air is probably cleaner now than it was then
Elaborate?
go read a historybook on the industrial revolution
That would make the air… less clean now?
Edit: looks like PM2.5 and PM10 levels were 10-100x more around a hundred years ago. Seems like air quality is in fact better now.
ah to have seen the raw undisturbed beauty earth once had…
yeah but it’s much more colorful now. that’s good, isn’t it?
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OP always thinks positive.
But at what point does it become toxic positivity?
Good luck, everyone. I genuinely hope you make it through as okay as you can.
Thank you. I’ll do my best regardless. Will you be joining us?
I’ll do my best, yes.
Oprah buying up development rights on the coastline there too?
I’m always disappointed when someone takes the time to try to reproduce an old photo but they miss by not having everything identical (wooden boat).
Then I’m more disappointed because that motorized boat is part of the problem that caused this tragedy.
IDK, maybe that was the point
Yes, let’s focus on that.
I mean anyone is free to try their hand at reproducing it better, I’m sure the spot hasn’t changed that much since the modern one here was taken, and if it has, well it’ll just make the comparison that much more dramatic.
The motorized boat is an accurate representation of how things are today.
crazy to think that guy has been on that boat for over 100 years
He clearly switched boats.
No boat would live that long…
Boat of Theseus
Nah, he just slowly upgraded and remodel on the spot. The guy never moved from that spot. 🤥
Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.
Thanks, emissionschads!
I myself asked “What time of year was the lower photograph taken?” Then I realized I was being dumb, because if either photo was taken in winter time, we would see at least some ice in the water, if not a very large ice sheet.
That, and it’d be dark. You’d need to pack one hell of a flash.
Thank goodness they cleared out all that snow and ice so that we can finally see the pretty mountains.
We should put some factories there!
This might be silly but we could replace the ice with trash?
Already working on it, my dudes.
While were at it we should also put a 50 lane highway
Afterwards, 30 chained fast food resturants along with gas stations can be built along it followed by market advertisement campaigns to set up billboards
Hear me out.
Miles of parking lots!
We might have to workshop this, but I feel like there’s a good idea in there somewhere
Notice the first guy is in a wooden boat and the second guy is in a boat most likely made out of some plastic-based fibers. 🤔
The plastic isn’t really a huge driver of climate change, the problems it causes are different.
For the climate change comparison, notice that the old boat has oars, but the new boat has a gas engine
Which is also a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic.
Far too many people are eating gas
It’s so calorie dense!
The old boat also has a motor, note how it’s still moving in the photo while the only person in it is in the back holding a tiller (and appears to be facing forwards).
The boat in the old photo (from 1928, apparently) is casting a pretty good wake, and the man aboard is holding a tiller attached to a rudder. It’s impossible to tell for certain with the low-res image, but entirely likely that one of those shapes in the boat ahead of him is an inboard engine.
the old boat has oars
Which no-one is using. It’s the first thing I noticed. There’s a man sitting in the stern with a tiller and rudder, but there’s no visible means of propulsion, no other crew. Weird.
Edit: I zoomed in, and it’s possible there is someone else in the boat, hard to see.
What time of year in each photo?
Is the boat the same distance from the shore?
Are you suggesting that Antarctica typically thaws out in the summer?
Mountains of ice melt in the summer then the water refalls in the fall and winter as snow and freezing rain in truly apocalyptic amounts. Rebuilding the ice mountains to start the process over.
Can’t tell if a joke or if user doesn’t understand how glaciers work.
Joke
He doesn’t understand glaciers.
Glaciers are made from snow piling up over centuries.
Some of it melts each winter, but over time, the glacier should stay about the same.
If this glacier is melted, that means it’s been more melting than building back up for the last century. It’s a sign of global warming.
- It is the Arctic, not the ant-arctic.
Actually that’s all.
What is this, an Arctic for Ants?!
Would you say it’s ant-antarctic?
Is this Antarctica or the Arctic? The title said the Arctic, but you said Antarctica and the mountains do remind me more of the south than the north.
I assumed it was northern Canada, Russia, Iceland, or one of the other land masses at the edge of the Arctic Ocean.
Svalbard, according to the photographer. It’s the second image in that gallery, there’s a little “info” button below the bottom right of the image
Are you trolling? The seasonal variation in arctic glaciers is negligible.
Question. How fast do you think glaciers reach that height?
I’m not your thread’s OP but I want to know the same question (what were the seasons) because no, I don’t know how fast glaciers reach that height either. Nothing about that implies denial of the validity, it’s a question to help quantify the change. Varying 10ft between seasons means this is a massive change regardless of season. Varying 100ft, not so much. No, I don’t beleive it’d actually be 100fr of change in 6 months, but I could see it being more than 10ft.
Did you think my question was a veiled attempt at climate change denial, lol?
What was it, ignorance and stupidity?
A question.
“I’m just asking questions!”
I’m sure it’s just a smidge of winter snow build up. No need to be alarmed
No the question isn’t time of year but of time of day.
See it was mid morning so the glaciers all left for tea.
Given that the sun is up at roughly the same amount, and at the poles the sun remains consistently up or down according to the season, I think we can rightly assume these two photos are taken at least approximately at similar times of the year.
Also, are you trying to insinuate that 100+ foot tall glaciers are somehow “seasonal?” Because they aren’t.
Glaciers actually do retreat and advance seasonally or on even longer cycles. Some have terminuses that move back and forth literal miles. One of the key indicators of climate change is the fact that globally, glaciers are retreating more than they’re advancing on average.
Sure, but completely disappear in a season as if that’s “normal?” No.
“I must try to look smart by saying lots of things but being one hundred percent wrong about the topic at hand”
This is wild 🫨
New real estate!
Revenge of the Titanic.
