eSci: Fault Networks Capable of Large Quakes Identified Across Central U.S.
A large area of the midcontinent region of North America may be capable of producing devastating earthquakes like the ones that happened 200 years ago in New Madrid, Missouri according to preliminary...
View ArticleNASA: 130 years of global warming in 30 seconds
NASA has produced a stunning 27 second video that maps earth's temperature for the past 130 years. The rapid warming for the past 30 years concentrated in the Arctic is shocking. The rapid warming in...
View ArticlePythons Invade Everglades Devastating Mammals, Range Expanding Rapidly
Burmese Pythons as large as 20 feet lone have escaped from captivity, invaded the Everglades, and wiped out populations of mid-sized mammals. Python populations have expanded rapidly to nearly all of...
View ArticleClimate Emergency: 2 Million Mexicans Have No Water & Drought Expanding...
Two million people have no water. Crops are wiped out in the northern half of the country. The worst drought in Mexico's history is likely to worsen until summer rains come devastating the northern...
View ArticleSea Ice Collapse Links to Deadly Weather and Irreversible Climate Change
Scientists studying the Arctic are stunned at the rapid disappearance of sea ice and prolonged record high temperatures on the Atlantic side of the Arctic ocean which have occurred simultaneously with...
View ArticleAP Verifies Denialgate Docs, Oily Scam to Teach Lies about Climate Science in...
The Associated Press has verified the authenticity of leaked documents that show a leading conservative organization, the Heartland Institute, schemed to propagandize school children into becoming...
View ArticleeSci: Global Cooling - Record Cold Jan-Mar 2012
Global lower stratospheric temperatures in January to March 2012 were the coldest ever measured (by satellites) according to Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). A cooling lower stratosphere is strong...
View ArticleGlobal Ecosystem "is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition" Warn...
When disturbance of local ecosystems exceeds 50% they may suddenly collapse into simpler, less biodiverse systems with the loss of many species. An interdisciplinary team of scientists published a...
View ArticleBee Collapse Triggered by Parasitic Mite Transformed Virus
An invasive parasitic mite has transformed an apparently harmless virus into a global destroyer of honey bee colonies. A new report in Science chronicles the catastrophic effects of the accidental...
View ArticleShocking Interglacial Shift to Hot Arctic Tied to Rapid Antarctic Ice Melt
Stunning spikes of Arctic heat in interglacial periods, far warmer than predicted by existing climate models, may be caused by rapid melting of Antarctic ice. The ocean overturning circulation around...
View ArticleDrought Disaster Declared in 1016 Counties in 26 States by USDA
Withering severe to extreme drought, covering most of the southern two-thirds of the United States, has led the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make its largest disaster declaration ever. Extensive...
View ArticleUpdated: Greenland Heat, Melting & Darkening Stuns Scientists as Ice Goes...
Greenland Ice Darkening Dark surface of Greenland icecap in summer, photo by Jason Box, PhD. The ends of the ice ages were triggered when earth's wobble placed the Arctic in position to receive...
View ArticleNASA Made up 150 year melt cycles; NY Times Slammed NASA for "Unprecedented"...
NASA's press release on the stunning melt event in Greenland where 97% of the surface melted (Note: not mass or volume. A relatively thin layer melted.) downplayed the severity of the event by...
View ArticleGreenland Mega-Melt Smashes Records, Temps Likely Warmest in 1000 Years
Far more ice has melted on Greenland's this year than before in the history of melt measurements. Measuring the amount of melting precisely is challenging, but scientists studying Greenland have found...
View ArticleClimate SOS! Witnessing the Outer Banks Drown & Drawing the Line at 20ft Sea...
At the height of hurricane season in September I join the annual migration of a group of surfers to Cape Hatteras to catch the swells. One of the popular, well known surf spots we go is named S Turns,...
View ArticleeSci: Arctic Glow-in-the-Dark Clouds Spreading South Linked to Increasing...
Pearlescent blue clouds mysteriously appeared in far northern latitudes after the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. Perhaps these noctilucent clouds existed before the massive eruption threw enormous...
View ArticleeSci: "Planetary Emergency" New 2012 Arctic Sea Ice Record 18% Below 2007 Low
Arctic sea ice extent bottomed out at 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles) on September 16, smashing the old record minimum of 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square...
View ArticleUpdated: Hurricane Sandy likely to hit mid Atlantic - could be "Perfect Storm"
NHC's 5pm forecast brings Sandy into the Jersey shore Tuesday morning then inland to Pennsylvania by Tuesday evening. Sandy's strongest winds, storm surge and waves could affect highly populated...
View ArticleJump in Sea Level Slams U.S. East Coast
Hurricane Sandy and a series of noreasters have combined with an apparently unprecedented one year jump in sea level to cause a wave of destruction on the U.S. east coast. The one year change of the...
View ArticleUnprecedented Arctic Ice Loss in 2012 & Video "Like watching Manhattan break up"
2012 was a year of unprecedented melting across the Arctic. The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on earth and the consequences are shocking. Sea ice area and volume plummeted to the...
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