Will low sea ice threaten harp seals & polar bears on Canada’s East Coast this year?
There is no way to sugar-coat this: there wasn’t much ice off the East Coast in early February, which was shaping up to be as bad or worse than the recent low-ice year of 2011. Below is the weekly ‘departure from normal’ ice chart from the Canadian Ice Service for the week of Feb 1, which shows a lot of area normally covered in ice at this time of year (red) that was still open water:…
There Are Models And There Are Models
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’m 74, and I’ve been programming computers nearly as long as anyone alive. When I was 15, I’d been reading about computers in pulp science……
Climate adaptation follies. Part II: scenarios of future sea level rise
Global sea level rise projections provide a basis for projecting local sea level rise, such as for the New Jersey coast. The analysis in this section places the projections provided by the Rutgers Report in context of other assessment reports. The analysis provided below demonstrates that the Rutgers projections of sea level rise are substantially higher than those provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).…
Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21
Called 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its closest approach at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) – or 5 1/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. There is no threat of a collision with our planet now or for centuries to come.…
Cheaper carbon capture is on the way
RICHLAND, Wash.–As part of a marathon research effort to lower the cost of carbon capture, chemists have now demonstrated a method to seize carbon dioxide (CO2) that reduces costs by 19 percent compared to current commercial technology. The new technology requires 17 percent less energy to accomplish the same task as its commercial counterparts, surpassing barriers that have kept other forms of carbon capture from widespread industrial use. And it can be easily applied in existing capture systems.…
BBC: Switching Consumers to Green Energy Tariffs Without Asking Permission Increases Acceptance
The BBC is excited that 80-90% of Swiss consumers are still on green tariffs, four years after power companies adopted expensive green energy as the default choice for consumers.…