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Greenland melts on cue

Here's dramatic video of a Greenland iceberg collapsing while tourists watch. Some of the glaciers covering Greenland, the world's largest island, are melting. There's some worry among geophysicists that the melting ice sheets will increase the weight of the oceans and even affect the rotation of the planet....

Tags: Greenland, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Reporter fakes experience of major meltdown in Greenland

I wrote that headline to please all the vociferous members of the Flat Earth and No Global Warming Association. In the interest of bi-partisanship I wanted them to feel included 'cause they're gonna hate the rest of this blog. A Conde Nast editor has just published a lengthy piece...

Tags: Greenland, Conde Nast Editor, Sea Ice, Internet, Litigation, Blogging, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-31

Arctic Group Plans for the Future With IBM Cognos and EDB Gruppen

Arctic Group is a trading company based in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which supplies a wide range of goods and services to businesses and consumers in Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Supplying a range of 155,000 products to remote communities in Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands...

Tags: Greenland, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp., Arctic Group, Supply Chain, Business Intelligence, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance

Case studies 2008-11-01

Should engineers fix climate change?

Two weeks ago, I wrote that 1,500 ships could fight climate change. Many readers sent me interesting comments. And of those, who wants to remain anonymous, sent me his thoughts about climate change. This started a conversation between the two of us and you'll see the result of our exchange...

Tags: Greenland, Ice, Pollution, Climate, Joe, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least

Above phjoto taken last week by NASA satellite. The Arctic ice cap is relatively small this year, but it ranks as only second smallest. The Ice Class of '07 still reigns. That's the latest word from the National Snow and Ice Data Center which...

Tags: Greenland, Glacier, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Arctic nations agree to talk, not fight, over new shipping lanes

Courtesy USGS and NOAA. Global warming is opening the once mythical Northwest Passage and ships are expected to be able to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific by going past Greenland,Canada and Alaska. Five nations direclty affected by this sea-change are agreeing to abide...

Tags: Greenland, NOAA, Nation, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Greenland, coming and going but defnitely on the rebound

Courtesy: NASA Red dots are locations of ice monitoring stations. Nature has a broad look at what we know and we might know about Greenland and its shrinking ice. Unlike many of the, "this past summer..." articles, this one goes back to the...

Tags: Greenland, Giant Lake, Productivity, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Greenland is coming up in the world

Research using GPS and computer analysis of data over several years shows that Greenland is rising. As the ice cover on that mega-island gets less, and thus lighter in weight, the land mass beneath is increasing its elevation. In the five years ending in...

Tags: Greenland, Corporate Communications, GPS, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-11-15

Greenland becoming a green land

This picture is from NASA/JPL. What do you see here? You see stresams of water on the surface of a melting Greenland ice sheet. The streams converge on a moulin which is a shaft or tubular path down which the water pours until it...

Tags: Greenland, Ice, United States Coast Guard, Ice Sheet, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Photos: Melting glacier uncovers island

Experts on global warming are pointing to Greenland's Warming Island which had been hidden under a glacier.

Tags: glacier, Greenland, global warming, photograph

Image galleries 2007-04-26

Kangaatsiaq Webcamera 1 (Windows)

This is a Web cam from the city Kangaatsiaq, which is in Greenland, which updates every 30 minutes. The imagery is taken from www.qulleq.com.

Tags: Imagery, Greenland, Ulloriaq Lundblad, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-04-26

Photos: Glaciers on the move

Greenland's glaciers are disappearing more and more quickly, scientists say.

Tags: Greenland, glacier, scientist

Image galleries 2006-02-17

Photos: Glaciers on the move

Greenland's glaciers are disappearing more and more quickly, scientists say.

Tags: Greenland, glacier, scientist

Image galleries 2006-02-17

Additional Resources

A British look at global warming denial

And this examination takes us back to the Norsemen and their settlements in Newfoundland and Greenland. And that pesky issue of the Medaeval Warming. And the semantics and geography of "Vinland." The writer correctly connects anti-global warming sentiments with anti-government sentiments. I'd say toos in a strong...

Tags: Expert, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Another flashpoint in global warming warnings

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling"Chicken Little date unknownNo, the sky is not falling, but, there are wide ranging problems caused by global warming that people have to deal with right here, right now. Somebody actually has to deal with overflowing lakes. The eco system on our planet...

Tags: global warming, Sun Microsystems Inc., global warming warning, flashpoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?

There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...

Tags: climate change, mankind

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Greenland

Microsoft readies a new 'netbook-like' Windows Server SKUThat it will offer a unified entertainment experience across PCs, phones and TV? It sounds like Eisler, in his new role, will be instrumental in delivering those goods. (sexy lingerieRE: A Microsoft Code Name a Day: GreenlandThat it will offer a unified...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Eisler, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Northeast Passage: here we come

The first time?More proof facts have no place in the modern anti-science era.For those interested start with Swedish steamship Vega (1878).I think this will be the first commercial cargo ships to go through. In the past, it has only been for exploration and way to dangerous and costly for commercial...

Tags: Northeast Passage, Northwest Passage, Vega

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-03

News to know: Dell; Word; Firefox; iPhone China; Snow Leopard

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Dell continues to bet on 2010 enterprise refresh cycle; Confirms working with China Mobile Sam Diaz: "Inadvertent...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Word, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Sam Diaz, E-books, Microsoft Windows 7, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-08-28