Monthly Archives: April 2011

The oceanic crust is about six miles thick, and floats on top of gigantic convective cells originating over a thousand miles down in the mantle. The movement of these convective cells is what causes plate tectonics and earthquakes like the … Continue reading →

The connection between greenhouse gasses (GHG) and global warming is a difficult one for many Americans to grasp. The connection may be obvious for 3p readers but for folks that may be global warming naysayers, the connection between human induced … Continue reading →

Evil ice doesn’t understand that it reached its peak over a month ago. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFXGwHsD_A]

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Greenland is getting greener In the heyday of the Vikings, before 1300 A.D., the populous republic of Iceland lived largely by agriculture; the Norse raised sheep in Greenland, where no sheep graze today. After 1300, the cold crept down and … Continue reading →

No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play … Continue reading →

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the … Continue reading →

Greenland is getting greener and Iceland’s ice is shrinking. The Arctic is losing its chill. According to Dr. Hans Ahlmann, professor of geography at Stockholm University, all the cold lands around the northernmost Atlantic are entering a balmier climatological era. … Continue reading →

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BP has killed the Gulf and nobody really knows how long it will take to recover from this man made disaster Since it will be still another 40 years for Prince William to recover, I estimate it to be about … Continue reading →