Apparently, it isn’t just the Arctic that has a ticking methane bomb, there’s actually explosive levels in Washington D.C. recorded. From Duke University and the “there must be a joke…
Category: Methane
Defusing the Arctic Methane Time Bomb
Guest Post by David Middleton The Arctic methane time bomb keeps ticking… From Scientific American… Climatewire More Arctic Methane Bubbles into Atmosphere A new study suggests more than twice as…
Methane estimates from the Arctic double, but there's no cause for alarm
From the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Study: Arctic seafloor methane releases double previous estimates The seafloor off the coast of Northern Siberia is releasing more than twice the amount of…
Thom Hartmann's 'Last Hours' video negated by IPCC AR5
From The End is Near department comes this video documentary from lefty talk radio guy Thom Hartmann that claims we are on the verge of a “mass extinction” due to…
That 'Methane Time Bomb' now lurks behind dams
From the American Chemical Society. I wonder if they studied how much methane comes from sediment loads dropped by rivers naturally and compared them? The Mississippi Delta alone must be…
Gavin on why the Arctic methane alarm is implausible
Guest Essay by Dr. Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS Yesterday, I carried this story: An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible Today, on Twitter, Karel Haverkorn…
An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible
Gosh, it’s that “methane ‘splode” again. This time the Guardian makes an easily testable hypothesis emblazoned in the headlines that we’ll be sure to remind them of in two years.…
Nature puts methane hydrate fears to rest – says it will be 1,000 years before they make any impact
WUWT reader “Jos” advises in Tips and Notes of this essay in Nature’s Knowledge Project. Excerpts follow: Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change Concern about the long-term stability of global…
Arctic methane emergency called off?
Here’s the issue, as described in Wikipedia: The Arctic region is one of the many natural sources of the greenhouse gas methane. Global warming accelerates its release, due to both…
Another example of clear failure of IPCC models to predict reality in the AR5 draft
One of the regular alarm stories that comes from the global warming machine is that atmospheric methane with soon run amok and cause a tipping point. We are regularly treated…
Curiosity: no methane found on Mars – yet
From NASA JPL, no evidence of Methane found in first tests. PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much…
Want to make a paper more alarming and appealing to coverage? Blame the Romans for climate change
By comparing today’s Nature paper to earlier versions I found just a few months old, it looks like some blame revisionism occurred after early discussions of this paper at NOAA…
Remember the panic over methane seeping out of the Arctic seabed in 2009? Never mind.
Remember this BBC story? Turns out it is another one for the Climate FAIL file. All sorts of wailing came from that by climate alarmists. The New Scientist claimed there…
DALLAS: from "who shot JR?" to "methane hydrates will destroy the planet"
Ugh. Sigh, they can’t even just fight over Texas oil, cattle, and greed anymore, now they fight over “alternate energy”. I just caught a few minutes of the Turner Network…
Shocker: The Hansen/GISS team paper that says: "we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases"
Note: This will be a top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one – please scroll down. ============================================================ No, this isn’t a joke, it…
Climate craziness of the week – paleotootology
I don’t have much comment on this, as the press worldwide has pretty much said it all. I await the coming comparisons between, ahem, human emissions, and dinosaur emissions. Click…
Nanocopper CO2 catalyst – a possible solution to EPA's draconian coal power plant killer laws?
From MIT, a possible solution to allow coal fired power plants to meet the new draconian CO2 emission requirements imposed by the EPA. Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert carbon dioxide to…
Another half-done press release – where's the science citation?
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , another highly speculative modeling based press release that doesn’t even bother to give the name of the paper or any resources connected…
Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd,…
The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of…
Be careful today and tonight, billions may die
UPDATE: January 1st, 2012 – still here, no reports of mass deaths at the last minute. – Anthony Global warming may go on a last minute rampage. Maybe best to…
Quote of the Week – the climbdown on methane and climate change
There’s been a lot of worry-buzz in the usual circles over methane plumes bubbling up in the Arctic related to this NSF press release: Press Release 10-036 Methane Releases From…
Hurricanes and Global Warming – Opinion by Chris Landsea
While I was looking into Chris Landsea’s recent activities, I came across a new essay that is a pleasant change of pace from the Climategate Emails. While it is definitely…
Only 52 days left, get on with the dying already
Back in January 2007, we were admonished: “…you should remember this moment when you learned about this feedback loop-it is an existencial turning point in your life. “ Yes, I…
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