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[Think this is partially related to US floodings]: Dust on snow drains a precious resource:
http://nsidc.org/monthlyhighlights/october2010.html NSIDC researchers are exploring an unexpected risk to the U.S. Rocky Mountain snowpack and Western water supplies: a coating of desert dust. Their ongoing project suggests that desert dust landing on mountain snow may reduce water supplies for cities, agriculture, and industry far downstream. Source: The NSIDC RSS Feed: http://nsidc.org/monthlyhighlights/index.html --//-- |
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European CryoSat mission delivers first Ice maps, a step closer to more real time assessing the frozen water portions on our planet and their state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13829785 In essence there is excellent tie with past research such as that done by the Alfred Wegener missions surveying the Arctic Ice thickness by plane-carried laser-altimeter. --//-- |
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How Green Is Your Internet?
When you use the internet have you thought just how much energy you're using? This story may give you some idea of just how much energy the wired world sucks down. |
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Where the term "Clean Coal" was conceived I don't know, but before it's got a very dirty message:
Study showing higher birth defect rates adds another note of urgency to banning mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/06/27...ates-mountaintop-removal/ --//-- |
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Had read other stories about the jelly fish population xplotion, this article giving a plausible reason:
2 US Powerplants shutdown due clogging of their cooling water inlets. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/06/2615...r-station-climate-change/ --//-- |
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Huge smoke cloud over Siberia per the MODIS Environsat
http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?mosaic=Arctic Right top of the image. Something is burning big time out there. --//-- |
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Despite one's feelings/positions about melting ice fields and cute polar bear cubs, I offer this as an example of poor writing and "shock science". This should have never appeared in a magazine that proports to be a scientific publication (IMO). Gleaned from a study, written by an "Environmental Correspondent"
----------------------------------------![]() ![]() More polar bear cubs die as Arctic ice melts-study I tried to find the original study but woudl have to pay $32 to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Don't know how to say this but there is an (Un)Scientific America website and a book by that title...
----------------------------------------A few days ago, a lesser opti-comment on a blog came in [No, we don't do science through blogs... there's discussion, sometimes useless argument and screeching at times, but no actual science]. It was touching on enhancement of US droughts due to impairment of evapo-transportation and the very large corn covers on US farm land and a cryptic about CO2 & GM connection. Really, I followed his thought, but don't want nor will take a single biologists word on this, not a dozen. Somewhere a paper will appear [may exist already] and then the peer review and cross verification of other research will tease out the actual and solid facts. What I do know is, that evapo-transportation IS of critical importance to climate and plant-live and everything else, even sea based. On a lighter note, when the world freezes over, the polar bears will get to know their counter part: ![]() --//-- P.S. Finding studies... frequently drafts, un-reviewed by peers, are lurking in corners. Google Scholar is pretty good if you have a set of key words, names appearing with an Abstract shown at e.g. Springer. Early publications are clearly water-marked with ''For Review'' of similar, in inalterable pdf or similar. You'v surely seen them. edit: Don't know I thought you were residing in Australia. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 20, 2011 5:26:50 PM] |
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