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Finland courts US rivals Russia and China in bid for key role in Arctic power game
China has its own Arctic research station on Svalbard. (Pic. I.Quaile)
Finland does not often make its way onto the international news agenda, but as the country prepares to take over the presidency of the Arctic council from the USA next month, it succeeded twice over the past week. Firstly, the country's President offered to host a meeting between Russian President Putin and US President Trump. Then Chinese President Xi Jinping flew in on a state visit on his way to a meeting with Trump.
Tackling the summit
At a forum in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk last Thursday entitled "The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue", Finland said it was willing to host a high-level summit meeting during its two-year presidency and would be happy to receive the Russian and US Presidents in Finland.
In his statement, the Finnish leader stressed that "the geopolitical tensions in other parts of the world should not be allowed to spill over to the Arctic. Cool heads are needed to keep the Arctic an area of low tensions also in the future."
Under the chairmanship slogan "Exploring Common Solutions", he said "we want to highlight the need for constructive cooperation between all Arctic stakeholders. Also, we believe it is time to take the Arctic cooperation to a new level. Finland proposes the convening of an Arctic Summit to discuss a wide range of issues pertaining to the region and beyond. This would provide an opportunity to ensure that the Arctic indeed remains a territory of dialogue".
Heather Exner-Pirot, Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook, was scathing about the Finnish move in a blog post for Eye on the Arctic. She says Finland has been floating the idea of such a summit at least since 2010.
"But after meeting with Barack Obama in May 2016, Niniistö seemed to abandon such plans, calling the timing "inappropriate" given the international political situation. That was short-lived. Niniistö once again revived the idea in his first telephone call with now President Trump, in December 2016."
Go for the summit or work from base camp? (Greenland, Pic. I.Quaile)
Stick to base camp?
Exner-Pirot finds it "bewildering" that the current situation could be considered more appropriate than they were a year ago.
"Niniistö may not have noticed, but the Trump Presidency is in crisis, a political dumpster fire, not least because it is under investigation for inappropriate ties to Russia during its 2016 Presidential campaign. Any meeting of Trump and Putin under the current political climate would be a circus."
She says Finland has not put forward any convincing reasons to host such a Summit, and that the usual biannual Arctic Council Ministerial, which will take place next month, is an adequate regular platform to address high level Arctic issues amongst the Arctic states' Foreign Ministers.
"The Trump Administration has proffered no position on Arctic affairs except, tangentially, to cast doubt on the anthropogenic contributions to climate change; it is hard to imagine more sophisticated or constructive discussions arising from an Arctic Summit."
She argues for continuing "compartmentalization" as a guiding principle in regional Arctic politics, keeping environmental issues and development "insulated from the destabilising fluctuations that occur within the broader international system."
Cooperation with Russia is "rational and necessary", Exner-Pirot concludes, but "inviting Trump and Putin together for an Arctic Summit flagrantly violates this strategy. Instead, it invites drama and uncertainty into Arctic politics at a time when multilateral efforts are progressing quite smoothly; an all-risk-and-no-reward scenario. This is not the Arctic way. Cooperation with Russia in the Arctic must continue. But the proposal for an Arctic Summit should be shelved."
Easier access necessitates close cooperation to cope with more traffic in the High North (I.Quaile)
Nice try?
While there is much to be said for tackling issues at lower levels – can you blame Finland for making the most of its central role at the helm of the Arctic Council? It is surely natural for a country in this position to offer a stage for a high-profile meeting of these two world leaders – perhaps especially when it seems unlikely in the present circumstances.
At any rate, it will only happen if the two key players feel it could be to their advantage. The very prospect certainly ensured considerable news and public attention for the incomimg Arctic Council Presidency.
Finnish President Sauli Niinisto back-pedaled a little later, saying the nation was unlikely to hold an Arctic summit at short notice, cooling media excitement at the prospect of an early meeting between US President Trump and Putin.
For his part, President Putin said he was willing to meet Trump in Finland, but "he would wait longer if needed", the news agency AP reported: "We are waiting for the situation to normalize and become more stable. And we aren't interfering in any way."
With a US congressional investigation of possible links between the Trump election campaign and Russia underway, the jury, presumably, can said to be "still out" on that one.
Ultimately, insulating the Arctic from the tensions of international politics as Exner-Pirot suggests, seems like wishful thinking.
There is evidence enough that Russia has been moving to increase its military presence in the region. In a feature for Reuters published January 30th, Andrew Osborn wrote Russia was "again on the march in the Arctic and building new nuclear icebreakers."
Osborn describes this as "part of a push to firm Moscow's hand in the High North as it vies for dominance with traditional rivals Canada, the United States and Norway as well as newcomer China."
The Chinese lion is claiming its space in the Arctic. (Svalbard, Pic. I.Quaile)
Based on interviews with officials and military analysts and reviews of government documents, Osborn concludes that Russia's build-up is the biggest since the fall of the Soviet Union and that it will "in some areas, give Moscow more military capabilities than the Soviet Union once had."
He continues "under President Vladimir Putin, Moscow is rushing to re-open abandoned soviet military, air and radar bases on remote Arctic islands and to build new ones, as it pushes ahead with a claim to almost half a million square miles of the Arctic."
The article was written after a tour of the Lenin, a Russian icebreaker now functioning as a museum in Murmansk. This week that name popped up again in a story in the Barents Observer by Thomas Nilsen entitled "FSB fears terror at nuclear installations in Murmansk region".
The topic was on the agenda at a conference on board that same museum icebreaker in Murmansk the day after the metro attack in St. Petersburg.
The conference was entitled "Improving antiterrorist protection of civilian and military nuclear power facilities, preventing acts of nuclear terrorism".
Nilsen points out that there are few places in the world with more operational nuclear reactors than the Murmansk region.
So is there a link between the Arctic and possible terrorist attacks by "Islamic State", suspected by Moscow of being behind the St. Petersburg attacks?
Nilsen quotes Oleg Gerasin, head of the Russian intelligence bureau FSB in Murmansk region, explaining that ships from Russia's Northern Fleet have been taking part in "antiterrorist operations in Syria."
This demonstrates once more the inter-connectedness of the world today. With all due respect for essential multilateral cooperation on a wide range of issues at lower levels, across the board, ultimately the nature of politics in a globalized world can necessitate participation at the highest leadership level and lend symbolic significance to top-level summits. And that can apply especially if they can be brought about in times of strained relations and global risks.
The view from above can be useful (Greenland, Pic. I.Quaile)
Chinese ties
This week also saw Chinese leader Xi Jinping pay a visit to Helsinki, on the way to his tensely awaited meeting with US President Trump. This was only the second ever visit to Finland by a Chinese leader, although Xi himself visited in 2010 when he was vice-president. Niinistö made an official visit to China in 2013 .
Finland opened political ties with China in 1950 and Chinese state media were keen to stress that Finland was the first western country to sign a governmental bilateral trade agreement with Beijing.
Xi said in a statement there was "great potential" for future bilateral trade ties. He stressed that "over the past 67 years of diplomatic ties, the China-Finland relationship has enjoyed steady and sound growth despite the changing international landscape". China is Finland's fifth largest trading partner and Xi said he saw "great space and potential for further economic cooperation and trade".
During the visit, Finland became the latest to benefit from what the news agency AFT describes as "Beijings famed panda diplomacy". A pair of giant pandas will be leased to Ahtari zoo in central Finland, where a new panda cage costing more than eight million euros is being constructed.
So while President Trump warned talks with Xi would be "very difficult" – the US deficit with China rose to 31.7 billion $US in February – Finland was stepping up its game, cultivating non-Arctic nation China. China has observer status at the Arctic Council and a strong economic interest in making use of shorter sea routes from Asia to Europe and the USA through the Arctic, with climate change making access easier, although relatively high transit costs and unpredictable ice cover still limit its attractiveness. Beijing is keen to gain footholds in a region it sees as key for the future.
The Russian Peter 1 was the first sailing boat to cross the North Pole unaided in 2010 http://www.rusarc.ru/
China is starting to build its own icebreakers. New icebreakers could allow year-round navigation in the 2020s, Grigory Stratiy, deputy governor of Murmansk Region told Reuters.
China is leading a "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI), a $5trillion plan to upgrade infrastructure between Asia and Europe. So far, Russia is the only one of the eight Arctic nation states to be a BRI partner. China, which has partnered heavily with Iceland in recent years, is keen to get the Nordic nations on board.
In the statement issued after the visit, China and Finland stressed two key over-arching issues:
"Both sides are committed to working together to reduce or limit greenhouse gas emissions, promote sustainable development and strengthen climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts."
The two partners "shared the view that economic activities in the Arctic area should take into full consideration the protection and sustainable use of its natural resources. The two countries will intensify economic and technological cooperation in the fields of arctic marine industry, arctic geology, marine and polar research (including polar weather and sea ice monitoring and forecast), environmental protection technology, shipping and maritime safety, including vessel monitoring and reporting, ICT and tourism."
A wide-ranging and ambitious spectrum.
Get rid of those emissions (Arctic Tromsö, Pic. I.Quaile)
Meanwhile, on the global climate action stage, China seems set to benefit from the backward-looking policies of the Trump administration, positioning itself as a new world leader. At home pollution, drought and desertification are causing increasing problems for Beijing. To ensure peace and food security and avert unrest, a switch to renewable energies is essential. Beijing has also recognized their economic potential. At the same time the country can polish up its international image by taking on the role of climate leader while Donald Trump advances to environment and climate public enemy number one.
While it leads the global move to halt climate change, China is positioning itself to exploit the impacts global warming has already had on the Arctic. Given the current state of the global climate and the slow progress towards keeping to the two-degree let alone 1.5 degree upper limit for global warming, the Arctic is unlikely to re-freeze in the near future. Full speed ahead for Arctic development?
The Arctic Council has to be the body that controls what is happening in the High North and coordinates protection of the fragile Arctic environment.
As President of the body for the next two years, Finland has the opportunity – and the responsibility – to make its influence felt.
As far as the first meeting between the Russian and US-American "big men" is concerned, Finland just might have to pass. Finnish leader Niinistö had to admit to a news conference:
"The G20 meeting in Germany will likely be the first meeting for presidents Trump and Putin", (July 7 and 8.)
April 6, 2017 | 1:02 pm
Arctic, Arctic Council, Arctic Yearbook, Barents Observer, China, Climate, Emissions, Exner-Pirot, Finland, geopolitics, nuclear terrorism, panda, Putin, Renewables, Russia, sea ice, Trump, USA
Arctic sea ice: is the minimum maximum the new normal?
Even the winter sea ice is waning (Off Svalbard, pic. I.Quaile)
If you blinked, you might have missed it. The confirmation came this week that the Arctic sea ice reached yet another all-time low this past winter. It came and went, without too much ado.
Maybe the excitement was just past. The maximum extent was actually reached on March 7th, but of course you can only be sure it is really not going to spread any further once it has definitely been retreating for some time with the onset of spring.
I was waiting for the NSIDC confirmation, but not with any doubt in my mind that it would tell us officially the maximum for this season would be a minimum.
The danger is a "so what?" kind of reaction, or resignation, with the feeling that nothing short of some kind of unprecedented experimental geo-engineering could save the Arctic summer sea ice in the coming years, as the world continues to warm.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, and NASA confirmed this week that Arctic sea ice was at a record low maximum extent for the third straight year.
It reached the maximum on March 7, at 14.42 million square kilometers (5.57 milion square miles). Since then, it has started its annual decline with the start of the melt season. Some time in September it will reach its minimum.
Sea ice going, going, gone? (Photo: I Quaile, off Svalbard)
This year's maximum is the lowest in the 38-year satellite record. NSIDC scientists said a very warm autumn and winter had contributed to the record low maximum. Air temperatures were 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above average over the Arctic Ocean. Against the background of overall warmth came a series of "extreme winter heat waves over the Arctic Ocean, continuing the pattern also seen in the winter of 2015", NISDC said in a statement.
The air over the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska and the Barents Sea north of Scandinavia was even warmer, averaging around 9 degrees Fahrenheit (five degrees C) above the norm.
NSIDC director Mark Serreze said in his statement: "I have been looking at Arctic weather patterns for 35 years and have never seen anything close to what we've experienced these past two winters."
The winter ice cover was also slightly thinner than that of the past four years, according to data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite. Data from the University of Washington's Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimiliation System also showed that the ice volume was unusually low for this time of year.
Record summer melt ahead?
"Thin ice and beset by warm weather – not a good way to begin the melt season,", said NSIDC lead scientist Ted Scambos.
A low maximum does not necessarily mean the minimum to be measured in September will also be a record low, as it depends on summer weather patterns. But Julienne Stroeve from NSIDC and professor of polar observation and modeling at the University College London said "Such thin ice going into the melt season sets us up for the possibility of record low sea ice conditions this September".
"While the Arctic maximum is not as important as the seasonal minimum, the long-term decline is a clear indicator of climate change", said Walt Meier, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory and an affiliate scientist at NSIDC. Iceblog readers might wonder if that is stating the obvious, but given the attitudes of the US administration, you can't take anything for granted.
Data from satellites is key. Reception centre at KSAT in Tromso, Norway, Pic. I Quaile)
The September sea ice measurements began to attract attention in 2005, when the ice extent first shrank to a record low over the period of satellite observations. It broke the record again in 2007 and in 2012. There used to be little interest in the maximum extent of the Arctic sea ice at the end of winter. I can remember reading with concern and writing a piece about the maximum extent also reaching a record low in 2015.
NOAA (climate.gov, "science & information for a climate-smart nation"!) said in its statement:
"Arctic sea ice extents have followed a steady downward trajectory since the start of the 21st century – at the same time global temperatures have reached new record highs. Betides setting multiple record low summertime minimum extents, Arctic sea ice began to exhibit a pattern of poor winter recovery starting around 2004."
Living on thin ice
I remember an expedition to Alaska in 2008, when locals at Barrow told me about their personal experiences of the sea ice becoming thinner and less dependable. Some years later I heard similar reports from people in Greenland, who were selling their sled dogs and buying boats in preparation for changing from ice to open water fishing. The data backs them up.
Sled dog – out of work? (I.Quaile, Greenland)
Yereth Rosen, writing for Alaska Dispatch News, draws attention to the problems of continuing to collect that data. She quotes NSIDC's Serreze:
"Just how well the center will be able to track sea ice in the future remains unclear. No new satellite is expected to be in place until 2020, and there are concerns about potential interruptions in the record that goes back to 1979… We're at a situation where the remaining passive microwave instruments up there are kind of elderly. If we have satellite failures, we could lose that eye in the sky".
Now there is a worrying thought.
Against the background of budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration, that – to put it mildly – does not regard tracking climate change as a high priority – scientists are understandably worried about the future of scientific research on climate and environment related issues.
Method in the madness?
Without reliable continuous satellite data, it would be much harder to track how climate change is affecting the polar regions, the ocean and our planet in general. This may well be the intention of climate-change deniers behind the scenes. But climate change itself will not go away – and the impacts will be increasingly evident.
Tim Ellis, writing for Alaska Public media, quotes Serreze as saying the polar ice cap will not last long if the region continues to warm at this rate.
"We are on course sometime in the next few decades, maybe even earlier, to have summers in the Arctic where, you go up there at the end of August, say, and there's no ice at all."
"The view from space in the fall of around 2040" , he went on – assuming we still have satellites to take the pictures – "will be of a blue Arctic Ocean, aside from some scattered icebergs and clusters of pack ice".
I don't know about you, but I find that a rather depressing thought.
My kind of sea ice – frozen Chukchi Sea (Pic: I.Quaile)
Implications for the rest of the globe
Andrea Thompson, for Climate Central, writes "even in the context of the decades of greenhouse gas-driven warming, and subsequent ice loss in the Arctic, this winter's weather stood out."
She also reminds us of the global impacts of a warming Arctic and decline in sea ice:
"The Arctic was one of the clear global hotspots that helped drive global temperatures to the second- hottest February on record and the third-hottest January, despite the demise of a global heat-boosting El Nino last summer."
This week the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said 2016 had been the hottest year ever recorded, and that the record-breaking heat had continued into 2017, sending the world into "truly uncharted territory".
"The dramatic melting of Arctic ice is already driving extreme weather that affects hundreds of millions of people across North America, Europe and Asia, according to emerging research", Damian Carrington writes in the Guardian.
On March 15th, Carrington published an article entitled "Airpocalypse smog events linked to global warming", referring to extreme smog occurrences in China.
Optimism – the only way to go?
This week I interviewed German oceanologist and climatologist Mojib Latif. I wanted to find out whether the highly unusual extreme rainfall and flooding happening in Peru could be explained by natural cycles or was likely to be a climate change impact which could reoccur. You can read the interview here or listen to it on my Living Planet show this week online or on soundcloud.
Professor Latif on a visit to Bonn. (Pic. I.Quaile)
The professor stressed that the scientists are baffled, because it is not really the time for an el Nino, although this seems to be a "coastal el Nino", driven by exceptionally warm water off the coast. Of course he is reluctant to attribute any single event to climate change. He stated unequivocally, though, that the warming of the ocean worldwide was absolutely inexplicable without anthropogenic CO2 emissions, that this is all in line with climate models and that we should all be preparing for an increasing number of increasingly extreme weather events, as the world warms.
He says the governments of the world (apart perhaps from the new US administration) are in no doubt that climate change is happening and they need to halt it. But they have so far failed in their attempts.
When I asked Professor Latif if he still felt optimistic, he told me we really had no other choice. While critical of the lack of government action, he is convinced the world will realize that renewables are ultimately far superior to fossil fuels and will ultimately prevail. The question is whether that will happen in time. As far as the Arctic summer sea ice is concerned, I have to go with a Scots expression: "A hae ma doots".
March 24, 2017 | 2:31 pm
Alaska, Arctic, Barrow, China, Climate, el Nino, Emissions, Greenland, ice, IFM-Geomar, Living Planet, polar bears, research, science, sea ice, Sea level, Warming, weather
Arctic summer sea ice cover could disappear with 2C temperature rise
The sea ice has been dwindling for decades (Photo: I Quaile)
The Arctic sea ice may disappear completely in summers this century, even if the world keeps to the Paris Agreement. That is the worrying message of a report published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The 2015 Paris Agreement set a goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to well below two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. Ideally, 1.5C (2.7F) was agreed to be the "aspirational" target. James Screen and Daniel Williamson of Exeter University in the UK, wrote, after a statistical review of ice projections, that a two degree Celsius rise would still mean a 39 percent risk that ice would disappear from the Arctic Ocean in summers. If warming is kept to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the ice was virtually certain to survive, they calculated.
Current emissions targets way too low
Looking to an uncertain future. Svalbard polar bear. (Pic. I.Quaile)
If you take the old "glass being half-full rather than half-empty" metaphor, you could see that as a positive option to hang on to. However, the scientists estimated that if we continue along current trends, temperatures will rise by three degrees C (5.4 F.). That would give a 73 percent probability that the ice would disappear in summer. To prevent it, governments would have to up their targets and make considerably larger cuts in emissions than presently planned.
The sea ice will reach its maximum winter extent some time soon. So far, the March figures rival 2016 and 2015 as the smallest for the time of year since satellite records began in the late 1970s.
"In less than 40 years, we have almost halved the summer sea ice cover", Tor Eldevik, a professor at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen in Norway, told Reuters. Eldevik was not involved in the study.
He predicted that sea ice would vanish in the Arctic Ocean in about another 40 years, on current trends.
… And the ice just keeps on melting. (Pic: I. Quaile,) Greenland)
Steady melting trend
Scientists define an ice-free Arctic Ocean as one with less than one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of ice, because they say some sea ice will linger in bays, for instance off northern Greenland, even after the ocean is ice-free.
Despite fluctuations from year to year, long-term trends in the Arctic clearly show a decline in sea ice. The ten lowest ice extents since 1979 have all occurred since 2007.
According to the latest figures from the NSIDC (March 6), high air temperatures observed over the Barents and Kara Seas for much of this past winter moderated in February. Still, overall, the Arctic remained warmer than average and sea ice extent remained at record low levels.
Arctic sea ice extent for February 2017 averaged 14.28 million square kilometers (5.51 million square miles), the lowest February extent in the 38-year satellite record. This is 40,000 square kilometers (15,400 square miles) below February 2016, the previous lowest extent for the month, and 1.18 million square kilometers (455,600 square miles) below the February 1981 to 2010 long term average.
Good times ahead for Arctic shipping, trade and tourism? Not much of a future for polar bears struggling for survival, or for people whose livelihood and way of life depends on reliable ice cover.
March 7, 2017 | 11:31 am
Arctic, Emissions, ice, Paris Agreement, polar bears, science, sea ice
Can environmentalists trump Trump's climate plans?
Satellite technology is key in gathering climate data (I.Quaile, Tromso)
When it comes to the latest data on the state of the Arctic sea ice, the Greenland ice sheet or other key features of the cryosphere, the chances are NASA will have been involved in providing it. For those of us interested in protecting our icy regions against climate change, US President-elect Donald Trump's plan to scrap NASA's climate research and shift the funding to space exploration is alarming, to say the least.
Why the world needs NASA – not just for space
Two of my colleagues at DW talked to leading scientists about Why Trump scrapping NASA climate funding is bad news for our planet. Thomas Hollands from the German polar agency the Alfred Wegener Institute explains the essential role played by NASA's network of satellites in providing data for climate researchers the world over.
"Scientists around the world depend on NASA for a variety of information – from measuring the state of the Earth's atmosphere and the shape of its gravity field, to observations on glacier melting, sea ice formation, forest loss and urban growth", the article says. It goes on to explain how important it is to have continuous measurements over time to be able to establish trends and changes.
Presumably, of course, if the Trump administration makes good on election promises to revive the US coal industry, there are those who would find it advantageous to get rid of any technology that can measure the extent of the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the world's climate. A scenario to be avoided at all costs.
Higher emissions, melting ice, who keeps track? (I.Quaile, Greenland)
So I was interested to read a piece on the news agency AP this week headlined "Trump rollback of Obama climate agenda may prove challenging". I hope "challenging" will turn out to be an understatement.
The story, by Michael Biesecker, says a President Trump would be in a strong position to dismantle some of President Obama's efforts to reduce carbon emissions:
"But experts say delivering on campaign pledges to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and bring back tens of thousands of long-gone coal mining jobs will likely prove far more difficult for the new president", Biesecker writes.
Environmental groups are gearing up to defend Obama's environmental legacy in court. Sierra Club Executive Director Michal Brune is quoted as saying "we intend challenging every single attempt to roll back regulations on air, water and climate", and that his group is already hiring additional lawyers. It does not surprise me that fundraising for environmental causes has also spiked since Donald Trump's victory.
The question is just how much the President is able to do and what tools are available to opponents to stop him.
Busy times ahead for environment- and climate campaigners (I.Quaile, Germany)
The powers of the President
Many legal experts believe Mr. Trump would be able to cancel the Paris Climate Treaty, as he threatened to do when he was campaigning (although his stance has shifted slightly in the meantime). It is not a treaty and was not approved by the (Republican-controlled) Senate. The future president could also order the EPA – where the transition team is being led by a climate skeptic leading a think-tank funded by the fossil fuel industry – not to take the action required to meet the US commitment to cut emissions.
It seems, though, that it is not that easy to dismantle EPA regulations which have already been finalized and implemented. Jody Freeman, director of the environmental law program at Harvard Law School, is quoted as saying "the agency has already built up a very strong record to support those rules". Ultimately, "it can be very hard to do an about-face."
From the legal point of view, the President cannot get rid of the EPA without congressional approval – which could be prevented by filibustering. (He could, of course, slash its budget).
When it comes to abolishing NASA'S climate research programme, Mr Trump will also find himself facing some tricky hurdles.
"NASA's study of earth science is currently mandated by federal law, which means voiding the program would require congressional action", AP writes. That too means Democrats could block things using a filibuster.
What happened to common sense?
Ideally, common sense and concern for the wellbeing of people and the health of the planet we live on should ensure that Obama's environmental and climate policies are not turned around. The advances in renewable energy also mean it makes economic sense to shift away from fossil fuels to wind and solar. In fact, it seems the courts will have to tackle the ins- and outs in lengthy and costly investigations.
We need to protect the climate for the next generation! (I.Quaile, Germany)
This past week, in the USA, a group of American youths officially won the right to sue the government of the United States – the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter after China – for failing to curb climate change. The Oregon district court upheld the main argument, that "the government has known for more than 50 years that the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels was destabilizing the climate system in a way that would significantly endanger plaintiffs, with the damage persisting for millennia." Yet, the court argues, the government has failed to take action, making it responsible for some of the harm caused by climate change.
Here in Germany, there is also a court case in process, which could set a precedent. A farmer and mountain guide in the Peruvian Andes is suing the German energy giant RWE. Saúl Lliuya from Huaraz says his home is at risk of flooding, as it lies beneath a melting glacier in the Andes mountains. He argues that the company's coal power emissions contribute to climate change, and so RWE should have to pay a share of measures to protect his home. But RWE says there is no direct link connecting CO2 emissions to the danger of flooding. Lliuya is being supported by the environmental organization Germanwatch. In my Living Planet radio show this week I broadcast an interview with the organisation's policy director, Christoph Bals.
The plaintiff's argumentation is that because RWE has produced 0.5 percent of all global emissions since the industrial revolution, the company should at least pay 0.5 percent of the measures to protect the farmer and his home town from flooding as the glacier above it continues to melt. Bals sees it as a major achievement that the case is being dealt with in the German court as one that could set a precedent. Even if the lawyers are not able to prove a direct link and win the case, he says getting to this stage is a demonstration that it is possible to go to court against companies like RWE on climate grounds.
"From now on this is one of the options on the table. I am sure that as soon as we see in the world that we will not stay below two degrees or 1.5 as said in the Paris Agreement, those cases will be much more likely – and it will be much more likely also that the individual court will decide you are right. So for the future this would be one major option if we don't get a political solution".
There has to be some food for thought in there for Mr. Trump and his advisors. Interesting times, indeed. And environment and climate advocates have their own trump cards in their hands.
December 2, 2016 | 2:44 pm
Arctic, Climate, Emissions, NASA, research, Satellite, science, sea ice, Trump, USA, Warming
New report sees Arctic melt on course to tip global climate
Svalbard has seen unprecedented high temperatures this winter (I.Quaile)
Scientists say the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record. Ketil Isaksen of the Norwegian Meterological Institute said today the average temperature in Longyearbyen, the main settlement in Svalbard, is expected to be around 0 Celsius with a little over a month left of the year. He called the abnormal warmth "shocking" and beyond anything he could have imagined 10 years ago. The normal yearly average is minus 6.7 C.
And that is not the only shocking thing going on up north. The Arctic sea ice is melting in November. Temperatures in the region are 20 degrees Celsius above usual. Reindeer are dying across Siberia. Polar bears are stranded on land. It's hard to keep up with the extent and speed of climate change in the far north of the planet. And we in the media have to be aware of the danger that the reports become so commonplace the "new normal" no longer arouses interest.
Svalbard's sturdy reindeer are adapting to climate change. In Siberia, thousands of animals have died of starvation. (Pic: I.Quaile)
Warming, warming, hot
Yet the ever faster melting of our Arctic ice could spell disaster even for distant regions of the planet. What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic, as discussed here on the Ice Blog many times before. But a new, key report launched today indicates that the effects of increasingly rapid Arctic warming could be set to push global climate change out of control.
The Arctic Resilience Assessment (ARA) is an Arctic Council project led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. It is based on collaboration with Arctic countries and Indigenous Peoples in the region, as well as several Arctic scientific organizations. The ARA (previously Arctic Resilience Report) was initiated by the Swedish Ministry of the Environment as a priority for the Swedish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council (May 2011 to May 2013) and is being presented under the US Chairmanship. It aims to synthesize knowledge on Arctic change and how people and the ecosystem are coping with it, bringing the wide range of different factors together.
"Environmental, ecological, and social changes are happening faster than ever in the Arctic, and are accelerating. They are also more extreme, well beyond what has been seen before. This means the integrity of Arctic ecosystems is increasingly challenged, threatening the sustainability of current ways of life in the Arctic and disruption of global climate and ecosystems", the report says.
Where's my ice? (I.Quaile, Greenland)
Beyond the tipping point
The researchers issue a stark warning: "Some changes are so substantial (and often abrupt), that they fundamentally alter the functioning of the system: an ecological "tipping point" has been crossed. The report examines 19 of these "tipping points" or "regime shifts", as they are also known: "They affect many ecosystem services that are important to people within and outside the Arctic: from regulating the climate, to providing sustenance (e.g. through fishing)", the experts tell us.
"The consequences of some of these shifts are likely to be surprising and disruptive – particularly when multiple shifts occur at once. By altering existing patterns of evaporation, heat transfer and winds, the impacts of Arctic regime shifts are likely to be transmitted to neighbouring regions such as Europe, and impact the entire globe through physical, ecological and social connections", the report says.
The tipping points discussed in the report include the replacement of white ice and snow, which reflect heat back into space, by darker green vegetation or ocean water, which absorbs more heat, higher releases of methane and changes to ocean circulation and so weather patterns around the globe caused by an influx of melting snow and ice.
Switching to renewables is more urgent than ever. (Pic: in oil-state Abu Dhabi. I.Quaile)
Major impacts inevitable?
Johan Rockström, director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and co-chair of the five-year study said in a statement: "If multiple regime shifts reinforce each other, the results could be potentially catastrophic.… The variety of effects that we could see means that Arctic people and policies must prepare for surprise. We also expect that some of those changes will destabilize the regional and global climate, with potentially major impacts".
The report stresses that many of the changes and feedback effects in process are poorly understood and in need of much more research.
"Arctic ecological protection is now a global concern, and worldwide monitoring is inadequate", the authors write.
Political "regime shift"?
To reduce the risk of these tipping points, strong action would have to be taken to mitigate climate change, the authors conclude. Aha. Now there's the rub.
In the Guardian, Fiona Harvey notes the report comes at a critical time in politics, with Donald Trump's announcement this week that he plans to take away NASA's budget for climate science and put it into space exploration. She quotes Marcus Carson of the SEI, co-editor of the report:
"That would be a huge mistake…It would be like ripping out the aeroplane's cockpit instruments while you are in mid-flight".
If Mr. Trump also makes good his pledge to revive the US coal industry and abandon the Paris Climate Agreement, the chances of halting warming and the climate feedback mechanisms which could spell disaster would seem to be melting away along with that Arctic ice. Not so tasty food for thought this weekend. Well, I could distract myself by getting out the lawnmower. It has been so warm here this week the birds are chirping like spring and the grass has started to grow again.
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Central Park's Belvedere Castle reveals $12M restoration
Posted On Tue, June 18, 2019 By Dana Schulz In History, Landscape Architecture
The restored Belvedere, courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy
After a 15-month, $12 million restoration and repair project, the Belvedere will reopen to the public on Friday, June 28th. In anticipation, the Central Park Conservancy today opened the historic structure to press, revealing its restored facade, expansive views through new clear-pane-glass windows, new mechanical and utility systems, and a recreation of a wooden tower that was part of Olmsted and Vaux's original plan 150 years ago. Though many New Yorkers refer to the site as Belvedere Castle, "Belvedere" actually means "beautiful view" in Italian and refers to the vistas from the second-highest point in Central Park. Belvedere receives approximately one million visitors each year, and starting this month, they will also be able to see the Castle illuminated at night, as the landmark will be lit for the first time ever.
A rendering of the Belvedere from 1866, courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy
The Belvedere opened to the public in the early 1870s. Central Park's co-designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux envisioned a place that would serve as a respite from the rest of the city, as well as a location to take in the beautiful views of the park. They designed a large terrace at the park's second-highest point, known as Vista Rock, complete with pavilions and a miniature castle. Originally, the Belvedere provided views of the Croton Reservoir to the north (today the Great Lawn) and the Ramble to the South. And as it does today, it served as a beacon, visible from the Mall and Bethesda Terrace.
Photos of Belvedere Castle in 1980, courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy
When the castle was constructed it was designed as an open-air "folly," a decorative architectural structure with no functional use. But in 1919, the U.S. Weather Bureau transformed the structure into a weather station, adding windows and doors. When they vacated the castle in the early '60s, it fell into disrepair and fell victim to vandalism.
Full view of the restored castle (top); looking out from one of the new windows (center); the new geothermal system (bottom). Courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy
The Central Park Conservancy was formed in 1980, and one of their first major restoration projects was the Belvedere's first restoration in 1983, which removed the graffiti and rebuilt the pavilions. The Belvedere then reopened as a visitor center and gift shop. In 2016, the Conservancy kicked off a $300 million campaign that included the renovation of the castle and its surrounding playgrounds. The main purpose was to "address drainage, waterproofing, and climate control systems along with deterioration that has occurred over the last 35 years." To that end, the newly restored Belvedere includes the following:
New, clear pane windows that evoke the original open-air design from both within and afar (in more recent years, windows with bars, shutters, and grilles have obstructed views)
A zero-emission, energy-efficient geothermal system for cooling and heating the Castle's interior (since workers dug 400 feet into Vista Rock to create this, there is very minimal visible equipment)
New waterproofing and drainage systems
The new wood tower, seen on the right, courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy.
The project also included rebuilding the walls enclosing the terraces; cleaning, repairing, and repointing the exterior and interior stonework; and paving the terraces with new bluestone pavers, positioned in the historic checkered design. Another major piece of work was reconstructing a decorative wood tower that originally was part of the pavilion at the northwest corner.
From the castle, you can see the Great Lawn, Turtle Pond, the Delacorte Theater, and more, courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy.
Perhaps the most photogenic aspect of the restoration will be its illumination component. At night, the Belvedere will be lit up, visible from various points in the park, but most strikingly from across Turtle Pond ("one of the most iconic views of the Belvedere," according to the Conservancy). The first time you'll be able to see this is the night of Thursday, June 27th, ahead of the official reopening the next day.
Courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy
The next phase of work is focused on making the Belevere accessible. Preliminary plans are in the works for a new entrance from the pathway between the Belvedere and the East Drive; the Conservancy says they'll have more information this coming fall/winter.
When the Belvedere reopens on June 28th, it will stay open until August 9th from 9am to 7pm. In the fall, winter, and spring, it will be open from 10am to 5pm, with the exception of major holidays. If you're interested in learning even more about the Belvedere, the Central Park Conservancy will be hosting two public tours–The Belvedere: Beautiful View Tour and Discovery Walks for Families: Turtle Pond (learn more about these tours here).
To hear more from Central Park Conservancy staff members and to go behind the scenes of the restoration, check out these two videos:
Central Park's Belvedere Castle will close for restoration next week
See inside Central Park's revamped SummerStage venue
Bjarke Ingels tapped to design $110M upgrade for Central Park's Delacorte Theater
Central Park Boathouse returns this week with a new look, a new menu and a $2.9M makeover
All photos and historic images courtesy of the Central Park Conservancy
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Why Texas' 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary may be a key fight for the future of the party
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Some Texas Republicans view the 2022 Texas gubernatorial GOP primary as a "critical juncture in the fight for the future" of the Republican Party, The New York Times reports.
There's some speculation that the primaries could turn into a legitimate battleground, a smaller version of the split between former President Donald Trump's contingent within the GOP and the party's more traditional wing. The incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott (R) gets along well with Trump, but his COVID-19 requirements throughout the pandemic have led to some skepticism about where he stands in the eyes of Republican voters, who may back someone more closely aligned with the former president.
Luke Macias, a consultant who has worked with many of Texas' conservative legislators, told the Times that Abbott "comes from the George W. Bush-John McCain-Mitt Romney school of Republicans who have run a pretty successful con game where you don't actually need to provide tangible policy results in order to run on a conservative platform. And Trump messed that up. What you're seeing now is this shift of Republicans, saying 'We know exactly what we're looking for.'"
Texas' Trump-allied Attorney General Ken Paxton, meanwhile, wouldn't commit to supporting Abbott in a primary, which he told the Times consists of candidates "running their own race." "I don't think he supports me; I don't support him," Paxton told the Times (he later denied the comments on Tuesday after the Times article was published.)
Abbott still has strong support, however; Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, whom the Times notes "has endured intermittent friction" with the governor, took himself out of the running and said he hopes no one challenges him. Read more about the state of the Texas GOP at The New York Times.


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Interdepartmental Major in Linguistics
A major in linguistics permits a student to explore both the independent and interdisciplinary aspects of human language. Courses focus on both historical and synchronic analysis, and cover several modern approaches to data. Students wishing to declare the major should have already completed or be currently enrolled in at least one course counting toward the program.
Requirements for Major
The major program consists of 30 credits. The following courses, yielding 12 credits, are required of all majors: LNGS 3250; a course in historical linguistics such as LNGS 3260 or ANTH 3480; a course in the structure of a language, which must be a linguistics course (e.g., SPAN 3200, LING 3400, ANTH 5401); and a course in theoretical linguistics, (e.g., ANTH 5410, ANTH 5420, PHIL 5450). The remaining credit hours are comprised of linguistics electives. A maximum of three credits of study of an ancient (e.g., Sanskrit, Old Icelandic) or a non-Indo-European (e.g., Japanese, American Sign Language) language may be counted toward the major. The program is chosen in consultation with the program director or a linguistics advisor in a related department.
Requirements for Minor
The minor is the same as the major with respect to required courses. Two elective courses are required in addition, for a total of 18 credits.
Distinguished Majors Program in Linguistics
Students with superior academic performance may apply to the Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) in which they write a thesis demonstrating original research. Requirements for admission to the DMP are:
an overall GPA of at least 3.400, and a GPA of at least 3.400 in the major. This GPA must be maintained throughout the fourth year in order for distinction to be awarded;
a thesis proposal, signed and approved by the faculty member in Linguistics who has primary responsibility for supervising the thesis, and by a second faculty member who is the second reader. The proposal must be submitted to the Program Director by April 15 if the student plans to graduate in May of the following year, and by December 15 if they plan to graduate in December of the following year.
After admission, DMP students enroll in LING 4998 in the first semester of the fourth year. In the second semester of the fourth year, students sign up for LING 4999. Only LING 4999 can be applied toward the 30 credits required for the major. The thesis may be based on empirical research conducted by the student or a critical review or theoretical analysis of existing findings in linguistics or a related field. Students must submit the first draft to their advisors by March 1, and the final draft by April 15.
For more information, contact Lise Dobrin, Director, Program in Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, P.O. Box 400120, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4120; (434) 924-7048; www.virginia.edu/linguistics.
The following courses are approved for the major. Refer to the appropriate department for course description.
ANTH 1401 - Your Heritage Language Credits: 3
ANTH 2400 - Language and Culture Credits: 3
ANTH 2410 - Sociolinguistics Credits: 3
ANTH 2420 - Language and Gender Credits: 3
ANTH 2430 - Languages of the World Credits: 3
ANTH 2440 - Language and Cinema Credits: 3
ANTH 2470 - Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities Credits: 3
ANTH 2541 - Topics in Linguistics Credits: 3
ANTH 3450 - Native American Languages Credits: 3
ANTH 3470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East Credits: 3
ANTH 3480 - Language and Prehistory Credits: 3
ANTH 3490 - Language and Thought Credits: 3
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EDHS 4300 - Psycholinguistics & Communication Credits: 3
ENLS 3030 - History of the English Language Credits: 3
FREN 3030 - Phonetics Credits: 3
FREN 3509 - Topics in French Linguistics Credits: 3
FREN 4020 - History of the French Language Credits: 3
FREN 4509 - Seminar in French Linguistics Credits: 3
(Courses offered through Slavic Languages and Literatures)
LNGS 2000 - Grammatical Concepts in Foreign Language Learning Credits: 3
LNGS 2220 - Black English Credits: 3
LNGS 2240 - Southern American English Credits: 3
LNGS 3250 - Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis Credits: 3
LNGS 3260 - Introduction to Comparative-Historical Linguistics Credits: 3
LING 2500 - English as a Global Language Credits: 3
LING 3400 - Structure of English Credits: 3
LING 3500 - Language Death Credits: 3
LING 4993 - Independent Study in Linguistics Credits: 3
LING 4995 - Supervised Research in Linguistics Credits: 1 to 6
LING 4998 - Distinguished Major Thesis Credits: 0
PHIL 3630 - Philosophy of Language Credits: 3
PSYC 3110 - Psychology of Language Credits: 3
PSYC 4110 - Psycholinguistics Credits: 3
PSYC 4120 - Psychology of Reading Credits: 3
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
SPAN 3000 - Phonetics Credits: 3
SPAN 3200 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics Credits: 3
SPAN 4200 - History of the Language Credits: 3
SPAN 4201 - Hispanic Dialectology and Bilingualism Credits: 3
SPAN 4202 - Hispanic Sociolinguistics Credits: 3
SPAN 4203 - Structure of Spanish Credits: 3
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Grant and the Geezers – Swamp Shack 7″
Skull Blaster Records
A long time ago someone sent me a video tape of JFA playing at Mad Garden in Phoenix, AZ and on that same tape was footage of the opening band, Grant and the Geezers. I liked them but I had never heard of them before watching that tape. Some digging led me to find out they put out a 7″ way back in the early days. Searching for a copy of that single led me to find the leader of that band, Grant Cleaver. You can read the results here.
The Phoenix punk rock/independent music scene back in the early 1980's was a really diverse and fascinating one. So many great bands came from there but a lot of them were relatively unknown and short-lived. Grant and the Geezers only put out that one 7″ and then called it a day after a few years. Luckily for us, however, the band had recorded more songs than what they released and now about three decades later we finally get two more!
It's funny how this band's rockabilly with a hint of punk sound was really ahead of its time as now this style of music is a lot more popular and widespread which means these guys picked a really good time to dust off these recordings and give them a proper release. Both songs are upbeat, catchy songs with some nice, driving bass lines and a twangy guitar sound that has a great retro feel to it. Anyone into the modern rockabilly/psychobilly bands will find a lot to love with this record as this band was doing this music over thirty years ago when almost no one else was. I'm really happy that this band released these two gems as it was a real shame that they only put out the one single back in the day.
I wholeheartedly encourage anyone remotely interested in this style of music to pick up this great little single. I didn't think the world would ever see any more Grant and the Geezers records but this was sure a wonderful surprise and one worth supporting!
Grant and the Geezers is playing with The Zany Guys (another old school Phoenix punk band from the early days) on October 25! This single will be available exclusively at the event. You people anywhere near the Phoenix area need to go to this (and take some photos and report back to me)! The event details are here.
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Considered to be the cultural heart of modern Russia, St. Petersburg, also known as the "Venice of the North" is one of the architectural treasures of Europe. The European Council of the University System of Georgia invites you to experience the music, art, literature, good food and great entertainment offered by this splendid city, as you study abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU, Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, СПбГУ) is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia.
It is made up of 24 specialized faculties and institutes, the Faculty of Military Studies, the Academic Gymnasium, the Medical College, the College of Physical culture and Sports, Economics and Technology and the Department of Physical Culture and Sports. The university has two primary campuses: one on Vasilievsky Island and the other in Peterhof. During the Soviet period, it was known as Leningrad State University (Russian: Ленинградский государственный университет) on memory of Vladimir Lenin.
Reputation and international rankings
Saint Petersburg State University is the second best multi-faculty university in Russia after Moscow State University. In international rankings the university was ranked 240th in 2013/2014 by the QS World University Rankings, it was placed 351–400th by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 301–400th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities outperforming the rest of universities in Russia excluding Moscow State University.
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Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, tr. Sankt-Peterburg; IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is the second largest city in Russia. It is politically incorporated as a federal subject (a federal city). It is located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. In 1914 the name of the city was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д; IPA: [pʲɪtrɐˈgrat]), in 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д; IPA: [lʲɪnʲɪnˈgrat]), and in 1991, back to Saint Petersburg. In Russian literature, informal documents, and discourse, the word "Saint" is usually omitted, leaving "Petersburg". In casual conversation Russians may drop the "burg" as well, referring to it as "Peter": Russian: Питер (Piter).
Tsar Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg on May 27 [O.S. 16] 1703. Between 1713–1728 and 1732–1918 Saint Petersburg functioned as the imperial capital of Russia. In 1918 the central government bodies moved from Saint Petersburg (then named Petrograd) to Moscow. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants (2012), and the fourth most populated federal subject. Saint Petersburg is a major European cultural center, and also an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
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St. Petersburg station was a passenger train station in St. Petersburg, Florida. Located northwest of downtown, its former address was 3601 31st Street North, though access to the site is now only from 37th Avenue North.
Atlantic Coast Line
The station was built in 1963 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and was the third station in the city's history built to serve Atlantic Coast Line passenger trains. It replaced a 1913 downtown St. Petersburg facility, following the city's request that rail service be relocated away from the downtown area.
By 1968, the station's operations came under the banner of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, formed by the merger of Atlantic Coast Line with rival company Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The two formerly independent passenger operations were consolidated at this location, resulting in the closure of St. Petersburg's Seaboard Air Line Station.
The station's service under Seaboard Coast Line continued until 1971, when Amtrak assumed operation of most of the nation's passenger rail service. Assigned station code STP, the St. Petersburg Amtrak Station was serviced by trains such as the Floridian and the Silver Meteor. In 1984, rail service to St. Petersburg came to an end following abandonment of the rail lines by owner CSX. Operations continued from the St. Petersburg station for Amtrak's Thruway Motorcoach bus service, linking passengers to rail connections in Tampa and Orlando. The station served as a boarding location for the bus service until the 1990s, when the station was closed.
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"St. Petersburg" is a song from British rock band Supergrass' 2005 album, Road to Rouen. It was released on 8 August 2005 as the first single from the album and charted at #22 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2005 in British music).
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Seaboard Coast Line Railroad station (also referred to as the "Historic Seaboard Train Station") is a former freight railway station in St. Petersburg, Florida, which has been designated by the city of St. Petersburg as a local landmark. The structure is located at 420 22nd Street South.
The station was constructed in 1926 by the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad Company, the second railway line to enter St. Petersburg. The office building and warehouse are built of brick in masonry vernacular style and are the city's only substantially unaltered example of railroad architecture. The line and building came to be owned by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL), and the building continued in use as a freight depot for that company until 1967. In that year, SAL merged with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), forming the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and the depot was closed.
Seaboard Confusion
In the years since, the building has come to be referred to as the "Seaboard Coast Line Railroad station" despite the fact that it never operated as such, and ignoring the existence of another area structure which did.
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St. Petersburg is a borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 400 at the 2010 census.
St. Petersburg is located in western Clarion County at 41°09′39″N 79°39′14″W / 41.160944°N 79.653937°W / 41.160944; -79.653937.Pennsylvania Route 58 passes through the borough, leading 2 miles (3 km) southwest to Foxburg on the Allegheny River and east 7 miles (11 km) to Callensburg on the Clarion River. Pennsylvania Route 478 leads northwest 2 miles (3 km) to Interstate 80 east of Emlenton.
According to the United States Census Bureau, St. Petersburg has a total area of 0.32 square miles (0.83 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 405 people, 164 households, and 115 families residing in the borough. The population density was 1,189.8 people per square mile (459.9/km2). There were 168 housing units at an average density of 493.6 per square mile (190.8/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 99.26% White, 0.25% from other races, and 0.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49% of the population.
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Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city in Russia.
Saint Petersburg may also refer to:
Petersburg, Alaska also sometimes referred to as St Petersburg in the media
St. Petersburg, Missouri, fictional hometown of Mark Twain's characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
St. Petersburg paradox, in probability theory and decision theory
St. Petersburg (tune), a tune by composer Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825)
St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Saint Petersburg (board game), 2004 designer board game
"St. Petersburg" (song), 2005 song by the band Supergrass
City of St. Petersburg, a roll-on/roll-off, car carrier cargo ship
Saint Petersburg (film), a 2010 film
Petersburg (disambiguation)
Convention of St Petersburg (disambiguation)
Saint Petersburg Declaration (disambiguation)
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (disambiguation)
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Игорь Яковлевич Высоцкий () — советский боксёр, мастер спорта СССР международного класса. На международном ринге провёл 26 боев, из которых 23 выиграл (всего 185 боев, из которых победил в 161).

Биография
Отец — Яков Антонович, краснофлотец, участник Великой Отечественной войны, высланный на поселение после немецкого плена, также был боксёром, выступал в тяжёлом весе, был победителем областных соревнований. Мать, Меета Иогановна Суве, эстонка по национальности, была выслана в Магаданскую область после окончания войны из-за того, что во время войны работала секретаршей в какой-то конторе на оккупированной территории.

Игорь начал заниматься боксом с 12 лет. Тренировался у Евгения Жильцова, с 1968 года у Бориса Гитмана. Дебютировал на ринге на юниорском чемпионате ЦС «Труд» в 1971 году в Алма-Ате, где в первом бою победил по очкам Владимира Волкова. В 1973 году победил на первенстве СССР среди молодежи.

Игорь Высоцкий считается одним из сильнейших боксёров-тяжёловесов 1970-х годов в любительском боксе. При этом он не был ни чемпионом Европы, ни чемпионом мира и Олимпийских игр. Единственный турнир, который Высоцкий выиграл, — чемпионат СССР 1978 года.

Острые кромки надбровных дуг, индивидуальная особенность строения черепа Высоцкого, стали причиной хронических травм боксёра в поединках — рассечений, из-за которых бой оканчивался для него поражением (противники часто сознательно выводили Высоцкого из боя таким образом).

На чемпионате мира 1978 года проиграл в первом бою Доминику Нато (3:2). При отборе на Олимпиаду-1980 он уступил Евгению Горсткову и после этого в возрасте 27 лет покинул ринг.

Игорь Высоцкий прославился тем, что стал единственным боксёром, сумевшим дважды победить трёхкратного Олимпийского чемпиона Теофило Стивенсона (на турнире «Кордова хардин» в Гаване в 1973 году и на турнире в Минске в 1976). Причём второй раз победа была нокаутом, больше знаменитый кубинец не проигрывал явно.

В 1975 году на традиционной встрече боксёров СССР — США Игорь одержал победу над лидером американской команды Джимми Кларком.

Игорь Высоцкий — один из трёх советских боксёров (Евгений Горстков, Пётр Заев и Высоцкий), кто в 1978 году в Москве проводил показательные бои с известным боксёром, чемпионом мира среди профессионалов — Мухаммедом Али.

В 2006 году вышел сериал «Громовы» с участием спортсмена, где он сыграл роль тренера по боксу Лукича.

Спортивные результаты
 Чемпионат СССР по боксу 1974 года — ;
 Чемпионат СССР по боксу 1977 года — ;
 Чемпионат СССР по боксу 1978 года — ;
 Чемпионат СССР по боксу 1979 года — ;

Примечания

Ссылки
 Наш сегодняшний герой — известный боксер 70-х, начала 80-х годов — Игорь Яковлевич Высоцкий
 Известный боксёр 70-х годов прошлого века.
 Muhammad Ali vs Russian boxers Igor Vysotsky, Pyotr Zayev, and Yevgeny Gorstkov. June 20, 1978. CSKA Palace of Sports, Moscow, USSR.
 Igor Yakovlevich VYSOTSKIY

Чемпионы СССР по боксу
Боксёры 1970-х годов
Боксёры тяжёлой весовой категории
Актёры России