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Methane Levels Increasing Dramatically Methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing again after 9 years of

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Methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing again after 9 years of no increase. Decreasing agricultural methane releases over the last decade have resulted in flat methane concentrations in the atmosphere.  But it is suspected that increasing industrialization in Asia and recent melting of permafrost releasing frozen methane has caused these emissions to begin rising…

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October 25, 2008
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New Mega Report: Climate Change: Faster, Stronger, Sooner

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The opening sentence of the report: "Scientific research on climate change and its impacts published since the deadline for the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is revealing that global warming is accelerating, at times far beyond IPCC 2007 forecasts." The mega report is a compilation of 37 publications and…

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October 20, 2008
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UK Protesters Cleared of Charges

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The environmental protesters that painted Gordon (i.e. Prime minister) on the coal fired power plant smokestack in England were cleared of charges of damage to the power plant. The ruling declares that the protesters were "legally justified because they were trying to prevent climate change causing greater damage to property around the world." This is…

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September 10, 2008
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Natural Warming VP Candidate

By Deniers and Delayers

John McCain’s choice for Vice President, 2-year governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, previous experience was as Mayor of Wasilla, AK, population 8,000.  Palin is for offshore drilling, for drilling in ANWR and believes that Arctic warming is natural.  She has sued the Secretary of the Interior to reverse the listing of the polar bear as…

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September 3, 2008
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More Heat in the Arctic

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Five of the last ice shelves along the Arctic coast of Ellesmere island in northern Canada have shrunk by 23% this summer.  Scientists say that the impact of warm temperatures this year is staggering. Ten times more ice was lost this year than was forecasted. The high temperature reached 67.5 degrees, 21.5 degrees warmer than…

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September 2, 2008
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April 19 through August 2008 – 25 posts

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August 24, 2008 Arctic Sea Ice:  The trend is ominous.  The albedo feedback is strong (Ice reflects 90% of the sun’s heat, water absorbs 90% – water absorbs nine times more heat than ice). Last year’s huge record allowed only first year sea ice to form last winter.  This year’s ice is now rapidly melting….

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April 19, 2008
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Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Steamboat Lake, Colorado Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Silverthorne, Colorado Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, North of Steamboat Springs, Colorado Pitch tubes: A tree's only defense against bark beetles. Pheromones, or natural beetle hormones, both attract and repel beetles and can be used as defense. Pesticides work too, but application timing is critical and spraying the world is likely improbable. Gray kill: During the first three years needles are bright red, brown and then fall off entirely. Only cold of -20 to -40 straight, in early and in mid winter respectively, can kill the beetle. Those temperatures disappeared about the turn of the 21st century. In areas of human occupation, dead trees become falling hazards quickly and must be removed. Blue slashes and flagging mark trees to be cut. These are white bark pine in Yellowstone National Park. Logged beetle kill, Prospector Campground, Dillon Reservoir, central Colorado. for up to about five years the dead wood can be used for lumber early and pelletized fuel late. After that the tops of the trees are too brittle and fall on logging machinery and loggers. Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetles once attacked mostly lodgepole pines like these in Rocky Mountain National Park. Now there are so many beetles they are attacking even spruce trees. The scale of the kill is immense at more than 20 times greater than anything before. The attack is at 92 million acres.For comparison, Yellowstone is two million acres. Permafrost melt, Denali Highway, Alaska. Tree kill from soil saturation due to melted permafrost. East of Fairbanks, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater pool and drowned trees near Chena, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater ponds, Denali Highway, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater pond, Fairbanks, Alaska (within city limits). A meltwater river flows from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. The dark ice is dust from eons of accumulation and surface melt. Ice loss in Greenland has increased over 500 percent in ten years. Surface melting creates a very rough, surface where accumulated dust does not wash away. These drifts are solid ice. Around the perimeter of the ice sheet at low elevations the ice is melting tens of feet per year or more. The scale of melt is immense. This moraine is 100 feet high and the ice once towered over it. The ice flows in rivers and tongues and colder, drier times with more dust can be seen in the layers of older ice, closer to the edge. Also note how much lower the surface is than the moraines deposited along the margins of the ice. Most of this melt is recent as the ice has been in equilibrium since the Little Ice Age that ended 150 to 200 years ago. Less than a mile from its edge the ice sheet can be 1,000 feet tall. At it's center it is 11,000. The calving face of the ice sheet can be over 200 feet tall. The light is fantastically ever changing. Ilulissat Icefjord: Millions of icebergs , five times more than at the turn of the century, pour through Greenland's icefjords. Meltwater drains to the bottom of the ice sheet through holes, or moulins. There it lubricates the flow of the ice sheet, further increasing discharge of bergs. Bubbles of ancient air trapped in the ice have confirmed many hypothesis about how and when our climate has radically changed before. Bergs calve like thunder from massive ice cliffs at all hours of the day. Beach erosion is rapidly accelerating on Padre Island. Mile 30 beyond the 4x4 only sign. This beach was once 200 to 300 feet wide. Padre Island National Seashore, mile 7. Most of the erosion has been recently. Mile 50, Padre Island National Seashore. Padre Island is sinking naturally with little man made subsidence, but before the turn of the 21st century, it wasn't enough to cause massive beach erosion. Sand starvation from inland reservoirs plays a role too, but historically these beaches have been stable. South Padre Island has a little more trouble with more sand starvation from the Rio Grande and less rainfall to grow stabilizing dune grasses. Here, in places erosion is extreme. this is high tide, non-storm conditions. Several places along South Padre have been eroding more or less since the dams went up on the Rio Grande, but since the turn of the century the rate has likely increased significantly. October 2014, King tide, biggest tide of the autumn. Again in 2014, no storms of any consequence on the Texas Coast. Erosion down by the Mansfield jetties is much greater than in 2013. The worst on North Padre in 2013 was a few miles from the Mansfield Pass jetties in the sand starvation zone. The beach has never been wide here and during storms is often the first to erode. But normally, the beach builds back. This erosion is happening in non-storm conditions. At times the four-wheel drive trail is challenging. South Padre, Mile 13 beyond end of pavement. This is the first stage of barrier island disintegration. The beach goes first. The beach protects the dunes, which in turn protect the rest of the island.