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!
Discuss the methane explosions or whatever you like, within site policy. If you want to submit a guest post, flag a moderator.
WUWT will return to its regularly scheduled programming Sunday evening.
According to the UK’s Dept of Environment, higher rainfall in winter will lead to floods, and there will be droughts in summer. They obviously have not bothered to check with the Met Office..
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/rainfall-trends-in-england-and-wales/#more-786
Yet the Kara and Barents Seas are unusually ice free http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/barentsz-and-kara.html
(Giorgio A. Tsoukalos in his voice) Who started this thread? The Aliens….
Who caused the warming?… The Aliens.
Who caused the rise of CO2?…. The Aliens
Where did Mann, Phil, and Hansen get their data from?… The Aliens
Who invented the hockey stick? …. The Aliens
I’ve seen charts of CO2 and temperature over geological history; is there such a thing for air pressure?
The only atmospheric pressure proxy I can find was an estimation from gas bubbles in basalt which is intended for paeloaltimetry and seems to assume current air pressure. I guess that if you found basalts formed across the sea/air boundary you could date them, estimate their sea-level pressures and then graph it.
Very large and flying dinosaurs seem to require higher air pressure than ours. If so, how much has it changed, what caused the changes, is the change continuing, is there a possibility it might change back…? These questions interest me; they might even be important. Is this not studied because it is harder than measuring CO2 and temp – a case of looking for keys under the street light? -Or because it’s known that it’s always been the way it is now?
If anyone can point me to a discussion of this, I would be much obliged.
If this theory is correct, then I can see those methane bubbles injected into food,
as a self-cooking process.
Everything becomes “Shake and Bake”, no oven or grill needed.
Instant Bar-B-Que via a “flash flame”, no messy charcoal either!
Great for camping or the third world.
Easy on the bumpy roads and the brake lights though,
pre-ignition in the trunk would be best avoided.
Alas… so many ideas, so little time…
Icy winters were bygones for a while in Holland, but it looks like they are returning again. There was a record low of -23 C in one spot and even lots of ice on the shallow coastal sea in the North. For over a week a complete ice skate-frenzy took over here, as we have miles upon miles of waterways everywhere.
Well, being an ice skate lover myself, I feel if winters like this are still around, AGW isn’t that bad after all… as long as the oceans don’t start burning…
JDN says:
February 11, 2012 at 12:09 pm
“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?”
The Indians have a pretty new research facility where they develop their own Thorium tech; but not LFTR but solid rods.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/feb/16/china-nuclear-thorium
Sorensen:
http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/01/30/china-initiates-tmsr/
The leader of the project is the elder son of former president of China, Jiang Zemin.
2010: Indian Thorium program goes critical!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5DiTPw3dk
The Chinese have also licensed the German HTR technology. This was designed to build small reactors with a small enclosure to be positioned right within industrial areas. It’s inherently safe insofar as Fukushima style accidents can’t occur; no runaway warming when cooling fails.
Scroll down to see a photo of the prototype plant that to my knowledge still stands in the research facility in Jülich:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR
How to make your own nuclear reactor at home. Make your own Plutonium!
“periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas… enough to cause global catastrophe on a regular basis!”
I worked with that bloke once.
Nerd says:
February 11, 2012 at 12:49 pm
(Giorgio A. Tsoukalos in his voice) Who started this thread? The Aliens
This post is useless without a picture.
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/158326
I’m more worried about the giant planet eating aliens which “might”, “may”, “could”, new research suggests, come and eat our planet and all the people on it. I am trying to save your children, your grand-children, from this threat. But we need to raise money to fight the deniers, they are all paid by the aliens.
All we need is for Sheldon to pop up and shout , “BAZINGA!!!” http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPXkhcaj8VwoJriM4B_KO_msvffHEtv7ae4TtH0lG1CwQLi6k9Qbv9NT03
A pet peeve: People googling me with wiki in search field wind up on realclimate, due to some low-level hijinx on its administrators’ part and a terrifying lack of fame on my part: http://bit.ly/xb5s35
This is about regular meetings between Washington State and British Columbia. Just thought I would bring forward a couple of topics. I like the low carbon energy part seeing as BC is an exporter of oil, natural gas and coal and we have a carbon tax. We have it all.
BC And Washington Announce 2012 Action Plan
•specific actions to better align and maximize opportunities for energy efficiency, clean transportation, and low-carbon energy including natural gas.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/23200/1/bc+and+washington+announce+2012+action+plan?
http://g.images.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/9540046.jpg
http://images.memegenerator.net/Instance/Preview?imageID=305303&generatorTypeID=&panels=&text0=WUWT%20gets%20their%20information%20from&text1=Aliens&text2=&text3=
🙂
[REPLY: Cute. -REP]
Much Better. 🙂
http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.com/2012/02/ipcc-receives-further-credibility-blow.html
IPCC receives a further credibility blow: Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner resigns as expert reviewer
The problems to IPCC never seems to end. Vahrenholt, the high profile German scientist made headlines last week:
‘The IPCC is more of a political than a scientific body. As a rapporteur on renewable energy, I witnessed how thin the factual basis is for predictions that are made at the IPCC.”
Now a Swedish scientist quits the IPCC. Here’s the letter Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner faxed the IPCC:
I hereby resign as expert-reviewer of Chapter 13: Sea Level Changes. I do this for two reasons:
I suggest we rapidly and immensely expand oil and gas drilling in the ocean. That way we relieve the dangerous buildup of methane and save the world plus we get the added benefit of reduced energy prices for all!
I like THC’s motto: “Made up every day.”
Harold Ambler says:
February 11, 2012 at 2:10 pm
A pet peeve: People googling me with wiki in search field wind up on realclimate, due to some low-level hijinx on its administrators’ part and a terrifying lack of fame on my part: http://bit.ly/xb5s35
LOL!!!!!! Made my weekemd Harold!
Best regards,
H.R.
http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2012/02/11/debate-over-global-warmingclimate-change-heats-up/
Russian scientists reach lake under Antarctica
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Associated Press – Thu, Feb 9, 2012
FREON?! They were releasing FREON right below the OZONE HOLE?
And Seth Borenstein contributed to the piece? Without ANY mention of possible ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE from added OZONE DEPLETION?
Where Is The Outrage?! The TV warms me of the environmental dangers from just the CFC’s used as a blowing agent in making the foam insulation of the old refrigerators, demanding that insulation be properly recycled or bad things will happen. And the Russkies got a free pass on using FREON? Where Is The ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE When It’s REALLY NEEDED?
The collapse of the Man-Made Myth continues apace. You may not read headlines as such (at least not in major dailies) but all the signs are there.
People who we never would have imagined speaking against the Big Scare Campaign are now doing so. Key glaciers are not melting and corals are happy. Governments won’t tell you it’s over, but they are behaving that way (the Australian one excepted, due to an election fluke that gave the Greens the balance of power). The Catholic Herald headlined it: Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus on the point of collapse?
Source Barchart.
The last year of carbon trading in EUR’s continues to fall. (Click to enlarge).
Mini update: The carbon market is being referred to as “dead”. Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Germany’s EON, urged policymakers to make fixes. “Let’s talk real: the ETS is bust, it’s dead,” Mr Teyssen said in Brussels this week, adding: “I don’t know a single person in the world that would invest a dime based on ETS signals.” [full story: Financial Times]. Point Carbon analysts have downgraded the forecast price of carbon credits for the second time in two months as the carbon market continues to slide. What was estimated to be 12 Euros, has fallen to 9 euros for 2012, and 8 euro’s for 2013. It’s a long way below $23, set by our Australian “free-market-lovin’-Labor-Party”. (If only they knew what a free market was.)
With nothing to retain the heat there it must be getting very cold.