Thursday, August 07, 2008
Arctic sea ice watch: Still more than last year
There is hope for the polar bears.
Notwithstanding confident warnings of a record summer melt in the Arctic, there are still around a half million more square kilometers of sea ice in the northern hemisphere than there was one year ago today. The melt reaches its high water mark, as it were, in mid-August, so we will know well before Labor Day whether we set another record.
In other news, I have heard nothing back from my question about the influence of aggregate sea ice on planetary albedo.
1 Comments:
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Thu Aug 07, 08:07:00 PM:
It’s been a while since I’ve clarified things for you, as my time has been dominated by productive pursuits, motion-tracking augmented data (similar to that goofy yellow “first down line” you see on televised football games), fiducial marker recognition using machine vision, and the construction of controlled environments containing any number of sensors and actuators.
I hate to repeat myself but recent actions thwart all attempts at understanding of motives, and it all is hanging barely by a thread, a ambiguous metaphor, or a flinging of baloney at clueless people trying to figure out which fork to use, as Repug candidates embrace the promise of alienation and it’s various gifts it has bestowed on them in the interim.
What is needed is dissolving of old time-worn modalities, mandatory enumerating of the latest tome by the Shulgins, compulsory ethno-botany injections, prepared nostrums, the erotic throb of the zeitgeist, existence in the indeterminate zone betwixt opportunity and dilemma. Wasn’t it Gurdjieff (or was it Soupy Sales?) that claimed that people do not perceive reality, as they are not conscious of themselves, but live in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep." I guess I’m disappointed with the piss-poor results I see today in our democracy because of lack of commonality of perception, and it bites me on the ass every trash night. It’s the monkey mind, post-McLuhanist. No one is in control, absolutely no one. Are you there, however?
