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Methane hydrates: a volatile time bomb in the ArcticThe ConversationThe risk with climate change is not with the direct effect of humans on the greenhouse capacity of Earth’s atmosphere. The major risk is that the relatively modest human perturbation will unleash much greater forces. The likelihood of this risk is …See all stories on this Continue Reading →
Empty Promise Posted: 15 Oct 2012 12:32 PM PDT Could scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October 2012 I believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. Continue Reading →
Climate change: Circulation of Atlantic Ocean was faster during last Ice Age than today Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:19 AM PDT Heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean during the last Ice Age was not weaker, as long assumed, but in fact stronger than it is today. Scientists used ultra-precise measurements of natural radionuclides in ocean Continue Reading →
Fracking’s Dark Side Gets Darker: The Problem of Methane WasteNatural Resources Defense Council (blog)Natural gas is mostly methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Pound for pound, methane is at least 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, over a 100-year period, and as much as 100 times more powerful over a 20-year period. Releasing increasing …See Continue Reading →
Great storm: a wind of change for conservationists Experts say the 1987 storm transformed thinking about managing English woodlands and ideas of natural beauty Share34 Email John Vidal, environment editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012 15.33 BST Jump to comments (31) Uprooted trees at at Wakehurst Place following the 1987 storm. Photograph: Kew RBG It Continue Reading →
Greenpeace threatens wetlands legal stoush against coal terminal By Brock Taylor, ABCOctober 16, 2012, 9:25 am tweet1 Email Print Greenpeace says it is considering legal action to stop the construction of another north Queensland coal terminal at Abbot Point, north of Bowen. The Federal Government last week approved GVK Hancock’s application to build another terminal Continue Reading →