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World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea
A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of recovery in the Northern Aral Sea.
I know.World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea
A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of recovery in the Northern Aral Sea.earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Almost 30 years ago, the legendary Polish writer/poet/journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, wrote an exceptionally good, in fact, an outstanding, book called Imperium.
In it, there is a superb, exquisitely written, yet quite haunting chapter which describes the culture, the history and the worlds where the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers flowed (and still flow) and also describes - unforgettably - the ecological disaster of what happened to the Aral Sea.
My wife (who is Polish) also thinks this Kapuscinski work is excellent. She informed me about this author from day 1 of our marriage. Another outstanding book of his is Cesarz (The Emperor), about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia. A most well-revered and respected author in Poland to this day, though perhaps not as well known in the west.
I worked at NIH for many years. Our workstations, lab equipment, and research animals had to be keep at relatively low temperatures via AC in the summer. I remember walking out of the lab building and having moisture condense on my skin because it had been cooled so much by the AC system. Yuck.
Anyway, lack of AC around DC can literally be lethal.
Hottest temp: WMO - actually it was the two hottest days - Monday, immediately superseded by Tuesday. The Met Office have been keeping tabs on the SST anomaly. There's a similar, though slightly earlier graphic on their website:
Sea surface temperatures breaking records
The global sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest on record for those calendar months in a series stretching back to 1850. That is according to the HadSST.4.0.1.0 dataset compiled by the Met Office.
blog.metoffice.gov.uk
I actually prefer cloudy or mild rain, just not downpours, especially when driving. The sun glare is just brutal.
The book (by Ryszard Kapuscinski) The Emperor (about Haile Selassie, his world, and then his decline and fall) is simply superlative.
An astonishing and brilliant book, and a work (in common with the writing of George Orwell) where political insight, philosophical understanding and spell-binding prose combine to unforgettable effect. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
The weekend is on my mind. I clock off in 5 minutes. Then no work (well okay I’ll probably do some) until Tuesday.
An insanely busy week-end beckons, but no (well, not many) complaints.
Hopefully not too busy. I’m off to see my Dad on Monday which will most likely be the annual visit. Meeting up around half way. Hopefully the weather is nice.
Hopefully.
But I'm not sure that my hopes will be realised.
Hope the meeting goes well, and that you are able to enjoy catching up with your Dad next Monday.
Good that the North Europe keep the heat down then - we're so cool 😉
Haven't seen much else then rain this so called summer yet.
My nightmare unfolding in front of my eyes. Instead of seeing Twitter disappear followed by Meta, now we have a second twitter made by Meta.
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Just another platform to not join and ignore.
My nightmare unfolding in front of my eyes. Instead of seeing Twitter disappear followed by Meta, now we have a second twitter made by Meta.
I already have a Facebook and Instagram account so happily joined it. I’ve used Google for the past 25 years so I figured there wasn’t much more of my information that could be collected that hadn’t already.
The Ashes and those whinging Brits about the spirit of cricket and how they flagrantly disregard it until it's convenient for them. And the player in question who decided he could just play by his own rules and allowed this furore to erupt and how he hid in the shadows instead of stepping up and owning his mistake. The Australian team may not be very likeable, but this isn't backyard cricket, you just don't get to make your own rules up as you go along.
We prefer to be called Poms by the Aussies lol. I don’t follow cricket these days but looks like we are being thrashed.
I’m kind of torn on this. It’s cool to revisit history and learn from our past mistakes, but isn’t it another to disturb an underwater grave? Let them rest in peace, and for God’s sake, don’t take anything.
You know, I never thought of painkillers that way until you said that. I had back surgery done years ago (that I still haven’t completely healed from) and took heavy painkillers. I always wondered why I could still feel the back pain. Still do to this day, in fact.
This, I can understand.
Gosh, yes.
In case I did not express myself sufficiently clearly, or plainly, I hold no brief whatsoever for a bunch of wealthy, irresponsible, thrill-seeking individuals, and I am at a loss as to why this story generated so much media coverage when there was so much else - of far greater importance, some of it quite tragic - that (to my mind) deserved to be covered in equal depth by the much of the media.
Doesn't seem like Stockton Rush learned anything from titanic's past mistakes though...
Think we're now up to 4 hottest days on earth - ever.