I’m taking a blog holiday this weekend. Right now I’m watching the History channel 2 (H2) while some off the rails eco-scientist explains to us why we are all going to die because of “what might happen if a gigantic methane-gas explosion occurred in the Pacific.” Methane Explosion (2007) watch the video:
I had to laugh at the YouTube description (bold mine):
History Channel “Mega Disasters” series. This explores the controversial paper published by Northwestern University’s Gregory Ryskin. His thesis: the oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas… enough to cause global catastrophe on a regular basis!
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The History Channel gets the well-deserved South Park treatment here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/episodes/s15e13-a-history-channel-thanksgiving
Oh dear 1.40am in VN, help!! the oceans are going to explode.” We are all going to die”. Hmm that is the 4th time this week. At least I got the first post in.
This guy’s resemblance to Jim Hansen is creepy. I note also an equivocation between Lake Nyos (CO2) and this [unknown] source of methane. Result? Folk-science claptrap, served up on a Hollywood-style platter: San Diego buys it. Gawrsh, there’s a disaster waiting in Cauliflowernia for every day of the year. I’d love to see the credits for this History Channel expose.
That stuff will rot your mind! 🙂 Enjoy your time away, and don’t forget to stay away.
I could use a holiday. Maybe I’ll watch “The Day after Tomorrow” and marvel at the top-of-troposphere air blown down to the ground so quickly it doesn’t have a chance to warm up.
From the “delaying the truth” department…..
“The launch of NASA’s second Orbiting Carbon Observatory, under construction to replace a satellite lost in 2009, will be delayed at least one year after the space agency terminated an agreement for the carbon-tracking mission to lift off on a Taurus XL rocket, officials said Friday.”
Full article at:
Spaceflight Now
Here in France, the river Loire and Garonne are both freeezing over, something not seen for 25 years at most, and since 1995 at least, depending on the zone.
http://pays-de-la-loire.france3.fr/info/froid–des-glacons-dans-la-loire-72444783.html
http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/02/10/1281928-la-garonne-gelee-pour-la-premiere-fois-depuis-1985.html
This after nearly two weeks of sub zero temperatures.
http://comprendre.meteofrance.com/content/2009/10/21331-48.pdf shows the years with really cold winters and you can perhaps link them to solar minimum years.
We certainly beat the electricity use
http://www.lefigaro.fr/conso/2012/02/09/05007-20120209ARTFIG00633-electricite-pourquoi-on-enregistre-des-records.php
and temperatures were also beaten or very nearly beaten
http://www.sudouest.fr/2012/02/10/au-coeur-de-la-vague-bergerac-surfe-le-record-629992-757.php
http://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2012-02-07-03h00/vague-de-froid—des-records-mensuels-battus—15618.php
and over 600 people died in europe
http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/le-froid-et-la-neige-ont-fait-plus-de-600-morts-en-europe-11-02-2012-1430413_24.php
All these in French, so google translate them!
Watch the South Park episode, then search Northwestern’s CE faculty for Dr. Ryskin. No photo for him. Weird.
http://www.chem-biol-eng.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core_faculty.html
“Giant Methane Explosion”
Known colloquially as a “Lloyd Christmas Scenario”
I lost all respect for the History Channel about the time they started taking Nostrodamus seriously…. they have some good programs but then they have some god-awful hideous programs….
Enjoyed this comment very much. Corals love CO2 and/or warming it seems…
Global Warming and CO2 make coral reefs grow at an unsustainable rate
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/06/germany-in-skeptical-turmoil-on-both-climate-and-windfarms/#comment-886202
( http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201202/s3423899.htm )
( http://www.aims.gov.au/latest-news/-/asset_publisher/MlU7/content/3-february-2012-ocean-warming-drives-coral-growth-rates-in-western-australia )
Love the special effects in the History channel’s programs.
The german story continues, with “Welt” (the broadsheet sister of “Bild”) and Latif getting wobbly.
According to author Kuhlke the german media are treated from Berlin (Postdam) the same way as they were 75 years ago.
http://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article13861989/Die-Klimaforschung-wird-zum-neuen-Religionsersatz.html
(Translation: Climate is the new religion)
H2 used to be History International, which occasionally had some good programming. Since they changed to H2 it seems we simply have two channels of garbage masquerading as “history made every day”. Lately it’s become like A&E, the Trailer Trash Channel.
I used to complain that HC was nothing but The Hitler Channel, but now I long for a return to such heady days…
I got Rob Honeycutt to say, “So what if [Michael] Mann created errors in his code? [So] What if he was up late nights trying to figure out how to force the data to show a hockey stick?”
Yeah, I know it’s not much of a victory. But you’ve got to savor them when they come, no matter how small.
That would never happen at SkS.
Wolf!, wolf!, wolf!, wolf!….
By the time something very bad and very true is predicted, everybody will just take the weekend off and watch the History Channel.
Wolf!, wolf!, wolf!, wolf!….
On the frozen major rivers theme, the Danube’s frozen in several places, they’re even blasting the ice apart http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/dynamite-used-to-blow-apart-ice-sheets-on-white-danube-3016530.html
A week’s worth of sub -10C temps is needed to freeze the river.
It’s hit -16C last night (8am this morning, to be exact), here in Lincolnshire.
Stop Press: France-Ireland rugby match called off due to frozen pitch.
Global warming, global schwarming!
I keep reading that India is going to try thorium-based nuclear reactors. However, I don’t think GE or Westinghouse even have a prototype under design. This makes me think it’s not workable for some reason, even though India & China have allegedly approved construction. I did a little searching and couldn’t find much. Does anyone have something that looks like a technical analysis of a prototype thorium reactor?
Ric Werme says (February 11, 2012 at 11:10 am): “I could use a holiday. Maybe I’ll watch ‘The Day after Tomorrow’ and marvel at the top-of-troposphere air blown down to the ground so quickly it doesn’t have a chance to warm up.”
Which also got the South Park treatment, in one of their best episodes:
http://southpark-zone.blogspot.com/2008/01/s9-two-days-before-day-after-tomorrow.html
The History Channel has had some good stuff in the past, like “How the Earth Was Made”, but now it has a lower signal-to-noise ratio than climate science…
So this man doesn’t know where the methane ‘pocket’ is but thinks it will hit San Diego?
I thought the aliens, asteroids, giant apes, dinosaurs etc. automatically homed in on New York, Metropolis and Gotham City.
A refreshing change but it makes you want to sneak up behind him, whisper “clathrate” and see if he hits his forehead.
Two points: 1. there’s nothing wrong with the climate, and 2. CO2 has nothing, or effectively nothing, to do with it.
Elaboration on Point 1: current temperatures, and rates of temperature change, are not unusual. The fabricated hockey stick graph, which the ipcc used to falsely claim that current temps are wildly high, has been fully debunked.
On CO2 and Point # 2: every American should see at least this short ~ 3 minute video on CO2 which also shows Al Gore engaging in the pivotal deception: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg
Revisionist history channel. There’s no evidence that methane caused the Permian extinction; this is, at best a hypothesis, at worst, rank speculation. And as it’s methane, rank is the right word.
MMMMM, for a few minutes, let’s give the good Professor the benefit of the doubt. Let’s assume that his thesis is totally correst. What then, does he propose to do about it and how much will his follow-up “research project” cost???
G.
http://oilandenergyinvestor.com/2012/02/energy-crisis-looming-in-the-european-deep-freeze/
It’s getting worse in the Balkans. The rivers are completely frozen (ice is closed and not moving). We are getting new snow over the weekend.
The biggest daily paper in Bosnia has a big story about cooling, new ice age, climategate! This is the first time I see skeptical article in MSM here.