“All we have to do is keep declaring the facts as we see the facts, and producing the evidence whenever we can” – David Attenborough. Read the full article on climate change, optimism and Blue Planet Two at https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/09/25/david-attenborough-climate-change-science-storytelling-blue-planet-ii “Sir David Attenborough may be 91, but he is a busy 91. As we set up…
NASA 2012: The transpolar drift (purple arrows) is a dominant circulation feature in the Arctic Ocean that carries freshwater runoff (red arrows) from rivers in Russia across the North Pole and south towards Greenland. Under changing atmospheric conditions, emergent circulation patterns (blue arrows) drive freshwater runoff east towards Canada, resulting in freshening of Arctic water…
For the first time, underwater pingos have been found, outside of the permafrost regions. Domes of frozen methane may be warning signs for new blow-outs https://cage.uit.no/news/domes-of-frozen-methane-may-be-warning-signs-for-new-blow-outs/ Related Waking the Giant: Climate Force and Geological Hazards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndhx7KpSU0 Gas Blowouts on the Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas http://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2015/12/gas-blowouts-on-the-yamal-and-gydan-peninsulas View of the methane seeps in the Arctic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTFjWBiP4E Leaking…
The trend of oxygen falling is about two to three times faster than what we predicted from the decrease of solubility associated with the ocean warming. References Ocean oxygen decline greater than predicted (2017) http://climatenewsnetwork.net/ocean-oxygen-decline-greater-predicted/ Ocean Deoxygenation: Our Ocean’s Oxygen Supply & Demand Issue (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHGwFrqIgg Low Oxygen Hypoxia in Marine Waters (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6RJi9k_VNE Image…
A discussion of sea level, what it is, how it is determined and factors that influence sea level at various locations on the Earth.
Film about GEOSECS, the Geochemical Ocean Sections Study, a global survey of the three-dimensional distribution of chemical, isotopic and radiochemical tracers in the ocean. George Veronis of Yale University speaks about models for ocean layers and circulation in the world ocean, and data gathering by R.V. Melville (SIO) and R.V. Knorr (WHOI). Extensive footage onboard…
Compiled recent findings on the interconnection of warming trends, and possible implications for ocean currents and what it could mean. Abrupt cooling over the North Atlantic in modern climate models (2017) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14375 Is the Gulf Stream System Slowing? – the Earth101 lecture (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmiVhT5cHpw Map of North Atlantic Subpolar gyre https://instaar.colorado.edu/meetings/AW2012/abstract_details.php?abstract_id=54
“We are confronting a serious climatic problem,” said Peru’s president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, in a broadcast to the nation on Friday afternoon. “There hasn’t been an incident of this strength along the coast of Peru since 1998.” The disaster – which came after a period of severe drought – has been blamed on abnormally high…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the U.S. East Coast faced a water crisis. The torrential rains had contaminated drinking water sources with millions of gallons of sewage water. Naturally, the authorities tried to disinfect the water with chlorine. Chlorine, traditionally, has been good at killing microorganisms. More recently, however, scientists have discovered…