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POPS'Cut not sink' emissions says expert
Many things as our history has shown can't be, and should not be tested while being put into practice. A quick study of our history of DIY efforts shows us that. We still have trouble learning the hard way. I have trouble imagining many of our solutions doing more than taking a system that is unbalanced and making it more unbalanced. Many a persons famous last words have been 'this time it will be different.- and better'. Which can be clearly stupid, and the reason they are last words. We certainly need to give nature more credit and respect t that we are. It has its own means of self correction. We can work out how to work according to the principles of nature, rather than our own vanity, or we'll be corrected out of existence. Still, a new thread could start 'Homo Novalis' but it doesn't take very many individuals to establish the start of a new line. the rest of us may soon be obsolete. (soon in evolutionary time) and a subject in achaeology classes. Existential aversion therapy
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POPSRising seas threaten west Antarctica. the ice shelves have prevented the land locked ice from flowing into the ocean. Now with the shelves melting and liquid water beneath the ice, it can have the same effect in geological terms as popping a cork. Wet ice is slippery
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POPSOcean review finds warming on the rise. It isn't just that ice is melting that is making the sea level rise, it is also the fact that water expands as it heats. With the volume of water in the ocean - 2/3 of the Earth's surface is covered with water, even a small temperature increase can have a dramatic effect. The way the expansion, and melting are factored into the research reports can make them a lot clearer, and more accurate. While there are the best of intentions, regarding some kind of remedy, I don't remember anyone being able to literally turn back the tide, which seems like the bottom line. King Canute had a go, but he was trying to prove that point to some knucklehead courtiers, who'd flattered him. He knew they were full of hot air, but figured it was worth getting wet to see the look on their faces. Don't you hate it when a King calls your bluff. Still you can look at the bright side. The world is getting more like Venice every day. All you have to do is buy shares in a Gondola Company.
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POPSCreating insignificant events -Futuristic art Vincent Callebaut 'work was lately exhibited in Paris ; ;" To believe in the world means to create events, even insignificant ones, that gets out of control, or create new space-times, even in reduced surfaces or volumes"
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POPSAustralia gets access to underwater bounty There seem to be the implication that we can 'own' an environment. While there is constant talk of conservation, it never seems to get in the way of a good profit. The world is a boat. and we are just passengers, not owners. We should feel obliged to leave it in a fit state for travelers on the next leg of the journey. I suppose it was a choice between oil rigs, and bottom trawlers. The black smoker' is the spout from a seabed hydrothermal vent. At the sea floor, due to the pressure, water is still liquid at 400deg C, and is as acidic as vinegar.
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POPSEarth hums while making love waves The seismic stations had to be boring, or the waves would not nave been heard above the noise. Named after Professor Augustus Love the mathematician who created the model of such waves in 1911. They are still unsure exactly how they are formed, but believe wind , ocean or solar forces may contribute. They say that now they know what to look for, they can find the waves at other stations, which might help point researchers in the direction of the source.
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POPSOceans to fall, not rise over millennia Of course they're talking about a geological timespan -80 Million Years. That doesn't change the potential rise over the next 10-100 years. A mere flash in geological time. There is a curious reason, The oceans are becoming deeper. Changes caused by continental drift being the primary cause. For example The Atlantic will widen, and the Pacific will shrink. While they say the estimated drop is around 120 m, if the Ice on Greenland and Antarctica happened to melt, as it seems to be doing today, the drop would only be 70 m
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POPSWarships poised to shoot down satellite They say they must deal with the 'toxic propellant hydrazine I fail to see how a missile can deal with it any better that reentry Perhaps the missiles are surplus and they need to justify military spending. How much hydrazine is there? The satellite was defunct. The whole equation just doesn't add up. The cure seems to be far worse than the problem.
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POPSSouthern Ocean rise due to warming not ice. I'm sure whatever affects one ocean will affect all of them either directly or indirectly. With all of the talk of ice melts, where the rise may come from land based ice, that slides into the ocean when once it would have been frozen tight, one of the primary causes of sea level rise will be due to the fact that like all but a few things, water expands when it warms. While the temperature rises may seem small, the volumes involved mean the expansion can be significant. That's not to mention the increased amount of energy held in the water, which can contribute to stronger storms, and rougher seas. The ocean is a big place, and for the temperature to rise by one degree, means a vast amount of energy stored.
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POPSKing Penguins face extinction as planet warms An example of how a broken link in a food chain can wipe the whole chain out. Their main diet , small fish, and squid, in turn rely on krill-tiny shrimp- which are sensitive to temperature change. Many Whale species prime source of food is also krill. There are many other creatures whose sensitivity to temperature can make life for them literally impossible either through being unable to survive themselves or through a threat to their food sources and so food chains. The environment is a house of cards, being dismantled from the bottom up. When the house collapses, it will do so in a flash. We won't have time to get our coats.
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POPSCrustacean "Swarm" Destroying Small Hiroshima Island The island's soft rock, a material called tuff that is primarily composed of densely compacted volcanic ash, is an ideal habitat for the booming population of nanatsuba-kotsubumushi Through normal weathering, it would usually take thousands of years for the elements to reduce an island the size of Hoboro to debris But some experts have estimated that, at the current rate, the island may be gone within a century Hoboro appears to be something of a geological oddity, with no other islands in the immediate area made of the same material. Although he prefers not to put a time scale on the island's destruction, Okimura added that it's unclear where the burrowing creatures will go when Hoboro does ultimately disappear beneath the waves
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POPSUN Climate Chief to visit Antarctica Much of the ice that has built up over the land at the poles has been frozen fast to the land. As the climate warms, and sea level rises, a sheet of water can form between the ice and the land. Then, due to the buildup, and weight of the ice on the water, an ice sheet can slip into the ocean, creating turbulence, greater ocean volume, and an acceleration of the melt. Will we soon have a planet where there is no ice?
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POPSChina Raises 800 year old ship I was wondering how it had held together after 800 years, but apparently they managed to lift it - Very slowly and carefully. They plan to store it in a tank with the same temperature and pressure as the ocean floor, that kept it waiting for 800 years, with windows so it can be seen by the public. They're selling the porcelain on Ebay with a reserve of 1c ($20,000 postage)
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