Arctic Melt Al Jazeera English - Europe - Arctic icecap 'gone in a decade' The Arctic Icecap is melting rapidly and may be gone in a decade. That would have been unimaginable when I was an eighteen-year-old seaman aboard the Coast Guard Icebreaker Westwind during the 1954 Arctic Cruise. tgsam
NASA animation from 2008 showing the summer melt that opened the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific for the first time to commercial shipping without icebreakers. You may have to click to download it. [MEDIA]http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/mov/279614main_seaIce_2008_V2_wDates.mov[/MEDIA] A streaming video below from NASA gives a good overview of the ice cap retreat. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/sea_ice_min.html
during the last ice age, i thought i would never see grass in north america. when the deserts of saudi arabia were jungles, producing the organic matter that would eventually become oil, i thought nothing would ever change. but man is evil and he changes the precious earth. WHY! there are mountains made of limestone that were formed in oceans, and these mountains are now hundreds of miles from oceans. because the earth is now totally different than it ever has been. and it will always keep changing. drastically and quickly. always.
Humans change the earth too much and too rapidly because there are too many. "Someday people will hate one another simply because there are too many." --Philip Wylie (1936)
Is this a folk song that you are working on? Try a reggae beat . . . During the Lahst Ice Age, Mon, I thought I would never see grahss, again. But the wicked change . . . the precious earth, and leave I the limestone of Babylon . . .
i thought it was pretty clear that it was a folk song, yes. i write all my posts in folk song form. even this one. sing it if you dont believe me.
