[MCN] National Science Foundation: Snow & the future of winter

[Lance Olsen]

In celebration of snow and winter as we know it, and in a look at 
what winter may be like in the future, the National Science 
Foundation (NSF) has launched a new special report: Let It Snow! The 
Science of Winter. <<http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/>>

The report focuses on projects supported largely by NSF's Directorate 
for Geosciences and Directorate for Biological Sciences/Division of 
Environmental Biology.

Grants from these areas fund research on subjects as diverse as 
measuring snowfall; tracking snowstorm "bombs," as whiteouts are 
known in meteorology; studying animals and plants that live beneath 
the snow in an ecosystem called the subnivian; searching for 
snowmelt, or "white gold"; and the bane of winter -- dust from the 
atmosphere that causes snow to melt before its time.

Go winter storm-chasing, enter nature's igloo

In the report, explore such topics as winter storm-chasing, a conifer 
tree's view of snow, life in nature's igloo, and where our winters 
have gone. <<http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/snow/>>
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"Ten thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on 
the planet.  There was plenty of room to expand and move, and 
resources seemed endless."

Niles Eldredge. Dominion. 1995. University of California Press.
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"But we need to be clear, the large-scale predicament and the 
emergent socio-economic stresses that we are beginning to experience 
has very little to with fraud, corruption and the greed of a tiny 
few. It has a lot to do with our human civilization running into 
limits."

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-03-25/anger-complicity-in-a-time-of-limits


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