Klárir hvítabirnir í knattspyrnu - myndbönd...

 

 

 

 

Það er gaman að fylgjast með þessum forvitnu hvítabjörnum:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sjá hér á vef BBC

 

 

Gleðilegt  ár !    

 

 

 

Eldgos á Íslandi af mannavöldum...?

 

 

 

 

Logandi standa í langri röð, ljósin á gígastjaka...  kemur óneitanlega í hugann þegar myndin er skoðuð, en svo stendur í Áföngum Jóns Helgasonar.

Er þetta eldgos sem sést undir stjörnubjörtum næturhimninum? 

Líklega er þetta fyrirbæri af mannavöldum, svo varla getur það verið eldgos. En hvað er það sem nær að lýsa upp himininn eins og gos úr eldsprungu?

Auðvitað er þetta ljósbjarminn frá gróðurhúsum. Það sáu auðvitað allir strax...

 

En tilefnið með þessum pistli er að minna á það sem kallast ljósmengun, en fjallað var um vandamálið í pistli fyrir ári: Ljósmengun í þéttbýli og dreifbýli.

Það er þó ekki ljósmengun frá gróðurhúsum sem fer mest í hinar fínu taugar bloggarans, heldur algjörlega óþörf ljósmengun frá sumarbústöðum. 

Stundum telja menn að gott sé að hafa útiljós kveikt í öryggisskyni, þ.e. til að minnka líkur á innbrotum. Ljós sem síloga draga þó athygli að mannvirkinu sem ætlunin var að verja, en mun áhrifameira er að hafa ljós sem kvikna við merki frá hreyfiskynjara, en eru að öllu jöfnu slökkt. Nágrannar verða þá varir við mannaferðir, og hinir óboðnu gestir hörfa.

Tilhneiging virðist vera hjá sumum sumarhúsaeigendum að vera með útljós kveikt, jafnvel þegar enginn er við. Ljósin hjálpa óboðum gestum að finna sumarhúsið. Það er einnig tillitsleysi við nágrannana að vera með logandi og illa skermuð útiljós að óþörfu. Sumir hafa jafnvel komið upp röð ljósastaura á sumarhúsalóðinni, en líklega eru þeir svona hræddir við myrkrið og reyna því að flytja borgarljósin með sér í sveitina.  

Hvers vegna að hafa kveikt á útiljósum þegar enginn er útivið?

  - Munið eftir slökkvaranum!

  - Notið hreyfiskynjara við útiljósin, ef ætlunin er að fæla burt óvelkomna gesti.

  - Veljið ljósastæði sem lýsa eingöngu niður.

  - Notið ljósadimmi.

  - Notið minni perur.

 

Eigendur sumarbústaða: Slökkvið útiljósin þegar enginn er við, og helst einnig þegar enginn er utandyra. Takið tillit til nágranna ykkar sem vilja geta notið þess sem fallegar vetrarnætur hafa upp á að bjóða, þ.e. tindrandi stjörnur og norðurljós! 

Verið ekki hrædd við myrkrið!

 

 

 

 

Myndin er tekin 9. október 2010 klukkan 22:10. Myndin var lýst í 30 sekúndur. Ljósop 3,5. ISO 1600. Bjarta stjarnan er Júpíter. Einstaklega stjörnubjart var þegar myndin var tekin. Jafnvel má sjá móta fyrir Vetrarbrautinni á myndinni.

 

Tveggja ára drengur þekkir alheiminn betur en þú...! - Myndband

 

Drengurinn sem kemur fram í myndbandinu er aðeins tveggja ára,

en virðist vita miklu meira um alheiminn en flest okkar  

 

 

 Rose Center for Earth and Space

 

 

 

Ótrúlegir goshverir á Enceladus tungli Satúrnusar...

 

 

 

Engu líkara er en að göt hafi komið á Enceladus sem er eitt tungla Satúrnusar. Enceladus er um 500km í þvermál og er myndin tekin í sýnilegu ljósi 25 desember 2009 frá Cassini geimfarinu.

Þetta er þó ekki heit hveragufa eins og kemur upp úr jörðinni við Geysi, heldur kalt vatn, eða öllu heldur ískristallar.

Sjá nánar hér og hér.

 

 

 

 

 www.ciclops.org

 

Eldrauðar appelsínur...

 

 

 

 

Eru appelsínur eldrauðar?  
Er eldurinn appelsínurauður eða appelsínugulur? 

Er ekki eldurinn eldrauður?

Hvers vegna segjum við að eitthvað sé appelsínurautt, appelsínugult, rauðgult eða órans þegar til er orð sem nær yfir hugtakið, þ.e. eldrautt?

Hvers vegna notum við orðið eldrautt yfir hluti sem eru blóðrauðir?

 

Forfeður okkar vissu vel hvernig eldurinn er á litinn, en fæstir  höfðu séð appelsínur. Í huga þeirra var eldurinn einfaldlega eldrauður. Eldrautt var litur hans.

Þeir gerðu greinarmun á eldrauðu og blóðrauðu, enda þekktu þeir liti elds og blóðs vel...

 

 

 

 

Eldrauð appelsína
(Eða er hún appelsínugul eða appelsínurauð?)

 

 

 

Vísindagrein um lit appelsína:

http://www.academia.edu/3419053/Are_Oranges_Yellow_Appels%C3%ADnugulur_as_a_Basic_Color_Term_in_Icelandic

Alveg makalaust: Tönn dregin út með eldflaug... :-)

 

Ýmislegt dettur mönnum í hug

Á Íslandi tíðkast ekki að skjóta upp eldflaugum á þjóðhátíðardaginn, hvað þá nota þær við tannútdrátt, en er þetta eitthvað sem tannlæknar geta notfært sér? Eða bara við? 

 

 

 

 

 

Fljúgandi diskur yfir Eyjafjallajökli - eða bara fljúgandi hringur...

 

 

 

 

Púff...Púff...

Það var engu líkara en jökullinn hefði verið að reykja risastóran vindil þegar fallegur hringur steig upp af honum.  Hringurinn náðist á mynd og um hann hefur m.a. verið fjallað á Spaceweather.com, What is Up With That og Daily Mail.

 

Myndirnar sem prýða pistilinn tóku Steve og Donna O'Meara.
Sjá  VolcanoHeaven.tumblr.com

Náðu einhverjir Íslendingar myndum af þessu sjaldgæfa fyrirbæri?

(Uppfært 31. maí: Sjá athugasemd #3 frá Reyni Ólafssyni).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ef maður vill prófa sjálfur að gera svona hringi, þá er annað hvort að verða sér úti um stóran vindil, eða ennþá betra að smíða svona græju:

 

 

Svo eru sumir ennþá snjallari. Sjá þessa mekilegu mynd á YouTube. Höfrungar leika sér að því að gera svona hringi neðansjávar.

 

 

Allar hinar fjölmörgu ógnir loftslagshlýnunarinnar...

 

 

 

Bloggaranum hefur stundum verið legið á hálsi fyrir að gera lítið úr meintri hnatthlýnun af mannavöldum, en eins og flestir vita þá hefur frá lokum litlu ísaldar fyrir 150 árum hlýnað um því sem næst 0,8 gráður Celcíus. Sem betur fer. vilja margir meina, en ekki eru allir jafn ánægðir með þessa hlýnun sem nemur svo sem 0,006 gráðum á ári að meðaltali. Hluti af mannavöldum og hluti af náttúrunnar völdum.

Sem sagt, bloggarinn vill bæta aðeins fyrir misgjörðir sínar og birta langan lista yfir fjölmargar greinar sem sýna okkur við hverjar ógnir er að eiga. Vonandi eru flestar krækjurnar virkar, en það er nú einusinni þannig að þær eiga til að gufa upp fyrirvaralaust. Reynið þó að smella á nokkrar þeirra sem eru í listanum hér fyrir neðan, sumt er einstaklega fróðlegt, t.d. asteroid strike risk:

 

Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, African holocaust, aged deaths, poppies more potent, Africa devastated,  Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pressure changes,  airport farewells virtual, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Alaskan towns slowly destroyed, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy increase, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end,  amphibians breeding earlier (or not),  anaphylactic reactions to bee stings,  ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink,  Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk,   anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear,  Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), a rose by any other name smells of nothing, asteroid strike risk, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty,   atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,  Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water,  bananas grow, barbarisation, bats decline,  beer and bread prices to soar, beer better,  beer worse, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird loss accelerating, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds return early, birds shrink(Aus), birds shrink (USA), bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down,  blizzards, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, borders redrawn,  bluetongue, brain eating amoebae, brains shrink, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, Britain's bananas, British monsoon,  brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague,  Buddhist temple threatened,  building collapse, building season extension, bushfires,   butterflies move north, butterflies reeling, carbon crimes, camel deaths,  cancer deaths in England, cannibalism,  caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened,  childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase,  coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, cod go south,  coffee threatened, coffee berry borer, coffee berry disease, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), cold weather (world), computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia,  consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, coral reefs twilight,  cost of trillions, cougar attacks, crabgrass menace,  cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, curriculum change,  cyclones (Australia),   danger to kid's health,  Dartford Warbler plague,  deadly virus outbreaks, death rate increase (US), deaths to reach 6 million, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance,  desert retreat,  destruction of the environment,  dig sites threatened,  disasters, diseases move north, dog disease,  dozen deadly diseases - or not, drought,   ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt,  earlier pollen season,  Earth axis tilt, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down,  Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down,  earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing,  eutrophication, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions: (human, civilisation, koalas,  logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod,  penguins, pikas, polar bears,   possums,  walrus,  tigers,  toads, turtles, plants, ladybirds, rhinoceros, salmon, trout,  wild flowers, woodlice,  a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species,  not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, fainting,  famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, farming soil decline,  fashion disaster, fever, figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fires fanned in Nepal, fish bigger, fish catches drop, fish downsize,   fish deaf, fish get lost, fish head north, fish shrinking,  fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flies on Everest,  flood patterns change, floods,  floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, flora dispersed, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, fog increase in San Francisco, fog decrease in San Francisco, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food security threat (SA), football team migration,   forest decline, forest expansion, foundations threatened, frog with extra heads, frosts, frostbite, frost damage increased,   fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, geese decline in Hampshire, genetic changes, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, geysers imperiled, giant icebergs (Australia), giant oysters invade,  giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat,   glacier grows (California), glaciers on Snowden, glacier wrapped, global cooling,  glowing clouds,  golf course to drown, golf Masters wrecked, grain output drop (China), grain output stagnating (India), grandstanding, grasslands wetter, gravity shift,  Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop,  great tits cope, greening of the North,  Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, haggis threatened, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,    harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, health risks, health risks (even more), heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hedgehogs bald, hibernation affected,   hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late,  homeless 50 million, hornets,  human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health risk, human race oblivion, hurricanes,  hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes more intense, hurricanes not,  hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice age, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, icebergs,  illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada),  indigestion, industry threatened, infectious diseases,  inflation in China, insect explosion, insect invasion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of alien worms, invasion of Antarctic aliens,  invasion of Asian carp, invasion of cats,  invasion of crabgrass, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of king crabs, invasion of lampreys, invasion of midges, invasion of slugs,  island disappears, islands sinking, Italy robbed of pasta, itchier poison ivy, Japan's cherry blossom threatened,  jellyfish explosion, jet stream drifts north, jets fall from sky,  Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas under threat, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, large trees decline, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful,  lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!),  lawyers want more, legionnaires' surge,  lives lost, lives saved, Loch Ness monster dead, locust plagues suppressed, low oxygen zones threaten sea life, lush growth in rain forests,  Lyme disease,  Malaria,    malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Meat eating to stop, Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, Melanoma decline, mental illness, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration,  migratory birds huge losses, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, minorities hit, monkeys at risk,  monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days,   more research needed, mortality increased, mosquitoes adapting, mountain (Everest) shrinking,  mountaineers fears,  mountains break up, mountains green and flowering,   mountains taller, mortality lower, murder rate increase,  musk ox decline, Myanmar cyclone, narwhals at risk, National Parks damaged, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters  quadruple, new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying,  oaks move north,  oblivion, ocean acidification, ocean acidification faster, ocean dead spots, ocean dead zones unleashed, ocean deserts expand, ocean salt extremes, ocean waves speed up,  Olympic Games to end, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened,   oxygen depletion zones, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise,  penguin chicks frozen, penguin chicks smaller, penguins replaced by jellyfish, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts,  pines decline, pirate population decrease, plankton blooms,   plankton wiped out, plants lose protein, plants march north, plants move uphill,  polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears deaf,  polar bears drowning,   polar tours scrapped, popcorn rise, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness,   puffin decline, pushes poor women into prostitution, rabid bats,  radars taken out, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rape wave, refugees,  reindeer endangered, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash,  rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war,   river flow impacted, rivers raised, road accidents, roads wear out, robins rampant,   rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease,  ruins ruined,  Russia under pressure, salinity reduction, salinity increase,  Salmonella,  salmon stronger, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, seismic activity, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sexual disfunction,  sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep change colour, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered,  shrimp sex problems, shrinking ponds, shrinking sheep,  shrinking shrine, Sidney Opera House wiped out, ski resorts threatened, slavery, slow death,  smaller brains, smelt down, smog, snowfall decrease, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy,  snow thicker,  soaring food prices, societal collapse, soil change, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spectacular orchids, spiders getting bigger, spiders invade Scotland,  squid larger, squid population explosion, squid tamed, squirrels reproduce earlier,  stingray invasion, storms wetter,  stratospheric cooling, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate movement,   terrorists (India), thatched cottages at risk, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tigers eat people, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, toxic seaweed,  trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams,  transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK),   tree growth slowed, tree growth faster, trees in trouble, trees less colourful,  trees more colourful, trees lush, trees on Antarctica, treelines change, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage, truffles down,  turtles crash, turtle feminised, turtles lay earlier, UFO sightings, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina,  Vampire moths, Venice flooded, violin decline, volcanic eruptions, volcanoes awakened in Iceland,  walrus pups orphaned,  walrus stampede,  wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double, water scarcity (20% of increase),  water shortage to increase vegetarianism, wave of natural disasters, waves bigger, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weather patterns last longer, Western aid cancelled out,  West Nile fever, whale beachings, whales lose weight, whales move north,  whales wiped out, wheat yields crushed in Australia,  wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, winds stronger, winds weaker,  wine - Australian baked, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California),  wine industry disaster (US),  wine - more English, wine -  England too hot, wine -German boon, wine - no more French ,  wine passé (Napa), wine - Scotland best,  wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolverine decline, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World at war, World War 4, World bankruptcy, World-famous places threatened, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever, zebra mussel threat, zoonotic diseases.

 

Auðvitað verður að rannsaka öll áhrif hins mikla blórabögguls. Víst er þetta ógnarlangur listi og því hljóta ógnirnar að vera miklar. Að minnsta kosti margar... Samt er það nú einhvern vegin svo að bloggarinn er mjög þakklátur fyrir að ekki skuli vera eins kalt á Fróni og fyrir 150 árum. Það er auðvitað bara eigingirni, sem lesendur bloggsins eru auðvitað hjartanlega ósammála, er ekki svo?

 

Gáta:

Gerum ráð fyrir að myndin efst á síðunni sé tekin nákvæmlega á norðurpólnum: Í hvaða átt er bjössi að horfa?

 

 

Vonandi verður sumarið hlýtt og gott. Það var ekki amalegt að njóta tuttugu stiga hitans Hvítasunnuhelgina sem er að líða, og fylgjast með gróðrinum sem kunni sér ekki læti.  Horfa á grasið spretta og trén laufgast...   Og setja með eigin hendi niður 160 lítil tré sem eiga eftir að vaxa og dafna á komandi árum, nærast á koltvísýringi og njóta sumarhitans... Hver veit nema það verði gnótt af hvorutveggja, en þá kætist að minnsta kosti blessaður gróðurinn... Það er nefnilega ekki allt neikvætt, þó svo að fyrirsögn pistilsins sé dálítið ógnvænleg .

 

 

 

Heimur á heljarþröm - Yfirvofandi loftslagsbreytingar...

 

 

 

 

Undanfarið hafa verið í fréttum fjölmiðla heimsins ógnvænlegar lýsingar á ástandinu í lofthjúpi jarðar. Fyllsta ástæða er til að gefa þessu gaum, því ógnvaldurinn er allt um kring, ósýnilegur og undirförull

Lesið meira í tilefni þess að helgin er í nánd...

Hér fyrir neðan eru allmargar tilvitnanir í fréttir. Orðréttar á frummálinu.

 

 

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot,” according to a Commerce Department report published by the Washington Post. Writes the Post: “Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers. . . all point to a radical change in climate conditions and . . . unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone . . . Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones . . . while at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.”

Ljótt að lesa þessa frásögn sem er úr Washington Post 2. nóvember. Reyndar var það fyrir níu áratugum, eða árið 1922. Hér fyrir neðan eru fleiri úrklippur, allt frá því 1870, eða fyrir svo sem 130 árum. Nú hlýtur ástandið að vera virkilega slæmt fyrst það hefur varað svona lengi. Hvað getum við gert í málinu? Er ekki heimurinn á heljarþröm?

>>> Det er en frygtelig historie! ... Og det kom i avisen og det blev trykt og det er ganske vist:
En lille fjer kan nok blive til fem høns! <<<

 

“The climate of New-York and the contiguous Atlantic seaboard has long been a study of great interest. We have just experienced a remarkable instance of its peculiarity. The Hudson River, by a singular freak of temperature, has thrown off its icy mantle and opened its waters to navigation.” - New York Times, Jan. 2, 1870

“Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate summers and open winters through several years, culminating last winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade.” - New York Times, June 23, 1890

“The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions.” - New York Times, Feb. 24, 1895

Professor Gregory of Yale University stated that “another world ice-epoch is due.” He was the American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress and warned that North America would disappear as far south as the Great Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be “wiped out.” - Chicago Tribune, Aug. 9, 1923

“The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to the conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age” - Time Magazine, Sept. 10, 1923

Headline: “America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise” - New York Times, March 27, 1933

“America is believed by Weather Bureau scientists to be on the verge of a change of climate, with a return to increasing rains and deeper snows and the colder winters of grandfather’s day."- Associated Press, Dec. 15, 1934

Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level, Scientist Says - “A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a “serious international problem,” Dr. Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist, said today. - New York Times, May 30, 1937

“Greenland’s polar climate has moderated so consistntly that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area’s southern waters.” - New York Times, Aug. 29, 1954

“An analysis of weather records from Little America shows a steady warming of climate over the last half century. The rise in average temperature at the Antarctic outpost has been about five degrees Fahrenheit.” - New York Times, May 31, 1958

“Several thousand scientists of many nations have recently been climbing mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the Antarctic, camping on floating Arctic ice. Their object has been to solve a fascinating riddle: what is happening to the world’s ice? - New York Times, Dec. 7, 1958

“After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder.” - New York Times, Jan. 30, 1961

“Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age.” - Los Angeles Times, Dec. 23, 1962

“Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.” - New York Times, Feb. 20, 1969

“By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half ...” - Life magazine, January 1970

“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” - Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day, 1970

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.” - Barry Commoner (Washington University), Earth Day, 1970

Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor, “the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” - Newsweek magazine, Jan. 26, 1970

“The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.” - New York Times, July 18, 1970

“In the next 50 years, fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age.” - Washington Post, July 9, 1971

“It’s already getting colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far in the future, a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas and the Russian steppes. . . .” - Los Angles Times, Oct. 24, 1971

“An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.” - New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978

“A poll of climate specialists in seven countries has found a consensus that there will be no catastrophic changes in the climate by the end of the century. But the specialists were almost equally divided on whether there would be a warming, a cooling or no change at all.” - New York Times, Feb. 18, 1978

“A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and disease, the experts said… Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet within the next 25 years.” - San Jose Mercury News, June 11, 1986

“Global warming could force Americans to build 86 more power plants—at a cost of $110 billion—to keep all their air conditioners running 20 years from now, a new study says...Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010, and the drain on power would require the building of 86 new midsize power plants - Associated Press, May 15, 1989

“New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 17, 1989 (Reyndar var það öfugt 20 árum síðar).

“[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots . . . [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers . . . The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.” - “Dead Heat: The Race Against the Greenhouse Effect,” Michael Oppenheimer and Robert H. Boyle, 1990.

“It appears that we have a very good case for suggesting that the El Ninos are going to become more frequent, and they’re going to become more intense and in a few years, or a decade or so, we’ll go into a permanent El Nino. So instead of having cool water periods for a year or two, we’ll have El Nino upon El Nino, and that will become the norm. And you’ll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years,” according to Dr. Russ Schnell, a scientist doing atmospheric research at Mauna Loa Observatory. - BBC, Nov. 7, 1997 (Næstu þrjú ár eftir 1998 réð La Nina ríkjum. Ekki El Nino).

“Scientists are warning that some of the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within ten years because of global warming. A build-up of greenhouse gases is blamed for the meltdown, which could lead to drought and flooding in the region affecting millions of people.”—The Birmingham Post, England, July 26, 1999

“This year (2007) is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, beating the current record set in 1998.” - ScienceDaily, Jan. 5, 2007

Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer (2008), report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field. “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history],” David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker. - National Geographic News, June 20, 2008

 

“So the climate will continue to change, even if we make maximum effort to slow the growth of carbon dioxide. Arctic sea ice will melt away in the summer season within the next few decades. Mountain glaciers, providing fresh water for rivers that supply hundreds of millions of people, will disappear - practically all of the glaciers could be gone within 50 years. . . Clearly, if we burn all fossil fuels, we will destroy the planet we know . . . We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres higher. Climatic disasters would occur continually.” Dr. James Hansen (NASA GISS), The Observer, Feb. 15, 2009.

 

Úfff...

 

Fylgist nú vel með fjölmiðlunum.   Hvaða fréttir af ógnvaldinum mikla flytja þeir okkur næst?

 

Eigum við ekki að kæla okkur aðeins.   Má bjóða upp á ís?...

... og meðan við erum að kæla okkur, hvað þýðir Déjà vu sem við upplifðum?  
Sjá útskýringu á okkar ylhýra hér.

 

 

 

 Og svo ein klassísk frásögn í lokin um frétt sem er alveg sönn og kom meira að segja í blöðunum:

 

 

 

 Det er ganske vist!
Eventyr af Hans Christian Andersen 1852

 

”Det er en frygtelig historie!” sagde en høne, og det omme i den kant af byen, hvor historien ikke var passeret. “Det er en frygtelig historie i hønsehuset! jeg tør ikke sove alene i nat! det er godt at vi er mange sammen på hjalet!” – Og så fortalte hun, så at fjerene rejste sig på de andre høns og hanen lod kammen falde. Det er ganske vist!

Men vi vil begynde med begyndelsen, og den var i den anden kant af byen i et hønsehus. Solen gik ned og hønsene fløj op; en af dem, hun var hvidfjeret og lavbenet, lagde sine reglementerede æg og var, som høne, respektabel i alle måder; idet hun kom til hjals, pillede hun sig med næbbet, og så faldt der en lille fjer af hende.

“Der gik den!” sagde hun, “jo mere jeg piller mig, des dejligere bliver jeg nok!” Og det var nu sagt i munterhed, for hun var det muntre sind mellem de høns, i øvrigt, som sagt, meget respektabel; og så sov hun.

Mørkt var det rundt om, høne sad ved høne og den, som sad hende nærmest, sov ikke; hun hørte og hun ikke hørte, som man jo skal i denne verden, for at leve i sin gode rolighed; men sin anden naboerske måtte hun dog sige det: “Hørte du hvad her blev sagt? Jeg nævner ingen, men der er en høne, som vil plukke sig, for at se godt ud! var jeg hane, ville jeg foragte hende!”

Og lige oven over hønsene sad uglen med uglemand og uglebørn; de har skarpe ører i den familie, de hørte hvert ord, som nabohønen sagde, og de rullede med øjnene og uglemor viftede sig med vingerne: “Hør bare ikke efter! men I hørte sagtens hvad der blev sagt? Jeg hørte det med mine egne ører, og man skal høre meget før de falder af! Der er en af hønsene, som i den grad har glemt, hvad der skikker sig en høne, at hun sidder og piller alle fjerene af sig og lader hanen se på det!”

“Prenez garde aux enfants!” sagde uglefader, “det er ikke noget for børnene!”

“Jeg vil dog fortælle genbougle det! det er sådan en agtværdig ugle i omgang!” og så fløj mutter.

“Hu-hu! uhuh!” tudede de begge to og det lige ned i genboens dueslag til duerne. “Har I hørt det! har I hørt det! uhuh! der er en høne, som har plukket alle fjerene af sig for hanens skyld! hun fryser ihjel, om hun ikke er det, uhuh!”

“Hvor? hvor?” kurrede duerne!

“I genboens gård! jeg har så godt som selv set det! det er næsten en upassende historie at fortælle! men det er ganske vist!”

“Tror, tror hvert evige ord!” sagde duerne, og kurrede ned til deres hønsegård: “Der er en høne, ja der er somme der siger, at der er to, som har plukket alle fjerene af sig, for ikke at se ud som de andre og således vække hanens opmærksomhed. Det er et voveligt spil, man kan forkøle sig og dø af feber, og de er døde begge to!”

“Vågn op! vågn op!” galede hanen og fløj op på plankeværket, søvnen sad ham endnu i øjnene, men han galede alligevel: “Der er tre høns døde af ulykkelig kærlighed til en hane! de havde plukket alle fjerene af sig! det er en fæl historie, jeg vil ikke beholde den, lad gå videre!”

“Lad gå videre!” peb flagermusene, og hønsene klukkede og hanerne galede: “Lad gå videre! lad gå videre!” og så fór historien fra hønsehus til hønsehus og til sidst tilbage til stedet, hvorfra den egentlig var gået ud.

“Der er fem høns,” hed det, “som alle har plukket fjerene af sig, for at vise, hvem af dem der var blevet magrest af kærestesorg til hanen, og så hakkede de hinanden til blods og faldt døde ned, til skam og skændsel for deres familie og til stort tab for ejeren!”

Og hønen, som havde mistet den løse lille fjer, kendte naturligvis ikke sin egen historie igen, og da hun var en respektabel høne, så sagde hun: Jeg foragter de høns! men der er flere af den slags! Sligt skal man ikke fortie, og jeg vil gøre mit til, at den historie kan komme i avisen, så går den landet over; det har de høns fortjent og familien med!“

Og det kom i avisen og det blev trykt og det er ganske vist: En lille fjer kan nok blive til fem høns!

SLUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Njótið helgarinnar

Ólafur Ragnar: "You ain't seen nothing yet"...

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 "You ain&#39;t seen nothing yet"...

 

sagði forseti vor í ræðu á erlendri grundu í maí 2005.

 

 
(Now we have seen it...)

 

 

 

Þessa frægu tilvitnun má lesa í aftast ræðunni sem má nálgast hér.

 

Lesið alla ræðuna. Hún gefur okkur innsýn í heim sem flestum er hulinn...

 

Hvað finnst mönnum um þessa ræðu í ljósi atburða síðasta sólarhrings? Ber hún ekki vott um mikla framsýni, visku og skynsemi? Ber hún ekki vott um hógværð og lítillæti? 

 

 

"...It is of course tempting to let it remain a mystery, to allow the British business world to be perplexed...."

 

 

 

 

Fréttatilkynning um ræðuna hjá Walbrook klúbbnum á vef  Forsetaembættisins.

 

Ræðan á vef Forsetaembættisins, forseti.is.

 

 

 

 

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