From the ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CORAL REEF STUDIES and the “Nature always finds a way” department Bright spots shine light on the future of coral reefs Researchers have…
Category: Oceans
Of the Ears of Whales
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Whales are awe-inspiring creatures. When I was a kid, they used to bring in the whale carcasses to the rendering plant not far from my…
"Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean" or not.
Guest post by David Middleton, feature image borrowed from iHerb. A rapid loss of phytoplankton threatens to turn the western Indian Ocean into an “ecological desert,” a new study…
Are we really “choking the ocean with plastic”? Tracing the creation of an eco-myth
By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary: Last week Kip Hansen’s “An Ocean of Plastic” thoroughly debunked myths about the “great garbage patch”. But who created this story?…
Salty sea spray affects the lifetimes of clouds, researchers find
From COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY and the “climate models still can’t get clouds right” department comes this interesting new study. All over the planet, every day, oceans send plumes of sea spray…
An Ocean of Plastic
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Images such as this appear on the Internet and in the Main Stream Media, alongside of almost every article or report about the pollution of…
Rapture Of The Deeps
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the reasons I lived so much of my life in the tropical South Pacific is because of the diving. Coral reefs are one…
Plankton Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in 2010 I wrote a post called “Walking the Plank-ton“. In that post I baldly stated that claims of a 40% loss in plankton since…
Another unknown climate feedback – plankton blooms create brighter clouds
Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER New research using NASA satellite data and ocean biology models suggests tiny organisms in vast stretches of…
One more thing for Greece to worry about – undersea pools of carbon dioxide
From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Carbon dioxide pools discovered in Aegean Sea The location of the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the waters off Greece’s Santorini are…
NOAA Jumps The Climate Shark
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Guardian, that endless source of climate activism, expoundeth as follows: 15,000 sq km of coral reef could be lost in current mass bleaching, say scientists…
Good news: posited global warming won't kill off ocean phytoplankton
Ocean algae will cope well in varying climates, study shows From the UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Tiny marine algae that play a critical role in supporting life on Earth may be…
Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate
Eddies pull carbon emissions into deep ocean, new model simulates complex process From DOE/LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 24, 2015–Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed…
Norwegian observations confirms: The Gulf Stream has been stable over the past 20 years
One the more alarming claims about global warming is that is will cause a change in ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream. Øystein Nordfjeld of Norway writes in with…
Things In General
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My business card gives my job title as “Generalist”. Let me give you an example of why this is an advantage in climate science. I worked…
The CERES Calculated Surface Datasets
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The CERES dataset is satellite data that is based on radiation measurements made from low earth orbit. The CERES data has two parts. The first…
Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Graphs updated to include error bars] Inspired by the paper by the charmingly-named Maya Tolstoy discussed here on WUWT, I decided to see if tidal forces…
Something Fishy about Mercury
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study out called Increase in mercury in Pacific yellowfin tuna by Paul E. Drevnick, Carl H. Lamborg, and Martin J. Horgan. It…
Inconvenient study: Seafloor volcano pulses may alter climate – models may be wrong
New data show strikingly regular patterns, from weeks to eons From The Earth Institute at Columbia University: Vast ranges of volcanoes hidden under the oceans are presumed by scientists to…
Two new papers suggest solar activity is a 'climate pacemaker'
Here are some highlights of these two new papers published in Physics Letters A by David H. Douglass & Robert S.Knox: Central Pacific region temperature dataset SST3.4…
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