Climate March – Edinburgh
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The Methane Monster Roars
During a recent hike in Washington State’s Olympic National Park, I marveled at the delicate geometry of frost-covered ferns. White crystalline structures seemed to grow from the green leaves, encasing them in a frozen frame of temporary beauty. Progressing further… Read more ›
Scientists: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine ‘planetary boundaries’
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science by 18 researchers… Read more ›
29 Bullets Tell All about Climate Challenge
The results are in. Yesterday the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released it final report crystallizing 13 months of work by more than 800 scientists. The “synthesis report” gives a no-nonsense assessment of how the climate is changing,… Read more ›
A New Hope to Save the Planet – Written by Ekta K. Kalra
A NEW HOPE TO SAVE THE PLANET Since the Industrial Revolution the oceans have absorbed approximately one-half (almost 525 billion tons) of human-released CO2 emissions. Where on one hand this has moderated effect of greenhouse gas emissions, it is chemically… Read more ›
Huge Methane Emissions ‘Hot Spot’ Found in U.S.
The largest concentration of methane emissions seen in the U.S. over the past decade has been detected by satellite over the the most active coal-bed methane production area in the country — the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado,… Read more ›
Watch the Movie “Disruption” Here
Watch the Movie “Disruption” Here “DISRUPTION” – a film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT from Watch Disruption on Vimeo.
The Good and Bad Climate News from Permafrost Melt
Earth’s subterranean carbon blisters are starting to pop. Carbon inside now-melting permafrost is oozing out, leaving scientists scrambling to figure out just how much of it is ending up in the atmosphere. Whether recent findings from research that attempted to… Read more ›
What Do You Think of Our New T-Shirt design for the upcoming People’s Climate March?
If anyone is interested in buying one, please drop a comment here. We’re working out the cost, but it will be sold for our cost, no profit.
U.N. Scientists See Largest CO2 Increase In 30 Years: ‘We Are Running Out Of Time’
In this April 3, 2014 file photo giant machines dig for brown coal at the open-cast mining Garzweiler in front of a smoking power plant near the city of Grevenbroich in western Germany. The U.N. weather agency says carbon dioxide… Read more ›
Minor variations in ice sheet size can trigger abrupt climate change
Small fluctuations in the sizes of ice sheets during the last ice age were enough to trigger abrupt climate change, scientists have found. The team compared simulated model data with that retrieved from ice cores and marine sediments in a… Read more ›
Dr Natalia Shakhova Part 2 – Methane Hydrates & The Stability Of The East Siberian Arctic Shelf
Part 2 – Dr Natalia Shakhova (interview with Nick Breeze): Ice Cover and Storms Changes over the last decade and thinking forward How much methane is being released How much is accumulated in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf What resources… Read more ›
Positive Feedback Loops Are Anything But – By Debi Daniels
The earth now has over 400 ppm CO2 which is more than its had in the last 20 million years. Pre-industrial levels were 280 ppm. Our own species, homo sapiens, had never existed when the CO2 concentration were so high.… Read more ›
Noctilucent Time-Lapse
Man, that’s a weird title. But it’s accurate enough. I’ve written about noctilucent (literally, “night shining”) clouds a few times recently. These weird, high-altitude clouds appear to be more common in recent days, and it’s not clear why (global warming… Read more ›
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Carbon Narrative
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‘Widespread methane leakage’ coming from hundreds of vents off East Coast ocean floor
Of all the global warming gasses, methane is one of the very worst. Pound for pound, the Environmental Protection Agency says its effect on global warming is 20 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. And though its lifetime in… Read more ›
New Report Calls for Attention to Abrupt Impacts From Climate Change, Emphasizes Need for Early Warning System
WASHINGTON — Climate change has increased concern over possible large and rapid changes in the physical climate system, which includes the Earth’s atmosphere, land surfaces, and oceans. Some of these changes could occur within a few decades or even years,… Read more ›
Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat wave and Surface Firestorm
Abstract Although the sudden high rate Arctic methane increase at Svalbard in late 2010 data set applies to only a short time interval, similar sudden methane concentration peaks also occur at Barrow point and the effects of a major methane… Read more ›
Evening Lecture | Jeremy Jackson: Ocean Apocalypse
This lecture was held on January 7, 2013 at the Rhode Island United States Naval War College. Jeremy Jackson, a Sr. Scientist Ermeritus from the Smithsonian Institute and a professor of Oceanography Emeritus at the Scripps Institute. What Prof. Jackson… Read more ›
Is the climate dragon awakening?
Using a vast and credible set of climate measurements and physics, James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren makes the case that humans overloading the atmosphere with carbon would eventually trigger the release of vast additional carbon stores locked in shallow… Read more ›
Mysterious Craters Are Just the Beginning of Arctic Surprises
It’s not just craters purportedly dug by aliens in Russia, it’s also megaslumps, ice that burns and drunken trees. The ongoing meltdown of the permanently frozen ground that covers nearly a quarter of land in the Northern Hemisphere has caused… Read more ›
Scientists discover vast methane plumes escaping from Arctic seafloor
Methane has the potential to create a feedback loop in global warming. That is, as Earth’s climate warms, methane that is frozen in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra soils – or marine sediments – may be released into the atmosphere.… Read more ›