"Questions about climate change and the remote Himalayas have fomented a storm of recent research. In the last week alone, two of the world’s most influential science journals published papers about the status and future of the glaciers of the Himalayas.
In one region, the Karakoram, the glaciers are stable and perhaps even slightly increasing, according to a paper published a week ago in the journal Nature.
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Is it just me, or does the rest read like a conventional narrative (i.e. lies)?
Related: Arctic ice recovers from the great melt
Glaciers are growing back on Kilimanjaro, guide insists
Hot Air From Harvard
Vt. Senate to study plastic bag ban
At Peabody Museum, youngsters recycle trash into artwork
I put my Globe's in the recycling bin.
Related:
"The Peabody Essex has announced a record-breaking fund-raising campaign and an expansion plan that will make it one of the largest and most well-endowed art museums in Massachusetts."
They raised HOW MANY MILLIONS??!!
Yeah, some people still have money in this world, more money than they know what to do with. Were it a perfect world we would all be artists, and perhaps we all are anyway. I consider this here my craft; however, it is not a perfect world, far from it. Where is all the loot coming from, and couldn't the money be better spent on other things?
Also see: High-Fivers and Art Student Spies
The Zionist-controlled corporate media will never come clean on that. They will die before divulging such things -- which is why their industry is dying a slow death despite my continued purchases.
Quite an intersection of interests, isn't it? The elite privileged audiences and the art world with a Zionist mouthpiece and intelligence operation behind it.
Another Sunday Special:
"Cuts to European arts budgets felt in US" by Larry Rohter | new york times, March 25, 2012
European governments are cutting their support for culture, and American arts lovers are starting to feel the results....
Europe’s economic problems, and the austerity programs meant to address them, are forcing arts institutions to curtail programs, tours, and grants. As a result, some ensembles are scaling down their productions and trying to raise money from private donors, some in the United States, potentially putting them in competition with US arts organizations.
For Americans used to seeing the best and most adventuresome European culture on tour in this country, the belt-tightening is beginning to affect both the quantity and quality of arts exchanges. At least three European troupes that were expected to perform in January at the Under the Radar theater festival in New York, for example, had to withdraw as they could not afford the travel costs, and the organizers could not either....
For artists and administrators in Europe, such changes are deeply disquieting, even revolutionary. In contrast to the United States, Europe has embraced a model that views culture not as a commodity, in which market forces determine which products survive, but as a common legacy to be nurtured and protected, including art forms that may lack mass appeal....
Countries with governments that are led by conservatives or technocrats - like Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Britain - have had their culture budgets slashed. So have others that are being forced to cut public spending to remain in the eurozone, including Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland.
Yes, creativity and culture must be sacrificed on the altar of debt service slavery to banks.
The "free market" bought you fascism, Europe!
In the boom years before the economic crisis hit late in 2008, it was not uncommon for touring European orchestras, ballet and opera companies, and theater troupes to travel beyond New York, to cities like Minneapolis and San Diego. That has now become more difficult, and when it occurs, the European performers expect their US hosts to cover more of the costs.
“We have less money and have changed our concept of cooperation,’’ said Andreas Stadler, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and president of the New York branch of the European Union National Institutes for Culture. “We expect more from our partners and we will negotiate tougher.’’
The cutbacks are hitting so hard that some of the cultural institutes in New York that have functioned as intermediaries for arts companies in their home countries have experienced reductions of staff or salary, or both. The crisis is also affecting what kind of art is performed and how it is made....
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