MetaFilter posts tagged with warming

Sea mucus. Yuck.

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:29:38 -0800

OK, this looks bad. Disgusting and really bad. Sea "Mucus" Blobs Pose Threat (video from National Geographic). Some photos (again from National Geographic) here.

seeing is believing

kliuless — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:45:24 -0800

What global warming looks like - Some amazing time lapse sequences of glacier retreat and a spectacular ice-shelf collapse: BONUS -Freeman Dyson on Charlie Rose -First Comes Global Warming, Then an Evolutionary Explosion -Humpty Dumpty and the Ghosts -Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over -ICE Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning -Four degrees and beyond -Bjørn Lomborg switches tack -Jared Diamond lunch interview -Consumerism is 'eating the future' -Scientists seek global limits on damaging human activities

Move over Suez Canal, there's a new route in town

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:40:46 -0800

For hundreds of years, mariners have dreamed of an Arctic shortcut that would allow them to speed trade between Asia and the West. Two German ships are poised to complete that transit for the first time, aided by the retreat of Arctic ice that scientists have linked to global warming. Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws.

Surface Tension

netbros — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31:56 -0800

Ice — Nick Cobbing features stunning photographs of the Greenland Ice Melt and a stormy voyage to Greenland on an old sailing ship. Cobbing also features stories in photographs from Tibet, Kenya and elsewhere.

Climate Change

nola — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:59:52 -0800

potholer54 is a youtuber who in his own words; I've been a journalist for 20 years, 14 years as a science correspondent. My degree is in geology, but while working for a science magazine and several science programs I had to tackle a number of different fields, from quantum physics to microbiology. He has a series called Climate Change that you might find interesting. Examines and explains the science of climate change. Then goes on to debunk some common myths

"Total Warming"

iamkimiam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:44:37 -0800

Global Warming. The video was made by McCann Erickson (ad agency) for the Portuguese Association, Quercus.

stavrosthewonderchicken's home is dying

gen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:05:40 -0800

Canadian expatriate (and Metafilter member) stavrosthewonderchicken has a detailed and depressing look at the impact of the mountain pine beetle in Northern British Columbia, where a perfect storm of "forest fire suppression, clearcutting (and subsequent replanting), [and] global warming" has led to the destruction of over 130,000 square kilometers of forest.

Impermafrost

[expletive deleted] — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:02:52 -0800

"We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change," said Lord Stern in a speech in London yesterday. "All of the links in the chain are on average worse than we thought (pdf) a couple of years ago." NOAA data has revealed that this past march is the 2nd warmest on record, and the warmest on record for both land and the Northern Hemisphere. The most severe and alarming temperature anomaly is in Russia, China and Central Asia, especially East Siberia and the Amur region. Last summer, the East Siberian Sea was the epicenter of the unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt. This year may be little different. Also of significant concern are positive feedbacks from methane released by melting permafrost and possibly clathrate release from the seabed in the same region. The recent fires in Amur Oblast, which was almost 5C warmer than the the 1961-1990 average this March, may also be related to this, and is another example of the kind of positive feedbacks many climate scientists (and Lord Stern) are concerned about.

Twenty Thousand Still Images

doug3505 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:13:43 -0800

Global Warming Video, From Still Images Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the issue of global warming in a video created entirely by using still images.

Bye Hoboken, as you drown in climate-changed caused floods

dabitch — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:57:14 -0800

New Jersey is drowning , or rather it would if the the future as predicted by David Spratty & Philip Sutton in climate code red comes true. Philip Sutton said in an interview that "within five years the Arctic ice in the summertime will be all gone.". With all the ice melting, the waterlevels rise - will your house be under water?

Four onboard, 188 to go

nucleus — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:13:07 -0800

Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Costa Rica and four cities in other countries have made the pledge to aim for being carbon neutral. New Zealand and Costa Rica had earlier decleared this ambitious goal, but now Iceland and Norway have joined in. Way to go! Of the 192 nations on this planet, there are now only 188 to go.

September 2007 polar sea ice anomaly

sergeant sandwich — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:49:59 -0800

Video (8MB, MPEG) of arctic sea ice extent, recorded from January to September 2007. [other formats] This summer a dramatic decrease compared to previous years in the extent of the north pole ice cap was observed. Scientists are freaked out [bugmenot]. This summer, the Northwest Passage was open for a few weeks, allowing three ships to traverse it. This data was taken by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. Comparison with past years. More information here.

Under A Green Sky

Bletch — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:15:02 -0800

Earth, 2100 AD. Atmospheric CO₂ has doubled to 1000 ppm. From shore to the horizon, there is but an unending purple color -- a vast, flat, oily purple. No fish break its surface, no birds. We are under a pale green sky, and it has the smell of death and poison. Paleontologist Peter Ward's new book links past mass extinctions to global warming and shows, absent major changes, "Our world is hurtling toward carbon dioxide levels not seen since 60 million years ago, right after a greenhouse extinction." Maybe it's time for a heresy: nuclear energy's green, and renewables aren't.

Best straight out of the car

ericbop — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:26:05 -0800

Global warming got you down? Bake some car cookies!

Global Warming, Strange Attractors...

sporb — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:15:01 -0800

Remember all that talk about the Gulf stream turning south and England entering an new Ice Age?
Well, better take a look at this one: (at the bottom)... Ok, this is the Jet stream, not the Gulf stream, but turbulence is turbulence and chaotic systems have a way of quickly migrating to new attractors, often first displaying a kind of turbulence during the transition phase. Here's a link to a .pdf that may be helpful (or not...)
I tell you - Winnipeg (Canada's Global Warming Success Story) just keeps lookin' better and better! But, hopefully, never this good...

Flybe launches world’s first aircraft eco-labelling.

analogue — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:15:23 -0800

Introducing the world’s first aircraft eco-labelling. While there are certainly several instances of other airlines doing something to off-set the carbon footprint of commercial flying, it is interesting to note that (according to the ATA) flying is the greenest form of mass transportation and ground transportation generates seven times the amount of greenhouse gases as air travel.

Climate tipping point

stbalbach — Sun, 13 May 2007 06:15:35 -0800

There has been a measurable "surge" of carbon in the atmosphere for the past 4 or 5 years, nearly doubling the annual rate of the 1970-2000 period, which has mystified scientists because it does not match human trends or known natural causes. A new paper (abstract) suggests we may have reached a tipping point with more greenhouse gases escaping from trees, plants and soils than in the past - hotter and dryer weather caused by high levels of CO2 is creating a feedback loop of unusually strong out-gassings of CO2 from vegetation more inside

Out, damned spots!

unSane — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:38:48 -0800

Sunspot activity is closely linked to climate. Although it observes an 11 and 22 year cycle, the overall trend of activity shows much longer term variations. The so-called Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) coincided with the Little Ice Age, while the Medieval Maximum coincided with the Medieval Warm Period. Analysis of beryllium isotopes from ice cores in Greenland shows that sunspot activity is currently at a 1000 year high. Could this account, at least in part, for global warming? Recent data from Mars suggests this may be so, while others remain sceptical. Bonus pix, more here.

Impacts of Climate Change

stbalbach — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:37:43 -0800

Impacts of Climate Change, the Potential Impacts to 2050 of a Mid-Upper Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scenario. From Global Business Network.

Flash game: celebrity global warming stars and stinker

jacob hauser — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:13:15 -0800

Is Cate Blanchett a global warming star or stinker? How about Angelina Jolie? Um, George Bush? They got the money and the fame, but are they doing anything good with it, like maybe saving the planet.

Children losing sleep over global warming

stbalbach — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:12:48 -0800

Children losing sleep over global warming, with comments from The Scotsman readers.

IPCC 4th AR Summary now avaiable

elpapacito — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:06:04 -0800

IPCC's 4th Assesment Report Summary for Policymakers [PDF] is now avaiable online, offering a necessarily simplified view of the scientific finding supporting the idea that global warming isn't just the theory of some lone scientist. Certain think-thanks are now allegedly attempting to finance disconfirming opinion. Previously on Meta.

Anticipations on IPCC 4th assessment report

elpapacito — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:29:37 -0800

The Independent has some anticipations on the soon to be released first volume of IPCC's 4Th Assesment Report , concerning matters such as climate change and global warming. Quoting the article : It is virtually certain (there is more than a 99 per cent probability) that carbon dioxide levels and global warming is far above the range of natural variability over the past 650,000 years. It is virtually certain that human activity has played the dominant role in causing the increase of greenhouse gases over the past 250 years.

How Iraq and climate change threw the right into disarray

stbalbach — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:48:07 -0800

How Iraq and climate change threw the right into disarray.

Fiddling While Rome Burns?

mr. strange — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:37:15 -0800

Can you save the world? This engaging flash game from the BBC lets you try. And it's based on Science! too.