Global Warming Death Report - Global Warming Getting Worse: Pollution, Disease, and Planetary Food Riots Are Coming - Esquire

What do these people think is going to happen if we let half the "developing world" burn and the other half starve? Do they believe that the people in the "developing world" are simply going to peaceably burn and starve without raising a ruckus with the political and social order? Do they believe we are immune from the ruckus here? This is a recipe for worldwide disorder, a planetary food riot. Sometime in the future, I swear, what historians there are who haven't burned or starved are going to be amazed at how it all happened.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Recovering

[March 2010] So I should be back shortly. Hopefully the cesspool that has overtaken climate science will have dried up by then, but I seriously doubt it. I'm not sure I even want to write about climate science any more. The dishonest pukes like Morano and Watts do not even deserve to be acknowledged.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds glaciers in Glacier National Park retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930's than the past 40 years

A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that alpine glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930's and 1940's than over the past 40 years. The "Multi-proxy study of sediment cores retrieved from lakes below modern glaciers supports the first detailed Neoglacial chronology for Glacier National Park (GNP)" and shows "maximum reconstructed retreat rates [in] 1930" of about 125 meters per year, compared to near zero in ~1975 and about 20 meters/year at the end of the record in ~2005. The authors report, "Results indicate that alpine glaciers in Glacier National Park advanced and retreated numerous times during the Holocene after the onset of Neoglaciation 6,500 years before the present" and "Retreat from the Little Ice Age maximum was the most dramatic episode of ice retreat in at least the last 1000 years."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds large geologic source of CO2 emissions that may confound carbon cycle estimates

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds degassing of "relatively large CO2 emissions" from geologic sources occurs through soils, groundwater and local thermal springs in tectonically active regions. The authors measured CO2 emissions up to 6.3 times greater than in "a comparable site that was some distance from fault sites." According to the authors, such "Geologic carbon sources may confound ecosystem carbon balance estimates."