{"id":3207,"date":"2007-10-12T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/polar-views\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:45:31","slug":"polar-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/polar-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The north pole of Titan<\/b>, <a href=http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/image-details.cfm?imageID=2786>courtesy of Cassini<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TitanNpole.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/TitanNpole.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/highlyallochthonous.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/titanian-shores.html>Here&#8217;s why we think the dark patches are lakes<\/a>, which everyone is very excited about. <a href=http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/image-details.cfm?imageID=2789>The first snapshots of Titan&#8217;s southern polar region<\/a> have also found a couple of probable small lakes, although nothing yet on the scale seen in the image above.<br \/>\n<b>The north pole of the Earth<\/b>, courtesy of <a href=http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/shownh.php3?img_id=14571>Nasa&#8217;s Earth Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EarthNPole.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/EarthNPole.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This nicely shows the loss of ice cover in the North-West Passage, which some people are no doubt also very excited about (anyone who owns shares in shipping or oil exploration companies springs to mind); but I think my view tend more towards that of the <a href=http:\/\/nobelpeaceprize.org\/eng_lau_announce2007.html>Nobel Peace Prize committee<\/a>, Al Gore, the IPCC, and confused Inuit, polar bears and seals all around the Arctic. To wit, it&#8217;s a little bit worrying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The north pole of Titan, courtesy of Cassini: Here&#8217;s why we think the dark patches are lakes, which everyone is very excited about. The first snapshots of Titan&#8217;s southern polar region have also found a couple of probable small lakes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/10\/polar-views\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-science","category-planets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}