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RE: Travel Norway #9 - Austerdalsisen - first view on Svartisen's glacial landscapes
Amazing!! And thanks for sharing. It looks surreal... like it doesn't belong. I can see why you fell in love, who wouldn't!! Did you really try the water? The colours are mind blowing... I've resteemed!
Great thanks for resteem. Support always welcome! Indeed, the landscapes looks like from other planet, especially those near the glacier, where is no vegetation yet...
You're very welcome! Happy to help : )
And about the water - Yes, I tried it! It has a lot of different minerals, can be healty but we shouldn't drink so much of it... and it taste like a chalk melted in water...
Yes I noticed all the powdery white rocks near the water in one of your shots (near the bottom), was that dried our minerals. Hmmm, doesn't sound like it tastes so great... I'm sure in small amounts it would have great health benefits.
I liked your reference to the reduction in size too... since we're always told that global warming isn't real. : )
Taste is individual thing - it is quite specific, but I didn't felt it like being horrible ;)...
About the Global Warming issue - It is natural process of our planet, so denying it's reality is like telling people the dinosaurs never existed or the earth is flat ;) ... the only problem is that we are speeding it up quite a lot, and this is the matter to discuss - how big is our influance on this process...
Oh indeed... but then we must also remember that Galileo was locked up for years of his life as he was seen as crazy for thinking the world wasn't flat. I think there's many discoveries in science that are denied for a long time. But yes I agree with you, I think we're speeding it up too. I just get sick of hearing it's not real when clearly there is something going on, the planet is certainly getting a lot hotter.
As I kid we use to get excited when the temps got near 40 degrees as we would be sent home from school if we reached 40. However, 40 is now a very normal and we're now starting to see numbers up near 50 degrees. Last summer (just gone) the media was saying that over the coming years this is going to become our new normal, that we can expect to see numbers up near 50 more regularly. This isn't normal...
So true - myself, as a kid I remember winters full of snow, actually - few meters of snow, now in Poland, winter time is more like autumn... the same things going on in Norway, every year some new records of hot in the north during summer and cold in winter time - weather is getting more and more extreme which is another evidence that global warming is real process.
Yes very true! We barely get a winter here in Australia now... it cools down but not like it use to. Our bees here last year worked all year round, they usually stop for the winter as it gets too cold for them. That's interesting to hear first hand that it is going on everywhere. Certainly worrying isn't it.
We can be worried or just accept it as a natural state of our planet - cycle of ice ages are working, global warming is the beginning of another one and we cannot help it or stop it. Earth is a living planet and we are just one of the species living on it...
I do suppose... we do our best not to leave a huge footprint behind... if everyone came together and did things right, we could certainly slow it down.