@grb090423@Loukas Probabaly closest to Nunavut (especially in the north - where the language is very close and quite a bit different to southern Greenlandic). NOt sure about sami, but when google translate is given Kalaallisut, it generally tries to translate it as finnish (which doesn't work)
"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"
I've been planning a blog post on Antarctica for literally ten years. And now @TheEconomist has gone and done it. Typical. Ah well. Maybe later on today ..
"Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed."
Good piece in Nature this week by Gavin Schmidt covers the extremely anomalous temperatures in 2023, well before El Nino got started as well as the loss of #Antarctic#SeaIce and aerosols...
@becha hah, I don't disagree to some extent, but we will need to adapt to climate change and for that we do need to know exactly why this surge occurred, if it really was unforeseen and how likely it is to continue (or repeat).
A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after the eruption of another volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the fourth since December. The head of department at the Icelandic Meteorological agency said there could be "dangerous" consequences if lava reaches the sea as it flows southwards. BBC News has more, including video and photos.
2024's book number 10 is a short but informative read on #Nefertiti and her famous portrait bust. (Another librarian win).
What I mostly took away, apart from a nice introduction to Amarna and Akhenaten is that the alleged "science" of Egyptology appears to be mostly based on supposition, guess work and prejudice with rather thin, occasional + often contradictory evidence.
More interesting is discussion on judging it's artistic merits and what it says about the viewer
(always a little dangerous for a scientist to judge another's field so apologies if that was overly dismissive and judgemental of me towards Egyptologists...) https://xkcd.com/793/
Tonight’s movie is Living with the Enemy starring Sarah Lancaster, Mark Humphrey, and David McIlwraith.
Here’s the description:
Allison is quickly swept off her feet by the dashing, loving software billionaire, Phillip. They marry quickly, and her life seems unbelievably perfect. Then, although she doesn’t want to, she begins to suspect that Phillip may have been involved in the death of his previous wife. As Allison follows the trail left by her, things become complicated… and dangerous.
Thematically, the Fediverse should love this movie since it’s about an evil tech billionaire who, I suspect, will get his comeuppance. Practically, though, this is probably a badly produced TV movie.
Sarah Lancaster was a series regular on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and was also on Everwood for 20 episodes. The other two actors have basically made their bread an butter off of TV movies for a long, long time.
I suspect this movie was made in Canada. I’m from Canada, and usually my suspicion is correct.
iMDB gives this a 5.3 rating while Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t know it exists.
Tonight’s movie is The Surrogate (2013) starring Annie Wersching, Cameron Mathison, and Amy Scott.
Here’s the description:
A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
Brought to you by the same production family that made A Mother’s Instinct, this is almost certainly going to be a terrible movie. I hate to already judge a film before I see it, but I don’t know if Johnson Production Group has a good movie in them.
Based on the trailer, this is about a deranged stalker who’s obsessed with a novelist, finagles her way into being a surrogate for the novelist’s wife, and then does incredibly evil things – while pregnant. The couple are going to tolerate this crazed lunatic while she carries the baby to term. But in the meantime, the surrogate is going to do lots of damage.
iMDB rates this a 4.6 while Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t even bother with a rating.
I expect lots of scenery chewing and ACTING! Join me as we explore the problems with getting an obsessed stalker pregnant.
@markmccaughrean i was once enormously fortunate enough to visit that exact place and have that exact view in real life. It's a brilliant place, but in the cause of #flyingless I'm now wondering if it's actually worth visiting in person again...
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Danes are the 3rd richest population in the EU and they have the highest consumption based CO2emissions of all - 11 tonnes per Dane per year.
It's primarily food. And let's be really honest, it's primarily meat and dairy.
#DanishCrown https://fediscience.org/
Ruth_Mottram - Danskerne er det tredjerigeste folkefærd i EU og har de højeste forbrugsbaserede CO₂-udledninger af alle: 11 ton per dansker per år.
This is also why, as a #vegan/ #vegetarian based household going food shopping in #Denmark is an enraging experience.
Meat + dairy, especially the highly processed varieties are extremely cheap, and pre-packaged #plantbased equivalents are not.
We pay 25% tax on all products in DK, even food, the local co-op challenged politicians to drop 20% across all fruit and vegetables. The health gains alone would be phenomenal. Never mind the planetary gains. #ClimateCrisis#HealthyEating#CO2
@danyork you're welcome! I'm thinking of writing a couple more on Antarctica in general - I keep starting drafts but never finishing them. It might be time....