Category Archives Environment

Consider this. The Daily Standard Deviation for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent: 1989 - 2023 show a "Six Sigma" deviation. A 6 Sigma Deviation in Antarctic Sea Ice

Murray River Junctions

Named by the indigenous Yorta Yorta peoples as a place that means ‘meeting of the waters.’ Echuca is the spot where the Goulburn and the Campaspe rivers join the Murray. Major Flood Levels EDIT 24th October: As at 9:00am on 24th October 2022, no-one alive has seen water this high at the Echuca Wharf. The only higher level was recorded…

Keeling Curve May 2022

CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa continue the march... Weather is NOT Climate, most certainly, but this is worthy of note. For the first time temperatures of 40°C have been forecast in the UK and the Met Office has issued the first ever Red warning for exceptional heat.MET Office - United Kingdom UK Temperatures since 1970 The Keeling Curve is a…

Coal and Wind

The Group of Seven western industrialised states (G7) has committed to making their electricity systems “predominantly” carbon-free by 2035, but stopped short of setting a concrete date for exiting coal. Following their meeting in Berlin, the G7 environment, climate and energy ministers said only that they would support “an accelerated global unabated coal phase-out”. Analysts said the announcement to decarbonise…

Black Saturday

Twelve years. Things change. Always. Liquid Roof A new Sky The Journey The Journey – Some Links TenSix Years“There is no cure for trauma” – David J. Morris – Salon “The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” by David J. Morris.Black Saturday – ABCBlack Saturday - WikipediaBlack Saturday - National GeographicBlack Saturday - Articles & Research - The ConversationSettlement for…

Book - Limits of Growth

The Club of Rome's report from 1972 is 50 years old. I read it when it was first published... A sobering and influential read then. What's changed in that time? World Model Standard Run as shown in The Limits to Growth The Last Call? https://youtu.be/gt4WsMfi6d0 Links Limits to Growth ... was right!The Club of Rome – Limits to Growth Is Global…

Black Roofs

The worlds warming cities. Apologies to the Drifters... When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to faceI climb way up to the top of the stairsAnd all my cares just drift right into spaceOn the roof, it's peaceful as can beAnd there the world below can't bother meLet me tell you nowThe…

CO2 Data 1960-2021

The mean carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii in June 2021 was 418.94ppm. 418.94ppm If I am not mistaken, this is the highest concentration recorded since humans have been on earth? At least it is comforting to know that such existential issues are front-of-mind for our political leaders. You know, "follow-the-science" and all that... Source: NOAA 2021 I…

Forests

The world has lost one-third of its forests since the end of the last great ice age. Deforestation has continued throughout the last millennia but rates rapidly accelerated in the last few centuries. There was a marked acceleration in deforestation rates in the 20th century, particularly in tropical regions. Global forest loss peaked in the 1980s – losing an area…

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