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Climate change is affecting the marine ecosystem – krill disappearing from Antarctic waters
Whales, seals and penguins could be hurting as this tiny creature–fundamental to the food web–declines, Scientific American By Andrea Thompson, Climate Central on August 29, 2016
They may be small, but krill—tiny, shrimp-like creatures—play a big role in the Antarctic food chain. As climate change warms the Southern Ocean and alters sea ice patterns, though, the area of Antarctic water suitable for krill to hatch and grow could drop precipitously, a new study finds.
Most Antarctic krill are found in an area from the Weddell Sea to the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula, the finger of land that juts up toward South America. They serve as an important source of food for various species of whales, seals and penguins. While those animals find other food sources during lean years, it is unclear if those alternate sources are sustainable long-term.
Over the past 40 years, populations of adult Antarctic krill have declined by 70 to 80 percent in those areas, though researchers debate whether that drop is due to the effects of climate change, a rebound in whale populations after the end of commercial whaling or some combination of those pressures.
Because of its key role in the regional food chain, scientists are concerned about the impacts that future climate change may have on the krill population and the larger Antarctic ecosystem.
In the new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Andrea Piñones and Alexey Fedorov examined how expected changes in ocean temperatures and sea ice coverage might affect krill during their earliest life stages when they are most vulnerable to environmental conditions.
Krill has a complex, regimented life cycle that requires a delicate balance of conditions. …..
While warmer ocean temperatures help the krill hatch faster, declines in sea ice area, delayed sea ice formation, and a drop in phytoplankton populations meant that overall, the habitat suitable for young krill could decline by up to 80 percent, they found………http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/krill-are-disappearing-from-antarctic-waters/
Climate change may be accelerating – Antarctic study reveals Earth's lessened ability to absorb CO2
Earth's ability to absorb CO2 reduced by global warming, Antarctic study finds http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-29/global-warming-reduces-earth-co2-absorption-arctic-study/7673032 By Stephanie Smail Global warming reduces the amount of carbon dioxide the earth can absorb, which could amplify climate change, landmark research in Antarctica has revealed.
CSIRO researchers extracted ice bubbles in pre-industrial polar ice to measure the planet's sensitivity to changes in temperature.
They found that for every degree Celsius of global temperature rise, the equivalent of 20 parts per million less CO2 is stored by the land biosphere.
CSIRO principle research scientist Dr David Etheridge said the research confirmed the relationship for the first time and revealed how it impacted the cycles of carbon between land, ocean, and the atmosphere.
"That's useful to know. It's a bit concerning because it's going to amplify the climate change, but it's good news in a way because it can be used in modelling."
The research team used ice core samples from the Australian Antarctic Program's unique Law Dome site, together with ice cores from the British Antarctic Survey.
The study focused on CO2 changes preserved in ice before, during, and after a naturally-cool period known as the Little Ice Age (1500 to 1750 AD).
"It gives global planners something to work with, to help estimate what CO2 emissions are allowable to limit global warming to one and a half or two degrees Celsius," Dr Etheridge said.
The finding is a result of a collaboration between CSIRO, the Seconda Universita di Napoli, University of Melbourne, British Antarctic Survey, University of East Anglia, Australian Antarctic Division, University of Tasmania, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.
World action effective against damage to ozone layer: our choices can help
The world decided to take an action on these chemicals, and the planet is responding as we expected. People can take heart by seeing that our choices can help the environment."
Hole in the ozone layer is finally 'healing' ABC Science Dani Cooper 1 July 16 The ozone hole over Antarctica is finally "healing" almost 30 years after the world banned the chemicals responsible for its creation, researchers say.
Key points:
- The ozone hole fluctuates from year to year due to natural factors
- Last year volcanic eruptions increased the hole to its largest size ever
- But now there is evidence it is finally on a downward trend
- This is 30 years after the decision to ban the chemicals that created it
According to the latest measurements, the ozone hole above the Antarctic is now smaller than it was around the year 2000, by about 4 million square kilometres.
However, renowned ozone hole expert Professor Susan Solomon, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the hole still averages about 17 million square kilometres in size.
"It isn't completely healed, but it's better than the 21 million we had around 2000," she said. The surprise finding comes just a year after scientists reported the ozone hole was the biggest it had ever been.
However, Professor Solomon and colleagues have pinpointed the growth in the hole in 2015 to the eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile, which increased particles in the Antarctic stratosphere.
"The reason we have an ozone hole is because Antarctica is so cold that clouds form in the Antarctic stratosphere, and chlorine can react on the surfaces of those cloud particles," Professor Solomon said.
"Volcanic particles are one thing that can serve as the 'seed corn' for those clouds, so a volcanic eruption will increase the clouds, and slow down the healing."
Legacy of past pollutionThe ozone layer plays a critical role in protecting life on Earth by absorbing ultra-violet radiation from the sun. UV radiation is linked to skin cancer, genetic damage and immune system suppression in living organisms.
It is also linked to reduced productivity in agricultural crops and the food chain.
In 1987 there was an international decision to phase out the use of chlorine-containing gases called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were identified as being the main cause of depletion of the ozone layer.
But Professor Solomon said the chemicals that had led to the ozone hole had a life span of between 50 to 100 years in the atmosphere.
"These molecules have long lifetimes in our atmosphere so even though we aren't making them anymore there is still a lot in the atmosphere," she said.
"It will be many years before the hole closes completely, but we can now see signs that it is not only not getting worse, but actually starting to get better."
Professor Solomon said the discovery, published today in Science, lent hope for the fight against climate change.
"The ozone example shows that when people engage with environmental problems, policymakers have a basis for making choices," she said.
"The world decided to take an action on these chemicals, and the planet is responding as we expected. People can take heart by seeing that our choices can help the environment."………http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-01/hole-in-the-ozone-layer-is-finally-healing/7556416
Rapid collapse of ice shelves in Antarctica
Scientists Are Watching in Horror as Ice Collapses Everything we learn about ice shows that it is disturbingly fragile, even in Antarctica. National Geographic, By Douglas Fox APRIL 12, 2016 "……..The catastrophic collapse of Larsen A and several other ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula has yielded important lessons about the vulnerability of Antarctica's ice sheets to a warming climate. A new analysis of ice sheet instability, published March 31 in Nature, took the public by surprise when it projected that global sea level might rise six feet by 2100, and as much as 40 to 50 feet by the year 2500. (Read "Why the New Sea Level Alarm Can't Be Ignored.") That study seemed to double, overnight, the amount of sea level rise that can be expected. But many glacial scientists weren't surprised. The new estimate is based on insights that have emerged slowly, over 20 years, in the aftermath of these ice shelf collapses.
The Aftermath of an Ice Shelf Collapse
Explore the fjords along the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula today, and it's easy to find landscapes that look scarred even to the casual observer. …..
The glacier, now absent, had retreated several miles into its fjord. The fjord used to hold 2,000 feet (600 meters) of ice. Now it held 2,000 feet of seawater instead.
The aftermath of an ice shelf collapse is obvious in Sjögren's fjord. When the ice shelf in front of Sjögren disintegrated in 1995, it removed the buttress that stabilized the glacier. The glacier started sliding into the sea at twice its original speed. Sjögren erupted in crevasses and thinned by several hundred feet as it stretched. After a few years, the glacier had retreated miles into its fjord as icebergs splintered off the glacier's front faster than the ice could flow forward…….
Every ice shelf that disintegrated along the Antarctic Peninsula has shown the same pattern: summer melting of its top layers, winter refreezing of those top layers into icy crusts able to hold large melt ponds, and the re-exposure of long-buried crevasses.
For all of these ice shelves, the moment of death occurred suddenly. Each collapse began when water from the melt ponds drained into the crevasses. The weight of the water drove the cracks deeper—like a wedge, says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, who discovered the process. These fluid wedges eventually broke through the bottom of the ice shelf, calving off one iceberg, then another and another—a process called hydrofracturing that can devour an ice shelf nearly the size of Rhode Island in a matter of hours or days……..
Ice loss may have begun at a narrow beachhead in Antarctica, at the north end of the Antarctic Peninsula, but it has expanded on multiple fronts, as new regions of ice come into play every several years. As warm summer temperatures push farther south, so will the problems of melt ponding, ice shelf disintegration, and ice cliff collapse, which drive the rapid retreat of ice. (Read more about how calving causes mini-tsunamis daily in Antarctica.)
Scattered melt ponds already appear on some of the ice shelves that surround the Antarctic mainland, much farther south than any that have collapsed so far. The amount of ice lost each year from all of Antarctica's ice shelves has increased 12-fold between 1994 and 2012.
Aside from warm air, the fringes of Antarctica's ice are under assault from another source—warming ocean currents that melt the undersides of ice shelves. (Read more about research on what climate change will mean for whales.)……..http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160412-ice-sheet-collapse-antarctica-sea-level-rise/
Sea level rise has been underestimated – new ice studies suggest
Ice melt studies say we underestimate sea level rise, Independent Australia Peter Boyer 11 April 2016, Are melting polar ice sheets as stable as we think, or have we missed something? If a couple of new ice studies are only partly right, we face massive disruption from sea level rise within decades.
SCIENTIFIC DEBATE about this has picked up in the wake of the March publication of two major research papers by scientists from the U.S., France, Germany and China.
A paper by James Hansen and 18 other climatologists in the open-access science journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, examined ancient climate change to assess how that compares with today's melting of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
It argues that during this century, ice sheet meltwater spreading over parts of the Southern Ocean and the North Atlantic will increase the temperature variation between these cooler parts and warming regions, resulting in more violent storms.
The meltwater layer also acts as a transparent lid on warming ocean waters undermining polar ice sheets sitting on bedrock below sea level. The paper's startling prediction is that consequent disintegration could bring several metres of sea level rise within 150 years and possibly by 2070.
A paper published last week in the science journal Nature, also examining past rapid changes, looked at how the Antarctic ice sheet might react to warming of atmosphere as well as ocean, and reached similarly disturbing conclusions.
U.S. scientists Robert DeConto and David Pollard studied the puzzle of how the massive Antarctic ice sheet shed large amounts of ice over relatively short time-frames in prehistoric warming events.
Their modelling showed that if today's high carbon emissions continue, warmer air would add to the impact of warming seas. Fracturing ice shelves and coastal cliffs would bring rapid ice loss and contribute 'more than a metre of sea-level rise by 2100'………https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/ice-melt-studies-say-we-underestimate-sea-level-rise,8866
Antarctic ice sheets melting: when will the tipping point be reached?
Tipping point: how we predict when Antarctica's melting ice sheets will flood the seas https://theconversation.com/tipping-point-how-we-predict-when-antarcticas-melting-ice-sheets-will-flood-the-seas-56125 March 14, 2016 Antarctica is already feeling the heat of climate change, with rapid melting and retreat of glaciers over recent decades.
Ice mass loss from Antarctica and Greenland contributes about 20% to the current rate of global sea level rise. This ice loss is projected to increase over the coming century.
A recent article on The Conversation raised the concept of "climate tipping points": thresholds in the climate system that, once breached, lead to substantial and irreversible change.
Such a climate tipping point may occur as a result of the increasingly rapid decline of the Antarctic ice sheets, leading to a rapid rise in sea levels. But what is this threshold? And when will we reach it?
What does the tipping point look like? The Antarctic ice sheet is a large mass of ice, up to 4 km thick in some places, and is grounded on bedrock. Ice generally flows from the interior of the continent towards the margins, speeding up as it goes.
Where the ice sheet meets the ocean, large sections of connected ice – ice shelves – begin to float. These eventually melt from the base or calve off as icebergs. The whole sheet is replenished by accumulating snowfall.
Floating ice shelves act like a cork in a wine bottle, slowing down the ice sheet as it flows towards the oceans. If ice shelves are removed from the system, the ice sheet will rapidly accelerate towards the ocean, bringing about further ice mass loss.
A tipping point occurs if too much of the ice shelf is lost. In some glaciers, this may spark irreversible retreat.
Where is the tipping point?
One way to identify a tipping point involves figuring out how much shelf ice Antarctica can lose, and from where, without changing the overall ice flow substantially.
A recent study found that 13.4% of Antarctic shelf ice – distributed regionally across the continent – does not play an active role in ice flow. But if this "safety band" were removed, it would result in significant acceleration of the ice sheet.
Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning at an overall rate of about 300 cubic km per year between 2003 and 2012 and are projected to thin even further over the 21st century. This thinning will move Antarctic ice shelves towards a tipping point, where irreversible collapse of the ice shelf and increase in sea levels may follow.
How do we predict when will it happen?
Some areas of West Antarctica may be already close to the tipping point. For example, ice shelves along the coast of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas are the most rapidly thinning and have the smallest "safety bands" of all Antarctic ice shelves.
To predict when the "safety band" of ice might be lost, we need to project changes into the future. This requires better understanding of processes that remove ice from the ice sheet, such as melting at the base of ice shelves and iceberg calving.
Melting beneath ice shelves is the main source of Antarctic ice loss. It is driven by contact between warmer sea waters and the underside of ice shelves.
To figure out how much ice will be lost in the future requires knowledge of how quickly the oceans are warming, where these warmer waters will flow, and the role of the atmosphere in modulating these interactions. That's a complex task that requires computer modelling.
Predicting how quickly ice shelves break up and form icebergs is less well understood and is currently one of the biggest uncertainties in future Antarctic mass loss. Much of the ice lost when icebergs calve occurs in the sporadic release of extremely large icebergs, which can be tens or even hundreds of kilometres across.
It is difficult to predict precisely when and how often large icebergs will break off. Models that can reproduce this behaviour are still being developed.
Scientists are actively researching these areas by developing models of ice sheets and oceans, as well as studying the processes that drive mass loss from Antarctica. These investigations need to combine long-term observations with models: model simulations can then be evaluated and improved, making the science stronger.
The link between ice sheets, oceans, sea ice and atmosphere is one of the least understood, but most important factors in Antarctica's tipping point. Understanding it better will help us project how much sea levels will rise, and ultimately how we can adapt.
Near record expansion of ozone hole over Antarctica
Ozone hole over Antarctica expands to near-record levels, now four times size of Australia, ABC News The World Today , 3 Nov 15 By Lucy Carter The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has expanded to near-record levels this year, covering an area almost four times the size of Australia.
Scientists from the UN said the increase was due to colder-than-usual temperatures, rather than any extra damage being done to the Earth's protective layer.
But that could still mean extra UV radiation and the risk of more people getting sunburnt in Australia's southern states this summer.
The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has been carefully monitored for over 30 years.
According to atmospheric scientist Professor David Karoly from the University of Melbourne, its size fluctuates greatly when it emerges each spring. "Each springtime over the last now nearly 35 years, there's been a depletion of stratospheric ozone over Antarctica primarily due to two really important factors," he said.
"It's the increase in ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere and a very special cold conditions that occur in winter and spring over Antarctica which provide a special, if you like, catalytic ozone destruction vessel that allows the ozone to be rapidly deployed by the higher concentrations of chlorofluorocarbons — ozone-depleting chemicals that have occurred in the stratosphere due to human activity."
The UN's weather and climate agency said this year's seasonal ozone hole peaked on October 2, covering an area over Antarctica of 28.2 million square kilometres — close to four times the size of Australia or the size of Russia and Canada combined…….
"We do know that the substances that cause the ozone hole, the chlorines and bromines up there are decreasing … have decreased by about 18 per cent since their peak in the late 1990s, early 2000s," he said.
Since 1987, gases known to cause ozone depletion have been banned and last year the World Meteorological Organisation reported the first positive signs of "ozone recovery".
Professor David Karoly from the University of Melbourne said this fluctuation in size was not a long-term concern.
"It makes it harder to then see the long-term improvement, the declining trend in the size of the ozone hole but that is still expected to continue," he said.
"We expect in the southern hemisphere that the ozone hole will not completely recover for another 40 to 60 years, when it recovers back to pre-1980 levels when the ozone hole was first discovered."
However, this year's ozone hole size does have the potential to affect Australians.
"Once the ozone hole does start to break up, air that's depleted in ozone may be transported over to the southern parts of Australia which can, of course, during those periods increase the amount of UV radiation which in the Earth's surface," Mr Krummel said.
"So there could be a tendency for a bit more sunburn. "I would say mostly the southern states is where it is likely to impact……..http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-30/ozone-hole-over-antarctica-expands-to-near-record-levels/6898824
Narrow window of opportunity to prevent rapid drastic fall in Antarctic ice sheets
the results leave a narrow opening through which humanity can slip. If temperatures remain within 2C (3.6F), the collapse of the shelves will stabilise and the sheets will remain mostly intact. Sea-level rise from Antarctica would remain within 23cm (9 inches) by 2300.
To achieve this, the authors said the world will have to follow the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) lowest emissions scenario.This requires global emissions to peak around 2020 and decline to below zero by 2100.
The new study "ultimately confirm[s] the suspicions of earlier glaciologists that the fate of ice shelves largely determines whether Antarctica contributes less than 1 metre or up to 9 metres to long-term sea-level rise"
Antarctic ice sheets face catastrophic collapse without deep emissionscuts, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/14/antarctic-ice-sheets-face-catastrophic-collapse-without-deep-emissions-cuts Guardian, Karl Mathiesen, 15 Oct 15
Study finds that a global temperature increase of 3C would cause ice shelves to disappear, triggering sea-level rise that would continue for thousands of years. A team of researchers has found that steep cuts to emissions during the next decade are the only way to avoid a catastrophic collapse of Antarctic ice sheets and associated sea-level rise that will continue for thousands of years.
The study, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, found that should the global temperature increase to around 3C (5.4F) above the pre-industrial era then the ice shelves that hold back the giant continental ice sheets would be lost over the next few centuries. Continue reading
Climate action can slow down the disastrous melting of Antarctic ice shelves
New study projects that melting of Antarctic ice shelves will intensify http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/whoi-nsp100915.phpWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION New research published today projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and that by 2100 melting may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse, if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel consumption continue at the present rate.
Ice shelves are the floating extensions of the continent's massive land-based ice sheets. While the melting or breakup of floating ice shelves does not directly raise sea level, ice shelves do have a "door stop" effect: They slow the flow of ice from glaciers and ice sheets into the ocean, where it melts and raises sea levels.
"Our results illustrate just how rapidly melting in Antarctica can intensify in a warming climate," said Luke Trusel, lead author and postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). "This has already occurred in places like the Antarctic Peninsula where we've observed warming and abrupt ice shelf collapses in the last few decades. Our model projections show that similar levels of melt may occur across coastal Antarctica near the end of this century, raising concerns about future ice shelf stability."
The study, published Oct. 12, 2015, in Nature Geoscience, was conducted by Trusel, Clark University Associate Professor of Geography Karen Frey, WHOI scientists Sarah Das and Kristopher Karnauskas, Peter Kuipers Munneke and Michiel R. van den Broeke of the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht University, and Erik van Meijgaard of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
To study how melting evolves over time and to predict future ice sheet melting along the entire Antarctic coastline, the scientists combined satellite observations of ice surface melting with climate model simulations under scenarios of intermediate and high levels of greenhouse gas emissions until the year 2100.
The results indicate a strong potential for the doubling of Antarctica-wide ice sheet surface melting by 2050, under either emissions scenario. However, between 2050 and 2100, the models reveal a significant divergence between the two scenarios. Under the high-emissions climate scenario, by 2100 ice sheet surface melting approaches or exceeds intensities associated with ice shelf collapse in the past. Under the reduced-emissions scenario, there is relatively little increase in ice sheet melting after the doubling in 2050.
"The data presented in this study clearly show that climate policy, and therefore the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming century, have an enormous control over the future fate of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves, which we must consider when assessing their long-term stability and potential indirect contributions to sea level rise," said Frey.
Funding for the research was provided by NASA, the Doherty Postdoctoral Scholarship Program at WHOI, the Netherlands Earth System Science Centre, the Polar Program of the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research, and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, non-profit organization on Cape Cod, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the ocean and its interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the ocean's role in the changing global environment. For more information, please visitwww.whoi.edu.
The significance of Antarctica's melting ice shelves, in climate change
Why scientists are so worried about the ice shelves of Antarctica, WP, By Chelsea Harvey October 12 When it comes to climate change, Antarctica is one of the world's major places of concern, mostly because of the sheer amount of ice it contains — enough to theoretically cause about 200 feet of sea-level rise if it were all to melt — not that anyone thinks that will happen anytime soon. Still, smaller parts could be destabilized, and understanding how the Antarctic ice sheet will react to future climate change is a big priority for scientists.
One important key to building this understanding is studying Antarctic ice shelves, which are large, floating platforms of ice — sometimes spanning hundreds or thousands of square miles — that form where where an ice sheet meets the ocean.
"They play an incredibly important role in constraining the flow of this land ice into the ocean," says Luke Trusel, a postdoctoral scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, comparing ice shelves to the "cork in a champagne bottle." If an ice shelf breaks off, it can unleash a flow of ice into the ocean from the ice sheet behind it, which can contribute to sea-level rise in a major way. Indeed, without ice shelves to provide buttressing, glaciers behind the ice shelves flow faster, pouring more and more ice into the ocean.
[Scientists declare an 'urgent' mission – study West Antarctica, and fast]
In order to get a better grip on how climate change could affect Antarctic ice shelves, Trusel and a group of other researchers conducted a study to see how rising air temperatures might affect surface melting in Antarctica. This is a process that can directly influence the destabilizing of ice shelves.
Past observations have shown that as ice melts on a shelf's surface, the melted water starts to pool, or "pond," and trickle down into imperfections in the ice, causing the cracks to deepen and widen — which can eventually cause ice shelves to collapse, unleashing the flow of land ice behind them.
"Increases in air temperature, and surface melt and ponding, has led to the abrupt and catastrophic collapse of a number of ice shelves," says Trusel, lead author of the study, which was published Monday in Nature Geoscience. These collapses have mostly been observed on the Antarctic Peninsula, where the thinning and retreat of ice shelves has been particularly pronounced, thanks to higher-than-average warming in the area. The concern, though, is that more ice shelves that ring around Antarctica, including its colder regions, will start to give way as temperatures continue to rise and that other more inland parts of Antarctica will then follow suit.
The researchers used models to investigate the potential future impacts of two different climate scenarios: a "business-as-usual" trajectory, in which greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the century, and a more middle-of-the-road trajectory, in which emissions start declining before mid-century and there's less associated global warming.
They found that under both scenarios, Antarctic-wide surface melt doubles by the year 2050, with the amount of meltwater produced coming close to 200 gigatons per year (a gigaton is a billion metric tons). This is a troubling finding, said Nerilie Abram, a researcher from the Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at Australian National University who was not involved with the study, in an e-mail to The Post. But, she said, "I think that the more interesting result is to look at the huge divergence in predicted Antarctic ice melt during the second half of the century."
After 2050, the projections for the two climate scenarios differ drastically. In the middle-of-the-road scenario, melt doesn't increase much after mid-century. But in the business-as-usual scenario, melt continues to speed up, eventually hitting a rate of more than 600 gigatons per year by the end of the century.
"The most important results are … that we can see how quickly melting can evolve," Trusel said. The results suggest that ice shelf surface melting increases exponentially with air temperature……….
One of the most important takeaways from the paper is "how important human action is on the climate of Antarctica," Trusel added in a follow-up e-mail to The Post. Past observations show that humans have already altered the face of the continent, and the projections suggest that we have the power to continue doing so, he said.
"This shows that we do have a choice in how the Earth changes over the coming century," said Abram, the researcher from Australian National University. "[We have] the option of a future where many of Antarctica's ice shelves are still viable if we can curb emissions, compared to a future where many of Antarctica's remaining ice shelves will probably have been lost if we continue our current emissions trajectory." http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/12/why-scientists-are-worried-about-the-ice-shelves-of-antarctica/
Failure of USA's small scale reactor in Antarctica – costly and cancer-causing
This is quite an old article, but I find it remarkable because, for once, it mentions the enormous cost of security measures needed for small nuclear reactors in remote areas.
That is what is being proposed for Australia – by both the thorium enthusiasts, and the overseas companies desperate to keep the nuclear industry alive by selling small reactors to Australa (or, even more insidiously, by providing them to Australia "for free", in exchange for South Australia importing radioactive trash, as outlined by nuclear proponent Oscar Archer )
the PM-2A's purpose was to test whether reactors could be built in remote locations using prefabricated parts.
After the reactor was closed down, the US shipped 7700 cubic metres of radioactive contaminated rock and dirt to California, but passed through Dunedin, with a population of 124,000, the second largest city on New Zealand's South Island, where it stayed for four days, raising local concerns, the New Zealand news site stuff.co.nz.
Russia has found that the logistics of even finding customers for its ANPP's outweigh even the logistics of operating the plants. Russia has staked a financial bonanza on prospective orders for the plants, but there are, simply, no takers. And if there were, the logistics of securing such a plant against terrorists or accidents in remote areas would require at least the staff of a stationary plant.
Small-scale US nuclear reactor blamed for spiking cancer rates, casting pall over Russia's FNPP fetish AMSTERDAM – A small nuclear power plant operated the United States at Antarctica's McMurdo Sound has been implicated in dozens of cases of an unusual cancer in personnel who worked at or near the station between the years 1964 and 1973, US and New Zealand media have indicated. March 7, 2011 by Bellona Continue reading
Tipping point for some Antarctic glaciers reached in 2009
Some Antarctic glaciers reached a tipping point in 2009 SARA PHILLIPS ABC Environmen t22 MAY 2015
Antarctic glaciers on the Bellinghausen Sea coast suddenly started melting in 2009.Credit: Alba Martin Espanol (Science)
Antarctic glaciers emptying into the Bellinghausen Sea all suddenly started melting around 2009. Scientists warn the sea level rise could be dramatic.
THE FIRST SIGNS Antarctic glaciers have reached some kind of melting 'tipping point' have been noticed by scientists from Europe.
The group of eight scientists, led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University of Bristol used sophisticated satellite measurements of the Antarctic glaciers that empty into the Bellinghausen Sea, on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula which reaches up almost to South America.
Glaciers are in effect, frozen rivers of snowpack, moving incrementally towards the ocean. These glaciers have existed in their current form for at least 5,000 years.
The scientists found that the height of the glaciers had dropped — some by as much as four metres. By analysing years of data, they could rule out the snow becoming more compact or a reduction in snowfall as the cause. This left only one possibility: that the glaciers were sliding faster towards the sea.
"The most likely explanation is that the glaciers have accelerated because the temperature of the ocean water has increased in the area, which we know from measurements. These warm waters will melt the floating ice shelves and the glaciers where they enter the sea from below and cause them to lose more ice," said Dr Wouters, Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.
As the sea ice holding back the glaciers melts away, the glaciers slide faster into the sea. Last week researchers warned that elsewhere in Antarctica, the Larsen C ice shelf could collapse this century and what remains of the Larsen B ice shelf would be all gone by 2020, the majority of it having collapsed in 2002.
A tipping point
Curiously, the glaciers studied were relatively stable until 2009. After then, Dr Wouters said the glaciers appeared to have reached a "tipping point" with the glaciers studied simultaneously starting to slip into the sea…….http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2015/05/22/4239285.htm
'Stable' Antarctic ice sheet no longer stable
'Stable' Antarctic ice sheet may have started collapsing, scientists say, Guardian, Karl Mathiesen, 22 May 15 Southern Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet losing ice 8,500 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza every year, satellite data shows A vast slab of Antarctic ice that was previously stable may have started to collapse, according to new analysis of satellite data.
Research published in the journal Science on Thursday found the Southern Antarctic Peninsula (SAP) ice sheet is losing ice into the ocean at a rate of 56 gigatons each year – about 8,500 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. This adds around 0.16mm per year to the global sea level.
The sheet's thickness has remained stable since satellite observations began in 1992. But Professor Jonathan Bamber of Bristol university, who co-authored the study, said that around 2009 it very suddenly began to thin by an average of 42cm each year. Some areas had fallen by up to 4m.
"It hasn't been going up, it hasn't been going down – until 2009. Then it just seemed to pass some kind of critical threshold and went over a cliff and it's been losing mass at a pretty much constant, rather large, rate," said Bamber……http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/21/stable-antarctic-ice-sheet-may-have-started-collapsing-scientists-say
Uranium miner Rio Tinto lies about its "sustainability"
Unsustainable: the ugly truth about Rio Tinto', also reveals that Rio Tinto's sustainability reporting contrasts sharply with the company's actual performance in all four categories. It shows how Rio Tinto's reckless pursuit of profit at any cost has caused disputes with numerous unions as well as environmental, indigenous and community groups. Most of the disputes covered in the report are ongoing. Rio Tinto has continued to provoke disputes in the three months since the report was released:
- with South African regulators by illegally operating a coal mine for a decade;
- with injured Australian workers by systematically targeting them in a layoff;
- with leaders in Zimbabwe by reportedly reneging on a pledge to support community development programs;
- and with the people of Papua New Guinea by rejecting calls for an investigation into the company's role in a bloody civil war.
Rio Tinto will go on provoking disputes and operating in an unsustainable manner unless it believes that doing so could threaten its license to operate. To reform Rio Tinto, first we must threaten its 'license to operate'
Rio Tinto's 'Sustainable Mining' Claims Exposed By Kemal Özkan http://www.globalresearch.ca/rio-tintos-sustainable-mining-claims-exposed/5394301 July 31, 2014 Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost. Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to operate. Now, a global campaign is demanding that Rio Tinto live up to its sustainability claims.
Rio Tinto subsidiary, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), has threatened the Mirarr people that if it is not allowed to expand its Ranger uranium mining operations underground, it may be unable to fully fund rehabilitation of the open pit mine. The Ranger mine is located in the traditional lands of the Mirarr, the world heritage-listed Kakadu national park in Australia's Northern Territory. If ERA does not complete rehabilitation of the site, which suffered a radioactive spill last year, the water, air quality and soil in the area could be scarred with toxic radiation for generations. Continue reading
Veterans exposed to radiation at Antarctic Naval Base
Federal hearings exploring radiation exposure among McMurdo Navy veterans get underway in Washington http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/federal-hearings-exploring-radiation-exposure-among-mcmurdo-navy-veterans-get-underway-in-washington Prompted by exclusive 5 On Your Side investigation Ron Regan, newsnet5.com WASHINGTON – Federal hearings prompted by an exclusive 5 On Your Side investigation into radiation exposure among McMurdo Navy veterans are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning.
Our investigative series revealed how a nuclear reactor at McMurdo Naval base in Antarctica continued to leak radiation for years and a possible link to cancer.
Our report documented 432 malfunctions at the plant from 1964 through 1972 while thousands of Navy veterans were stationed there.
Complaints from veterans dying from cancer were ignored by the Veterans Administration until our report exposed the radiation leaking that Navy veterans said was kept secret for decades.
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Olympus E-PL1 Review
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Studio scene comparison (RAW)
For a (more) level playing field for comparison we also shot our studio scene in RAW mode with each camera and converted it using Adobe Camera RAW (in this case a Beta version of ACR 5.6). Because Adobe Camera RAW applies different levels of sharpening to different cameras (this confirmed) we had to use the following workflow for these conversions:
- Load RAW file into Adobe Camera RAW (Auto mode disabled)
- Set Sharpness to 0 (all other settings default)
- Open file to Photoshop
- Apply a Unsharp mask: 80%, Radius 1.0, Threshold 0
- Save as a TIFF (for cropping) and as a JPEG quality 11 for download
This is our standard studio scene comparison shot taken from exactly the same tripod position. Lighting: daylight simulation, >98% CRI. Crops are 100%. Ambient temperature was approximately 22°C (~72°F). Camera settings as per previous pages.
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The E-PL1's advantage over the E-P2 are still visible in RAW. Again the differences are subtle but the PL1 gets a tiny bit more detail out of what is, in essence, the same sensor.
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The studio panel tonight are Michael O' Keefe, Former Dublin Footballer and MD Pembroke Communications; Martin Breheny, Irish Independent; Dr Paul Rouse, UCD Historian; Sean Potts, Gaelic Players Association and on the phone by Liam Griffin, Former Wexford Hurling Manager, and Mícheál O Muircheartaigh, former broadcaster
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The Late Debate, provides lively discussion and analysis of politics and current affairs with politicians, commentators and the country's key political and parliamentary correspondents.
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Whatever The Mind Can Conceive!
For the Past 24 weeks, I have been training my brain to be able to have the freedom to think without the outside world haveing any affect on me. Once you find your Chief aim in life and do the work it takes to become successful. There is nothing stopping you for you have everything you need inside you to do what every it is you want out of life. I said many times the world within creates your world without (meaning your life). When you change that word within, meaning your mind and what you think and believe. Whatever The Mind can conceive and Believe. This will create your life. It is the Law of attraction. 2015 sessions training ends tomorrow with GRADUATION!
Whatever The Mind Can Conceive!
Now we continue on our own. This opens scholarships for the 2016 year to begin soon. It always fills up fast. Get on the list if you want to be notified early to get your scholarship and free your mind to think clearly without any limiting beliefs.
#MasterKeyExperience has been around for a long time.
I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonies and happy!
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Airports today are overcrowded, planes are fighting for terminal space, airport traffic is unbelievable, and the passengers are suffering. But as air travel increases, the crash rate remains constant. Projections for the next tens years says there will be one crash a week. Customer service at airlines is getting worse and airports in general are a mess.
What can be done to improve the situation? Who is to blame, the FAA, the airports or the airlines? Passenger satisfaction is at an all time low. What are the solutions?
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What was I doing in the yard this morning? I went out for some reason.
I remember: I had my shoes on already and needed to turn off the pool filter, so I went through the cellar door rather than take my shoes off and go through the house.
There were slugs all over the grass. Four-inch brown ones.
It's a good thing I had my shoes on.
The air smelled briefly of toast, a neighbor was making breakfast.
The sky was blue.
The flowers were tall.
The ants were scarce.
I sprinkled some cinnamon along their trail to fuck with them. Don't know if it will help – I hear it does – but the house sure smells nice.
When I battle ants I have to think of the "Zanti Misfits" episode of The Outer Limits.
My wife is in southern Austria researching her family history.
My daughters are in Vietnam. They are posting beautiful pictures to Instagram and Facebook.
This amazes me in a couple ways.
When I was their age, or a little younger, you might go to Vietnam but you didn't go for tourism.
When I was their age, when you went on a trip, your parents just worried for a couple weeks, or months, until you got back. They couldn't see the awesome things you were doing by checking their social media feeds.
Also it amazes me that they are such travelers, because I dislike traveling.
I like staying where I am.
That's the secret reason I live in Europe. I couldn't be arsed to go home.
They are all traveling, so I find myself alone this week.
Except for pets and vermin.
Theoretically it's the perfect time to be alone, summer. No better time to go out and get into trouble.
Get up to no good.
Commit shenanigans.
Instead, I go for walks or sit around on a lawn chair and stare into space and watch the sun go down because going out is too much work.
But that's okay. A week of introspection could be a good thing. I've been really sick of myself lately, as one is at times. This would be a good chance to figure things out, if one knew what things needed to be figured out.
What have I learned?
I can hold my breath for two minutes and 40 seconds with minimal hyperventilation.
That's all, so far.
Someone asked me how I was, recently, as one does.
I'm not depressed or sad.
I'm just sick of myself.
A little isolated and creepy, the way one gets when one neglects friendships.
(That's one thing that gets easier as you get older – creeping people out).
Still amazed at the beauty of the world and stuff.
Need a haircut. This alone would tell me I am not depressed: I called the haircut place and made an appointment, despite my hatred of talking on the phone.
Also, just forced myself to finish a book that had lots of great reviews, although it sucked. A little angry that sucky books get good reviews.
Do you ever wonder how your train of thought brought you somewhere? Like, you start out wondering how to be a good person, or more charming, or how making art functions, and suddenly you're wondering if anyone wrote a science fiction story about an invasion of alien life forms that people don't realize are alien life forms because the aliens have no physical bodies: they are ideas.
Such as, for example, Neoliberal Capitalism. Destroying the world, but people assume it was their own idea so they just shrug and think, There Is No Alternative.
Or you wonder if anyone wrote a story about a planet that was terraformed by taking the excess carbon out of the atmosphere (to make the climate and rest of the environment pleasant) and hiding it deep, deep down in the ground where no one would ever find it, in the form of petroleum and coal.
Maybe you don't.
Zanti Misfits
What was I doing in the yard this morning? I went out for some reason.
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7 things
At the window in Connemara
I see seven things my father loved:
a brand new sunrise in a rainy sky
ponies in a grassy pasture
trees bending in wind
a white shed
heavy machinery (a red backhoe)
a wood plank corral
his granddaughter, still asleep
me, reflected
8 things
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metamorphosism.com 2016 St. Valentine's Day Limerick Contest
This year's contest is finished!
Thanks to everyone who entered.
Here are the winners (I was going to leave them in the comments, but they're not working for me. Are they broken for you too? Did anyone try to enter and find it impossible? Dang.)
Third place: Tomas Green
Second place: Tim Rebstock
First place: KayO
Congratulations, everyone and thanks for entering!!
Welcome to the 2016 edition of the metamorphosism.com International Limerick Contest.
Please leave your entries in the comments to this post.
Enter as often as you like.
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No one knows why.
- Does it have to be a limerick? YES. The judges are very strict. Google proper limerick form if you are not sure.
- How do I enter? POST YOUR ENTRY OR ENTRIES in the comments to this post. Click on comment, or whatever is down there, and add a new comment.
- When is the deadline? THE DEADLINE is 14 February 2016
- Do you mean 12 midnight on the night of the 13th or midnight on the night of the 14th? And which time zone shall have seisin of jurisdiction? We have had considerably confusion in the past! NINE AM (CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME) 14 February.
- Oh by the way, I have a Quince tree on Cranes Lane. I think I should get a multiplier for that fact. OK, BY ALL MEANS. Secret multiplier in place.
- Is there a prize? NOT YET but that might change. I have 5kg of quince in my kitchen and hope to make some marmalade and some preserves tonite. UPDATE: I have tried the quince marmalade and it tastes okay so a winner could have a jar of that I guess, but only within Europe because shipping. Not sure about the quince/whisky preserves, haven't tried that yet so no promises.
- Is there a limit to how often I can enter? NO. Enter as often as you like. The more often you enter, the better your chances.
- Can entries be bawdy? YES, absolutely. These are limericks, they can be bawdy, gross, you name it. It's not required, but it is in the nature of the genre. ALSO: this is for St. Valentine's Day so points awarded for love/romance/sex-related poetry.
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Alternatives to neo-liberal capitalism
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Now, get cracking.
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Trumpauguration Trump
Trumpways trumpwards-looking, I humbly trumpmit this trumpaguration trump, in the trumps of trumponstrating my trumpfication for the new trumpice of Trumpetary of Trumplish, the trump of which will be to trumpify the Trumplish trumpuage by, where trumpible, trumplacing the first trump of every trump of any trumportance with the trump "trump".
"My trumplow Trumpericans! Trumpday is a trumpous trump. Trumping here trumpfore you, trumping to you from the trump trumpden of the Trumphouse, I trump to you this: we trumpebrate a trumperful trumptory trumpday. We have trumped those who trumped us, trumpocracy has trumpvailed. And this is trumply the trumpginning. With the trumpport of our trumplies, as soon as we have some, and by trumpselves trumptil then, we shall teach our trumpemies a trumpson, we will trump over there in our trumpforce and trump them back to the Trump Age and they will trump that the Trumpited Trumps of Trump are a trump to be trumpened with. From Trumpifornia to Trump York, Trumpaska, Trumpwaii and Trumpington to Trumpida, the Trumpified Trumps have a single trump: to trump every trump in this sad little trump that we will trump them in the trumping trump, that we will trump them, as the trumpneck said in the trump "Trumpiverance", "trump like a trump." Now get back to trump."
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I woke up, fed the cats, and (here is the innovation) went back to bed for another hour.
Here is one theory of multiple universes: every time you select one of two (or more) alternatives, new universes are created: one in which you did the other thing.
One in which I did not go back to bed, but instead moped around the kitchen for an hour, or went down into my room to write something in a journal.
Or this one: I was standing in front of the Vienna Observatory park making a movie of a tree. A young man nearby waited until I had finished and said, You're a professor, right? Unfortunately not, I said sadly. (Although we just created an alternate universe in which I am, I did not add.)Undaunted, he asked me if this was the entrance to the Vienna Observatory. I said I believed it was. However it is locked although past opening time, he pointed out (creating an unlocked-gate alternate universe).
I sometimes go for walks in this park, I said, and this is not the first time the gate is locked past opening time. IIRC, there may be another gate up the hill at the other corner, I said.
The young man told me he was to attend an internship for school. Good luck, I said. He left and walked uphill. When I got there (I was dinking around with filters, uploading the film to Instagram) he was nowhere to be seen, and I assumed he had gone in the gate (which was open).
Or this one: in one universe you donate furniture to the Red Cross for refugees, in another you take the furniture apart and drive it to some refugees a friend knows and give it to them personally and you and the refugees and your friends who introduced you carry it up to their apartment (luckily the elevator is working in this universe because they live on the 5th floor) and there you sit amidst a pile of pieces of desk and wardrobe in their living room and realize that, in this universe, you did not think to label the pieces, trusting your memory.
A family of six people watch your every move. Plus two friends and their little boy. 'No pressure, Mig,' says one friend.
I took pictures, luckily, you say, unlocking your phone and scrolling through pictures until you find them. In another universe the pictures are really helpful.
You eventually get the desk assembled, or almost – when you are nearly done your wife calls you and informs you you forgot a piece at home. Luckily it is the last piece, so you assemble everything but that, and bring that by the following day.
Also luckily, the refugees are intelligent and observant, and watch you closely, handing you screws right when you need them, or pulling a drawer out so you can tighten a bolt right when you need the drawer pulled out, without you having to say anything.
Forking and forking, good old reality.
Posted by mig in Das Gehirn, Familie, ferner liefen, Metamorphosism
Tags: alternate, assembly, bifurcation, furniture, reality, refugees, universes
The top google result for "voice control" is "how do you turn off voice control?"
Anonymous man: Exits shower, dries off, sits down on toilet, looks at telephone.
Anonymous man: "Let's see how many people liked that shakey picture of trees I ran through that brown filter."
Anonymous man: Presses home button on phone.
Phone: Activates voice control.
Anonymous man: "No thank you I don't want effing voice control." Presses random buttons.
Anonymous man: "Christ how do you turn off voice control?"
Phone: "INITIATING FACETIME WITH RENEE DAVIS."
Anonymous man: "Wut?"
Anonymous man: "No, Jesus, this is the worst of all possible times to facetime anyone. I don't want to facetime anyone." Pushes more buttons.
Phone: "INITIATING…"
Anonymous man: "Nononono." Finds off button. Wonders if it worked. Puts phone into cabinet just in case.
Posted by mig in Metamorphosism
I had been kind of worried about these thistles this summer. I had meant to shoot them last year but never managed; this year we are having a heat wave and I was afraid it would happen again. Made time this morning though and did a few.
I really like these thistles. I planted them several years ago after someone at the nursery told me local bugs like them. They are popular with wasps and some black and yellow hornet-looking guys; I was surprised no one stung me when I cut a few to put into the vase.
Posted by mig in ferner liefen, Metamorphosism, photography
Tags: photography, still life, thistles, wet plate, wet plate collodion


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Meteorological Instruments: Rain Gaugesby Eijkelkamp Soil & Water Distributor in DENMARK
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It seems that almost every person who enjoys computer-based games has, at some point, sat down with a copy of some version of SimCity and tried it out. For some, the lure of godlike power over an entire city paled in comparison to the blood and gore of their favorite first-person shooters. (It does take a certain someone to try to organize the myriad workings and economics of an entire city when they could just as easily run around blasting bad guys with plasma rifles in a space arena somewhere.) Some of us, however, have sat down with a SimCity variant only to snap out of our game-induced stupor half a day later, finding ourselves the mayor of a city with a quarter-million happy citizens. For us, these top-down, huge-scale simulated world games could be laced with narcotics and not have any more appeal, and SimCity 3000 Unlimited is the best of the best in a game genre it helped to create.
SimCity 3000 Unlimited is the latest installment in what has become Maxis' flagship series and is the first to make it to Linux. There is no real story line, per se, though it is playable in short bursts in games with specific goals. As we'll talk about in a minute, the most powerful SimCity 3000 addictions come from its prowess in open-ended games that allow players to build an entire metropolis completely from scratch. You start with a little money and a plot of land that you get to modify to your own personal specifications. Then you start creating your city, zoning areas for the desired type of development in the area, implementing an array of complex civil engineering feats and performing various city management duties, like balancing a budget, implementing taxation on your citizens, passing ordinances, etc. As you get more money from taxation, your city grows organically (you get more money, you expand your city in a way that attracts people, more people move in, you get more money), and through dealings with other nearby cities, you can create relationships to facilitate your city's growth. In this mode of play, the game is basically done when you think you've accomplished all you can with the design you've chosen. Then you go back and start again, using lessons you've learned from previous cities to make your new city even better.
New for SimCity 3000 Unlimited is the ability to again play "scenarios", a feature found on SimCity 2000 but notably absent in the first release of SimCity 3000 (the non-Unlimited version). These thirteen new scenarios basically put you in a specific situation in a prebuilt city and challenge you to use your expert leadership skills to save the day. For example, in the "Criminalville" scenario, mobs haven taken over Moscow, and it's your job to sort out the mess and give them what they want. In "Fall of the Wall", you must connect East and West Berlin and "bring balance to the city". Some of these scenarios are quite easy and can be played in 45 minutes to an hour, while others will have you biting your lip in frustration at 4 A.M. on a Tuesday.
As one might expect from a game whose focus is on minute fiscal and physical management of a huge metropolis, SimCity 3000 Unlimited's game play may seem complex at first. If you've played a SimCity version before, the overall feel will be quite close to that, though there are some evolutionary interface enhancements that will seem natural to a veteran. If you've never played SimCity before (what planet are you from again?), the controls may seem a bit much at first. However, they will become as natural as breathing with minimal effort on your part. Maxis has gone to great pains to make SimCity's interface as user-friendly and intuitive as possible.
At the start of the game, you're able to model the approximately 100 square miles of landscape to your own personal specifications and to a high degree of detail. No longer are you limited to simply settling for a randomly generated map; with SC3U, you can create a random map or edit every feature (from mountains, to lakes, to trees or anything else) of a map of your choosing, or you can opt to use a map based on the topographies of several famous cities, such as Bonn, London and Boston. You can also opt for the types of terrain you want your selected landscape to be placed on (from desert to snow-covered), what style of buildings will be built and even which of the five available varieties of plant life will grow in your world. The grid's appearance is highly customizable; not only can the basic types of buildings be chosen, but SC3U's Building Replacement Manager allows you to swap out old-style buildings you don't like for new ones of your choosing. Don't like any of the seemingly endless array of prefabricated buildings available to you? Use SimCity 3000's Building Architect Plus to modify existing buildings or create your own complex structures from scratch using BAP's 3-D building creation environment. Remember now, this isn't the game, just the options available to play the game. While this level of complexity may not appeal to everyone, it's nice to know it's an option if you want it.
The game itself is played continuously (though it can be paused) as your city grows. You create and control everything from transportation infrastructure (subways, trains, roads, airports, seaports, etc.) to the placement of landmarks, from outfitting and maintaining the police department to managing your city's water supply and running appropriate plumbing to your neighborhoods. You're in charge of controlling pollution and dealing with the city's garbage problems. You must zone your city appropriately to attract a balance of residents with industry for them to work in and commercial businesses for them to spend their hard-earned cash in. (There are even three types of each of these zones—low, medium and dense—corresponding to the types of businesses/residences you're looking to build in a given area.) You still control taxation, but this is no longer your only source of income; you can pass ordinances that will make your city money (allowing gambling and casinos, for example) and/or generally make your city a better place. You can also make special trade agreements with nearby cities to put money in your pocket. For instance, is your water system more than adequate for your city's current needs? Why not sell some of that water to a neighbor for a while? To keep the mayor apprised with the latest information as the game progresses, you're kept up to date by a scrolling ticker along the bottom of your screen, which is actually a refreshing change from the somewhat irritating newspaper-style information windows that would occasionally pop up in earlier versions. You also have a staff of advisors who freely offer their opinions to you from time to time and who are available to consult with when you are uncertain about how to proceed.
The SC3U graphics are superb. Each building is actually created in a 3-D environment with painstaking detail. You'll find more than 400 different varieties of buildings (hundreds more than previous SimCity versions). What's more, if you decide halfway through the game that you want to switch on the fly to a completely different style of architecture (say, from European to Asian), you can do it with the press of a mouse button. You can even build any of the dozens of included real-life landmarks like the World Trade Center, United Nations building or the Eiffel Tower to spruce up your city's skyline. Also, the in-game animations are just awesome. The Thanksgiving parades are optional, but when you choose to have them, zoom in for a close view and what you'll see is nothing short of amazing; full screens of people, marching bands, shriners in little cars, floats and even those huge inflated parade balloons; all taking their time to meander down your streets from one end of town to the other. This level of attention to detail is really one of the main reasons SC3U looks so good.
Find that your city is looking just too good and you want another challenge? Why not unleash one of the many canned disasters on your city and then try to clean up the mess? There are four new disasters in SC3U not found in earlier versions, as well as a great collection of old favorites, from riots to plagues of locusts to Armageddon-like space debris. If you want to make it interesting (or are just feeling destructive), the fine folks at Maxis have given you the tools to do it.
The music is, well, it's Maxis—you sort of expect the music to be a bit weird. It's soft and soothing and prone to put you in a trancelike state of mayoral bliss for extended periods of time, but it can get old after a while. I found myself switching off the computer speakers to help me concentrate from time to time. Again, this isn't a cut on the music per se, it is well-done music, but any music would probably start to get old after the half-days of gaming that SC3U can induce.
too bad loki kicked the bucket and will no longer sell the game. lame.
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