Oroville Dam Spillway Overflow Compilation Chronology February 12, 2017

A quick run-down of recent events related to the record amount of water pouring into lake Oroville, and what it means for the Oroville dam. Bill Husa https://twitter.com/billhusa1 Peter Gleick quote https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/829869009898123264 Rachel Maddow event coverage (11 Feb 2017) http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oroville-dam-in-crisis-raises-alarm-in-california-874905667526 CDEC Oroville Data Water Elevation http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=ORO&d=11-Feb-2017+17:08&span=12hours California DWR drone footage Auxiliary Spillway at Lake Oroville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bephol1Ormg Stefan Rahmstorf quote 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzSHsi4pus…

Dynamic deoxygenation within intensified coastal upwelling circulations (September 2016)

September 2016: Professor Andrew Bakun (University of Miami, USA) speaks at Royal Society event Ocean ventilation and deoxygenation in a warming world. Abstract Major deoxygenation commonly takes place in ocean regions that feature particularly intense coastal upwelling circulations. Prominent examples discussed herein include the seasonal Somali Current upwelling, which during the southwest monsoon becomes the…

Biogeochemical regulation: Anoxia in the Past and Present (September 2016)

September 2016: Professor Andrew Watson FRS, (University of Exeter, UK) speaks at Royal Society event Ocean ventilation and deoxygenation in a warming world. Abstract The major biogeochemical cycles which keep the present-day Earth habitable are linked by a network of feedbacks which has led to a broadly stable chemical composition of the oceans and atmosphere…

Ralph Keeling: Oxygen trends in Atmosphere and Ocean. What do we know?

September 2016: Professor Ralph Keeling ( Scripps Institute for Oceanography, USA) speaks at The Royal Society event, Ocean ventilation and deoxygenation in a warming world. Abstract Human activities are causing systematic decreases in the O2 content of both the atmosphere and the oceans. The atmospheric loss is driven primarily by the burning of fossil-fuels while…

Potential abrupt cataclysmic change and the Atlantic

A slowdown or even collapse of the Gulf Stream System as a result of global warming has long been a concern of climate scientists and has fuelled the imagination of Hollywood. Recent studies provide evidence for a AMOC slowdown. Is the Gulf Stream slowing down because of Climate Change? https://climatestate.com/2018/04/12/is-the-gulf-stream-really-slowing-because-of-co2/ Related German article http://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/qa-zum-golfstromsystem-und-dem-cold-blob-im-atlantik/ The…

Cleaner Air, The Ocean, and Global Warming

Reductions in sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in recent years, for cleaner air, mainly in South East Asia due to a severe manufacturing sector slowdown and pollution policy changes (1,2) may attribute to current warming, since the phenomena called global dimming is involved. The first policies to address air pollution in the 20th century, originated after…