Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Eye In The Sky.

From Reuters:

A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago.
Bob Thirsk, who is two months into a planned six-month stay aboard the station, said he is mostly in awe when he looks out the window, particularly at the sliver of atmosphere wrapped around the planet.
"It's a very thin veil of atmosphere around the Earth that keeps us alive," Thirsk said during an in-flight news conference. "Most of the time when I look out the window I'm in awe. But there are some effects of the human destruction of the Earth as well."
"This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time," Thrisk said. "That saddens me a little bit."

Thirsk can see a change in just 12 years from space. But then, he's Canadian! Aren't they those godless, gunless socialists with all that nasty universal health care and stuff?

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