I can hear chants and incantations
And some guy is mentioning me in his prayers
Well, I don’t know what it is
But there’s definitely something going on upstairs
– nick cave

I’m not sure why, but I was thinking of ICBMs.  The idea that we can sit on one side of the earth and wipe out the other side with little more than the press of a button.  In a way Antarctica is under assault from over the horizon.  While we at home debate whether a cool summer says anything about global warming, it’s raining on the Antarctic Peninsula.  In the often elusive battle of climate change, the earth’s poles are undoubtedly ground zero. Terra Antarctica examines the tell-tale silhouettes burned into the ice. And that’s just one part of the story…

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