"I want to see the sea." Just 10% of the Aral Sea remains http://t.co/x4f7bMzMlm #BBCRicherWorld pic.twitter.com/pNxdT3zSeK — BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) February 28, 2015
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I'm with Richard. What IS and REMAINS the single largest policy-challenge of our era, as I have pointed out here, here, here, here here, there and there... Professor Rood.. Each month, the US National Climatic Data Center calculates Earth’s average surface temperature using temperature measurements that cover the Earth’s surface. Then, another average is calculated for each month of the…
Perspective In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system,…
Thanks to FlowingData for highlighting this link by Albert Cairo to the article by David Rothenberg and Mike Deal " Whale Song Explained". The largest single pressing of any album of recorded music was not made by Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey, but by an animal the size of a city bus. Ten million copies of Songs of the Humpback Whale were inserted into…
How can you have a glacier visitor center without a glacier? RT @ClimateReality: How can you have a glacier visitor center without a glacier? http://t.co/V5jToq92rW pic.twitter.com/iR0LfDkh2S — Yale Climate Project (@YaleClimateComm) January 15, 2015 Links A Century of Retreat at Portage Glacier, South-Central Alaska [US. Geological Survey] USGS Fact Sheet [USGS - PDF 500KB ] Yale Climate Connections
The Age newspaper reports: A study in Australia’s eucalypt forests has revealed that levels of carbon and greenhouse gases released in wildfire could be reduced by fuel reduction burning, or planned burns conducted prior to the bushfire season in high risk forests. Funded by the Bushfire CRC, the work was led by researchers at the University of Melbourne and is…
Data collected and analysed by the Bureau of Meteorology show that 2014 was Australia's third-warmest year on record while rainfall was near average nationally. Nationally, Australian temperatures have warmed approximately one degree since 1950, and the continued warmth in 2014 adds to this long-term warming trend. Simply the single most pressing and present public policy issue of our time. Yes,…
Scorcher.org.au tracks and maps Australian Heat-waves. Produced by Dr Sarah Perkins at the University of New South Wales [ a recipient of an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - could there be a better use of taxpayer's funds?] I doubt it! Support for this site is provided by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and the NeCTAR Research Cloud. All data is freely available and…
http://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below…