tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157365822010-04-07T13:04:55.488+12:00ESTARA blog associated with EStarFuture, a New Zealand company that agonises about the woeful state of the Earth, and is doing what it can to help fix the terrible mess we have made of it through our chronic addiction<BR>to Black Stuff--coal and oil.<BR>'We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.' --Anais Nin.<BR>'Now everything is changed, except man's thinking.' --Einstein.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-72924445846668515352010-04-07T13:04:00.001+12:002010-04-07T13:04:55.550+12:00This blog has moved This blog is now located at http://estarfuture.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://estarfuture.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-38810828955633848482010-04-03T11:47:00.000+13:002010-04-03T11:49:06.490+13:00ACIDIFICATION THREATENS WORLD'S OCEANSThe rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the chemistry and ecosystems of the world's oceans, international marine scientists have warned in a study reported in ScienceDaily.surface waters have already acidified an average of 0.1 pH units from pre-industrial levels, and we are seeing signs of its impact evenNobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-43176384130827030962010-03-27T19:16:00.000+13:002010-03-27T19:18:53.136+13:00GLOBAL CONVEYOR BELT NOT SLOWINGSome good news amongst the climate-change gloom, in this report from an AAAS page.The global conveyor-belt, the great current circling much of the planet, which keeps Europe warm, is not slowing down, according to careful analysis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.So The Day After Tomorrow is still just a very good movie.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-87093135885784638432010-03-27T18:34:00.001+13:002010-03-27T19:30:46.024+13:00TIPPING-POINT FOR GLOBAL OILScienceDaily reports that the world's capacity to meet projected future oil demand is at a tipping point, according to research by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University.It says that the age of cheap oil has ended as demand starts to outstrip supply, that current estimates of oil-reserves should be downgraded from between 1150-1350 Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-49634477751625579072010-03-25T14:25:00.000+13:002010-03-25T14:32:36.760+13:00GREENLANDS NORTHWEST COAST LOSING ICEThe ice-loss off Greeenland is accelerating up its northwest coast, according to satellite measurements. Full report in ScienceDaily.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-82413710815902586452010-03-24T09:58:00.000+13:002010-03-24T10:03:30.949+13:00CLIMATE-CHANGE EFFECTS UNDERESTIMATEDCharles H. Greene, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, one of the authors of 'A Very Inconvenient Truth,' published in the peer-reviewed journal Oceanography (March 2010), says that he and his co-authors conclude that the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report underestimatesNobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-61781930986931141932010-03-06T20:07:00.000+13:002010-03-06T20:27:08.098+13:00HUGE METHANE LEAK IN ARCTICA section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov.The research results, published in Science on March 5th, Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-22572434481199562382010-02-23T20:50:00.000+13:002010-02-23T20:56:04.272+13:00ANTARCTIC MELTING SINCE 1947 SAYS USGSNew data shows that ice-shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change, which can can cause glaciers to retreat and a rise in sea-levels if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands.Research by the U.S. Geological Survey is the first to document that every ice-front in the Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-70344266798664108502010-02-18T13:14:00.000+13:002010-02-18T13:15:29.857+13:00PERMAFROST NOW-130KM FURTHER NORTH THAN IN 1960The southern limit of permafrost is now 130 kilometres further north in the James Bay region than it was 50 years ago.The average temperature in the area has increased 2 degrees Celsius in the last twenty years.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-18026195971324613552010-02-18T13:10:00.000+13:002010-02-18T13:12:39.550+13:00SUB-TROPICAL IN GREENLAND'S GLACIERSResearchers have found that ocean currents in the North Atlantic have changed to the extent that sub-tropical water is now reaching deep into Greenland's glaciers all year round, driving melting and probably triggering an accelerated loss of ice. Full report in ScienceDaily.Sub-tropical heat is being rapidly transported to the glaciers--in months, not years.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-68530829243693095772010-02-08T20:56:00.000+13:002010-02-08T20:58:54.077+13:00ARCTIC CHANGING FASTER THAN EXPECTEDClimate-change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, reports the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north, which involved more than 370 scientists from 27 countries. Collectively they spent 15 months, starting in June 2007, aboard a research vessel above the Arctic Circle, the first time Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-9726521760089712282010-01-28T16:34:00.000+13:002010-01-28T16:36:22.857+13:002000 TO 2009 WARMEST DECADE SAYS NASANASA says the average global temperature for the last ten years are the warmest decade on record (since 1880), reports ScienceDaily.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-69898195494488791912009-12-30T19:35:00.000+13:002009-12-30T19:37:42.344+13:00CLIMATE WIZARD SHOWS WHAT IS COMINGClimate Wizard, makes rapid visual sense of climate models or a combination of some of all of sixteen of the leading ones.Read the report on ScienceDaily.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-18259925842271747722009-12-18T18:05:00.000+13:002009-12-18T18:07:36.200+13:00MAN-MADE CLIMATE-CHANGE IRREFUTABLE FACTThose who say that the changes in climate, average global-temperature, and weather are not man-made are dead wrong. The facts are irrefutable, the reasoning from them is irrefutable, and therfore the conclusion is irrefutable. The argument is so simple it is beyond denial, even for the worst prat-headed denial-addict on the planet.A mixture has the Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-78310991413383186282009-12-17T08:48:00.000+13:002009-12-17T08:50:37.739+13:00NASA UNVEILS CO2 SATELLITE MAPPING TOOLThe Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite is proving a precise and sophisticated tool for tracking carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere, and its effect on climate in conjunction with water vapour, reports ScienceDaily.The new data, which span the seven-plus years of the AIRS mission, measure the concentration and distribution ofNobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-43149314226576100602009-12-11T20:18:00.000+13:002009-12-11T20:20:22.674+13:00NEW IGBP INDEX PROVES CLIMATE-CHANGEA new index prepared by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), which reduces solid climate-change data to a simple index, rather like a stock-market index, once again proves that human activity is the cause. Full report in ScienceDaily.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-52876942008449133022009-12-09T19:29:00.000+13:002009-12-09T19:32:36.024+13:00STUDY PREDICTS SEA WIL RISE UP TO 1.9MA careful new study shows that the global oceans will rise may rise anywhere between 0.75 metres and 1.9 metres, reports ScienceDaily. ~The latter figure is consistent with another study that predicted up to 2.0 metres.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-30467482763557152052009-12-08T19:26:00.000+13:002009-12-08T19:31:03.912+13:00EARTH MORE SENSITIVE TO CO2 THAN THOUGHTA detailed study of paleoclimatological data, reported by ScienceDaily, shows that the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to the carbon-dioxide than previously thought. There are facts not factored into our models.Oh dear!Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-48647048858772894022009-11-28T11:21:00.000+13:002009-11-28T11:25:14.330+13:00OCEANS NOW ABSORBING CO2 MORE SLOWLYA new study, reported in ScienceDaily has for the first time used hard data to measure the level at which the oceans are absorbing carbon-dioxided, and found a significant reduction."Researchers have used climate models that suggest the oceans have been absorbing less CO2, but this is the first study to quantify the change directly using observations," said theNobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-18252001222748148282009-11-27T09:36:00.000+13:002009-11-27T09:39:29.694+13:00NASA SEES UNEXPECTED ANTARCTIC ICE-LOSSScienceDaily reports satellite measurements by NASA showing an unexpected, and large, loss of ice in East Antarctica, an area that holds 90% of the world's fresh water, and was previously thought stable. West Antarctica is losing 132 gigatonnes of ice a year. Now East Antarctica is estimated to be losing 57 gigatonnes a year. (A gigatonne is a billion metricNobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-65766897227408221632009-11-19T08:22:00.000+13:002009-11-19T08:24:58.497+13:00CARBON-DIOXIDE EMISSIONS UP 29 PERCENTA report in ScienceDaily says that atmospheric CO2 emissions have risen 29% since 2000 and 41% between 1990 and 2008. 1990 is the reference year for the Kyoto Protocol...Another report, on a study that has for the first time measured the greenhouse-strength of a range of other chemicals, some of which last for thousands of years in the atmosphere, found that Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-27023171882778019922009-11-14T12:09:00.000+13:002009-11-14T12:11:33.482+13:00HOTTER AMERICA AND GREENLAND MELTING FASTERTwo reports from ScienceDaily show that the Greenland icesheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, and that record high temperatures across the United States are far outpacing lows.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-15181004647404395002009-10-30T12:07:00.002+13:002009-10-30T12:13:33.959+13:00MULTI-YEAR ARCTIC ICE ALL GONEScienceDaily reports that an Arctic expert who recently surveyed the region says that the thick, hard multi-year ice in the Arctic has in effect all vanished, leaving only 'rotten' ice that can easily be sailed through.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-86505323968208589752009-10-26T15:37:00.002+13:002009-10-26T15:40:55.434+13:00MUD SAYS WARMING IS NOT NATURALSediment at the bottom of a remote Artctic lake shows that the warming in the late twentieth century was unlike anything caused by natural events during the last 200,000 years, reports ScienceDaily.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-84498636397187600462009-10-10T09:59:00.002+13:002009-10-10T10:02:47.358+13:0015M YEARS AGO C02 WAS THIS HIGHNew research, reported in ScienceDaily shows that the last time carbon-dioxide was at its present 387 parts per million was 15 million years ago. The research uses a new method of calculating carbon-dioxide levels that enables data to be extracted back to about 20 million years. It checks against data extracted from ice-cores going back 800,000 years, which was the Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.com