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The contrarian propaganda says that global warming has ceased since about the turn of the century, that our planet is no longer warming, so climate change theories must be wrong. Arguments supporting this propaganda are misleading and wrong. It may not appear so, but it is. What I have assembled below is however, is not…
More and more areas of the ocean are turning up with little oxygen. these anoxic, or "dead zones" are caused natural but organic decay, they are caused by nutrient pollution from stormwater runoff and they are caused by upwelling of deep ocean waters that have naturally lost their oxygen load through a number of different…
Traditional methods of determining CO2 emissions are based on energy production. The obvious drawback to this method is that the producing country can export the goods produced from the energy that causes the emissions. The exported goods are then consumed, or used in other countries. This is the final depository for "outsourced" manufacturing or other…
Sometimes I read these reports and feel that all is lost. But I also read the reports about atmospheric sequestration and geoengineering. I get to see the scientists’ understanding of what may and what may not be feasible. Then I read the economists’ understanding of the world and climate change as we know it. I…
March 2, 2010 (From the Australian Bureau of Meteorology) The summer of 2009-10 was a rather wet one for most of Australia, particularly in the east, continuing a sequence in which eight of the last eleven summers have ranked in the wettest 20 of the last 110 years. It was also a warmer-than-normal summer, which…
Not in the future, this is happening now. New research by a team from Italy including Dr. Renato Ariano, director of the allergy service at Bordighera Hospital in Italy shows that higher temperatures and longer growing seasons are lengthening the pollination period for some plants and trees. This increases the pollen load they produce and…
(from an article in the Times of Zambia) "Farming has now become completely different and difficult," laments Dickson Siangoma. Mr Siangoma is a headman at Malundu Village in Lusitu area of Siavonga and is struck by the changing weather patterns and conditions that have made farming a little less predictable and a high risk venture….
Warm winters in recent years have caused reindeer herders to repeatedly delay the rounding up of their herds. They have moved the slaughter from the traditional time of December to February because the lakes are not freezing over until then. The reindeer lose 20 percent of their weight during the wait. The AFP report quotes…
This summary of a Australian CBS Documentary on agriculture in Australia. "Many Australian farmers are accepting the variable nature of the weather and adapting their practices to deal with climate change, rather than getting caught up in the political debate on whether that change is natural or man-made. Farmers say the lack of water and…
(from AFP) Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk. "There is already evidence of important changes" said Nestor Osorio, head of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), which represents 77 countries that export or import the…
Antarctica is shrinking and the rate of melt and ice discharge is accelerating. In the last 20 years an area of ice almost the size of Alaska has been lost. Every ice front on the southern section of the peninsula has been retreating from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes since 1990.This U.S….
This low oxygen state of deep ocean waters is a normal thing, but what is not normal is the encroachment of these waters into continental shelf waters. The phenomena is happening more often around the world and is likely associated with climate change. Why is this bad? Nothing can live in these waters. If living…
Two new articles in Nature Geoscience describe greater melting from under ice sea water in fjords. A team headed by Woods Hole oceanographer Straneo Fiammetta found, as their discovery paper implies, warm subtropical waters circulating beneath Helhiem Glacier in the Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland. the warm waters come from the Atlantic Ocean east of Greenland…
Oceans are acidifying ten times faster today than during the mass ocean extinction that happened 55 million years ago. A study by two University of Bristol scientists has bad enough news for the present, but as we continue this hyper-acidification event, these scientists are concerned that the coming extinction event will be greater than the…
Every year or two, one or more of the Great Lakes will freeze over and ignite a winter storm of fury about how the Algorians (Al-Gore-ians)are wrong again. The Great Lakes are freezing over so the climatemongers must be wrong. The reality of course is that our planet is warming and it is warming faster…
No, this is real. In a non-binding resolution form the states Legislature, the original version of contained these quotes: "…well organized and ongoing effort to manipulate and incorporate "tricks" related to global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome". It said climate researchers were riding a "gravy train (that would) ultimately lock…
"The evidence is hugely for there being substantial climate change due to man’s activities and if you want to argue against that case you have to produce some evidence… I don’t see that evidence, I see lots of assertion but it’s not backed up. It’s very dangerous and like playing Russian roulette with the planet……
A new publication in the Journal Science by Dorale et. al., looked sporadically submerged cave formations on the coast of Spain. Dr. Dorale says in an article in Time: "Dorale’s paper suggests the possibility that ice sheets may respond much more dynamically to changes in temperature, forming and melting at rates that are quicker than…
This is a very significant petition, more of which will likely follow in the unexpectedly near future. It is this kind of species reduction and species extinction risk that will only accelerate in the future as our planet continues to warm even faster than it has been warming recently. Species across the globe will find…
This was a very interesting study. Harvard University scientists have compared the meticulous notes kept by Thoreau’s at Walden pond to the site today. Their results show that climate change has had a definite impact. In a prepared statement, one of the authors (C. Davis) says "These results demonstrate for the first time that climate…
