Climate Change
Abnormally warm ocean temperatures are creating conditions that threaten to kill coral in the equatorial Pacific, north Pacific and western Atlantic oceans, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday.
Our planet is just 15 years from a new ‘mini ice age’ that could cause extremely cold winters characterized by the freezing of normally ice-free rivers as well as by year-round snow fields in areas that have never witnessed such climate conditions before, a group of astrophysicists claim. The scientists could draw such a conclusion based on a new model of the sun’s activity that reportedly enables the researchers to make “extremely accurate predictions” of changes in solar activity.
After years of disappointment in their government’s environmental policies, 886 Dutch citizens, following the lead of the sustainability foundation Urgenda, took their government to court in order to demand a better treatment of the environment and to lower carbon emissions.
Earth & Space News May 31, 2015: When Will Climate Scientists Say They Were Wrong?; Large, Deep 7.8M Japan Quake; Southern California Tsunami Threat; Space weather – sun is calm; Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier Is Doing the Unthinkable – It’s Growing; Global Weather
S0 (Ben Davidson) presents evidence that while climate change is definitely happening on Earth (and other planets in the solar system), the global warming hypothesis is incorrect. Global warming models/predictions have been an abject failure for 20 years, and yet the IPCC claims ever-higher certainty? How does this happen and what comes next?
Soil & Carbon: Soil Solutions to Climate Problems outlines how it is possible to take atmospheric CO2, which is fueling climate change, and plug it into the soil. Far from moving the problem from one place to another, this shift can reduce ocean acidification because the oceans are no longer the sink for vast amounts of CO2, and can regenerate degraded soils by providing needed carbon.
The earth was born over four and a half billion years ago. She sustains us and is our home. Why do we harm her? Polute her? Cut down all her trees? Kill the animals that inhabit her? Instead, let’s create habits that honor her and give her more life.
Earth & Space News April 21, 2015: Space weather – sun spots, M-class solar flare, magnetic storm; Earthquake watch; Ceres’ Bright Spots Come Back Into View; Global weather – Sydney lashed by the storm of the century; Cyclonic’ storm hammering NSW set to get worse before it gets better
Earth & Space News April 18, 2015: Space weather; Earthquake watch; Massive Dust Storm Turns Day into Night in Belarus; UFO?; NASA Scientists Identify Missing Wave near Jupiter’s Equator; Global State of the Climate March 2015; Kansas Tornadoes; Thunder, Lightning, Heavy Rain, Wind in Houston, Texas; Snow Causes Massive Pileup on I-80 in Laramie County, Wyoming; Global weather
Here are Randy Hayes’ nine great Planetary Ecological Boundaries. If we work hard enough, they just might help us survive …
Government’s latest Orwellian tools to spy on citizens, known as “smart meters,” are literally blowing up and catching fire, risking lives and property to facilitate what even officials acknowledge amounts to intrusive state surveillance. In fact, your home may already have been fitted with one of the dangerous meters in recent years. The latest explosions of the controversial espionage devices, used to monitor citizens’ electricity and water usage, happened in California last week. Amid a government-caused water shortage across the state, bureaucrats are hoping to use the hazardous meters to catch citizens consuming more than their government-approved water rations. As more and more “smart” meters explode and burst into flames, though, citizens concerned about safety — not to mention privacy and liberty — are increasingly fighting back.
Amid worsening drought, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a far-reaching executive order designed to reduce state’s water consumption by twenty-five percent.
Earth & Space News March 31, 2015: Space weather – sun is quiet; Earthquake watch; As Stars Form, Magnetic Fields Influence Regions Big and Small; Global Lightning; Current Long-Term Negative Average Annual Energy Balance of the Earth Leads to the New Little Ice Age (PDF); Arctic Ice Extent Currently Higher Than 2005; Global weather
A glacier the size of California in East Antarctica is in danger of melting away, which could lead to increased sea levels.
Earth & Space News Feb 28, 2015: Sun Waking Up, Indonesia M7 Quake
