#Arctic ice

[reasonsforhope]

Very random question, but do you know of any updates about the artificial icebergs thing? I'm very interested in it and would love to either get the word out or maybe donate to the cause if I can. I can't seem to find any recent updates on it at all, though; many articles were posted when the concept was first announced. Thank you in advance, and I hope you have a wonderful day! ❤️

Happily, I actually do have info about the status of this on-hand, because I was reading an article that mentioned it just a few days ago:

Basically, you haven't heard any updates because the concept hasn't really been further developed. Yet!! With the release of the report detailed here, that project and other solutions for the Arctic will hopefully be getting much more thorough analysis as we move forward in trying to solve this crisis.

The strongest solutions, the report found, were "ones that didn’t involve geoengineering, had a long history of development, and came with major known benefits. Among these were rewilding, reforestation, and managing northern wildfires."

-via Mongabay News, May 21, 2024

[letsgethaunted]

The HMS Terror

After getting stuck in arctic ice during a quest to find the Northwest Passage, the HMS Terror sank to the bottom of the sea only to be rediscovered in 2016.

[therealteslathedog]

This drawing idea got me out of my Artist’s block. Weep before it.

[makingcontact]

The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering

Image of Arctic Ice by Pink floyd88 a via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0&gt;. As we head into a ever warming world, some experts and politicians are embracing a possible solution to climate change called geoengineering. Theoretically geoengineering could slow down climate change, stop it, and maybe even remove carbon from the air. It sounds like…

[yourapple56-blog]

Dr. Natalia Shakova is a scientist who has been studying methane gas in the Arctic for years, and what she has to say is absolutely terrifying!

[itsabebelife]

ARCTIC ICE by Nick Cobbing, Nat Geo Image Collection

[teamingmate]

Danbert arctic expedition horror, idk idk. I just want them to go on adventures, suffer/cause unspeakable horrors, and kiss. (suggestive-ish pic under the cut)

EDIT: it's a fic now!

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900), "The Icebergs" (details), 1861

[vestaignis]

Чарующий и суровый мир Арктики.The enchanting and harsh world of the Arctic.

Источник:://sotni.ru/arkticheskiy-fon/,/vsegda-pomnim.com / priroda/10305-priroda-arktiki-63-foto.html,/cojo.ru/zhivotnye/ zhivotnye-arktiki-53-foto/,/oir.mobi/663890-zhivotnye-arktiki.html, /nlr.ru/nlr_visit/RA5265/novye-postupleniya-arktika--territoriya-mira, /rgo.ru/activity/redaction/articles/kak-vedyet-sebya-arktika-v-epokhu-bystrykh-izmeneniy/,//akspic.ru/tag/arktika/720x1280, //t.me/+E4YBiErj0A8wOGUy.

[bouncinghedgehog]

[reasonsforhope]

The 1987 Montreal Protocol, which phased out the production and use of chemicals that were depleting the ozone layer, has long been considered one of the most successful environmental treaties in history. New research finds that the global pact achieved another unforeseen benefit: delaying the melting of Arctic sea ice.

In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Exeter and Columbia University found that the implementation of the Montreal Protocol is delaying the first ice-free Arctic summer by up to 15 years. That’s because the chemicals banned under the agreement are also potent greenhouse gases.

“Our results show that the climate benefits from the Montreal Protocol are not in some faraway future: the protocol is delaying the melting of Arctic sea ice at this very moment,” Lorenzo Polvani, one of the study’s authors, said in a press release. 

The study authors ran a series of climate models based on two different scenarios: one that included levels of ozone-depleting substances that would be expected if the Montreal Protocol never existed, and another accounting for the global treaty. The researchers concluded that the protocol is postponing the first ice-free Arctic summer by a decade or more, and entirely due to the phasedown of ozone-depleting chemicals. 

The Montreal Protocol was created to address a hole in the stratospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic. The ozone layer protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation that causes skin cancer and cataracts in humans. The treaty phased out almost 100 chemicals — including aerosols used in hair spray and other products, refrigerants, and solvents — that were found to be responsible for destroying stratospheric ozone.

Those banned chemicals, collectively called ozone-depleting substances, or ODS, are also potent greenhouse gases, with up to tens of thousands times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. The report authors estimate that 1 metric ton of avoided ODS emissions leads to 7,000 square meters (more than 75,000 square feet) of avoided Arctic sea loss. By way of comparison, 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions results in about 3 square meters (about 32 square feet) of sea ice loss. 

Given the potency of ODSs as a greenhouse gas, the authors are not surprised at this outsize impact on Arctic sea ice levels. “Nonetheless, such a large mitigating impact of the Montreal Protocol on Arctic sea ice loss is remarkable if one keeps in mind that the protocol was aimed at preventing ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere, and little was known of its effect on Arctic sea ice when the protocol was signed,” the authors noted.

According to their projections, the Montreal Protocol has already prevented more than half a million square kilometers (about 193,000 square miles) of sea ice loss. By 2030, that amount will rise to more than 1 million square kilometers, and to 2 million square kilometers of prevented Arctic sea ice loss by 2040.

-via Grist, 5/24/23

[aquanutart]

[marinusart]

Whiteout was strong as hell. She deserves so much more

Closeups

What can be worse than making a photo of a traditional painting? The same thing but there are metallic details

[xenoanamorph]

John Shaw Torrington🩵 An attempt at a facial reconstruction.. I did this in 2020 and for some reason was very hesitant/shy(??) about posting it. To be fair, not much “reconstruction” was necessary since he was in remarkable shape at the time of his exhumation (and I assume he still looks fabulous thanks to that good ol’ permafrost treatment🧊).

Now some thoughts… because I’ve never articulated this online before..💭

I’ve had a fixation on him since I was 14 (I’m 29 now) and have attempted many times over the years to draw him in a more…well, alive state..

and I’ll just say it straight up; I think he has a beautiful, ethereal face. I’ve always thought that, even when I was a kid. If he looks that way in death, I can only imagine what that beauty was like when he was among the living. I tried to capture that in this drawing..

Anyway.. I could ramble on…

This, I think, is the most presentable drawing out of all the attempts I’ve done in the 15 years I’ve ‘known’ him— though it certainly won’t be the last. 🩵

I’m planning on doing similar portraits of Hartnell and Braine… I expect Braine will be difficult because he was not in good shape compared to the other Beechey boys..

** I’m overwhelmed by the positive responses this piece got! Tysm everyone!🥲🙏 It really makes me so happy to see JT get so much love— and I’m sure it warms his heart as well 🩵

[heartnosekid]

fluffy seals & icy arctic blue stims for anon!

🦭-❄️-🦭 / ❄️-🦭-❄️ / 🦭-❄️-🦭

[zegalba]

Arctic White for Vogue Magazine (1964) Photography: John Cowan