Mike LiVolsiJan 4, 2023
Brad Johnson
What the burning of hundreds of billions of times of fossil fuels has wrought.
The more recent photo was taken over 20 years ago.
#climate
Jan 4, 2023 at 11:47amTusky
Show threadFluffyCowBird ✅Jan 4, 2023

@climatebrad
Do we know when the older photo is from?

EDIT: #NeverMind I didn't hover for the alt-text! 1928! So nearly a century ago. And look at all that ghost ice!

Svalbard, for the less geographically-inclined, is a large archipelago FAR off northern Norway, **midway to the North Pole**. I hadn't heard of it before studying Norwegian. :)

#ThingsYouLearnWhenYouLearnNorwegian

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Show threadstd::polarJan 4, 2023
@FluffyCowBird @climatebrad I half suspect that they meant "the less recent photo was taken over 20 years ago"?
Show threadBrad JohnsonJan 4, 2023
@sehe @FluffyCowBird 1928 and 2002. So 95 and 21 years ago.
Show threadFluffyCowBird ✅Jan 8, 2023

@sehe @climatebrad
Well, as Brad kindly pointed out, they were both taken over twenty years ago! 🙃

As I remind my students when report cards come out, "Check your grades to make sure. I'm not a math teacher!" Haha

#ImNotAMathTeacher #MathIsHard #DoubleDigits