July 2015 – Climate Discovery

July 24, 2015

Antarctic Instability Greater Than Assumed: New Ocean Cores

By Bruce Melton PE | Abrupt changes, Antarctica, ice sheets, Sea Level Rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Our previous understanding of how the Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to warming at the end of the last ice age 10 to 20 thousand years ago was based on only a few ocean sediment cores. From sediment cores in the North Atlantic we have been…

July 1, 2015

Fracking Sequestration?

By Bruce Melton PE | Uncategorized

A gigaton per year in the Marcellus Shale alone? Findings from the University of Virginia show we can permanently and safely dispose of much larger amounts of CO2 than previously understood using played out fracked wells. Once pumped in, most of it the CO2 does not…

Antarctic Instability Greater Than Assumed: New Ocean Cores

Fracking Sequestration?

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