By Nathan CurrierSuperstorm Sandy shows signature of human-induced climate change Nathan Currier, senior climate advisor for Public Policy VirginiaAfter the second presidential debate,...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Monday, 29 October 2012
Warming Gulf Stream causes methane release
The Gulf Stream (dashed lines on NOAA image below) pushes warm water north.Phrampus & Hornbach (2012) have analyzed the stability of methane hydrates along the Carolina rise off the east coast...
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Hurricane Sandy moving inland
Hurricane Sandy is moving inland and its impact is forecast to be felt as far away as in Toronto and Ottawa.Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Track Forecast ConeHurricane SANDY Advisory #019 ...
Open Letter to Canadian MPs
Paul BeckwithFood is the new oil. Land is the new gold.The world food situation is deteriorating. Grain stocks have dropped to a dangerously low level. The World Food Price Index has doubled in a decade....
Big changes in Arctic within years
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Friday, 26 October 2012
Amplification of climate change in the Arctic
In contrast to multi-year old ice, first-year old ice—ice that formed only since the last melt season—is thinner, saltier, and much more prone to melt.Over the years, the loss of sea ice has become...
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Saving the Arctic Ice (#2)
By Nathan CurrierGreenpeace, Greenwashing and GeoengineeringNathan Currier, senior climate advisor for Public Policy VirginiaI’ve been discussing the Greenpeace “Save the Arctic” campaign...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
State of Climate Change October 2012
A video featuring Paul Beckwith, climate scientist at University of Ottawa, who gives an update on the state of climate change, October 2012.Paul adds that it was off the cuff and unscripted....
Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse
Paleogeographic reconstruction of the Early Triassic world (Smithian substage) around 250 million years ago, witha ‘dead zone’ in the tropics. Presence of marine reptiles (ichthyosaurs), terrestrial...
Friday, 19 October 2012
Is death by lead worse than death by climate? No.
Paul Beckwith, B.Eng, M.Sc. (Physics),Ph.D. student (Climatology) and Part-time Professor, University of Ottawa by Paul BeckwithIs death by lead worse than death by climate? That depends on...
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Methane hydrates: a volatile time bomb in the Arctic
By Carlos Duarte, University of Western Australiaand Antonio Delgado Huertas, Spanish Scientific Research Council CSICMethane locked under the Arctic ice could take climate change to a whole new...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Albedo change in the Arctic threatens to cause runaway global warming
Mark Flanner et al. calculated in 2011 that snow and ice on the Northern Hemisphere had a combined cooling effect of 3.3 Watts per square meter (of which 2 W/sm relates to the snow cover on land and...
Monday, 15 October 2012
Glaciers cracking in the presence of carbon dioxide
Northern Hemisphere snow and ice map , October 14, 2012 (credit: NSIDC, NOAA)Snow covers more than 33% of lands north of the equator from November to April, reaching 49% coverage in January. The...
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Radio and Laser Frequency and Harmonic Test Ranges for the Lucy and HAARP Experiments and their Application to Atmospheric Methane Destruction
by Malcolm P.R. LightOctober 7th, 2012Introduction Methane is now being expelled into the Arctic atmosphere by the subsea methane hydrates at a fast increasing rate and that this expulsion began in...
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