Tag Archives: Arctic

a conspiracy of liberals

We may have just about 30 years left until the world’s carbon budget for 2 degrees C warming is exceeded unless emissions drop by 80% from current levels. In fact 4 C might be reached by 2070. The Intergovernmental Panel … Continue reading

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the status quo

Obama’s Catastrophic Climate-Change Denial By BILL McKIBBENMAY 12, 2015 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — THE Obama administration’s decision to give Shell Oil the go-ahead to drill in the Arctic shows why we may never win the fight against climate change. If we … Continue reading

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The Resilient Earth

CO2 for the last 15 or so million of years (with more certainty 800,000 years): ~ 285 ppm CO2 for last reading in March 2015: 401 ppm: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ The trend is that this pattern (of increasing CO2) has accelerated in the … Continue reading

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Forbes on Ice

The monthly average Arctic sea ice extent for February was the third lowest in the satellite record. Through 2015, the linear rate of decline for February extent is 2.9% per decade. ref: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2015/03/Figure3.png Remember All Those Breathy Predictions About An … Continue reading

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Artic new shipping routes

The Arctic ice is slowly melting, and Russia is positioning itself to take advantage of new shipping routes along with natural resources available beneath the Arctic seabed. In order to capitalize on a changing Arctic, Russia is undertaking a major … Continue reading

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Sometimes, you’ve just got to tell it like it is

Arctic discovery LINDSAY ABRAMS WEDNESDAY, AUG 6, 2014 03:27 PM -0500 The study concerns the large deposits of methane (CH4) — a greenhouse gas over twenty times more potent than CO2 — known to be buried beneath the Arctic. Stockholm University … Continue reading

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