Melting Ice Amalgamating and Revealing Pollution

Melting Ice Amalgamating and Revealing Deposits of Pollution from the Atmosphere
Sculptural Watercolour® 2020 in a box frame 60 x 80 x 5 cm
This closer view allows us to inspect the intricate detail of a Sculptural Watercolour®
In recent years, the many fires burning in very distant forested parts of the planet have been a large source of dark particles that have found their way all over the planet. Layers of dust and soot are everywhere darkening glaciers and snowfields. In the Arctic and Antarctic they fall on the ice. And as the ice melts, more and more particles become visible on the surface making it ever-darker. The darker the surfaces become, the more solar heat they absorb, the more quickly they melt. A report in Nature Geoscience dated 8 June 2014 tells us that the darkening of Greenland ice by soot and dirt will probalby cause seas to rise faster that previously forecast We must do what we can to keep the atmosphere as clean as possible. |
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