Progressive Music: Colonization in Space

2013, 2017, MusicLeave a comment

Energetic psytrance song by Space Alpha, composed around 2013. Space colonization (also called space settlement, or extraterrestrial colonization) is permanent human habitation off the planet Earth. What if we have to consider space as an option, because climate becomes too disruptive? Related: Stephen Hawking says we must colonise other planets to ensure human survival http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-colonise-other-planets-ensure-human-survival-a7746016.html…

How Scientists Study Antarctic Ice Melt

2012, 2013, Antarctica, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Glaciology, Ice Sheets, WAISLeave a comment

NASA Launches Eighth Year of Antarctic Ice Change Airborne Survey (Oct. 17, 2016) http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-launches-eighth-year-of-antarctic-ice-change-airborne-survey Getz Ice Shelf: Iceberg B-34 Makes Its Debut off Antarctica http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85727 NASA is tracking a gargantuan iceberg, escaped from Antarctica (2014) http://earthsky.org/earth/nasa-is-tracking-a-gargantuan-iceberg-escaped-from-antarctica Iceberg B31 Heads West (2014) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84795 Mapping Polar Ice (2013) https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11194 Operation IceBridge 2012 Antarctic https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11135 Getz Ice Shelf…

The Ocean is melting the Pine Island Glacier

2013, Antarctica, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Glaciology, Ice Sheets, WAISLeave a comment

A brief outline of mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of the Pine Island Glacier. Related Pine Island Glacier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Island_Glacier Worldview https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=antarctic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,Coastlines&t=2016-10-12&v=-1735168,-402880,-1489408,-279616

“What the Frack” music video by the Earth Guardians

2013, Music, Natural GasLeave a comment

Check it Out! Newly released ~ “WHAT THE FRACK” music video! A huge thank you to Musa at Black Sun Cinema for this artistic creation with these young leaders, educating the world through music about the dangers of Fracking! Related My generation does give a damn about climate change, says 14-year-old activist http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/11/my-generation-does-give-a-damn-about-climate-change-says-14-year-old-activist

Observing Antarctic Glaciers – Eric Rignot

2013, Antarctica, Climate Change, Communication, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, EAIS, Glaciology, Ice Sheets, WAISLeave a comment

Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses Observing Antarctic Glaciers. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013. Related Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from…