tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157365822024-03-09T10:46:02.561+13:00ESTARA blog associated with EStarFuture, a New Zealand company that agonises about the woeful state of the Earth, and is trying to help fix the terrible mess that we have made of it through our chronic addiction to Black Stuff--coal and oil.<br>'We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.' --Anais Nin.<br>'Now everything is changed, except man's thinking.' --Einstein<br>(said after the atomic bomb but it applies far more to the Climate Bomb).Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comBlogger413125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-36411245845097050292014-06-13T10:52:00.002+12:002014-06-13T10:52:52.052+12:00HE IS RIGHT--WE HAVE WRECKED IT
It's too late to stop climate-change, is the headline, he says what this blog has been saying for years, and he is right on every point. With our gross chronic stupidity we have wrecked the only planet we can live on in the entire universe (even if there were an Earth 2, we cannot reach it--Star Trek is fiction, and even if it were not, we could not move seven billion people).
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-81540972957968359222014-05-21T10:39:00.001+12:002014-05-21T10:39:48.522+12:00GLOBAL CLIMATE DATA FOR APRIL 2014
This month's data published by NOAA/NCDC shows:
Global Highlights
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for April 2014 tied with 2010 as the highest on record for the month, at 0.77°C (1.39°F) above the 20th century average of 13.7°C (56.7°F).
The global land surface temperature was 1.35°C (2.43°F) above the 20th century average of 8.1°C (46.5°F), Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-58410588767219673092014-05-13T17:54:00.003+12:002014-05-13T18:01:08.137+12:00WEST ANTARCTIC MELT IS UNSTOPPABLE
A study by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory has concluded that the melting of a section of the West Antarctic icesheet is unstoppable. It has passed the point of no-return, and will contribute at least 1.2 metres to global sea-levels.
And 400 kilometres down the rock is pushing upward at a rapid clip as the weight of ice under the Antarctic reduces.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-8196808969818185522014-05-05T23:26:00.005+12:002014-05-06T10:51:18.915+12:00WAKE UP AND GRASP THE NETTLES!
Climate change is clear and present danger, says landmark US report
Add this, which shows that the ice-cork in the Antarctic is trembling in the neck of the bottle.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-69810646733605474432014-05-03T10:10:00.002+12:002014-05-03T10:10:40.525+12:00SNAILS ALREADY DISSOLVING IN THE OCEAN
A harbinger of things to come: 'An increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America’s western coast. The broad finding, which has surprised some researchers, suggests that sea life is already being affected by changes in the ocean’s chemistry caused by rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere', reports Science.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-3731606578188181892014-03-20T12:06:00.004+13:002014-03-23T09:57:21.257+13:00EARTH PUT AT IRREVERSIBLE RISK
Scientists at one of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions have warned the global population that man-made climate-change is putting the Earth at irreversible risk.
That has long been obvious. But nothing is being done--the greedy, careless liars have won.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-11546503676898333472014-01-31T10:57:00.002+13:002014-01-31T10:57:59.988+13:0063 YEARS OF CLIMATE-CHANGE IN 15 SECONDS
This NASA video shows 63 years of climate-change in fifteen seconds. Only the most brain-damaged and obtuse sceptics could refuse to believe the evidence of their own warped eyes.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-51229699579856347692014-01-16T11:30:00.002+13:002014-01-16T11:30:23.530+13:00MAP OF CLIMATE CRIMINALS
This map shows the countries that are the worst global criminals, the ones at the top of the list of those committing climate crime against humanity.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-63069136250948171452014-01-14T11:04:00.005+13:002014-01-14T11:04:42.262+13:00GLOBAL WARMING CONTINUES WHATEVER SCEPTICS SAY
Global warming continues, manifesting itself in different ways, whatever the sceptics might claim.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-9643460633973628232014-01-02T16:07:00.000+13:002014-01-02T16:07:01.899+13:00EARTH TO WARM FOUR DEGREES BY 2100
http://media.smh.com.au/news/environment-news/earth-to-warm-by-four-degrees-by-2100-5046003.html
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-40692577962770450602013-12-06T16:27:00.001+13:002013-12-06T16:27:07.480+13:00CENTURIES OF CLIMATE-CHANGE INEVITABLE
This synopis was published today by Science magazine.
Climate Science
Forward into the Past
H. Jesse Smith
It has been well established that high concentrations of atmospheric CO2 caused by anthropogenic emissions will persist for thousands of years after those emissions cease and that the consequences for climate will last even longer than that. Suggestions have been made that CO2&Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-30003684614584408042013-11-21T16:11:00.001+13:002013-11-21T16:11:13.949+13:00NINETY COMPANIES HAVE WRECKED THE PLANET
About two-thirds of the damage that is causing climate-change has been caused by only ninety companies.
They should be taken to the Hague and tried for crimes against humanity. We tried the Nazis, found them guilty (a no-brainer) and hanged them. But they wiped out only 30 million people and hardly made a dent in the planet. Those companies will wipe out far more and have wrecked the Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-29422272858058387952013-11-13T10:39:00.001+13:002013-11-13T10:39:15.161+13:00BIG OIL ATTACKING ELECTRIC CARS
A happy owner of an electric car dug behind the byline of a fierce critic, and found--surprise, surprise--Big Oil's money.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-40726566906808828022013-10-10T18:30:00.001+13:002013-10-11T09:48:24.888+13:00MAJOR CITIES TO BE UNINHABITABLE
'Apocalypse Now: Unstoppable man-made climate change will become reality by the end of the decade and could make New York, London and Paris uninhabitable within 45 years. Research from the University of Hawaii claims that man-made global warming is now inevitable:
'The Earth is going to dangerously heat up over the next 50-years;
'The tropics will bear the brunt of the disastrous temperature Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-43514611351470016832013-09-25T11:46:00.000+12:002013-09-25T11:46:47.792+12:00MANMADE CLIMATE-CHANGE CERTAINTY
Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real manmade threat as they are that cigarettes kill. They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the universe. They say they are more certain about climate change than they are that vitamins make you healthy.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-72552465529767354032013-08-22T17:49:00.004+12:002013-08-22T17:50:36.164+12:00WORLD CLIMATE FOR JULY 2013
Global Climate Statistics from the US Government: Highlights, July 2013
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for July 2013 was the sixth highest on record, at 0.61°C (1.10°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F).
The global land surface temperature was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average of 14.3°C (57.8°F), marking Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-46428857149225693292013-08-02T09:58:00.002+12:002013-08-02T09:58:15.770+12:00MORE BAD NEWS ON CLIMATE-CHANGE
Our hotter, wetter, more violent future:
'Earth’s atmosphere seems to have found a way to get back at the human race. For almost three centuries, we humans have been filling the air with carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. Now, it turns out, the climate-change these emissions have wrought is turning people against one another.
'So says a review, published today, of 60 studies on Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-43138953033343795202013-07-25T10:11:00.001+12:002013-07-25T10:11:24.040+12:00MORE ON GLOBAL OVERHEATING TIMEBOMBS
The release of Arctic methane could cost the world $60 trillion:
'Researchers have warned of an "economic time-bomb" in the Arctic, following a ground-breaking analysis of the likely cost of methane emissions in the region. Economic modelling shows that the methane emissions caused by shrinking sea ice from just one area of the Arctic could come with a global price tag of 60 trillion dollars -- Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-56980794521740591212013-07-20T16:58:00.001+12:002013-07-20T16:58:30.757+12:00GLOBAL CLIMATE ANALYSIS FOR JUNE 2013
Global Climate Analysis for June 2013:
Prepared by the US Government's National Climatic Data Centre of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Global Highlights
* The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for June 2013 tied with 2006 as the fifth highest on record, at 0.64°C (1.15°F) above the 20th-century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F).
* The global land Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-36828509838488953772013-07-11T11:59:00.001+12:002013-07-11T11:59:20.818+12:00NATURAL ICEBERG A SERIOUS THREAT
720-square-kilometre iceberg breaks away in the Antarctic:
'On July 8, 2013, a huge area of the ice shelf broke away from the Pine Island glacier, the longest and fastest flowing glacier in the Antarctic, and is now floating in the Amundsen Sea in the form of a very large iceberg.'
'For the Western Antarctic ice shelf, an even faster flow of the Pine Island glacier would presumably have serious Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-22766285686040939362013-07-10T12:25:00.001+12:002013-07-10T12:25:10.442+12:002-DEGREE RISE IS NOT SAFE
It is false to say that a 2-degree rise in average global temperature is safe.
'The notion that we'll avoid serious damage to the world's climate if we limit the warming of the atmosphere to a 2-degree-Celsius rise in temperature is untrue, says Stanford climate scientist Chris Field.'
Full story on Stanford News.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-58975092753190017762013-07-06T12:35:00.004+12:002013-07-06T12:35:47.382+12:00TIMELAPSE SHOWS HUMAN CHANGES TO EARTH
The changing world--timelapse powered by Google:
'These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. It takes a certain amount of courage to look at the videos, but once you start, it’s impossible to look away.'
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-29637727346052506922013-07-06T12:34:00.000+12:002013-07-06T12:34:03.681+12:00LIMITING GLOBAL WARMING IS NO ENOUGH
'So far, international climate targets have been restricted to limiting the increase in temperature. But if we are to stop the rising sea levels, ocean acidification and the loss of production from agriculture, CO2 emissions will have to fall even more sharply.'
Full story on ScienceDaily.
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-28692104475277834222013-07-04T12:07:00.002+12:002013-07-04T12:07:19.543+12:002001 TO 2010 SHOWS FASTER GLOBAL WARMING
The United Nations says that the first decade of this century shows an accelerated trend in global warming.
'UN climate experts say the first decade of the new millennium was an unprecedented era of climate extremes, with more countries than ever before seeing their temperature records broken. The World Meteorological Organization's analysis Wednesday says average land and ocean surface Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736582.post-73857017169487134472013-06-26T10:26:00.000+12:002013-06-26T10:26:07.245+12:00SEA-RISE OF UP TO 10M POSSIBLE
'Climate change could be putting the planet on a path to an era not seen for 3 million years, a New Zealand scientist has warned. Professor Tim Naish, director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre, said sea levels in 2100 could be alarmingly higher than today if carbon emissions continue at their present rate. Today, atmospheric CO2 has just reached 400 parts per million due to Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.com