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Monday, May 21, 2012
Two environmental videos from Accuweather
Here are two videos from Accuweather that I included as part of Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Annular Eclipse edition) on Daily Kos that wouldn't fit in any theme other than sustainability news from commercial sources, but which I think are worthy of reposting. The first explains the paradox of warm summers decreasing sea ice resulting in winters with heavy snow. The second is a retrospective of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Both of them are videos I plan on using in my classes. In fact, I expect to use it today as the opening of my lecture on volcanism. I'm sure it will get the students' attention.
According to a recent study, there is correlation between summer Arctic sea ice cover and winter weather in Central Europe. Valerie Smock has the details.
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens stunned the U.S. shooting an eruption column 80,000 feet into the atmosphere.
In other news, I mentioned in The Hipcrime Vocab on J. J. Abrams' "Revolution" that I should start blogging about "Hunger Games." I bought the book yesterday afternoon, so expect me to start writing about it soon.
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