“Ah, Australia and the US… two friendly countries seperated by a common language!”

That’s funny … thanks for the public humiliation :) I think I better stick to posting snail-mail!

JE

We must urge Russia to immediately relieve the danger by drilling and piping the methane to Europe, where it will be converted to the less potent greenhouse gas CO2.

Smokey (17:58:18):
. . . It is only in the US version of English that “labelled” is spelt “labeled”.

“Labelled” is also the Canadian spelting, eh?

Don’t you understand, Mr Adams?? The U.S.[sic] is the center of the universe.

Another typo. You misspelt Texas.

Perhaps they are frozen in the glacier? I am kust asking.

Salmon Glacier in Alaska each year builds up water under the tongue until it lifts the ice and floods the entire valley sending icebergs all the way to the ocean some 20 miles away. There is a depression there that the ice has carved out stopping the glacier from advancing and allows the water to build up under it.

“I see (assume maybe) you have “labelled” tagged with a [sic]. “Labelled” is the correct spelling of labeled in Australian English. So in the country of publication that would be correct.”

Ah, Australia and the US… two friendly countries seperated by a common language!

“labelled [sic]”

It is only in the US version of English that “labelled” is spelt
“labeled”.

Don’t you understand, Mr Adams?? The U.S. is the center of the universe.

[i keed!]

Couldn’t they just put a few GPS devices in crush proof containers? Then they could track them in real time. Also, those ducks better be biodegradable, just like the real thing. There’s already too much rubber duckie pollution.

Note the bext-to-last quoted paragraph:

That’s where the rubber ducks come in, along with a probe about the size of a football loaded with a GPS transmitter and instruments that can tell much about the glacier’s innards.

One “football.” Not much, but infinitely better than nothing.

Skates also need a certain temperature range of the ice to work properly. Too cold and there is no melting and the blades stick. Too warm and the ice becomes too soft to support the blades on the layer of water. I wonder if this applies to glaciers too? Too warm underneath and instead of sliding along( or whatever the techincal term is) the ice becomes soft and mushy so it just sits there and melts.

In contrast to the monumental struggle you have to get any form of balance into discussions around climate science and being an expatriot Australian in the US, I thought I would share this bit of trivia … I see (assume maybe) you have “labelled” tagged with a [sic]. “Labelled” is the correct spelling of labeled in Australian English. So in the country of publication that would be correct.

Reference: The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary.

English English has the same spelling – “Labelled”.

Regards
JE
P.S. Great website/blog!

It is only in the US version of English that “labelled” is spelt
“labeled”. As the article referenced was from “The Sydney Morning Herald” where “labelled” is spelt “labelled”, the “[sic]” was unnecessary.

I mean, it shows that they feel they’ve failed to convince the adult population through the proper-channels, and are now having to resort to appealing to the idealistic, easily persuaded, easily manipulated minds of the young….
- and the Civil Disobedience angle is just designed to appeal the young, green-types who like nothing better than protesting against the Big State or Big Business etc

Rubber Duckie you’ve got class,
You’ve got feathers on you butt.
Rubber Duckie I’m awfully fond of you.
Boop, boop, boop-boopie do.

(It doesn’t rhyme, but my granddaughters love it.)

“The flow of material in a solid crystalline state is known as creep, and there are three laws of creep relevant to the flow of ice:

1. Creep is proportional to temperature.
2. Creep is proportional to stress (essentially proportional to the weight of overlying ice)
3. There is a minimum stress, called the yield stress, below which creep does not operate.

All these laws have significant effects on glacier movement. Alpine glaciers differ significantly from the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica, and care is needed to transfer knowledge of one kind of glacier to the other. Incidentally, the physics of ice as described here was worked out over 60 years ago by people such as Perutz (1940)”

NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun…

Hmm-m