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POPSHydrocarbons in Deep Earth “We were intrigued by previous experiments and theoretical predictions,” remarked Carnegie’s Alexander Goncharov a coauthor. “Experiments reported some years ago subjected methane to high pressures and temperatures and found that heavier hydrocarbons formed from methane under very similar pressure and temperature conditions. However, the molecules could not be identified and a distribution was likely. We overcame this problem with our improved laser-heating technique where we could cook larger volumes more uniformly. And we found that methane can be produced from ethane.”
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POPStropical rainfall moving north hmmm- water water everywhere-but not a drop to drink- well they are saying there is no global water shortage-it is just going to where the people aren't.....
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POPSThe List of Dissenters Grows Dramatically "Prominent Japanese Geologist Dr. Shigenori Maruyama, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences who has authored more than 125 scientific publications, said in March 2009 that “there was widespread skepticism among his colleagues about the IPCC’s fourth and latest assessment report that most of the observed global temperature increase since the mid-20th century ‘is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.” Maruyama noted that when this question was raised at a Japan Geoscience Union symposium last year, ‘the result showed 90 per cent of the participants do not believe the IPCC report.”
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POPSTaking A Stand On "Global Warming" Protest ~ Bring Snow Shovels
of the British Antarctic Survey report the identification of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice sheet in western Antarctica. For Antarctica, “This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet,” Dr. Vaughan said. Heat from a volcano could still be melting ice and contributing to the thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island Glacier, which passes nearby, but Dr. Vaughan doubted that it could be affecting other glaciers in West Antarctica, which have also thinned in recent years. Most glaciologists, including Dr. Vaughan, say that warmer ocean water is the primary cause. Volcanically, Antarctica is a fairly quiet place. But sometime around 325 B.C., the researchers said, a hidden and still active volcano erupted, puncturing several hundred yards of ice above it. Ash and shards from the volcano carried through the air and settled onto the surrounding landscape.
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POPSReduced pollution leads to Global Warming??? Ok, let me get this straight. We need to enact job killing-and utility raising-legislation to combat GW. Yet, when pollution is reduced the byproduct is? Global Warming. (we'll just pretend that the temp hasn't dramatically dropped this century-that is irrelevant) So, pollution causes GW AND removal of pollution causes GW. Why can't people see the stupidity of the whole argument for bankrupting us? Bet China will be clean and sunny soon. bwaaahaaaaaahaaaa.
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POPSNT meteorite mystery remains unsolved Wallace Rockhole is the showoff school for indigents in the NT. The people there are switched on and proud of their school and children. Dry community. All this, of course, has nothing to do with the sighting and hearing.
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POPSEarth's poles long overdue for reversal I've been following this for at least the last 20 years when I first discovered this phenomenon in Junior High. This is nothing new. The science journals have been writing about this for at least 3 decades. There is a cycle to this, it's not a matter of if but of when.
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POPSLatest Antarctic Sea Ice Extent ''it is mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Ice extent remains well (one million square kilometers) above the 28 year average and an impressive 3 million square kilometers above last year at this time!. There is clearly a lot of year to year variability in the record but the demise of the Antartic icecap seems to be anything but imminent. Most of the warming and melt in recent years has been in the vicinity of the Antarctic Peninsula, a small portion of the Antarctic which reaches above the Antarctic Circle and is a choke-point for the circumpolar ocean currents, and is more susceptible to variations. There’s also an active subsea volcano in the area, perhaps leading to the warm water upwelling in the study''
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POPS'Cataclysmic' Explosion rocked Antarctica 2000 years ago. Most of Antarctica is seismically stable, but the western part lies in a rift in the Earth's crust. This is the first evidence of an Eruption under the ice sheet itself. A volcanic eruption is bound to be bad for the ice sheet. The Eruption rated 3-4 on the Volcanic Explosive Index (V.E.I.) The eruption of Mt St Helens had a rating of 5 The Mt Pinatubo Eruption in 1991 had a rating of 6
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POPSEscalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica The new finding comes days after the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the group's next report should look at the "frightening" possibility that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could melt rapidly at the same time.
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