Peak Energy & Resources, Climate Change, and the Preservation of Knowledge. A book review of Lisa-ann Gershwin’s “Stung!
On jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean” by Alice Friedemann Move aside Steven King, jellyfish are worse than any of your demons, worse than any Grade-B monster that’s graced the silver screen. Unlike The Blob, which can be stopped by freezing, you can’t kill them. Not with chemical repellents or biocides or nets or electric shocks or introducing species that eat jellyfish like the striped sea slug. If you shoot, stab, slash, or chop off part of a jellyfish, it can regenerate lost body parts within two days. Meanwhile they’re on a rampage, doing millions of dollars in damage clogging intakes of nuclear, coal, and desalination plants, killing millions of farmed fish, and destroying fishing nets with their sticky icky bodies. New discovery reveals 2100 could be a "catastrophic" year. If it gets much hotter and drier....bye bye Phoenix!!
(I live here) Cloud mystery solved: Global temperatures to rise at least 4C by 2100. Global average temperatures will rise at least 4°C by 2100 and potentially more than 8°C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature.
Scientists found global climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than most previous estimates. The research also appears to solve one of the great unknowns of climate sensitivity, the role of cloud formation and whether this will have a positive or negative effect on global warming. "Our research has shown climate models indicating a low temperature response to a doubling of carbon dioxide from preindustrial times are not reproducing the correct processes that lead to cloud formation," said lead author from the University of New South Wales' Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Prof Steven Sherwood. Lloyd's insurers mock climate sceptics over 'global cooling' Head of exposure at Lloyd’s says ignoring IPCC report is not an option, calling on all regions to think about developing resilience (Pic: Tim J Keegan) By Nilima Choudhury The head of exposure management at leading insurer Lloyd’s has slammed attempts to dismiss the latest UN climate science report, and says he’s unconvinced by claims the world is cooling.
“The sceptics are just trying to push the debate and they start at 1998, which was one of the hottest years on record,” says Trevor Maynard in a blog titled ‘Silencing the Sceptics‘. “It’s a bit like someone breaks the world record for running 100 metres and then in the next ten races people say, ‘Runners are getting slower’.” He added: “In some parts of the world we expect there will be more flooding and drought and food shortages, we just don’t know where exactly. The Hard Climb to Climate-Change Consensus - Research. Climate change gets clocked. Climate Change: See the Dramatic New Data for Yourself [Slide Show]: Scientific American Slideshows. 28 killed, hundred injured by swarms of giant hornets in China. Mike Mann: First Look at AR5. Weather Whiplash Is Like My Old Broken Sprinkler. There is a strong argument to be made that the recent flooding in Colorado is the result of global warming.
Here are three things one could say about the flooding. Think of these as alternative hypotheses to explain that event: 1) Weather has extremes. Sometimes, instead of raining just a bit, it rains a hella lot and you get a big giant flood. Ancient Forest Thaws From Melting Glacial Tomb. An ancient forest has thawed from under a melting glacier in Alaska and is now exposed to the world for the first time in more than 1,000 years.
Stumps and logs have been popping out from under southern Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier — a 36.8-square-mile (95.3 square kilometers) river of ice flowing into a lake near Juneau — for nearly the past 50 years. What Big Questions Remain about Sea Level Rise? The world's leading climate scientists kicked up a storm in 2007, when they issued their best estimates of how quickly the oceans would swell as the globe warms.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that sea levels would rise by somewhere between 18 and 59 centimeters by the last decade of this century — an upper limit that seemed far too low to other scientists, given the pace of melting in Greenland and other changes. “We were hugely criticized for being too conservative,” says Jerry Meehl, a climate modeler at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and one of the authors of the IPCC's 2007 report.
As the IPCC prepares to release its latest summary of climate science next week, researchers say that they now have a better grasp of the problem. Although the final report is not yet complete and the numbers could change, a leaked draft from June forecast a significantly greater rise in sea level — possibly close to 1 meter by 2100. Scientists Warn Arctic Methane Release Would Cost $60 Trillion. Patrick Bond: Financial and environmental cost of Arctic methane release looms, as world leaders' promises to payback carbon debt go unfunded -
Researchers claim satellite data proves global warming caused by humans. (Phys.org) —A team of climatologists with members from the U.S., Australia, Canada and Norway is claiming in a paper they've had published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that they have found proof that global warming is being caused by human influences.
They are basing their claims on computer simulations they've run and data obtained from three decades' worth of satellite observations. Researchers claim satellite data proves global warming caused by humans. Global Fire Maps. Global Fire Maps Period: 2014/101 - 2014/110 (04/11/2014 - 04/20/2014) Fire Map (JPEG): 2048x1024 | 4096x2048 | 8192x4096.
Arctic temperatures. Note: This page combines earlier posts that have described the dramatic temperature rise in the Arctic. Meanwhile, some more recent information has shown the situation in the Arctic to be even more dire. As an example, see this post by Stefan Rahmtorf. Global Surface Temperature Rise How much have temperatures risen over the past 100 years or so? Paleoclimate: The End of the Holocene. Recently a group of researchers from Harvard and Oregon State University has published the first global temperature reconstruction for the last 11,000 years – that’s the whole Holocene (Marcott et al. 2013).
The results are striking and worthy of further discussion, after the authors have already commented on their results in this blog. A while ago, I discussed here the new, comprehensive climate reconstruction from the PAGES 2k project for the past 2000 years. But what came before that? Scotland to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars from City Centers by 2050. Ilia Torlin / Shutterstock.com The Scottish government just unveiled plans to ban petrol and diesel cars from the nation’s city centers. With incentives planned to boost ownership of electric and hybrid vehicles the ruling Scottish National Party hopes that they can make clogged, congested and polluted urban hubs a thing of the past. 'Thousand-Year Flood' in Colorado Has Climate Change Written All Over It.
A home and car are stranded after a flash flood in Coal Creek destroyed the bridge near Golden, Colorado, September 12, 2013. Scientists say drought, fires, and global warming may have helped spur the flood. CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era' - Wired Science. Earth Regions Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Revealed in New Road Map, Includes Asia, Europe, South America, Australia. Homesteading and Survivalism Store - Homesteading and Survivalism Store. Global Warming: United Nations Climate Report Proves Earth Is Suffering.
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