Category Archives: Runaway Greenhouse

Soot warming earth even more than thought

Posted on July 13, 2013 by

Richard A. Kerr Science 25 January 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6118 p. 382 DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6118.382 Soot Is Warming the World Even More Than Thought A new study finds that soot is warming the climate about twice as fast as scientists … Continue reading →

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Climate Change deadlines: the longer we do nothing, the worse it gets

Posted on July 13, 2013 by

Thomas F. Stocker Science 18 January 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6117 pp. 280-282 DOI: 10.1126/science.1232468 The Closing Door of Climate Targets Robust evidence from a range of climate–carbon cycle models shows that the maximum warming relative to pre-industrial times caused … Continue reading →

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Peak Coal is already here or likely by 2020, so IPCC 100 year projections are probably far too high

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Peak Coal is happening right now because conventional oil production peaked in 2005 Oil is the master resource without which coal can’ be mined and transported.  As both conventional and unconventional oil decline, the remaining oil will at some point … Continue reading →

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Reg Morrison on methane’s potential for another major extinction event

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

Reg Morrison. 18 Mar 2012. The Climate Debate Is global warming real? Here’s a fresh look at an old argument.   http://regmorrison.edublogs.org You should go to the link above, it’s got great PHOTOS and a whole lot more information. EVOLUTION’S SHOTGUN  … Continue reading →

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Huge releases of arctic methane

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. At the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco, Dr Semiletov announced he’d found an unprecedented amount of methane bubbling up from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (which … Continue reading →

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