Antarctica 2.0 - 14

Row v Wade?

One wonders how Bob Dylan perceived his opening lyrics in "The Times They Are A-Changin'" hit:

"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'"

(The Times They Are A-Changin', 1963). After all, it wasn't until 1988 (~2.5 decades later) that the famous/infamous scientist of NASA fame used different words with the same meaning when he spoke in person to the U.S. Congress (James Hansen).

It is not unlike some of the other ongoing mysterious information that we are becoming composed of: 

"Assembly pipelines often result in viral genomes contaminated with host genetic material, some of which are currently deposited into public databases." 

(ZWA: Viral genome assembly and characterization hindrances from virus-host chimeric reads; a refining approach). Yep, "things are getting curiouser and curiouser" mates.

And when we try to demystify the science of poetry we are rebuffed (Quantum Biology - 9, It's In The GenBank - 4).

What that adds up to is that I have been buffed and rebuffed so many times I am like a new penny shining in the sum (It's Not Just For Sherman & Mr. Peabody).

But I digress, so, we might as well address the issue of red and blue states.

Today's appendices (Filled In, Not Filled In) show the states of water temperatures that are melting the largest desert on Earth.

The "Filled In" appendix shows, in red, the warmer-than-ice deep waters along the grounding lines of Antarctica's tidewater glaciers.

The "Filled In" appendix also shows, in blue, the colder-than-water ice along the grounding lines of Antarctica's tidewater glaciers.

The "Not Filled In" appendix lines simply show tidewater temperatures along with the melt temperatures of glacial ice in the ambient tidewater.

These graphics in the appendices exhibit the main reason for the change in ice sheets (it isn't surface melt nor calving) as pointed out by Dr. Eric Rignot in the second video below, beginning at about 7:50 minutes and continuing for several minutes, to about 12:30.

So, should we row v wade or just start swimmin'?

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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