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May 19, 2013
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8:24 AM | 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20B
Burning tar sands = 'unsolvable' climate crisis: Hansen
Climate change has shifted the North and South Poles
Climate change is happening… So what?
Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape rising seas
Global warming has not stalled
Go fish (somewhere else): Warming oceans are altering catches
Ignoring the cost of climate change is bad business
Mount Everest's ice is melting
Profits vs. disaster in Arctic meltdown
Warmer springs linked to dwindling snow in Rocky Mountains
Why we know about
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7:38 AM | What Lies Beneath Arctic Ice?
On Thursday we lowered a camera into an ice borehole to get a look at the underside of the ice. In the following video, you can clearly see the algae living in the bottom of the ice due to their pigments, which they use to harvest light. These organisms are not frozen into the ice; [...]
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4:10 AM | Not-so-serious Sunday 48: Ring of Fire
By Kelly Although it’s in the news again, this is not the Pacific Ring of Fire. Instead I’m here to say that there is more to the Pilbara than just what is in the ground. Look what happens above. I … Continue reading →
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If you're looking for a fun and challenging alternative to playing slot machines, video poker may be the game for you. Instead just pulling the machine handle and hoping that you'll be fortunate enough to meet up a row of similar icons, in video poker your techniques would tip whether you win or lose of. Moreover, the home advantage in video poker is a lot less than at slots.
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2:42 AM | Water’s for shippin’ over, too
My particular view of the water world is constrained by scarcity. We don’t move a lot of cargo on the Rio Grande or the Colorado, the two rivers in my immediate field of view. I forget, and our current trip to the Pacific Northwest has reminded me, of the magic of water in service of [...]
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2:29 AM | Explosion on the Moon??
Over the past 8 years, NASA scientists have documentedmany small impacts on the Moon. The biggest, shownas the red square in Mare Imbrium, was found ona March 17, 2013 image. NASA image.NASA and University of Western Ontario scientists have discovered the largest impact observed to date on the Moon in an 8-year old monitoring program aimed at identifying streams of space debris that pose a potential threat to the Earth-Moon system. They estimate that the crater formed could be up to 20 […]
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1:52 AM | 33 Years Ago Today…
… Mount St. Helens exploded with a fury that surpassed expectations. Things have calmed down considerably since that day. Even the trees are growing back. To quote myself, “This is the view of Mount St. Helens from Elk Rock Viewpoint. In the center left, you’ll see Mount Adams peeking over a ridge. In the center, [...]
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1:03 AM | Giant's Ledge
Hiked up to Giant's Ledge today with some nice folks from the Meetup.com group Ulster County Outdoors. Typical Catskill's hike, mostly uphill one way and downhill the other with a rocky trail. The views from Giant's Ledge were well worth it, however.Here's a panorama from the ledges - one of the best views in the Catskills. Nice cirque (bowl-shaped depression carved by glaciers during the last ice age) over by Wittenberg and Cornell on the right side of the […]
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12:33 AM | Bullseye!
Earthquakes and tsunamis are great motivators, as are the pursuits. These are the reasons why a lot of time and resources have gone into studying the seismic, geodynamic, and hydrothermic systems in the Pacific Northwest.
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May 18, 2013
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My friend John Cook, (an Australian Physicist who runs the superb website Skeptical Science) is the lead author of a paper in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters that has gotten worldwide attention this past week. Not because the findings are a surprise to the science community, but because the public is surprised! THE GREAT AMERICAN DISCONNECT Dr. Ed Maibach at the George Mason University Center for Climate Change knows exactly how bug a …
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10:12 PM | All Aboard!!!
So the experience finally begins.... After months of planning and anticipation I am finally sitting on the JOIDES Resolution research vessel. We are currently in dock in Victoria, British Columbia anticipating setting sail 8:00 am Monday morning, May 20th.
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Jordon's log. May 18th, 2013. It's the first full day aboard the science research vessel, the JOIDES Resolution. It's mission: take core samples from the deepest regions of the sea and analyze them for valuable information concerning climate change, the earth's history, and what living things dwell 2 miles below in the cold dark sediment.
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6:45 PM | 1st Magnolia's of the season (2013)
Every year I look forward to the Magnolia trees blooming in my neighborhood. This year was no different than any other year however this year it seemed like they were blooming later than they have been over the past couple of years. But I could be wrong about that because these may not be the first blooms of the year in this area -- but they are to me. I must admit that I've been out of town a lot lately going up to Ohio and Mississippi. Since I've been gone I've been walking […]
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You all know how the plot of a disaster movie plays out...amid the destruction of the city, the world, the solar system, a small plucky group of survivors goes about surviving, the concerns of the few outweighing the needs of the many, so to speak. That is how I felt this week as I come up for air (briefly) to explain my absence from any kind of blogging for the last week. We moved our science division, a gargantuan task involving dozens and dozens of people working under a strict deadline. But […]
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5:38 PM | Stink Bug – Chapter 9
The entertainment went on like this for nearly an hour. Sometimes only one Vrr’ak’l would be performing, sometimes as many as ten were leaping and flipping in the air in a mad flutter of feathers and claws. It was probably … Continue reading →
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5:17 PM | Geo 365: May 18, Day 138: Balls!
Sitting on the rim of the basalt flow here are three objects that the interpretive sign describes as lava balls. These are said to form in the same way as cartoon snowballs: a bit up high breaks loose and rolls down the slope of the active flow, accreteing more lava as it goes, growing into a large, roughly spherically-shaped, ball. It makes good sense to me, but the reason I'm putting it into such equivocal terms is that I have never seen the name "lava balls" anywhere else, nor have I seen […]
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3:12 PM | Low Corruption in Washington State
Wonk Blog's Brad Plumer calls attention to a NBER paper (nber.org/papers/w19027) on corruption in state government that draws a correlation between distance from the capital and the main population center and corruption.I am not particularly convinced of the correlation and the trend line plot, but by the measure used the graph does show that Washington State is the second least corrupt state. Regardless of distance from the population centers, the state appears to have developed a
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8:17 AM | More Tyrrell Tyrannosaurs
As you might have already guessed, the Tyrrell is not short of tyrannosaurs and this blog is going to be heaving with them by the end. I mean, this is the second post and I’m still on all the life reconstructions! (and no, we’ve not got to the murals yet, let alone the actual mounts […]
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Obama tweets analysis that 97% of peer-reviewed science confirms human-caused global warming by Lauremce Lewis, Daily Kos, May 16, 2013
Climate denial's death knell
Climate research nearly unanimous
Consensus study
Is the science settled?
It's official! Humans caused global warming.
Global warming consensus: We can haz it!
'Overwhelming' consensus for manmade warming
Scientists agree (again)
Scientists agree global warming is man-made
Scientific 'consensus' that humans to
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3:36 AM | Setting the stage for Expedition 341S
There is no question that the scientific ocean drilling program, throughout its history, has had a fundamental impact on our understanding of earth’s history. The science that has been accomplished has expanded our knowledge of plate tectonics, climate change, extinction, evolution, and more.
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Back in 2005 and 2006, when Pluto’s second and third moons (Nix and Hydra) were discovered, searches by astronomers for still more moons didn’t reveal any. So the accidental discovery of Pluto’s fourth moon by the Hubble Space Telescope in mid-2011 raised the possibility that the hazards in the Pluto system might be greater than previously anticipated.
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2:03 AM | Oystercatchers: “evolution, wtf?”
Saw oystercatchers on a Puget Sound beach this week. Their beaks are a freakish orange-red: To which Nora commented, “evolution, wtf?”
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1:56 AM | Caspian terns
I spent time this afternoon watching Caspian terns fishing off the beach next to the Coupeville-Port Townsend ferry. This guy was successful. Later, when I was wandering the backwater nearby, I apparently got too close to the terns’ nesting area. The sent out the call, and five hovered around squawking while one repeatedly dive-bombed me. [...]
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The Global Positioning System has completely revolutionised how geologists study the deformation of the Earth. If you leave a GPS receiver in a fixed location for days, months and years, it is precise enough to measure motions on the millimetre … Continue reading →
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1:07 AM | Reflections on the Special Olympics
Today my son competed in his first Special Olympics. I admit, I was trepidatious. I know my son is on the Autism spectrum, which is considered a disability. And I know the Special Olympics are for kids with disabilities. Still, … Continue reading →
