods who are going to destroy the universe are actually popsicles.
I remember the ice cubes in glass of water science experiment when I was a kid. The melted ice doesn’t raise water level.
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