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Tectonic modeling casts (apparently legitimate) doubt on previous assessments of dramatic sea level rise, allegedly due to continental ice sheet melting — a comment regarding the difficulty of obtaining measuring perspective, when having nothing unmoving to stand on 0

Citation — to study David B. Rowley, Alessandro M. Forte, Robert Moucha, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Nathan A. Simmons, and Stephen P. Grand, Dynamic Topography Change of the Eastern United States Since 3 Million Years Ago, Science Express, DOI: 10.1126/science.1229180 (16 May 2013) Citation — to press release Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, World’s biggest ice [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Geology,Glaciology,Oceanography,Planetary science,Science

Tagged: a comment regarding the difficulty of obtaining measuring perspective, Alessandro M. Forte, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, CIFAR, David B. Rowley, dramatic sea level rise, Dynamic Topography Change of the Eastern United States Since 3 Million Years Ago, global sea level heights, Jerry X. Mitrovica, mantle convection simulations, marine flooding, mid Pliocene, Nathan A. Simmons, pliocene, Pliocene global sea level heights, regional stratigraphic relations, Robert Moucha, sea level change, Sedimentary rocks, stability of Antarctic ice sheets, Stephen P. Grand, Virginia through Florida, when having nothing unmoving to stand on, World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed

Published:: 18 May 2013 – 13:42
Author:: By BrainiYak

Sahara’s Laperrine’s olive tree — its clonal survival strategy worked for in the past — but allegedly may be unavoidably self-defeating now — (i) an illustration of possible diminished genetic fitness in climate changing times or (ii) biologists jumping to unwarranted conclusions 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study G. Besnard, F. Anthelme, and D. Baali-Cherifc, The Laperrine’s olive tree (Oleaceae): a wild genetic resource of the cultivated olive and a model-species for studying the biogeography of the Saharan Mountains, Acta Botanica Gallica 159 (3): 319-328, DOI: 10.1080/12538078.2012.724281 (26 November 2012) Citation — to press release [...]

Categories: Biology,Climate,Climate change,Conservation,Environment,Evolution,Genetics,Global warming,Horticulture,Science

Tagged: a D. Baali-Cherifc, Algeria, cuspidata, erosion of genetic diversity, F. Anthelme, G. Besnard, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, Laperrine’s olive tree, Maghreb, Mediterranean olive, Niger, northern Sudan, Olea europaea, Sahara, Sahara olive tree a genetic heritage to be preserved, The Laperrines olive tree Oleaceae a wild genetic resource of the cultivated olive and a model species for studying the biogeography of the Saharan Mountains

Published:: 3 May 2013 – 17:11
Author:: By BrainiYak

Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap provides a Rosetta Stone (indexing key) for 1,800 years of climate data — with insight into two rewarding lives devoted to science — and a piece of outstanding lay science writing from Pam Frost Gorder at Ohio State University 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study L. G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson, M. E. Davis, V. S. Zagorodnov, I. M. Howat, V. N. Mikhalenko, and P. N. Lin, Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability Over the Past ~1800 Years, Science Express, DOI: 10.1126/science.1234210 (04 April 2013) Citation — to press release [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Glaciology,Planetary science,Science,Science Journalism

Tagged: 800-year-old “Rosetta Stone” for Tropical Ice Cores — Find Offers the Most Complete Picture of Earth’s Low-Latitude Climate History to Date, altiplano, Amazon Basin, Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability, Byrd Polar Research Center, climate data, Discovery of 1, El Niño, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Himalayas, I. M. Howat, Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group, Indonesia, Lonnie Thompson, M. E. Davis, misogyny, Mount Kilimanjaro, New Guinea, P. N. Lin, Pam Frost Gorder, Papua, Peru, Quelccaya Ice Cap, Tibet, V. N. Mikhalenko, V. S. Zagorodnov

Published:: 5 April 2013 – 16:05
Author:: By BrainiYak

Melting Himalayan glaciers will uncover past soot layers — which will further increase their shrink rate 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation Jane Qiu, Pollutants Capture the High Ground in the Himalayas, Science 339 (6123): 1030-1031 (01 March 2013) This is the kind of thing that climate modeling would ordinarily not preliminarily consider Jane Qiu wrote about climate scientist Angela Marinoni and colleagues’ research on the Khumbu Glacier (Mount Everest region, Nepal): [...]

Categories: Atmosphere,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Glaciology,Science

Tagged: accumulation zone, Angela Marinoni, black carbon, black carbon hotspot, dry season, Gangetic Plain, glacier melting, glaciers, glaciologist, Himalayas, Jane Qiu, Khumbu Glacier, Mount Everest, Nepal, organic carbon, Pollutants Capture the High Ground, shrink rate, snow lines, soot, soot layers, South Asia, southeastern Tibet, unburned biomass, Xu Baiqing

Published:: 26 March 2013 – 08:19
Author:: By BrainiYak

Tree ring analysis reveals that decadal US southwestern droughts — over most of the last 470 years — paired deficient winter precipitation with the absence of summer monsoons 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Daniel Griffin, Connie A. Woodhouse, David M. Meko, David W. Stahle, Holly L. Faulstich, Carlos Carrillo, Ramzi Touchan, Christopher L. Castro, and Steven W. Leavitt, North American monsoon precipitation reconstructed from tree-ring latewood, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/grl.50184 (early online publication, 11 March 2013) Citation — to [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Science

Tagged: Carlos Carrillo, Christopher L. Castro, Connie A. Woodhouse, Daniel Griffin, David M. Meko, David W. Stahle, decadal, drought, Holly L. Faulstich, latewood, Mari N. Jensen, monsoon, monsoon failure key, North American Monsoon Region 2, Ramzi Touchan, Steven W. Leavitt, summer precipitation, tree rings, US southwest, winter precipitation

Published:: 11 March 2013 – 16:38
Author:: By BrainiYak

Volcanic emission of sulfur dioxide appears to have reduced the anticipated increase in global warming by up to 25 percent over approximately the last decade — a climate modeling study from the University of Colorado 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study R. R. Neely III, O. B. Toon, S. Solomon, J. P. Vernier, C. Alvarez, J. M. English, K. H. Rosenlof, M. J. Mills, C. G. Bardeen, J. S. Daniel, and J. P. Thayer, Recent anthropogenic increases in SO2 from Asia have minimal impact on stratospheric aerosol, Geophysical [...]

Categories: Air pollution,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

Tagged: and J. P. Thayer, C. Alvarez, C. G. Bardeen, CIRES, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, J. M. English, J. P. Vernier, J. S. Daniel, K. H. Rosenlof, M. J. Mills, not pollutants, O. B. Toon, optical depth, R. R. Neely III, Recent anthropogenic increases in SO2 from Asia have minimal impact on stratospheric aerosol, S. Solomon, SO2, sulfur dioxide, tamped down recent Earth warming, Volcanic aerosols

Published:: 4 March 2013 – 17:46
Author:: By BrainiYak

Peatland trees may be the primary conduit for methane’s egress into the atmosphere — not the peat surface itself — says a small study done in the Indonesian section of Borneo 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Sunitha R. Pangala, Sam Moore1, Edward R. C. Hornibrook, and Vincent Gauci, Trees are major conduits for methane egress from tropical forested wetlands, New Phytologist 197 (2): 524-531, DOI: 10.1111/nph.12031 (January 2013) Citation — to press release News Homepage, The wind in the willows, University of Bristol [...]

Categories: Biology,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Forests,Global warming,Science

Tagged: Borneo, dry season, Edward R. C. Hornibrook, Indonesia, lenticels, methane, methane egress, peatlands, pneumatophores, Sam Moore1, Sebangau River, soil surface hummocks and hollows, Sunitha R. Pangala, tropical forested wetlands, Vincent Gauci, wet season

Published:: 15 February 2013 – 16:15
Author:: By BrainiYak

I would not have expected piñon pines to be among the first to be negatively affected by climate warming — but perhaps they have been — according to a University of Colorado study 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Miranda D. Redmond, Frank Forcella, and Nichole N. Barger, Declines in pinyon pine cone production associated with regional warming, Ecosphere 3 (12): art120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00306.1 (December 2012) Citation — to press release Jim Scott, Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline, says CU study, University [...]

Categories: Biology,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Forests,Global warming,Science

Tagged: 1974 decade, 2008 decade, abscission scars, Frank Forcella, Jim Scott, masting, Miranda D. Redmond, New Mexico, Nichole N. Barger, northwest Oklahoma, Peter Free, piñon pine, Pinus edulis, pinyon pine cone, seed cones, Southwest regional warming, summer temperatures, synchronizing clue

Published:: 14 February 2013 – 17:19
Author:: By BrainiYak

Chicxulub Bolide Impact now most probably appears to have coincided with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-T) Boundary extinction (66 million years ago) — but proportionally how much the Impact caused the dinosaur extinction is still in question — due to doubts about the effect of cycles of climatic cooling that preceded both the Impact and the extinction 0

Citation — to study Paul R. Renne, Alan L. Deino, Frederik J. Hilgen, Klaudia F. Kuiper, Darren F. Mark, William S. Mitchell III, Leah E. Morgan, Roland Mundil, and Jan Smit, Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, Science 339 (6120): 684-687, DOI: 10.1126/science.1230492 (08 February 2013) Citation — to Science article putting [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Evolution,Geology,Paleontology,Planetary science,Science

Tagged: 000-year orbital eccentricity cycle, 405, 40Ar/39Ar dating, Alan L. Deino, bentonites, Chicxulub Bolide Impact, chron 28r, chron 30n, Darren F. Mark, Deccan Traps, dinosaurs, extinction, Frederik J. Hilgen, Heiko Pälike, Hell Creek, Jan Smit, K-Pg, K-T, Klaudia F. Kuiper, Leah E. Morgan, Louis Alvarez, North Dakota paleoflora, Paul R. Renne, Roland Mundil, shocked quartz, tektites, Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, tsunami-like deposits, William S. Mitchell III

Published:: 12 February 2013 – 11:59
Author:: By BrainiYak

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the Pacific Ocean is “locked” between La Niña and El Niño in a neutral state — making weather more erratic and difficult to predict over the long term, than when either of the Niña/Niño extremes are in effect 0

Citation Alan Buis, Pacific Locked in ‘La Nada’ Limbo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology (06 February 2013) How JPL recognized this neutral point Briefly: From its vantage point 1336 kilometers (830 miles) above the Earth, the US/European Jason-1 and OSTM/Jason-2 ocean altimeter satellites measure the height of the ocean surface directly [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Oceanography,Weather

Tagged: Alan Buis, Bill Patzert, climatologist, CNES, driest, El Niño, El Niño/La Niña–Southern Oscillation, EUMETSAT, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, La Nada, La Niña, limbo, Los Angeles, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ocean surface, radar altimetry, rainfall, wettest, winters

Published:: 6 February 2013 – 18:16
Author:: By BrainiYak

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Category Archives: Climate

Tectonic modeling casts (apparently legitimate) doubt on previous assessments of dramatic sea level rise, allegedly due to continental ice sheet melting — a comment regarding the difficulty of obtaining measuring perspective, when having nothing unmoving to stand on 0

Sahara’s Laperrine’s olive tree — its clonal survival strategy worked for in the past — but allegedly may be unavoidably self-defeating now — (i) an illustration of possible diminished genetic fitness in climate changing times or (ii) biologists jumping to unwarranted conclusions 0

Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap provides a Rosetta Stone (indexing key) for 1,800 years of climate data — with insight into two rewarding lives devoted to science — and a piece of outstanding lay science writing from Pam Frost Gorder at Ohio State University 0

Melting Himalayan glaciers will uncover past soot layers — which will further increase their shrink rate 0

Tree ring analysis reveals that decadal US southwestern droughts — over most of the last 470 years — paired deficient winter precipitation with the absence of summer monsoons 0

Volcanic emission of sulfur dioxide appears to have reduced the anticipated increase in global warming by up to 25 percent over approximately the last decade — a climate modeling study from the University of Colorado 0

Peatland trees may be the primary conduit for methane’s egress into the atmosphere — not the peat surface itself — says a small study done in the Indonesian section of Borneo 0

I would not have expected piñon pines to be among the first to be negatively affected by climate warming — but perhaps they have been — according to a University of Colorado study 0

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the Pacific Ocean is “locked” between La Niña and El Niño in a neutral state — making weather more erratic and difficult to predict over the long term, than when either of the Niña/Niño extremes are in effect 0

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