apodman wrote:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090509.html
APOD Description wrote:A sugar cane field from one of the historic region's local farms lies in the foreground.
All I see is sugar cane
standing in the foreground. The field is out of frame. It must have been
cropped.
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HAMLET: Whose grave's this, sirrah?
Gravedigger: Mine, sir.
HAMLET: I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't.
Gravedigger: You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not
yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.
HAMLET: 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine:
'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
Gravedigger: 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to you.
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Clear skies over
the city of Campos (
near the Tropic of Capricorn) may be due in part to abnormally cold South Atlantic waters:
However, these same cold Atlantic (Tropic of Capricorn, as well as, north Equatorial) waters may have pulled the
Equatorial Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) from it's normal position over the mouth of the Amazon to the dry scrub deserts of
Eastern Brazil:
http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Eve ... y_day.html
http://home.wxs.nl/~bange006/eco/ecosystems.jpg
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/08/brazil.floods/ wrote:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- The death toll from flooding that has covered large parts of Brazil continued to rise Friday, with the government reporting seven new fatalities, bringing the total to 38. The rain-induced floods left nearly 800,000 people displaced, according to the Brazilian civil defense agency.
Floodwaters reach almost to the tops of some homes in
Piaui state in Brazil:
Rain has fallen steadily in some parts of the country for more than two weeks and is forecast to continue for another 10 days. World Vision, a relief agency working in Brazil, predicted it could take 30 days for flood waters to recede. Communities in 10 states have been swamped by the floods, though most of the fatalities have occurred in the country's northeast, officials said.
Meteorologists and other weather specialists are divided over the cause of the downpours, particularly in the normally dry northeastern section of the nation.
Some say ocean temperatures are to blame, while others say deforestation has led to the climate change. Brazil has been devastated by rain-swollen rivers for months. Flooding in the southern part of the nation in November and December killed more than 120 people and left about another 30 missing.
