Study links natural climate oscillations in north Atlantic to Greenland ice sheet melt WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION Scientists have known for years that warming global climate is melting the Greenland…
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Dear Woods Hole and NCAR, maybe you missed this trend in Antarctic sea ice?
More modeling madness projecting the future, but the actual data for the past 30 years says otherwise, with a positive trend. Regular commenter Julienne Stroeve of NSIDC is one of…
Woods Hole embraces the Medieval Warm Period – contradict Mann's proxy data
“The more interesting and potentially controversial result is that our data indicate surface water temperatures during a part of the Medieval Warm Period that are similar to today’s…” “Although there…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
Scientists Look to Fight Climate Change by Dumping 6,000 Gallons of Chemicals into Ocean Near Martha’s Vineyard
A team of scientists is looking to dump chemicals into waters off the coast of Massachusetts this summer to research whether doing so could be an effective counter to ocean…
Greenland Ice Loss Will Cause Dangerous Sea Level Rise
Pro: the Greenland Ice Melting Will Cause Disastrous Sea Level Rise. From early 2003 to mid-2013, the total mass of ice in Greenland declined at a progressively increasing rate. In…
Thermosphere is Cooling, Bad for Satellites. Thermosphere is Heating, Bad for Satellites.
Thermospheric cooling, CO2 and models are proved again, bad for satellites. Thermospheric warming, it’s that damn sun and its storms, bad for satellites.
Climate Change Weekly #445: Where Are All the Hurricanes? They Ain’t Here Yet
‘Hurricane Season Slowest Start in 30 Years’—Media Spins ‘Damage Control’ Stories
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #509
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
Claim: Climate Change Could Lead to A Dramatic Temperature-Linked Decrease in Essential Omega-3 Fatty Acids, According to New Study
Now, the first-ever survey of planktonic lipids in the global ocean predicts a temperature-linked decrease in the production of essential omega-3 fatty acids, an important subset of lipid molecules.
International Satellite to Track Impacts of Small Ocean Currents
SWOT’s solar panels unfold as part of a test in January at a Thales Alenia Space facility in Cannes, France, where the satellite is being assembled. SWOT will measure elevations…
Safer Carbon Capture and Storage
The UK government recently selected four sites to develop multi-billion-pound CCS projects as part of its scheme to cut 20-30m tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030 from heavy industry. Other countries…
Claim: Climate Change is Making One of the World’s Strongest Currents Flow Faster
Study co-authors said it is also likely that the speed of the current will increase even more as the Southern Ocean continues to take up heat from human-induced global warming.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #470
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.” – Francis Bacon
A recent reversal in the response of western Greenland’s ice caps to climate change
These peripheral glaciers and ice caps are now also undergoing severe melting due to anthropogenic (human-caused) warming. However, climate warming and the loss of these ice caps may not have…
Save the Penguins!
“Our results show that if sea ice declines at the rate projected by climate models under current energy system trends and policies, the 3Rs would be dramatically reduced and almost…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #459
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is quite another to do so when the environmental…
Icebergs drifting from Canada to Southern Florida
These 3D perspective views of the seafloor bathymetry from multibeam sonar offshore of South Carolina show numerous grooves carved by drifting icebergs. As iceberg keels plow into the seafloor, they…
NASA’s S-MODE Takes to the Air and Sea to Study Ocean Eddies
After nearly a year and a half of delays due to the pandemic, the S-MODE team is excited to get their planes in the sky and the gliders in the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #455
“Net zero is a new word for indulgences to emit CO2. When will a modern Martin Luther nail truth to the door of the cathedral of green religion?”
First test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production begins off Puerto Rico
“Facilitating research of this nature will be key for the development of sustainable aquaculture in this area,” says Roberson. “We have tested similar farm designs in New England and Alaska,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #438
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”. – Richard Feynman in the Challenger Report.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #430
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #422
“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.” –…
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