tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:27:08 +0000A 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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/estarblog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)Blogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-6178193098693114193Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:07:00 +00002010-03-06T20:27:08.098+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, http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2010/03/huge-methane-leak-in-arctic-section-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-2257243448119956238Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:50:00 +00002010-02-23T20:56:04.272+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 http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2010/02/antarctic-melting-since-1947-says-usgs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-7034426679866410850Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:14:00 +00002010-02-18T13:15:29.857+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2010/02/permafrost-now-130km-further-north-than.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-1802619597132461355Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:10:00 +00002010-02-18T13:12:39.550+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2010/02/sub-tropical-in-greenlands-glaciers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-6853082924369309577Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:56:00 +00002010-02-08T20:58:54.077+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 http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2010/02/arctic-changing-faster-than-expected.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-972652176008971228Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:34:00 +00002010-01-28T16:36:22.857+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2010/01/2000-to-2009-warmest-decade-says-nasa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-6989819549448879191Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:35:00 +00002009-12-30T19:37:42.344+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/12/climate-wizard-shows-what-is-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-1825992584227174772Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:05:00 +00002009-12-18T18:07:36.200+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 http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/12/man-made-climate-change-irrefutable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-7831099141338318628Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:48:00 +00002009-12-17T08:50:37.739+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 ofhttp://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/12/nasa-unveils-co2-satellite-mapping-tool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-4314931422657610060Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:18:00 +00002009-12-11T20:20:22.674+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/12/new-igbp-index-proves-climate-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-5287694200844913302Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:29:00 +00002009-12-09T19:32:36.024+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/12/study-predicts-sea-wil-rise-up-to-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-3046748276355715205Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:26:00 +00002009-12-08T19:31:03.912+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!http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/12/earth-more-sensitive-to-co2-than.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-4864704885877289402Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:21:00 +00002009-11-28T11:25:14.330+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 thehttp://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/11/oceans-now-absorbing-co2-more-slowly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-1825200122274814828Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:36:00 +00002009-11-27T09:39:29.694+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 metrichttp://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/11/nasa-sees-unexpected-antarctic-ice-loss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-6576689722740822163Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:22:00 +00002009-11-19T08:24:58.497+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 http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/11/carbon-dioxide-emissions-up-29-percent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-2702317188277801992Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:09:00 +00002009-11-14T12:11:33.482+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/11/hotter-america-and-greenland-melting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-1518100464740439500Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:07:00 +00002009-10-30T12:13:33.959+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/10/multi-year-arctic-ice-all-gone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-8650532396820858975Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:37:00 +00002009-10-26T15:40:55.434+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.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/10/mud-says-warming-is-not-natural.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-8449863639718760046Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:59:00 +00002009-10-10T10:02:47.358+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 http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/10/15m-years-ago-c02-was-this-high-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-2214234223771688349Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:42:00 +00002009-10-01T15:46:48.217+13:00TWO-METRE RISE IN OCEANS UNSTOPPABLEScienceDaily News reports that experts have told a climate conferene at Oxford University that a rise of at least two metres in the world's sea levels is now almost unstoppable.'The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable,' said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at Germany's Potsdam Institute http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/10/two-metre-rise-in-oceans-unstoppable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-2861441828184416893Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:13:00 +00002009-09-26T10:15:56.111+12:00FAST-MELTING ICE AT POLES MAPPEDThe most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers, marking an important step forward in the quest to make more accurate predictions for future sea level rise.Researchers from British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol describe how analysishttp://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/09/fast-melting-ice-at-poles-mapped-most.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-6466067443693883712Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:30:00 +00002009-09-14T09:56:04.457+12:00DRAMATIC ARCTIC RESPONSES TO GLOBAL OVERHEATING'The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past,' says Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University, who led a large international team that carried out wide-ranging studies in 2008 of the biological responses to Arctic warming.The paper by Post's research team shows that the effects of Arctic warming have been http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/09/dramatic-arctic-responses-to-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-4481456544043057598Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:13:00 +00002009-09-05T12:19:37.743+12:00LESS SUN BUT ARCTIC IS GETTING WARMERDetailed research into the Arctic climate has revealed that although it has been receiving progressively less energy from the sun for the past 8000 years, a decline that will not reverse for another 4000 years, and which means it should be getting cooler, it suddenly started warming round about 1900 and has since been warming at an accelerating rate.It is now http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/09/less-sun-but-arctic-is-getting-warmer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-1525673209518462765Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +00002009-08-19T08:02:44.014+12:00MODELS AGREE: WE ARE MAKING AIR WETTERAn exhaustive study of climate models has found the unmistakable fingerprint of human activity is the cause of the inexorable rise of the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere--it has been rising at 0.4kg/cu.m per decade since 1988.Full report in ScienceDaily.http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/08/models-agree-we-are-making-air-wetter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-4612340903241851278Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:07:00 +00002009-08-17T14:12:00.213+12:00WARMER ARCTIC MELTING METHYL HYDRATEThe warming of an Arctic current over the last thirty years has triggered the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from methane hydrate stored in the sediment beneath the seabed, reports ScienceDaily. Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton working in collaboration with researchers from the University of Birmingham, Royal Holloway http://www.estarfuture.com/blog/2009/08/warmer-arctic-melting-methyl-hydrate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nobilangelo)