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Photos of a frozen tidalwave [Update 1]

Insanely breath-taking, a handful of tourists headed to somewhere that must have been pretty fucking cold and found a remarkable site. What appears to be a tidal wave, frozen solid as it *appears* to be pushing it’s way through the ice. Guess it’s good these photos were taken, cause in a few more years we won’t be seeing things like that anymore.

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[Update]
Added a neat looking home video of more freezing wave formations, filmed by some sort of Canadian human-owl it sounds.

February 5th in Nature, Photos, Tidal Wave | Email this | 17 comments

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Can you imagine standing there.. a wall of water coming toward you … then EEERRRK! It just stops………… WHEW!

Comment by Ki — February 6, 2007 @ 2:52 pm CET

Nothing unususal at all. It happens all the time, but there’s usually not anyone around to take a picture.

Comment by V — February 6, 2007 @ 11:38 pm CET

If you honestly think that global warming will be universally applied to the planet, and we won’t be seeing this, then you are a freaking moron.

Record cold snaps are currently engulfing much of the US, in the midst of this global warming propaganda…

Comment by Ry — February 7, 2007 @ 12:21 am CET

Just because it is cold on one part of the globe does not mean that the world, taken as a whole, is not getting warmer. I have heard that argument countless times. It’s called “Global” for a reason. The earth is getting warmer.

Propaganda…Sounds like an apologist for Big Oil and its buddy George W.

Comment by EPH — February 7, 2007 @ 1:17 am CET

global warming? LOL what a joke… Tell all those people in those big California snowstorms about global warming… what something like 3/10 of a degree in the last 25 years? Yikes. The earth goes through cycles… period.

Comment by krinkvs — February 7, 2007 @ 1:24 am CET

Wow - you morons who don’t think the earth is warming should jump off a cliff to help the species along. Try reading up on the subject a bit — overall temperatures warming, extremes getting more extreme. Bunch of lobotomized dumbf*cks

Comment by jhc — February 7, 2007 @ 3:45 am CET

lol i was one of those people in that extreme californian coldsnap, and it was in the 90’s today, just about two weeks after…

that pic reminds me of that ice hotel in sweden

Comment by clegg — February 7, 2007 @ 4:07 am CET

Goddamnit global warming causes ice ages, fools.

Comment by stumbler — February 7, 2007 @ 4:23 am CET

f*ckstick. man i get sick of right wing bullshit, pull your head out the sand dickwad and have a look outside. Yes the planet has cycles however they generally move other hundreds of thousands of years not 50.

Comment by kinkvsisatool — February 7, 2007 @ 8:32 am CET

The problem is fear mongering is always going to be published much more easily then anyone who is saying that there is little or no problem.

I have researched it on both sides, and if you look at the data for the planet as a whole there is global warming. But it is VERY small and most of the warming we have seen came about before the 1920s. When the green house gases being released by man were next to nothing.

Yes we are warming the planet, just not by 1/10th as much as the fear mongering press would have you believe.

Please, don’t believe me. Go out and do the research yourself, and don’t just rely on reports. Look into the data itself.

Comment by Slackerboy — February 7, 2007 @ 8:45 am CET

btw, a little less then 2 years ago when we had more hurricanes in 1 year then we have in I don’t know how long. Everywhere I looked the press was screaming Global Warming.

The very next year we have 0 hurricanes, none, zip, nada. Is that also global warming? Or does that show global cooling?
The fact is it shows nether one. 1 years data is nothing in a system that runs as long as the earths cooling and warming trends.

We also have multiple temperature trends. We have the Ice Age trend that most people know about it’s on the scale of I believe 50,000-100,000 years. However we also have the mini-ice age trend that runs on the 1,000-5,000 scale. Add to that the solar sun spot cycles and you get a very complex image.

Nobody knows what the impact of man on this planet is yet, anyone who says they do is a fool or trying to get funding.

In the mean time, do your part to cut down on global warming. But please at the same time do the research. Keep in mind reports are always written by someone who needs funding next year and as a result will tend to say whatever the people writing the checks want them to say.

Comment by Slackerboy — February 7, 2007 @ 8:53 am CET

I always love when people get into this argument and then act like their local weather is indication or proof that global warming does not exist.

Tell those people in California about what? That they experienced a variant caused by global warming? What about in Europe, where winters have been extremely mild in comparison to the past. Should we just tell them to put on their shorts and ignore the fact that they should be under a foot of snow right now?

Earthquakes, floods, typhoons, tsunamis. I take it since Bush pretends something like Katrina didn’t happen every chest-thumping conservative can also conveniently ignore it as well? I guess if you live in California.

AND, this post was just a simple link to some beautiful photos which should be appreciated for what they are, written in the usual Nerds style that many of us have come to enjoy. We don’t read this blog for striking commentary on the environment (though I’m sure the Nerds could go that route if they chose to), we come to find enjoying links or software to take our minds off of work or a little break from the usual “net” arguments that always result in a handful of people arguing like children on the playground.

Comment by lu — February 7, 2007 @ 9:03 am CET

…or is it that we might be on the end of an ice age and therefore the temperature is rising?

Comment by den — February 8, 2007 @ 5:27 am CET

You people are freakin’ idiots! First of all, there hasn’t been a year without hurricanes in recorded history. Second of all, I live in Canada and we didn’t get snow until halfway through January, and it usually starts in November. So if you want to debate by local weather, rethink your arguments. Thirdly, yes, global warming does happen naturally, but over millions of years, not 50 or 100. Fourthly, there are no credited climatologists that believe that global warming isn’t a problem or that we didn’t have something to do with it. Seriously, watch An Inconvenient Truth. That was done by an American, you rednecks down south can listen to an American, can’t you?

Comment by Kristine — March 2, 2007 @ 2:39 pm CET

Oh by the way, no, my igloo is NOT melting. NO ONE lives in igloos. The Inuit used them as hunting shelters, but no one ever lived in them.

Comment by Kristine — March 2, 2007 @ 2:40 pm CET

GIVE UP ON CALLING IT GLOBAL WARMING. Hey, we know it exists. We know it’s the biggest issue that’s facing our existence. And we should also know that there are a lot of people out there who don’t have the foresight or intelligence to understand the science involved, and as a result, simply want to be able to debate the name.

Let’s just call it a Global Climate Crisis.

Comment by mk — March 7, 2007 @ 10:55 pm CET

To put the whole Climate Change issue into perspective vis-a-vis the Peak Oil Crisis, everyone needs to ask themselves, their associates, all sitting elected officials and those seeking office, especially the office of President of the United States, “What is more threatening in both the long and short terms, a beneficial 1 degree F rise in average world temperatures over the past 100 years, or a 1 percent decline in world oil production over the last 100 weeks - with steepening declines forecast? Furthermore, can our economy better deal with declining fuel inventories in an environment of persistent warming, or in an environment of declining average temperatures over the next several decades, the most likely scenario given the highly reliable solar inertial motion (SIM) model forecasts of climate change?” Solar cycle # 24 will tell the tale. The problem is not AGW. The problem is the end of cyclical warming coincident with the onset of Peak Oil.

Comment by John A. Jauregui — March 31, 2008 @ 6:23 am CEST