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POPSAntarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming
'The latest images, taken by Envisat's radar, say fractures have now opened up in this bridge and adjacent areas of the plate are disintegrating, creating large icebergs. The Antarctic peninsula -- the tongue of land that juts northward from the white continent towards South America -- has had one of the highest rates of warming anywhere in the world in recent decades. But this latest stage of the breakup occurred during the Southern Hemisphere's winter, when atmospheric temperatures are at their lowest. One idea is that warmer water from the Southern Ocean is reaching the underside of the ice shelf and thinning it rapidly from underneath. "Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a long, and growing, list of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula that are responding to the rapid warming that has occurred in this area over the last fifty years," researcher David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said. "Current events are showing that we were being too conservati
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POPSMystery Of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved By Tree Rings Damn, there goes another great "mystery!" This is one of the better researched and annotated mysteries as the article says of what people recorded of animal behavior and that Gen. George Washington commented on it in his journal. Tree ring dating is helping us understand many strange atmospheric events. Listen the trees are "talking."
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POPSCO2 emissions up 35% since 1990. Nature is able to soak up less, while we increase production. A compound effect, some would describe as logarithmic. The CO2 equivalent of Moor's Law. I was wondering how fires such as those in California, which have been the result of drought, not only make a significant contribution to atmospheric CO2 that would otherwise have been 'fixed,' but are a sign of similar events to come
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POPSNew study predicts long-term worsening weather
New study finds an ongoing recent trend towards increasing numbers of "extreme weather events" (droughts, storms, heat waves), accompanied by high levels of human suffering and economic damage, and predicts this trend will accelerate in the coming decades. From the source (p. 2): While global warming studies always have their critics, it’s not easy to dismiss these findings. They’re based on nine different climate-change models developed by leading scientists in four countries: France, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Each one is processed by supercomputers, crunching millions of data points on variables like surface temperatures, ocean currents, winds, solar radiation, volcanic eruptions and rainforest destruction. Each one takes months to perform. “The fact that all nine produced remarkably consistent agreement gives us a lot of confidence in the results,” says Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University, another of the study’s authors.
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POPSNew Record! Too bad this isn't the kind of record that is wanted. Global warming, fish depletion, toxic rain, fast food nation/countries, terrorism, Enron (who's next?), Darfur, tsunamis.............. I'm gonna go have a cocktail and worry about this tomorrow.
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