An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale hit the Greenland Sea near Svalbard on October 28, 2013.[ Earthquake indicated by orange dot - click on image to enlarge ]For a long...
[ click on image to enlarge ]Above image shows the Northern Hemisphere on October 26 - 27, 2013, a period of just over one day. Methane readings of 1950 ppb and higher show up in yellow. Peak reading...
Guy McPherson Guy R. McPherson is Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at University of Arizona.Below are some (slighly edited) extracts...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale hit the waters 231 miles (371 kilometers) east of Japan on October 25, 2013, reports rt.com, adding that the quake prompted an evacuation...
By Harold Hensel[ click to enlarge ]This is epic! Keep watching the Laptev and East Siberian Sea. This is a very dangerous place for methane to come up. Huge amounts of methane hydrates are stored below....
by Paul BeckwithIn recent months we have endured incredible tropical-equatorial-like torrential rain events occurring at mid-latitudes across the planet. For example, in North America we experienced...
A major fault line crosses the Arctic Ocean, forming the boundery between two tectonic plates, the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. These plates slowly diverge, creating seismic tension...
The image on the right, created with IPCC data, shows that methane levels have risen even stronger than levels of two other greenhouse gases, i.e. carbon doxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O).Methane...
The above image shows that, over a period of less than two days, huge amounts of methane show up over the depth of the Arctic Ocean, especially along the fault line that crosses the Arctic Ocean and...
The image below contains 12 frames, with methane readings recorded over 12 days in the first half of October 2013.[ click on image to enlarge ]As discussed in earlier posts at this blog, high methane...
What is Abrupt Climate Change?Abrupt climate change is defined by the IPCC as a large-scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist)...