![]() ![]() Zombies tower-defense level and one themed around The Legend of Zelda, were probably good ideas on paper but are long and dull in execution. Unfortunately, so do those stages that really miss the mark. When these levels and themes hit just right, they stand out. There's even a separate mini-game modeled after Doom with first-person shooter controls and all. ![]() Several stages here reference pop culture to great effect, such as a level inspired by Silent Hill and another that presents a series of challenges based on the American Office. One level will propose you soak a bunch of children until they run scared across the school, while the next will challenge you to free a little green alien trapped in a quiet mountain town. And nobody is spared from this cloud's wrath. Across 50 stages, players will use the cloud's four abilities - rain, tornado, snow, and lightning - to wreak havoc on the people below. I have to hand it to the developer for getting just about the most out of the premise as it could. Most stages shouldn't give players too much trouble, however, as the real trying tasks aren't unlocked until you gain access to New Game Depending on the level, you might have to retry the challenge if you run out of liquid. If you find some oil, you can burn this mother to the ground. Soak up some acid and you can corrode vehicles with it. There are actually several different liquids players can utilize in their puzzle solving. Use it to soak people, to water gardens, to extinguish campfires, and more. The cloud's principal ability is that of rain. To get there, he'll travel across a few dozen stages completing challenges and unlocking new abilities. Set to the backdrop of a grandfather's bedtime story to his grandson, the game puts players into control of a cloud looking for a mythical land known as Seattle. Rain on Your Parade has a simple ask for players: be the jerkiest jerk cloud you can possibly be. Especially a jerk cloud, like the one in Rain on Your Parade. While I guess I should be thankful to reside somewhere that's bright and sunny nearly every day of the year, I could sure go for some clouds right about now. Water conservation may have to make a comeback in 2021 as our snowpack is below the yearly average, and I honestly can't remember the last time it rained where I live. Millions of California residents like myself are bracing for what could be a very dry year for our state. Of course, we have done little to nothing to prepare ourselves for disaster.Rain on Your Parade (PC, Switch, Xbox One) "Today's outliers become tomorrow's averages." "That's how climate change works," Colgan said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. ![]() The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. By contrast, last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.Ĭolgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland's ice sheet. ![]() Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is "more like one foot in the grave." "This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now." It's just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet," Colgan said in an interview. Without replenishment, the doomed ice is melting from climate change and will inevitably raise seas, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. That's doomed ice that, while still attached to thicker areas of ice, is no longer getting replenished by parent glaciers now receiving less snow. That's because of something that could be called zombie ice. The study does not include West or East Antarctica contributions or glaciated mountain ranges. The world's low-lying coastlines are now undeniably at risk. This is the best-case scenario of Greenland sea level contributions, warn scientists. That ten inches of meltwater may not sound like much, but it is twice the IPCC forecast amount and does not include the dangers from storm surges, thermal expansion, and high tides. ![]()
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