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Monthly Archives: November 2023
No, The Sky Is NOT Falling!!!
Orcas Keep Sinking Boats Off Iberia, Unnerving Sailors – The New York Times
The yacht Grazie Mamma II carried its crew along the coastlines and archipelagos of the Mediterranean. Its last adventure was off the coast of Morocco last week, when it encountered a pod of orcas.
The marine animals slammed the yacht’s rudder for 45 minutes, causing major damage and a leak, according to Morskie Mile, the boat’s Polish operators. The crew escaped, and rescuers and the Moroccan Navy tried to tow the yacht to safety, but it sank near the port of Tanger Med, the operator said on its website.
The account of the sinking is adding to the worries of many sailors along the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, where marine biologists are studying a puzzling phenomenon: Orcas are jostling and ramming boats in interactions that have disrupted dozens of voyages and caused at least four boats in the past two years to sink.
Remberence Day
🎶 Music and the Beast
Colorado mandates 82% EVs by 2032
Quarrel of the Colours
1,500 Killed or Wounded by Israel Overnight: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

Photo credit: The New York Times Israel carried out what the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor called its largest massacre since the state’s founding in …
1,500 Killed or Wounded by Israel Overnight: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
SANANDO
Rapid disintegration and weakening of ice shelves in North Greenland | Nature Communications
The glaciers of North Greenland are hosting enough ice to raise sea level by 2.1 m, and have long considered to be stable. This part of Greenland is buttressed by the last remaining ice shelves of the ice sheet. Here, we show that since 1978, ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, three of them collapsing completely. For the floating ice shelves that remain we observe a widespread increase in ice shelf mass losses, that are dominated by enhanced basal melting rates. Between 2000 and 2020, there was a widespread increase in basal melt rates that closely follows a rise in the ocean temperature. These glaciers are showing a direct dynamical response to ice shelf changes with retreating grounding lines and increased ice discharge. These results suggest that, under future projections of ocean thermal forcing, basal melting rates will continue to rise or remain at high level, which may have dramatic consequences for the stability of Greenlandic glaciers. North Greenland ice shelves have lost more than a third of their masses, thinning dramatically from below due to increased ocean temperatures. In response, grounding lines have retreated and the amount of ice discharged into the ocean has increased.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42198-2
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