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Can the Arab Spring's Revolutionary Fervor translate into great art?
The cosmetics shop, situated inside a mall on the outskirts of Cairo, is called Kamanana. The word is plastered above the doorway on a garish yellow sign. It means nothing--a nonsense word, as musicians say. It was introduced by Mohamed Fouad, the famous Egyptian singer, in the hit song from his 1997 film Ismailia Back and Forth. The movie was so successful that the word became embedded in the popular consciousness. It is understood to be synonymous with "everything." "What do you want?" Fouad asks in the song. "Kamanana."
Seated in a restaurant near the mall's entrance, Fouad is subject to a steady stream of adoration. Members of the wait staff thank him for coming. Women pose for photos. Men shake his hand. Fouad takes it all in stride. "Mohamed Fouad is for all," he says.
Or at least he used to be. Fouad has a problem. He doesn't know how to sing for anyone these days.
To Fouad, each of his songs is a miniature drama, conceived with a finger on the popular pulse. It has a beginning, middle, and end, just like a film, but its message is distilled into a few short minutes, making it more like a movie trailer. "A song is the same," he says. "You can convey a picture: what is the moment that we're living?" A successful song, for Fouad, is something like a trailer for the times--or a good ad, resonating with regular Egyptians because it reflects how they're feeling and what they want.
When Egypt's protest movement began last winter, Fouad went on television, crying, and pleaded with people to leave the streets. He says that, like many Egyptians, he was simply afraid. He has come around to embrace the revolution but now feels lost in the murkiness that has settled in since. The old Egypt is gone, and a new one has yet to take shape--"we're standing on shifting sands," it is often said. The uncertainty has been wearing on mainstream artists, like Fouad, who flourished in simpler times. He no longer knows what his audience wants to hear, or even what he should say. "It's just as if I've never sung before," he says.
After President Hosni Mubarak left power last February, Yousra, the country's iconic actress, took a role in Interior/Exterior, a fictionalized short about a middle-aged couple who wrestle over whether to join the crowds in Tahrir Square. It screened at Cannes with a compilation called 18 Days, to warm reviews. Yousra says she won't make another film about the revolution anytime soon.
The actress saw a perfect picture of a unified Egypt when people first filled Tahrir Square. Then Mubarak left, and the spell broke. "There was a magical moment in the revolution," she says. "Now I see killing. I see blood. I see miscommunication."
Yousra won plaudits for the pro-revolutionary character she played in Interior/Exterior, but she feels torn about where things are headed. "There are moments when my heart really feels for the situation, and then there are moments when I think it is false," she says. It feels wrong to make a film about something that seems so uncertain--both all around her and inside her head. "Whenever anyone asks me what I'm doing, I say I'm sitting and watching," she says. "When you don't shout, you listen, and when you listen, you might understand something differently."
In the revolution's early days, everyone from poets to punk rockers flocked to the cause. Egyptian graffiti gained global fame, and museums put together showcases of revolutionary art. The most popular song of the protest movement came from a struggling guitarist named Ramy Essam. He wrote the compilation of popular chants and improvised lines in a few minutes from inside Tahrir.
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Nice Work!
I used to love that game so much as a kid.
I used to love that game so much as a kid.
Hey, what happened to the version with the title? Did you run into copyright problems? :(
Love this still. Classic!
Brilliant. Might be the best Metroid art ever done. Still.
Brilliant design! The use of negative space here is just so damn clever. Perfect colors for the mood of it as well.
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We are planning to work only the Source remake of Wolfenstein3D, but - as allways - we need a source coder, because I hate to stop the works...
all of them probs lol
I remember that!
It was far enough in the game, if I remember correctly!
I remember the red corridoor. Is it close to the end of the game?
E2M5, naturally. Who could forget the giant swastika level (or at least, that particular one :P)
Ladies and Gentlemans, Let me introduce the winner!
The map that banned the game in Germany?
not only the map banned the game haha.
Did anyone else notice its the shape of the Nazi emblem?
Did anyone else notice its the shape of the Nazi emblem?
Otherwise known as a swastika. Yes, we noticed. :p
The Nazis stole that emblem. It was used for centuries before, and not for things like THAT.
WOW give this man a medal he deserves it
Originally, the swatstika was a peace symbol. Until Hitler, came to India stole it from them. Locked up the Indians in prison, trying to learn the secret of their levitation... Hitler was really into the occult. He was a nutcase. And... yeah.
Actually the swatstika was used for worshipping the Devil. And is otherwise an evil symbol.
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It was an afternoon in late August, and things had gotten tense at the Starz FilmCenter. And not just because of the security hurdles required to get into the Impact Film Festival and other events at the indie-plex near the Pepsi Center, home to the Democratic National Convention.
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin was scheduled to introduce a screening of the award-winning Hurricane Katrina documentary, "Trouble the Water" — but he bowed out less than gracefully after a conversation with Kimberly Roberts. She and husband Scott are the citizen stars of Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's gripping documentary.
A TV reporter caught the exchange, in which Roberts respectfully challenged her mayor on the glacial economic recovery for folks in the 9th Ward where she and Scott live.
Reportedly, Nagin was furious, though his anger wasn't obvious from the footage.
"Don't give up," he said, ending their conversation. But he didn't introduce the film.
In retrospect, Nagin's prickliness can be chalked up to a force of nature more daunting than even Kimberly Roberts.
Three days later, he ordered a mandatory evacuation as Hurricane Gustav approached. Shortly after, Ike took brutal aim at the Texas coast.
"I guess we do have to forgive Mayor Nagin for leaving town so quickly," said Lessin on the phone from New York City.
"The good news is, they did a much better job with the evacuation. The bad news is, the levees are still clearly not protecting the city.
Emotions remain raw three years after one of the nation's worst man-aided natural disasters.
During a panel discussion that included the filmmakers, their leads and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., the senator choked up as she spoke about the ongoing trauma that her beloved city, its parishes and her uprooted constituency face.
Movies like "Trouble the Water" help put faces to the disaster, she said, adding that there were more stories yet to film.
Last January, "Trouble the Water" won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. Come March, the movie (which opened Friday at the Mayan) should be among the contenders for an Oscar.
Deal and Lessin weave verite footage, interviews and news reports tracking the storm and the government's response into a rending, but also vibrant tale of survival, exodus and return.
Central to its power is footage that Kimberly Roberts shot as Katrina neared and she, Scott and many of their neighbors waited out the storm in the soon- to-be-devastated 9th Ward.
Kimberly purchased a camcorder on the street for $20. Her voice-over narration mixes wry social observation with building worry.
Lessin and Deal met the Robertses at a Red Cross shelter. This encounter is captured on screen. Kimberly and Scott approach the two filmmakers, pitching their own "movie."
Documentaries are peculiar. Their makers often find the story the truth of their films, in the editing room.
So Lessin is quick to disabuse one of the notion that she and Deal knew from the start what stars they had in the Robertses.
"Let me be clear: We weren't psychic," she says with a laugh. "At first we were going to make more of a gumbo. Then it became clear in the editing room that these were the people. They rose to the top."
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GOOG: "Murtha & Pharmathene" for thousands of hits about exactly what PIP is other than POOP!
Why weren't influence peddling & all the sleaze that goes with it raised & that PIP felt so powerful with Murtha & his"cronies" that they thought that they could falsify data to FDA & get away with it among other power plays?
Why wasn't the case characterized as influence peddling/buying by a small startup biotechthat was cancelled because Murtha passed
& not because of the "bad faith" of both cagey parties?
You decide.
In light of what really appeared to go down, letting PIP's suit go forward to the courts in Del makes a mockery of the system,NWJ?
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Oh wait, before we go on, please tell everyone who is Frances Townsend, what she does for SIGA, and what her background was prior to her involvement with SIGA and its largest investor!
Influence peddling in government contracting is not unique to biotech in general or PharmAthene in particular. Issues with these biodefense contractors and allegations of influence peddling go way back. Look at Blog from Scientific American last year (see "Anthrax vaccine – To the victor, the spoils" for a more complete background on this unique industry niche and some of the issues, which go way back) regarding BioPort, the original monopoly holder with regard to U.S. government contracts for anthrax vaccines. Influence peddling this time coming from opposite side of political spectrum but obviously far greater issue (both in terms of $ and human health) associated from BioPort/Emergent than PharmAthene. Participation by PharmAthene in contracting/evaluation of next generation anthrax vaccine (though obviously caught up in the same lobbying/influence game) actually represents an improvement by expanding competition. No differently than BARDA appears to be waiting on Chimerix before reintroducing RFP process for larger stockpile of smallpox antivirals rather than face continued criticism for sole-source contract issued to SIGA under other than full and open competition.
"No differently than BARDA appears to be waiting on Chimerix before reintroducing RFP process for larger stockpile of smallpox antivirals"
What went on at PIP is ongoing at CMX!
CMX is and has been using taxpayer grants money awarded for R & D to "contribute" to politicians/lobbyists to intimidate/influence/whatever BARDA to delay the larger award possibly endangering National Security &
possibly violating the terms of the grants,NWJ?
"rather than face continued criticism for sole-source contract issued to SIGA
under other than full and open competition."
Under pressure from CMX's politicians/;lobbyists, BARDA "cancelled" a Small Business award to SIGA &
issued an RFP open to any and all repondents.
Only ONE entity,SIGA, submitted a proposal to BARDA because only ONE entity,SIGA, could comply with the specifications/requirements of the BARDA RFP.
SIGA was awarded the contract because it was & still is the only entity with a CURE for smallpox & that's what made it a sole source contract,NWJ?
"Influence peddling in government contracting is not unique"
It may not be "unique" but it is corrupt or criminal when that peddling results in USG grants/contracts from which "contributions" are made to the politicians by management/employees/the company directly or indirectly via contributions to lobbyists who contribute directly to politicians or who contribute indirectly to politicans via huge speaking fees/whatever using taxpayer money when that money was awarded for research & development or for product,NWJ?


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MIAMI BEACH, FL, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Auctions International, Inc. ("Auctions") (OTCPINK: AUCI) and Rangemore Productions Corp. ("Rangemore") would like to announce that the filming of "Dom Hemingway", featuring Jude Law and Richard E. Grant and directed by Richard Shepard, has been completed at Island Studios on the Isle of Man. About Dom HemingwayDom. A charismatic safe-cracker with a loose fuse, finally back on the streets of London after twelve years in prison. It's time to collect what he's owed. Dom is a proud man, a self-proclaimed prince. Visiting the big boss in Italy to claim a reward for his silence, Dom's drink and drug-fuelled ego decides that what he's lost can't be replaced, and Dom does what Dom does best. He screws things up for everyone. One femme fatale and a car accident later and Dom is back home, determined to reconnect with his daughter. From the producer of "Sexy Beast" and the director of "The Matador", starring Jude Law and Richard E. Grant . Director/Writer: Richard Shepard Producer: Jeremy Thomas Cast: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke, Kerry Condon, Jumayn Hunter, Madalina Ghenea http://www.recordedpicture.com/ About Auctions International, Inc. Auctions International, Inc. is a publicly traded company whose core business is the development and implementation of a proprietary technology that enables virtual auctions for any type of product or commodity over the internet. In addition to the development and launch of its technology, the management of Auctions is dedicated to identifying and acquiring undervalued opportunities that have significant upside with the focus being to add to shareholder value. On October 24, 2012, Auctions announced that it had entered into a binding Letter of Intent to merge with Rangemore Productions Corp. Auctions is a Development Stage Company, as defined by Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 915, Development Stage Entities, and has not yet generated significant revenues from their intended business activities. About Rangemore Productions Corp. Rangemore Productions Corp ("Rangemore") is an independent film company that operates a film studio on the Isle of Man known as Island Studios. Island Studios is a complete film production facility located two miles outside the town of Ramsey and is approximately 7 acres in size and houses a film studio, sound studio, make-up studio, dressing rooms, canteen and dormitory, administration offices, and storage facility. The studios have been operating since 2002. Along with the studio operations, Rangemore will be actively producing independent film productions. Management of Rangemore is in the process of reviewing a number of film projects and joint venture opportunities. Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties. See Auctions' filings with OTCMarkets which may identify specific factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
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FCHS beats Cathedral in exhibition
NATCHEZ — The Franklin County baseball team used a big third inning to storm ahead of Cathedral School Friday night in an exhibition contest.
The Bulldogs tallied eight runs on five hits and two Green Wave errors to jump out to a 9-0 lead in the top of the third inning.
The big cushion was more than enough for starting pitcher Zach Dickerson, who held the Green Wave to just two runs on four hits to get the 11-2 win.
"(Dickerson) did a good job throwing strikes, and we put the ball in play," Franklin County head coach Brent Calcote said.
The Bulldogs win over Cathedral was their second of the night. They defeated West Lincoln 7-2 in their first game, but Calcote said Friday was not about wins and losses.
"We were young last year, and we return most of our starters," he said. "So it's good to get more experience and carry that over into this season."
Cathedral head coach Craig Beesley said his team was happy to get back on the field after their playoff run ended a couple of weeks ago.
"The kids were anxious to get out here after losing in South State," Beesley said. "They are glad to get on the field. We got some kids at bats, some young kids, so that was good to see."
Beesley said he thought his team played well for their first time out, but Franklin County's big inning hurt them.
"We had one bad inning," he said. "The eight-run inning put us behind, and we couldn't manufacture runs."
The Green Wave did get a win over West Lincoln 7-5 Friday night to split their two games. Beesley said he was pleased with the way all of his pitchers threw.
"Alex Weadock really stood out and looked good today, and Thomas Garrity looked good in game one," Beesley said.
Hunter Randall led Cathedral offensively against Franklin County. He finished 2-for-2 with a couple of singles and an RBI.
Dickerson had a huge night at the plate to go along with his pitching performance. He went 3-for-3 with a double and a triple. Franklin County finished the game with nine hits. Jordan Clark had two doubles in two plate appearances for the Bulldogs.
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Hello my buddy and I were going to enlist in the Army but he has Aspergers syndrome. I would like to know if that automatically disqualifies him from enlisting. Thank You for your time.
AR 40-501 2-27b. Current or history of academic skills or perceptual defects secondary to organic or functional mental disorders, including, but not limited to dyslexia, that interfere with school or employment, do not meet the standard. Applicants demonstrating passing academic and employment performance without utilization or recommendation of academic and/or work accommodations at any time in the previous 12 months may be qualified.
Okay great thank you.. It seems as if he is qualified as Aspergers is not a mental disorder nor has he had to have any special accomodations made to him when he was in Highschool and when he went and recieved his Associates degree. I thank you for your time sir.
Autism is most definitely a mental disorder, and is covered by that reg. He still needs to disclose his condition to his recruiter. Do either of you have any legal, criminal, or medical issues other than what has already been mentioned?
The private is correct. Autism spectrum disorders aren't permitted for recruitment or retention.
Someone please copy/paste 2-27 p. For me please. B. DQs low functioning Autism and P. DQs high functioning Autism.
-Dr. G.
2-27p. Current or history of other mental disorders that in the opinion of the civilian or military provider will interfere with, or prevent satisfactory performance of military duty, do not meet the standard.
No neither of us have any Criminal or medical issues. Also I should probably disclose he was not "officially" diagnosed with it. He said that his doctor told him he has some of the charcteristics of it. So I really don't know if it is considered a difinite condition or if he has to be "officially" diagnosed. I'll call him tomorrow and find out more. I'd hate to make an *** of myself on here.
If he has never been diagnosed, as far as the Army is concerned, he does not have it, and should not mention anything about it to his recruiter.


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Representation of contemporary culture
CDAN, the Beulas Foundation's Art and Nature Centre, is set in a building in the city of Huesca by architect Rafael Moneo.
Since it was inaugurated in January 2006, the centre has aimed to become an international focal point for everything that relates art and nature with contemporary culture. The CDAN has two collections: the Beulas–Sarrate legacy, with works of Spanish contemporary art from the second half of the 20th century; the Art and Nature collection, with works of land art and public art by international figures such as Richard Long, Siah Armajani, Fernando Casás, Ulrich Rückriem, David Nash and Alberto Carneiro. They are both located in the Region of Huesca.
The CDAN centres its activities around temporary exhibitions from its two collections and reflection on the relationship between contemporary art and nature. Its programme is complemented by international courses such as the annual "Think the landscape" season, meetings, conferences, competitions and research grants. It also has INDOC, a documentation centre specialising in art and nature that publishes a monthly digital bulletin.
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For six years, Virginia Stevens ran her doctor's offices in Woodinville and Issaquah less like medical facilities and more like seedy dive bars. She botched a boob job, avoided record-keeping, let aides administer Botox and laser treatment, and had sex with a patient, at least part of which came while maintaining her own booze-and-pill habit.
The P-I has the story and cites incidents like that in 2004, when she let an unlicensed employee perform laser hair removal that left a patient permanently scarred.
Stevens' record-keeping was apparently sketchy throughout her tenure at the Hypatia Aesthetic and Laser Treatment Clinic in Woodinville, and the Pelage Spa and Skin Centre in Issaquah.
The results of this were never as blatant, however, as when she royally screwed up a patient's breast-lift operation in 2007, which caused her boob to only droop more. Then, when she went back to do corrective surgeries, she apparently couldn't find the sutures that she'd placed previously. And even when a third doctor tried to right Stevens' wrongs, he couldn't, because her records didn't keep track of what she'd done beforehand.
All that almost makes the time last year--when she admitted to a oversight board that she had an alcohol- and prescription-pain-pill problem, and in 2007, when she decided to have sex with a patient--seem the least of her crimes.
All that and more can be read in the P-I story.
So let's have a look at some of her patient comments on Vitals.com, a doctor rating website where she enjoys a 1.5 star rating out of four stars.
Virgina stevens is the most inhumane doctor if you can even call her that, She has no interest in the patient at all. She is a self centered hypocrite
I allowed myself to be talked into this procedure quickly because IF YOU PAID GREEN CASH, you got this wonderful discount. I fell for it completely. I can only compare it to going into purchase a car alone and being swindled. The entire process has been nothing but a nightmare and I would never recommend Dr. Stevens to anybody. Then I did go to the www.doh.wa.gov site and see that Dr. Stevens is in hot water and had to close her clinic...that doesnt surprise me one bit.
I waited over an hour for my appointment and during that time I listened to a patient screaming and crying in pain. When she came in for my filler she stuck her dirty fingers in my mouth.
Here's the good doctor's sales pitch as to why you should let her suck the fat from your body with a tube.


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Polar melt confirmed from space
I am disappointed that there was so little mainstream media coverage (please correct me if I am wrong) of a report from a team of scientists from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven who have analysed just over two years of data from the CryoSat-2 satellite. Their conclusion that the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctica's glaciers are melting at record pace, dumping some 500 cubic kilometers of ice into the oceans every year, twice as much in the case of Greenland and three times as much in the case of Antarctica, by comparison with 2009 – yes, you read right, we are talking about a very short period for such a dramatic increase in ice loss – should have made more news headlines and not just the science pages.
To understand the scale of that, the researchers say it would be the equivalent of an ice sheet that's 600 meters thick and covers an area as big as the German city of Hamburg – or, my colleagues here at DW calculate, as big as Singapore.
The research team headed by Veit Helm used around two years' worth of data from the ESA CryoSat-2 satellite to create digital elevation models of Greenland and Antarctica. The results were published in the online magazine of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) The Cryosphere.
"The new elevation maps are snapshots of the current state of the ice sheets," Helm says. "The elevations are very accurate, to just a few meters in height, and cover close to 16 million square kilometers of the area of the ice sheets." He says this includes an additional 500,000 square kilometers that weren't covered in previous elevation models from altimetry.
Space technology shows declining ice mass
Helm and his team analyzed all data from the CryoSat-2 radar altimeter SIRAL in order to come up with the detailed maps. The satellite with this new radar equipment was launched in 2010. Satellite altimeters measure the height of an ice sheet by sending radar or laser pulses which are then reflected by the surface of the glaciers or surrounding areas of water and recorded by the satellite.
The researchers used other satellite data as well to document how elevation has changed between 2011 and 2014.
Rapid ice loss over a short period of time
The team used more than 200 million SIRAL data points for Antarctica and some 14 million data points for Greenland to create the elevation maps. The results show that Greenland alone is losing around 375 cubic kilometers of ice per year.
Compared to data which was collected in 2009, the loss of mass from the Greenland ice sheet has doubled. The rate of ice discharge from the West Antarctic ice sheet tripled during the same period.
I think this is definitely worth talking about. We know the huge implications of polar ice melt for global sea levels. Other research from this year also tells us that, at least in the case of parts of Antarctica, the ice melt is probably irreversible.
We cannot afford to ignore what is happening to the ice sheets. The extent of ice loss in Greenland is particularly dramatic. I am losing patience with those people who respond to studies like this and our reporting on it by saying "but the East Antarctic is gaining volume" and "the Antarctic sea ice has grown". It is so easy to take things out of context and mix different factors up when trying to understand a very complex system.
I will give the last word here to AWI glaciologist Angelika Humbert, who co-authored the study: "If you combine the two ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctic), they are thinning at a rate of 500 cubic kilometers per year. That is the highest rate observed since altimetry satellite records began about 20 years ago." It seems to me there is no arguing with that.
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West Antarctic ice sheet collapse unstoppable
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Antarctic Glacier's retreat unstoppable
DateAugust 22, 2014 | 1:33 pm
Human action speeds glacial melting
It might sound like stating the obvious, but in fact it is not easy to find clear evidence that human behavior is behind the retreat of glaciers being monitored in different parts of the world. Hence my interest in a study just published in the journal Science.
The main problem is that it usually takes decades or even centuries for glaciers to adjust to climate change, says climate researcher Ben Marzeion from the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics of the University of Innsbruck. He and his team of researchers have just published the results of a study for which they simulated glacier changes during the period from 1851 to 2010 in a model of glacier evolution. They used the recently established "Randolph Glacier Inventory" (RGI) of almost all glaciers worldwide to run the model, which included all glaciers outside Antarctica.
"Melting glaciers are an icon of anthropogenic climate change", the authors say. However, they stress that the present-day glacier retreat is a mixed response to past and current natural climate variability and "current anthropogenic forcing". Their modeling shows though that whereas only 25% of global glacier mass loss between 1851 and 2010 can be attributed to human-related causes, the fraction increases to around 69% looking at the period between 1991 and 2010. So human contribution to glacier mass loss is on the increase, the experts write.
Marzeion says the global retreat of glaciers observed today started around the middle of the 19th century at the end of the Little Ice Age, responding both to naturally caused climate change of past centuries (like solar variability), and to human-induced changes. Until now, the real extent of human contribution was unclear. The authors say their latest piece of work provides clear evidence of the human contribution.
Once more I am happy to refer to the Climate News Network, in this case to Tim Radford, for an easy-to-read summary of the main research results and the background. There is no doubt that glaciers are losing mass, retreating uphill and melting at a faster rate, says Radford. He refers to some Andes glaciers and the the Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland, or Sermeq Kujualleq as I prefer to call it, using the indigenous name. Ice Blog followers may remember my own trip to Greenland and that particular glacier. I have also written on the speeding of the melt there on the Ice Blog and on the DW website.
Radford also refers to ascertaining the melting of alpine glaciers by comparing historic paintings and other documentation with the current ice mass. That decline is something I have observed at first hand in Valais in Switzerland during regular visits over the past 30 years. Look out for a comparative photo gallery of my own pics, when I get time to put it together. Since most of the shots are from the pre-digital era, that will be a time-consuming task.
I also remember a trip to the Visitor Centre of the Begich Boggs glacier in Alaska in 2008. The glacier has already retreated so far you can't see it at all from the Centre built specially for the purpose of viewing it.
The question until now was how much of all this was caused by natural developments and how much to changes in land use and the emission of greenhouse gases? The latest study supported, among others, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the research area Scientific Computing at the University of Innsbruck, has come up with some answers. Since the climate researchers were able to include different factors contributing to climate change in their model, they can differentiate between natural and anthropogenic influences on glacier mass loss
"While we keep factors such as solar variability and volcanic eruptions unchanged, we are able to modify land use changes and greenhouse gas emissions in our models," says Ben Marzeion, who sums up the study: "In our data we find unambiguous evidence of anthropogenic contribution to glacier mass loss."
As always, there is still need for further research – and a lot more monitoring. The scientists say the current observation data is insufficient in general to derive any clear results for specific regions, even though anthropogenic influence is detectable in a few regions such as North America and the Alps, where glaciers changes are particularly well documented.
With global glacier retreat contributing to rising sea-levels, changing seasonal water availability and increasing geo-hazards, the study's conclusions should help put a little more pressure on the world's decision-makers to get serious about emissions reductions.
DateAugust 18, 2014 | 1:03 pm
Arctic thaw – carry on regardless?
When a colleague who has a lot of sympathy for those who do NOT accept that humans are responsible for global warming drew attention to the fact that this had been the hottest June on record, following hard on the hottest May, I must admit I was temporarily put of my guard. Aha, I thought. Is he finally getting the message? Alas, the answer is no. There is a small minority of people that still argues – for whatever reason – that natural variation could be responsible for all this, while acknowledging the record concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. "And all that stuff". Hm.
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DateJuly 24, 2014 | 2:16 pm
World Cup Champs for Arctic Climate?
Chancellor Merkel is on her way from the World Cup Final in Brazil to Berlin, where she will address the Petersberg Climate Dialogue. This is an informal but influential meeting of 35 international ministers, co-chaired by Peru, the host of the next world climate conference this December. UNFCCC chief Figueres is also in attendance, hoping progress will be made towards a successful Peru conference and a new world climate agreement to be signed in Paris in 2015. Yes, it is a kind of conference to prepare the conference to prepare the conference…. but every little step helps. As I wrote here and on the DW website during the last round of preparatory talks in Bonn, things are looking more positive than they once did, with the big players USA and China finally coming into the game. Here's hoping Frau Merkel can bring some of the energy and enthusiasm from the World Cup into the "Petersberg Dialogue" (initiated on the Petersberg here in Bonn, but since moved to Berlin) and the climate process. I interviewed Martin Kaiser, the climate policy chief at Greenpeace about the current state of play. You can read the interview here. But I also talked to him about that key ice blog issue, the relevance of all this to the Arctic.
Here is his response, if you would like to listen: For those who prefer a read, this is what Martin Kaiser had to say about the UN climate process and the Arctic:
"If we want to limit the ice melt in the Arctic, we have to address the issue of climate change. If we don't manage to get countries like China and the US, to drastically reduce emissions from burning coal and oil, the ice melt is unstoppable. The Arctic is one of the places in the world where you can see the drastic changes caused by global warming in a most visible way. We expect a historic minimum ice melt this September, and this will give a clear warning when heads of state are going to meet in New York at around the same time.
It's quite contradictory that oil companies are going to the Arctic to drill for more fossil energy which will fuel global warming even more. This needs to stop. That's why Greenpeace is calling for a sanctuary in the Arctic which prohibits commercial exploitation of the region.
(Ice Blogger: How does that look in the countries with Arctic regions?)
If we look at Canada – It has one of the most regressive climate policies in place, Prime minister Harper is one of the worst climate deniers, and Canada is investing a lot into tar sands in the west of the country – a business model that is not sustainable. Russia's business model is based on the export of oil and gas, so it is problematic to talk to Russia about the protection of the Arctic at the moment. Greenpeace has had experience of how they prioritize this business model over preserving the rare ecosystem. There are more countries like China and India coming in to the Arctic, and wanting to get a share of the resources extraction, and that is a worrying sign. Instead of protecting the Arctic, it's opening like the Wild North for the big corporates investing into oil and gas. That means we have to have a political process which clearly determines a sanctuary in the Arctic and limits commercial exploitation of it.
Finland has been quite progressive so far to move forward the idea of a sanctuary in the Arctic. We hope that rich countries like Norway or also Iceland will join that group. But that's a long way to go."
DateJuly 14, 2014 | 10:36 am
TagsArctic, Climate, Greenpeace, ice, UN talks
Keeping Greenland in focus
Two interesting publications relating to Greenland caught my eye over the past few days. But it has not proved easy to get them onto the international news agenda. Given the huge importance of the Greenland ice sheet to the planet's future, this is frustrating to say the least. Fortunately there is the Ice Blog.
The first research relates to a study about the role of ash from fires in bringing about large-scale surface melting. The other predicts Greenland will be a far greater contributor to sea rise than expected.
Let me start with the latter, published in Nature Geoscience. Scientists from the University of California – Irvine and NASA glaciologists have found previously uncharted long deep valleys under the Greenland Ice Sheet. Since these bedrock canyons are well below sea level, they are much more vulnerable to warm ocean waters than previously thought. When warmer Atlantic water hits the fronts of hundreds of glaciers, the edges will erode much further than previously assumed, releasing far greater amounts of water.
Ice melt from the subcontinent has already accelerated, as warmer marine currents have migrated north, the authors say. Older models predicted that once higher ground was reached in a few years, the ocean-induced melting would halt. Greenland's frozen mass would stop shrinking, and its effect on higher sea waters would be curtailed.
"That turns out to be incorrect. The glaciers of Greenland are likely to retreat faster and farther inland than anticipated – and for much longer – according to this very different topography we've discovered beneath the ice," says lead author Mathieu Morlighem, a UC Irvine associate project scientist, on the university website. "This has major implications, because the glacier melt will contribute much more to rising seas around the globe."
To obtain the results, Morlighem developed what he says is a breakthrough method that for the first time offers a comprehensive view of Greenland's entire periphery. It's nearly impossible to accurately survey at ground level the subcontinent's rugged, rocky subsurface, which descends as much as 3 miles beneath the thick ice cap.
Since the 1970s, limited ice thickness data has been collected via radar pinging of the boundary between the ice and the bedrock. Along the coastline, though, rough surface ice and pockets of water cluttered the radar sounding, so large swaths of the bed remained invisible.
Measurements of Greenland's topography have tripled since 2009, thanks to NASA Operation IceBridge flights. But Morlighem says he quickly realized that while that data provided a fuller picture than the earlier radar readings, there were still major gaps between the flight lines.
To reveal the full subterranean landscape, he designed a novel "mass conservation algorithm" that combined the previous ice thickness measurements with information on the velocity and direction of its movement and estimates of snowfall and surface melt.
The difference was dramatic, says Morlighem. What appeared to be shallow glaciers at the very edges of Greenland are actually long, deep fingers stretching more than 100 kilometers (almost 65 miles) inland.
"We anticipate that these results will have a profound and transforming impact on computer models of ice sheet evolution in Greenland in a warming climate," the researchers conclude.
"Operation IceBridge vastly improved our knowledge of bed topography beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet," said co-author Eric Rignot of UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "This new study takes a quantum leap at filling the remaining, critical data gaps on the map."
Other co-authors are Jeremie Mouginot of UC Irvine and Helene Seroussi and Eric Larour of JPL. Funding was provided by NASA.
This is the same team that reported on accelerated glacial melt in West Antarctica, as discussed in an earlier Ice Blog post. Together, the papers "suggest that the globe's ice sheets will contribute far more to sea level rise than current projections show," Rignot said.
Indeed. These scientists are telling us the IPCC forecasts were way too low. This could have huge consequences for coastal communities all around the globe.
Unfortunately, a lot of people (even those you would expect to know better) tend to mix up "Arctic" and "Antarctic". It all goes into the category of "melting ice", and they think they have heard it all before. What they still don't realize is that this is something that concerns us all, and that these two polar areas are of huge significance to the world climate as a whole and global sea level. When those two Antarctic studies were released, there was a flurry of news coverage. The challenge for us journalists is how to follow this up and stop the attention curve from dropping.
The other interesting piece of recent Greenland research was conducted by the Dartmouth College Thayer School of Engineering and the Desert Research Institute and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. It concludes that ash from Northern hemisphere forest fires combined with rising temperatures to cause large-scale surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet in 1889 and 2012.
The researchers say their findings contradict conventional thinking that the melting was driven by warming alone.
The findings suggest that continued climate change will result in nearly annual widespread melting of the ice sheet's surface by the year 2100.
Melting in the dry snow region does not contribute to sea level rise, but when the meltwater percolates into the snowpack and refreezes, the surface is less reflective. This reduces the albedo.
Let me give the (almost) last word to the study's lead author Kaitlin Keegan.
"With both the frequency of forest fires and warmer temperatures predicted to increase with climate change, widespread melt events are likely to happen much more frequently in the future".
It figures.
DateMay 23, 2014 | 2:39 pm


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In March 1986, I was in Australia at the Adelaide Writers' Week. One night at dinner, I was telling the outraged and incredulous Cuban novelist-in-exile Guillermo Cabrera Infante that Baudelaire had plagiarised his famous essay on Edgar Allen Poe from two essays in the Southern Literary Messenger by John R Thompson and John M Daniel. And that Daniel in turn had plagiarised his piece from Griswold's obituary of Poe.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, whose luggage had been lost several days before by Qantas, was preternaturally composed and charismatic in a rumpled linen safari suit. His only piece of clothing a paradox-soiled yet chic. He was also at a remove, chauvinistically silent, refusing to descend to English. "Nous causons au sujet de plagiarisme," explained Cabrera Infante. Robbe-Grillet was suddenly alert: "J'approve," he said crisply, "Je suis voleur." It was a strikingly original, counter-intuitive statement.
There are two-but only two-remarkable works in this Damien Hirst retrospective. One is A Thousand Years (1990). The title refers to Hitler's claim (to a British journalist in March 1934) that the Nazi Third Reich would last a thousand years. But the idea is stolen from William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
It is in two glass sections. In the air is a storm of flies, a blizzard of black holes. The left-hand compartment contains a hollow, white cube with a circular hole in each visible plane. The pane dividing the sections has four holes, so that the gross, wrinkled meat-flies bred there can fly into the further section. Here, there is a partially flayed cow's skull on the floor, poised in a brown pool ofblood the colour of gravy--so viscous it looks as if it might be synthetic, like a magician's spill of ink, something you could peel off. The angry crimson skull has stiff, white eyelashes and sodden fur still on its muzzle. Its tongue protrudes, the colour of Irn-Bru, as if the thing were thinking hard. Above this head there is a blue insect-o-cutor and an angled tray filled with two stirring wedges of dying flies. The flies are dying like flies. Looking at this piece is like looking at eczema. It is the weight of numbers. Your brain itches.
Neither the title's characteristically glib, melodramatic allusion to the Third Reich, nor the debt to Golding, can affect the power of this piece-or its evident originality. I first saw this piece in "Sensation! ", the Saatchi show at the Royal Academy in London in 1997. I was unimpressed-because I understood only the concept, the realised idea, but resisted the actuality. Importantly there were then far fewer flies. A Thousand Years is now all actuality: the very texture, the unflinching feel and the flinch of disgust. It is gruesome and brilliant.
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