Two people have died in the wildfire in Colorado Springs, 347 homes have been destroyed and more than 35,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes, in the most destructive wildfire in Colorado...
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Saturday, 30 June 2012
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
When the sea ice is gone
How long do you think it will take for most sea ice in the Arctic to disappear? How much change in temperature you think this would result in? Below an educated guess from some of the members of...
AMEG presentation, London June 16, 2012
On June 16, 2012, the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) gave a presentation on the situation in the Arctic at the Campaign against Climate Change (CaCC) conference (see video below)....
Saturday, 23 June 2012
How much methane is located in the Arctic?
Arctic sources of carbon have been studied by a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States, led by Joshuah Stolaroff. Their estimates...
Friday, 22 June 2012
Fires are raging again across Russia
NASA satellite image, acquired April 24, 2012 Back in April, thousands of hectares were burning when NASA captured above image of fires in a rural area north of Omsk, a city in south central Russia...
Monday, 18 June 2012
Arctic sea ice area falling rapidly
Above graph, produced by Neven Acropolis of the Arctic Sea Ice Blog from Cryosphere Today data, features in the recent post at Climate Progress, entitled: Death Spiral Watch: Arctic...
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Why act now, and how?
To view the presentation “Why act now, and how?” by Sam Carana, click on the link below:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1baoKjwp9Ci2KFdTPB3yDKjDCIws1gelrqhCFqSVtWgQ/editor, view the presentation...
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Arctic sea ice volume on track to reach zero around 2015
The image below shows recent data on Arctic sea ice volume, as calculated using the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS, Zhang and Rothrock, 2003) developed at the Polar Science...
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Methane sequestration in hydrates
Could natural gas should be regarded as “clean energy”, or as a “bridge fuel” on the road to a clean energy society? There are widespread concerns about such labels, as discussed in Clean Energy Standard,...
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The ANGELS proposal
The Arctic Natural Gas Extraction, Liquefaction & Sales (ANGELS) Proposal aims to reduce the threat of large, abrupt releases of methane in the Arctic, by extracting methane from hydrates prone...
Project Lucy
Project Lucy is a proposal to decompose methane in the atmosphere using beamed radio frequency transmissions, possibly assisted by further technologies.By Malcolm Light and Sam CaranaYou can view the...
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