Ice loss from the marine-based, potentially unstable West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) contributes to current sea-level rise and may raise sea level by ≤3.3 m or even ≤5 m in the future. Over the past few decades, glaciers draining the WAIS into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) have shown accelerated ice flow, rapid thinning, and…
The Guardian: Meteorologists are debating our role in bizarre weather events. We have the technology for change, but not the political will On Monday, Amory Lovins, physicist, environmentalist, and unassuming colossus of the green movement, appeared in London to talk about energy use. I mention this in the context of the Guardian’s story that meteorologists…
The release of huge quantities of previously stored “multiyear/deep layer” carbon deposite and equivalent greenhouse gases (CO2/CH4/N2O, from soil and water) can act like a trigger to boot the earth systems. This boot begins initially with a transition phase depending on the rate of emissions and in . . . You require a Full Access…
EurekAlert British Antarctic Survey Jul 25 2012: Scientists have discovered a one mile deep rift valley hidden beneath the ice in West Antarctica, which they believe is contributing to ice loss from this part of the continent. Experts from the University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) made the discovery below Ferrigno Ice Stream,…
NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g “If we can limit our emissions, then the permafrost region will release less carbon to the atmosphere, there is a curve – it’s not a all or nothing question.” Ben Abbott One of the most feared of climate change “feedbacks” is . . . You require a Full Access Pass to access this page.
Pollutant’s cooling effect on climate may be overstated, study The Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2013: Don’t count on sulfur dioxide to bridle climate change. The ability of that pollutant to reflect the sun is not quite what it was assumed to be, according to new research. Sulfur dioxide — a common pollutant from burning…
By John Mahoney / Popsci: The skies do strange things at the NEEM camp, a remote ice-drilling and research facility on the northern Greenland ice sheet. Midnight sunshine. Low clouds of sparkling ice crystals known as “diamond dust.” But when rain fell instead of snow last summer, complete with a rainbow arcing over the camp,…
Support Climate Denial Crock of the Week – http://www.climatecrocks.com Ellen Mosely-Thompson AGU Address http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/lect… BBC Horizon – The Big Chill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSb0DU… Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley Thompson Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miRC3p… Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCatVJ… Climate Central – Eemian Ice Cores http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Tk5i… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFPniA… History of the Greenland Ice Sheet http://tinyurl.com/4vjd8ja Dýravísur – Iceland Folk Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc-pxN…
Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch — the Anthropocene. Human activities such as damming and agriculture are changing the global water cycle in…
BarackObama.com: Climate change is real, it’s caused largely by human activities, and it poses significant risks for our health. Some members of Congress disagree with this simple, scientifically proven fact. We need to work to curb climate change, and a big step is to raise our voices to change the conversation in Washington. Call these…
The Nation: James Hansen bravely told the truth even when the Bush administration tried to silence and penalize him. The annual Ridenhour Prizes, which memorialize the spirit of whistleblower and investigative journalist Ron Ridenhour, recognize acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society. (For…