Image of UK from NASA satellite - Fantastic!

[Derbyshire Seagull]

this is the original high res image - even more stunning



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[WhingForPresident]

I'll enjoy it, our country is back to being white again

ohhh..

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

Looks like something out of "The Day after Tomorrow"....incredible

 

[7:18]

i always picture it as a Kangaroo with Wales being the little baby in the pouch, cornwall the legs

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Amazing picture.

Are we not still in an ice age considering a % of whe world is still under ice?! That's a question not a statement!

Yes we are, but towards the end of one where the ice has been retreating, giving rise to this global warming myth.

from wikipedia Ice age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in the ice age that began at the start of the Pleistocene (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist)

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Amazing picture.

Yes we are, but towards the end of one where the ice has been retreating, giving rise to this global warming myth.

Thats now two threads where you've said 'global warming myth'.

CO2 and methane levels in the atmosphere have increased and are still increasing because we're burning fossil fuels, clearing rainforest and farming more livestock.

Increased atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels are theorised to cause a 'greenhouse effect' resulting in an increase in mean global temperatures.

This theory can be tested by measuring temperatures, which reveals that global mean temperatures are rising at levels higher than accounted for by natural global-warming (itself a result of natural cycles).

Natural global warming has been happening at a slow, consistent and verifiable rate, has been recorded for at least the past 300 years and presumably extends back to the last major ice age. Human-caused global warming is additional to this.

The existence of human-caused global warming was controversial for many years, but as the body of evidence has grown nearly all scientists now agree that the process is real. Some people continue to deny it, in many cases because they don't like the measures governments are taking to slow or stop the process.

The effects and ultimate extent of global warming are less clear and range from mild changes to major changes resulting in catastrophe for human society. It seems inevitable that sea levels will rise because of melting ice caps. Global weather patterns are also shifting, meaning that areas formally good for agriculture may not be in the future. And so on.

 

[KneeOn]

Absolutely stunning.


Anyone else starting to feel like this is exactly how the Day after Tomorrow started? And actually if the Government or others had worked out it was the beginning of a new Ice age would they tell us necessarily?

I said that to my mates! The Day After Tomorrow is upon us!

 

[backson]

Is Britain the new Antarctica?

Is white the new black?

 

[ATFC Seagull]

this is the original high res image - even more stunning



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Quality - looks like Aberystwyth might be in the 2% or whatever thats still gren!

 

[Wozza]

this is the original high res image - even more stunning

GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.250m.jpg

Aye, very nice.