#glacier melt

[feet-of-clay]

Glacier flour adds a lovely turquoise swirl to this lake

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

One of North America’s largest areas of interconnected glaciers is melting twice as quickly as it did before 2010, a team of scientists said Tuesday, in what they called an “incredibly worrying” sign that land ice in many places could disappear even sooner than previously thought.

The Juneau Ice Field, which sprawls across the Coast Mountains of Alaska and British Columbia, lost 1.4 cubic miles of ice a year between 2010 and 2020, the researchers estimated. That’s a sharp acceleration from the decades before, and even sharper when compared with the mid-20th century or earlier, the scientists said. All told, the ice field has shed a quarter of its volume since the late 18th century, which was part of a period of glacial expansion known as the Little Ice Age.

As societies add more and more planet-warming carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, glaciers in many areas could cross tipping points beyond which their melting speeds up rapidly, said Bethan Davies, a glaciologist at Newcastle University in England who led the new research.

“If we reduce carbon, then we have more hope of retaining these wonderful ice masses,” Dr. Davies said. “The more carbon we put in, the more we risk irreversible, complete removal of them.”

The scientists’ findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

The fate of Alaska’s ice matters tremendously for the world. In no other region of the planet are melting glaciers predicted to contribute more to global sea-level rise this century.

The Juneau Ice Field covers 1,500 square miles of rugged landscape north of Juneau, the state capital. The region has become warmer and rainier over the past half-century, which means a longer melt season for glaciers and less snow to replenish them.

[occupyhades]

Operation Deimos

Keeps track of the Agents of Behemoth: Greed, Avarice, Sloth.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:3 (ESV)

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory. Apocalypse 16:8-9 (BSB)

It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops. Haggai 1:10 (NLT)

For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire. Isaiah 66:15 (BSB)

The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements. James 1:11 (NLT)

The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. And all were judged according to their deeds. Apocalypse 20:13 (NLT)

Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy. Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. Ezekiel 7:7-8 (BSB)

What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their evil deeds in the dark! “The LORD can’t see us,” they say. “He doesn’t know what’s going on!” Isaiah 29:15 (NLT)

[tornadoquest]

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[dayurno]

it’s really hard for jean moreau do you know what it does to a person when every time you look at kevin day you hear supermassive black hole - muse play loudly and on repeat in your mind

[orofeaiel]

Glacial Melt Waterfall | MRNP

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Slushy Snow Affects Antarctic Ice Melt

More than a tenth of Antarctica's ice projects out over the sea; this ice shelf preserves glacial ice that would otherwise fall into the Southern Ocean and raise global sea levels. But austral summers eat away at the ice, leaving meltwater collected in ponds (visible above in bright blue) and in harder-to-spot slush.  (Image credit: Copernicus Sentinel/R. Dell; research credit: R. Dell et al.; via Physics Today) Read the full article

[verfound]

FIC: "So About That Piercing..." (MLB; Lukanette; LBSC Lukanette Month 2024)

@lovebugs-and-snakecharmers is doing a Lukanette Month for September 2024, and we all just kinda tossed some prompts in the disco to compile a list?  We ended up with 71 prompts, so I decided I’d roll some dice to pick a prompt, do a twenty minute (ish, bc we all know sometimes they run away from me) sprint, and try to get some short fics out this month?

Direct continuation of "When Did You Get THAT?", because Luka had more to say (and do) about that belly button ring...

Read on Ao3

Prompt 25: Change

Juleka didn’t come back for…a while.

And when the Captain came above deck not long after she left to find Luka and Marinette still standing there, smiling stupidly at each other as they held hands and spoke in low voices, she just rolled her eyes and barked out loud enough to catch their attention, making them jump apart.

“I said having yer lass over would be a bad idea,” she called, her tone as rough as ever but a knowing smirk on her face.  “Don’t be getting too distracted with yer girlfriend, aye?  Make sure that roof be fixed a’fore sundown, at least.”

“She’s not –” Luka tried to argue, but that was when he realized Marinette was still holding his hand.  She squeezed it gently, and he turned startled eyes on her to find she was grinning back at the Captain.

“Sorry, Captain,” she said.  “It was totally my fault.”

“Ah, don’t be blamin’ yerself, lass,” Anarka said, rolling her eyes fondly.  “I know how he gets around ye.  It be about time fer a break, anyhow.  I’ll be back with some grub in a bit.”  She paused before continuing on, leveling them with a knowing smirk.  “A wee bit.  Mind yerselves, now.”

She waved them off and made her way for the shore, leaving Luka staring after her.  Once she was gone, he turned back to Marinette with a wince.

“Sorry about…she means…” he tried, but Marinette’s soft giggle made him pause.  She stepped back over to him, her hand squeezing his again as she looked up at him from under her lashes.  Her gaze was almost shy, which was…insane, because he couldn’t remember the last time Marinette was shy around him.

“She’s not…she’s not wrong though, right?” she asked, and there was just enough of a nervous edge to her voice – just enough uncertainty in her eyes – that it made him pause.  His breath caught in his throat, and she squeezed his hand again.  “I…I kind of am.  Aren’t I?”

His eyes widened, but beyond that he wasn’t entirely sure what his face did.  Whatever expression he was wearing, it made her shrink back – and that was the last thing he wanted.  She swallowed as she looked down to their joined hands, and he was vaguely aware of her thumb rubbing against his.  He squeezed her hand and gave a gentle tug, encouraging her to come closer again.

“I-I mean…Luka, come on,” she sighed, her thumb tapping against the side of his hand.  “The only difference between us and Juleka and Rose most days is that right now Juleka’s probably kissing Rose and showing her just how hot she thinks that stupid piercing really is.”  She looked back up at him, a challenge in her eyes.  It was an expression he was very familiar with on Ladybug’s face, but not always Marinette’s, and it gave him pause, too.  If he thought the piercing was hot…  “And I can’t even say that’s a difference from when we were dating, not really, because you never kissed me then, either.”

Well, that hurt.

“…hey,” he said, his voice weak.  He tried to grin at her.  “It wasn’t for lack of trying.”

That didn’t seem like the right thing to say.  If anything, it just made her hold his hand tighter.  Made that stubborn Ladybug look intensify.

“So why aren’t you trying now?” she insisted, tugging on his hand.  Not for the first time that day, he felt like she had thrown him for a loop.  For several, actually.

“You…want me to?” he asked, dumbfounded.  He blinked at her, his brow furrowing as he studied her.  “Marinette.  You.  Seriously?”

“I thought it was obvious,” she sighed.  “I mean.  Luka.  I got my belly button pierced just to drive you a little crazy.”

“What?” he asked, his mouth dropping open.  She seemed to realize what she had just confessed a second too late, her eyes snapping open with a soft squeak as heat flooded her face.

“I-I-I mean not…I didn’t…I wanted to, because the flower was cute, and it was totally my choice,” she said quickly, shaking her head.  He was still staring at her, and she swallowed as she tugged his hand.  “B-but then Rose said…she said you’d think it was hot, and I wanted you to think I was hot, and…stop it, Luka!”

She slapped at his arm when he started laughing, but he couldn’t.  He was just…hearing her say that…damn it all, he was so happy.

She still…she still liked him.

Right?

That was what he was hearing, right?

She had to, if she wanted him to think she was hot.  (And how weird was that, because when had he ever not thought that about her?  Pierced belly button or not?)

“Marinette, you didn’t…I love it.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love it.  But you didn’t have to go that extreme to make me notice you,” he said, shaking his head.  He reached up to brush some hair behind her ear, and he rolled his eyes at how absurd the idea was.  A hesitant smile curled her lips when he looked back to her.  “As if you’d ever have to change a single thing about yourself to accomplish that.  I always notice you.  I have always thought you were hot.  More than hot.  It is ridiculous how easily you can derail every train of thought I have with just one look.”

Or without a look, but like hell he was about to confess to openly ogling her ass earlier.  At least…not yet.  He wasn’t quite sure she’d be happy to know about that yet.  He swallowed as his thumb rubbed the apple of her cheek.

“You…you do know that, right?” he asked, his voice sounding so nervous in his ears.  “You have to know how crazy I am about you.”

“Well, no, not really, when you don’t kiss me,” she huffed, but she was still smiling up at him.  “I…had hoped.  But I couldn’t be sure when you don’t want to kiss me.”

…she was absolutely ridiculous.

“That’s…entirely my mistake,” he conceded, nodding.  “One I should remedy.  Right now, if you’d like.”

His hand was still on her face.  His other still held hers by their sides.  He laid his palm against her cheek, tilting her head towards him just a bit.  He smiled softly at her as he leaned in.

“And for the record…I always want to kiss you, Marinette,” he murmured, his eyes starting to close.  He saw hers dart to his mouth before he closed them, and he felt her sigh against his lips before he pressed them to hers.  She melted against him, her hand squeezing his almost painfully, and that was all it took for him to wrap his arm around her waist and tug her against him.  She grunted at the movement, and it was too easy to open his mouth and run his tongue along her lip – to take that little gasp as an invitation to deepen the kiss.  At some point her hands had slid into his hair, and God if the way she tugged on it didn’t feel amazing…

She pulled away with a gasp, and when she turned her head it was too easy to trail a line of kisses along her jaw, up to her ear…she pulled on his hair, and he nipped at her earlobe – just below the stud – and then he did it again when that made another delicious little noise escape her.  He’d almost call it a moan.

“Too much?” he whispered, nudging her ear with his nose.  She hummed, but she didn’t pull away.  Her grip loosened on his hair, her fingers scratching lightly against his scalp, and he groaned as he dropped another kiss against her neck.  “Marinette…”

“Y-yes,” she panted.  He started to pull away, but she twisted her fingers in his hair and tugged.  She swallowed and dipped her head towards his shoulder, kissing along the line of his ripped-off sleeve.  “No.  I mean…I don’t know.”

“Talk to me,” he said, moving his hands to her hips and holding her loosely.  He gave her a gentle squeeze before rubbing along the waist of her shorts, and she nodded stiffly.  “Clearly, we need to get better at communicating.  Tell me what you want, Mari.”

“You,” she sighed, turning her head to kiss his neck.  He swallowed again, and she huffed out an exasperated breath.  “It’s just…”

“Too fast?” he asked.  He smiled when a laugh was startled out of her.  He rubbed his nose along her neck.  “Too much?”

“But it shouldn’t be, right?  We’ve been dancing around each other forever – glaciers have melted faster than we do, Luka,” she huffed.  He chuckled, and she tugged his hair again.  “I want this.  I want you.  I’ve always wanted you, Luka.  It was always you.”

He must have made some type of disagreeable noise or expression, because the next thing he knew she was tugging his mouth back to hers and kissing him firmly.

“Shut up.  It has been,” she insisted.  “Even when…Luka.  Before.  When…when I still thought I liked Adrien.  I liked him, sure, but…I didn’t think about kissing him like this.”

“You had your wedding planned out, Marinette,” he said, cocking an eyebrow at her.  “Three kids and beach house, remember?”

“Silly vague fantasies any girl would have about a supposed future spouse,” she said, rolling her eyes.  “And if I ever thought about kissing him, it was always just…a kiss.  Not a kiss.  I never dreamt about what his tongue in my mouth would feel like.  Never wanted to get pierced just to know what it’d feel like when he licked it.”

“Oh my God, Marinette…” he groaned, his grip on her hips tightening.  She ducked her face against his chest, but he could still feel her blush burning through his shirt.

“We’ve been dancing around this forever, Luka,” she huffed, the hand on his shoulder clenching.  “I…I know it’s stupid, because it’s not too fast.  It just…”

Her fingertips on his jaw turned his head, and then her mouth was on his again.  That kiss was sweeter, though.  Just as charged, but…slower.  Full of some kind of promise that had him leaning into her, until she was taking a step back and…she gasped when her back hit the mast, or maybe that was when his thumb slipped under her shirt and stroked beside her navel.  His tongue slid along hers, and she sighed into the kiss as she arched against him.

“This…this is good, too,” she sighed when he pulled away.  He pecked another kiss against her lips, catching the lower one between his teeth, and she sighed again.  “We have time.  We don’t have to rush.”

“This isn’t rushing,” he insisted, stealing another kiss.  “You just said it.  This is years of missed kisses I need to make up for.”

“Years?” she asked with a giggle, and he nodded with a grin.

“Years,” he insisted.  “Starting with that kiss we never got at Crocodile Heart, and every one we missed out on after.  I could have been kissing you every day, Marinette.”

“I wanted you to,” she sighed, picking at the frayed edges of his sleeves.  “We really did miss out on years of kisses.”

“And I will spend the rest of our lives giving you every type of kiss you could possibly want,” he said, his voice low and dark with promise, “but right now you are driving me absolutely crazy, and I kind of just want to kiss you stupid.  So…”

She bit down on her lip as she grinned up at him, and he groaned as he dove at her again.  The hand on his shoulder slipped around his neck, tugging him closer, and he found his hand sliding from her hip, along her stomach, until his thumb brushed along her navel.  She shivered, a little sound that shot straight through him rising from the back of her throat, and he pulled away with a frown.

“Was…was that all right?” he asked.  “Is it still sore?”

“Not…not really,” she said, her hand fisting in the hair at the back of his neck and tugging gently.  His eyes started to close on him, and he swallowed as he nodded.

“Too much?” he asked again, just to be sure.  She shook her head.

“Definitely not,” she said.  She looked shy again when his eyes opened.  “I…I think I liked it?  It felt…”

He flicked at the piercing, and she shuddered as she tugged his hair again.

“…oh,” she breathed, her other hand fisting in his shirt.  “I…I definitely liked that.”

“Killing me,” he groaned, tucking his face against the crook of her neck.  He nudged the piercing again, grinning when she shivered.  “Ma’s probably not gonna be back for a while.”

“She said a wee bit,” she reminded him.  He hummed and kissed her neck.

“There’s a lot we can do in a wee bit,” he argued.  He grazed his teeth along her neck, loving the way that made her pull at his hair, too.  “…there’s a lot I want to do with you, Marinette.  Starting with your idea about licking.”

“I can’t believe I said that,” she groaned, dropping her head on his shoulder.  He chuckled and dropped another kiss against her neck, and then he drug his tongue along it, just to see her reaction.  She squeaked and tightened her grip on his shoulders, pulling him closer.  “L-Luka!  No.  You…the Captain’s probably on her way back.  You have a roof to finish.”

“I have one more pane to replace and until the sun goes down to do it,” he argued.  “And Ma…will probably love teasing us if she comes back and catches us like this.  So, ok.  We can go below.  Find somewhere where I can…what did you say Juleka was doing?  Showing Rose how hot she thinks the piercing is?”

She rolled her eyes, but she still kissed him back when he caught her mouth again.  He…really wanted to take her below.  His bed had to be worlds more comfortable than the mast.  One of the deck chairs was probably more comfortable than the mast.  He wasn’t picky, as long as she let him continue kissing her.

After all, hadn’t she just agreed they had years to make up for?

“You really like it?” she asked, her teeth pressing into her lip again as she picked at his hair.  “You don’t…think it’s stupid?”

“It’s hot,” he insisted.  He kissed her forehead, then her nose, then finally her lips.  “And I love it.  Just like I love you.”

She sucked in a breath, and he kissed her one more time.  Just because he could.

“Just to get it all out there,” he said, rubbing their noses together.  “Since.  Y’know.  Glaciers are melting faster than we do.”

“C-climate change is no joke, Luka,” she teased.  He rolled his eyes, but that time she kissed him – before he could even try to kiss her.  She was grinning as she pulled back.  “But if we are trying to beat the glaciers here…I love you, too.”

She kissed him again, her lips chasing after his as he took a step back towards the door that would lead them below.  She squeezed his hand as he reached for the door, feeling entirely too giddy for the grin curling her lips as she looked at him.

“You dork.”

[pianokantzart]

I’ve noticed quite a few fans are hoping the movie’s sequel will take bigger risks than the first one and have more dark and angsty moments. While I would like to see it, too, realistically, it should not go overboard to the point where the rating becomes PG-13 instead of PG.

What do you think? What are the limits to how many dark/intense moments can be included in a future movie without it becoming PG-13?

Technically, there are a lot of things a movie can do and still have a PG rating. All Dogs Go To Heaven and Watership Down have a PG rating while having a good deal of violent imagery and themes revolving around death.

I don't think the threat of accidentally bumping things up to a PG-13 will be what keeps the second Mario Movie lighthearted so much as Illumination's child-friendly reputation. Then there's Nintendo, who... while not afraid to get serious at times... still have a very colorful/lighthearted vibe connected to their main mascot.

Honestly, I was surprised they went as dark as they did in the movie we got. They never shied away from the fact that Mario and Luigi could die at any moment, and Bowser was even more violent and threatening than his game counterpart. That "let's see how tough this Mario is when he watches me kill his brother!" line genuinely surprised me.

Overall, I don't think they're going to make the sequel much darker than the original. Will they up the anti? of course! but they'll do it in a fun, colorful, adventurous way rather than an angsty way. Our biggest hope is the 1-up mushroom coming into play, yet even then I suspect the (bloodless) death of the doomed character would last for a very brief span of time. But it would be wild if they had one of the Mario Brothers watch the other die, even if said death only lasts for a few moments.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

We’ve long known that ice sheets, frozen soil and sea ice release vast quantities of water as they thaw, contributing to sea-level rise and flooding communities in the Arctic. Now, a growing body of research shows water isn’t the only thing melting glaciers can leave behind. 

Toxic Melt: Glaciers are some of the top victims of global warming, but recent research shows they may also be ticking climate bombs. Over the past few years, scientists have discovered abundant stores of the greenhouse gas methane in glacial melt across the world—from Norway to the Canadian Yukon to China. They’ve yet to determine exactly how much of this “ancient” methane is being released into the atmosphere, but many say the phenomenon represents a climate feedback loop. 

“It’s just this very stark image of climate change, melting these glaciers and then releasing methane,” Gabrielle Kleber, a scientist who studies glaciers at the University of Cambridge, told Inside Climate News in 2023. 

Frozen soil known as permafrost is similarly releasing methane as it thaws, adding a potent greenhouse gas to an already fragile Arctic environment. Heavy metals like mercury and arsenic are also emerging from this melting soil and ice. A new study led by the University of Southern California found that mercury from thawing permafrost could threaten Alaska Native peoples by leaching into the fish they eat, which can cause permanent lung or brain damage. 

“Where I’m from in Beaver, there’s no grocery stores. We build our own cabins. We haul our own water. We hunt our own food,” Darcy Peter, who is Koyukon and Gwich’in Athabascan from Beaver, Alaska, and works on climate adaptation at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, told Grist. “We definitely feel it on a physical scale, an emotional scale and a financial scale—the decline of salmon and the presence of mercury on the Yukon River.”

If you’re not terrified enough already, I’ve got another item to add to the list of things emerging from melting Arctic ice: viruses. In 2014, scientists were able to revive a dormant virus sample pulled from 30,000-year-old Siberian permafrost. This process has been repeated several times with a number of different pathogens, a class dubbed “zombie” viruses. 

Scientists are not currently concerned that these ice-trapped organisms will fuel a large-scale pandemic. However, an anthrax outbreak in 2016 was believed to be caused by a dead reindeer unearthed by melting permafrost, NPR reported. 

[arya-kamon]

Echoes of Melting Giants: A Journey through Fragile Landscapes

In the heart of the Alps, where glaciers once stood proud, the scars of climate change are unmistakable. Journey through Val di Sole to Passo del Tonale, where history and nature intertwine. The remnants of the White War echo in a sensory museum within a cave, while the sight of retreating glaciers and makeshift tarps highlight humanity’s struggle against environmental degradation. This poignant narrative urges a reflection on our role in preserving these fragile landscapes for future generations.

Discover more: Full Life Expedition 🏔️🥾

[tsukana]

i miss monday morning phil logging on to do solo resource gathering for his team and saying fuck everyone else i only have the emotional capacity left to leave an attachment to my team because everyone other team has already betrayed us and left us behind for slaughter at the whim of a fucking eye like the last six months of village parenting and taking care of their kids has been nothing