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A detailed look at the Little Ice Age
Here’s a key point that the media has failed to explain and the the anti-science disinformers refuse to accept: The Earths overall Temperature does not Change randomly on a decadal scale it Changes when it is driven to do so by an external forcing. The Little Ice Age is a case in point, as Skeptical Science explains in this repost: The argument that we’re simply “ coming out of the Little Ice Age (LIA) ” makes one of two assumptions: The planet oscillates...

International Concern Over Iceland's Katla Volcano Erupting Soon Is Justified
Icelandic President lafur Grmsson has warned Governments around Europe that a significant eruption at the Volcano is "coming close". He said: "We [Iceland] have prepared " it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over Europe and the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption." MORE Make no mistake, Icelandic government officials are closely monitoring the Katla Volcano and do expect it to erupt in the near future, as do I and most...

Phytoplankton in the Gulf of Alaska
A large phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the Gulf of Alaska various shades of green on May 20, 2002. There also appears to be a lot of sediment being washed into the coastal waters all along Alaska?s shoreline, coloring the waters a light brown. This sediment is probably carried by the snowmelt carried off the land as the spring thaw sets in. This true-color image was capture by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), flying aboard the OrbView-2 satellite. Image...

Science Shots: Lizard Love; Extinct DNA; Volcanoes Fertilize Oceans, Kill Neanderthals
— Photo by ., courtesy Wikimedia Commons A sampling of the latest science papers. Forthwith: Lizard families form multigenerational dynasties; Extinct passenger pigeons speak through DNA; 2008 Volcanic Eruption fertilized North Pacific; Volcanic Eruptions 40,000 years ago doomed Neanderthals and enabled rise of an upstart pipsqueak, Homo sapiens . For the first time, we have identified evidence that the disappearance of Neanderthals in the Caucasus coincides with a Volcanic...

Stark forecast as Iceland's larger volcano shows increased sign of life
An eruption of Katla Volcano has the potential to be more devastating than the current eruption of Eyjafjallajokull. Geophysicists at Icelands Institute of Earth Sciences say Katla would be locally and globally damaging. Icelandic President lafur Grmsson has warned Governments around Europe that a significant eruption at the Volcano is coming close. He said: "We [Iceland] have prepared ... it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over Europe and the...

Too hot to handle: Daredevils abseil into the depths of a live volcano boiling with hot lava
Last updated at 1:30 PM on 3rd October 2010 With instant death virtually licking at his feet, a daredevil strolls around a ledge inside a Volcano, just 100metres from a lake of boiling lava. One slip or a sudden surge of the bubbling red mass and Drew Bristol would be turned into ash. In a silver heat proof suit, he uses climbing ropes to slowly lower himself down the treacherous rocks towards the fiery lake. There he pitches a tent 500m down the inside of the smoldering Volcano while using...

Eruption Page
Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:41 03:41:08 PM AKDT Over the past 2 months, seismic activity detected on regional networks in the vicinity of Kasatochi Volcano has steadily declined in intensity. Overflights and satellite imagery show no indication of significant continuing unrest. The likelihood of resumed eruptive activity at Kasatochi has greatly diminished, therefore, we are reducing the Aviation Color Code to UNASSIGNED and Volcanic Alert Level to UNASSIGNED. Friday, October 24, 2008 11:00...

Loud Workplaces May Increase Heart Problems
Wednesday, October 06, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press London (AP) - What's bad for your ears may also be bad for your Heart. According to a new study, people who work in noisy places for at least a year and a half could have triple the risk of a serious Heart problem compared to those who work in quiet environments, a new study says. Gan Wenqi of the University of British Columbia examined more than 6,000 people who were at least 20 years old and employed, in a U.S. health survey from 1999...

Mimicking black holes: Dr Hawking's bright idea
IN 1974 Stephen Hawking, pictured, had a startling theoretical insight about black holes—those voracious eaters of matter and energy from whose gravitational clutches not even light can escape. He predicted that black holes should not actually be black. Instead, because of the quirks of quantum mechanics, they should glow ever so faintly, like smouldering embers in a dying fire. The implications were huge. By emitting this so-called Hawking radiation, a black hole would gradually lose ener...

Olympic luge death 'accidental'
A "relative lack of experience" played a role in the death of the Georgian luger who died during a training run before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a coroner's report says. The document says Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, died immediately when he smashed into a steel pole after flipping his sled at the Whistler Sliding Centre. The report, issued 235 days after the crash, calls the death accidental. Mr Kumaritashvili hit the unpadded pillar at 90mph (145kph). Continue reading the main...

Thor Consolidates General Coach Plants in Canada
Thor Industries Inc., Jackson Center, Ohio, announced today (Oct. 15) that it is consolidating production at its General Coach Canada company from two Manufacturing locations to one, according to a news release. In the process, Thor is shuttering its Oliver, British Columbia, production facility and moving all General Coach RV and park model production to its other facility in Hensall, Ontario. While we regret the closure of our Oliver, British Columbia plant, our General Coach Canada...

Debtors prisons: They're back!
As the first story on Countdown on Monday ( transcript ), Keith had Rachel Maddow as his guest as they discussed the growing desire of Republican Senate Candidates to return us to the bad old days of the pre-New Deal era, when there were no Minimum Wage or Child Labor Laws, and no Social Security.  But the barbarous visions of would-be Senators like Alaska's Joe Miller and Kentucky's Rand Paul are only frightening possibilities.  Not so the burning down of Gene Cranick's house...

Hurricanes Predictions Were Wrong Again
From a once again disappointed Reuters : U.S. gets off lightly in active Hurricane Season By Tom Brown 06 Oct 2010 Miami, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been very active in the number of Storms but is likely to go down as a non-event for most people in the United States, which has so far dodged a major landfall, the Top Official U.S. Hurricane forecaster said on Tuesday. Before the June 1-Nov. 30 Season got under way, residents of Hurricane danger zones were...

In First Marine Census, a Plenitude of Wonders
After a decade of research and more than 540 Ocean expeditions, scientists presented the world with the first-ever Census of marine life on Monday. The Census involved the work of 670 institutions and 2,700 researchers and made direct observation of 120,000 marine species , including some 6,000 newly discovered species. “We’re like the people in London and Paris 200 years ago, putting together the first dictionaries and encyclopedias,” Jesse H. Ausubel, co-founder of the...

U.S. Alert for Europe Travel Aims at Increasing Vigilance
By SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON—The broad State Department alert issued on Sunday for U.S. travelers to Europe is rare for a terror-related warning, but it isn't the most serious travel warning issued by the agency. More Journal Community The main goal of the "travel alert" is to remind Americans traveling overseas to be cautious. It falls one step below an official U.S. "travel warning," which would advise American Citizens against certain foreign travel altogether. With the latest...

Want to Reduce the Climate Change Impact of Your House? Follow This 10-Step Checklist.
Yet many Climate Change solutions are very ... local, because they're based on the way each and every one of us uses energy. On 10/10/10, thousands of people are having 'work' parties to do what they can to reduce the Fossil-fuel generated Carbon Dioxide emissions that are the primary source of Climate Change. Why not use the day to check off at least half of these ten ways you can reduce the Climate Change impact of your home, too? 1. Caulk or weatherstrip windows...

NYC Achieves Greenhouse Gas Reductions, But Not With Transportation
The Bloomberg administration released its annual Greenhouse gas inventory last week [ PDF ], presenting some great environmental news: The city’s annual Greenhouse gas Emissions decreased by 12.9 percent between 2005 and 2009. But inside the report is a worrisome statistic for sustainable transportation advocates. Barely any of that decrease is attributable to a greener transportation system. In fact, Greenhouse gas Emissions from private cars actually increased by 1.86 percent over those...

$700K Taxpayer-Funded Play on Climate Change
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science; to advance the National health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the National defense. It can now add fund plays on Climate Change to that list. The New York Times reports that the federal agency will award $700,000 of Taxpayer money to a New York theater company to produce a show on Climate Change. Titled, The Great Immensity, the...

Climate Video Gets a Thumbs Down From Critics
Barely one minute into a short video by 10:10 , a British Climate Advocacy Group, two porcelain-skinned middle schoolers named Phillip and Tracy are deliberately blown up by their teacher. Their blood and body parts then scatter across their mates and the classroom in a crimson deluge. The Childrens crime was that theyrefused to participate in 10:10s campaign to lower Carbon Dioxide emissions by 10 percent a year for every year starting now. After they express slight doubt in...

Mines and wines in Australia climate battle
MUSWELLBROOK, Australia — Australian winemaker Brett Keating doesn't draw a parallel between the shorter, hotter seasons and slow creep of Coal Mining towards his land, but he is concerned. "This is a community that's benefited greatly from Mining over the years, it's brought a lot of prosperity to the area," he explains. "We've coexisted with Mining for years but in the last couple of years we just feel like the balance has flipped." His Hunter Valley winery, Two Rivers, just outside...

SPPI Monthly CO2 Report: July
SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report for July 2009 announces the publication of a major paper by Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, demonstrating by direct measurement that outgoing long-wave radiation is escaping to space far faster than the UN predicts, showing that the UN has exaggerated Global Warming 6-fold.Report, page 3. Lindzen’s paper on outgoing long-wave radiation shows the “Global Warming” scare is over. Thanks to recent peer reviewed papers that have not...

South Africa's Power Woes and Decarbonization Arithmetic
From the FT today : The term “load shedding” is grimly familiar to South Africans, two years after rolling blackouts struck the country. The Power cuts - following the failure by state-owned utility Eskom to increase capacity over the previous decade - subsided in late 2008 as The Economy slumped. But with growth returning, its generating capacity of 40,000MW is once again under strain, making the return of blackouts increasingly likely. “From 2011 to 2012,...

Businesses Seek Clarity on Climate Goals
Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, in Mexico City. Meeting this week in Mexico City, the Business for the Environment summit meeting brought together some 300 companies, including multinationals, that are already working on ways to reduce their Carbon Dioxide emissions. The groups final declaration on Tuesday called on the governments in Cancn to set ambitious, clear, measurable 2020 Greenhouse gas targets. How ambitious? The companies argued that to...

Wind farms affect local weather
Wind Farms, especially big ones, generate turbulence that can significantly alter air Temperatures near the ground, say researchers. As turbines often stand on agricultural land, these Changes could in turn affect crop Productivity. In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team says the impact could be reduced by changing rotor design. Another option would be to site Farms in areas with high natural turbulence. Continue reading the main story “ Start...

Out of this world vs Hard Science.
They haven’t stopped demanding “action” and they never will. We’ll hear it well past the point when the general public realizes that dangers of AGW and certainty of understanding have been systematically exaggerated. I mean we just had a lengthy discussion (on a skeptic blog) of how it is possible to know model means from the inputs and responses as presented when the models are all over the place for trend! The climatologists are arguing that we don’t...