antarctica – Effects of Anxiety

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There’s been quite a bit of buzz lately about the plight of scientists trapped in Antarctic ice. But if you were relying purely on the MSM for news, you may very well have missed the fact that those scientists were climate change researchers. For some inexplicable reason, MSMers left that little detail out of their reports.

http://twitter.com/#!/ABC7/status/419047512746385408

CBS opted for the “passengers” designation as well:

http://twitter.com/#!/CBSNews/status/419120292997656576

As did NBC, which also referred to the researchers as “voyagers”:

http://twitter.com/#!/NBCNews/status/419080766744952834

Even Fox News linked to an Associated Press report that revealed only that the “passengers” were scientists — but not what type of scientists they were:

http://twitter.com/#!/FoxNews/status/418733496811913216

In fact, NewsBusters reported that between December 25 and January 2, only one out of 41 network morning and evening reports made any mention of the purpose of the expedition.

What’s up with that?

http://twitter.com/#!/RC5ipple/status/419153115745513472 http://twitter.com/#!/bocabelo/status/419112004108816384 http://twitter.com/#!/CoolCzech1/status/419106933401214976

Do your job, media.

http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/419145944744353792 http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/419146045520896000

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Climate change scientist whose ship got stuck in ice live-tweets rescue [Vine, video]

Key question! Global warming activists rescued from icebound ship, but what about this?

‘Bittersweet irony’: Ship that rescued trapped climate change researchers may be stuck in ice

Belly up! Here’s what the icy behemoths look like when they’ve had a few too many.

1. On a recent excursion to Antarctica, San Francisco-based filmmaker and designer Alex Cornell, 30, caught a rare glimpse of an iceberg’s underside.

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Alex Cornell / Via alexcornell.com

Most icebergs’ hefty bodies are submerged under water, but occasionally they roll over, according to ScienceNews. Compared to the comprehensively white Antarctic, from a distance on their fast bouncy boat, the iceberg just looked like a piece of rock, Cornell wrote in an email to BuzzFeed.

As we got closer, it became clear that it was a pure jade iceberg. We had a naturalist onboard the zodiac boat with us, and he explained what we were seeing and why it was so exciting. To us, everything we came across was exciting (penguins! icebergs!), but this certainly stood out as a rare sight — something I had never seen before in real life, or even subsequently in photos.

3. Where do icebergs come from, anyway?

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Alex Cornell / Via alexcornell.com

The ice giants break off from glaciers or massive ice sheets and meander along with ocean currents, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center. So the flip occurs after the iceberg detaches from its parent, or when its ice melts unevenly and it keels over, oceanographer Louise Biddle told ScienceNews.

In a video he made about the shoot, Cornell said capturing images amid blindingly reflective surfaces is the biggest obstacle, especially because the mandatory sunglasses make it hard to review your work as you do on dry land. Of all of his projects, he never imagined a natural photo he took of ice in water would be so widely covered, he wrote on his company’s site.

4. Here’s another view of the spectacularly aquamarine ice, which steadily becomes coated with the flotsam of environmental elements.

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Alex Cornell / Via alexcornell.com

“We were very lucky to come upon it during the short window of time before it blended back into white, after enough air, sun, and snow exposure,” said Cornell.

5. You can see even more footage of Cornell’s Antarctic shoot in his illustrative video.

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Alex Cornell / Via alexcornell.com

Or catch more of his work (like this furry little guy) on his site or Instagram.

Tag: antarctica

How convenient! MSM ignores that trapped scientists were researching climate change

This Is What An Upside-Down Iceberg Looks Like

1. On a recent excursion to Antarctica, San Francisco-based filmmaker and designer Alex Cornell, 30, caught a rare glimpse of an iceberg’s underside.

3. Where do icebergs come from, anyway?

4. Here’s another view of the spectacularly aquamarine ice, which steadily becomes coated with the flotsam of environmental elements.

5. You can see even more footage of Cornell’s Antarctic shoot in his illustrative video.

6. H/T ScienceNews

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