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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #400 on: September 18, 2014, 12:15:36 AM »
EcoShock Radio is a must on Wednesdays, I think. This week's episode:

«Human extinction? Not so much.» (download mp3)

The case against going extinct soon due to extreme climate change & human impacts. Science journalist Scott K. Johnson and counter-culture podcaster KMO. Radio Ecoshock 140917
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #401 on: September 18, 2014, 07:42:20 PM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #402 on: September 19, 2014, 10:35:31 AM »
The 2014 IgNobel prizes have just been announced, and the Arctic Science prize goes to Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears. I know how I would react if a man approached me in a polar bear suit!

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

Congratulations to all the winners!
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #403 on: September 20, 2014, 12:25:07 AM »
"No 8 Wire

Kiwis are famous for their ingenuity and self-sufficiency. It is said that Kiwis can create amazing things — all they need is ‘a piece of Number 8 wire’. No 8 wire is a certain gauge of wire that was incredibly popular for use as fencing wire around New Zealand’s many farms. Ironically, until 1963, it was imported from other countries. Because No. 8 wire was widely available, it was used for a variety of tasks, and it has become a symbol of kiwi adaptability."
 So how about this for a great example, this guy has made his own an electric car:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/lifestyle-vehicles/10504126/Inventor-joins-climate-change-drive


Not much room left to carry stuff tho'!

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #404 on: September 23, 2014, 09:03:34 PM »
Leonardo DiCaprio speaks at UN climate change summit - video
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2014/sep/23/leonardo-dicaprio-un-climate-change-summit-speech-video

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Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio addresses the UN summit meeting on climate change on Tuesday. DiCaprio was recently named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. 'This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make. This is now about our industries, and governments...' he tells the summit

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #405 on: September 25, 2014, 02:10:09 AM »
Peter Wadhams is featured in the Sunday Times, summing up the melt season:



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Arctic ice cap in ‘death spiral’

THE Arctic ice cap has melted so much that open water is now just 350 miles from the North Pole, the shortest distance recorded, scientists say.

Satellite observations, from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC)
last week, coincide with a prediction from a leading British polar
researcher that the summer ice cap is now so thin it is likely to disappear
within five years, possibly as early as 2015.

Source (paywall).
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #406 on: September 26, 2014, 11:41:42 AM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #407 on: September 28, 2014, 03:28:59 AM »
2014 saw more Arctic wildfires than any year since the Ice Age.

Source.
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #408 on: September 28, 2014, 05:10:28 PM »
2014 saw more Arctic wildfires than any year since the Ice Age.

Source.

2014 ????

accepted by the Editorial Board June 19, 2013 (received for review March 15, 2013)

Seems like it is talking about "recent decades" prior to 2013 and comparing to periods 500 and more years long.

If you are going to post a link, please try to characterise it reasonably.

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During the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; ∼1,000–500 cal B.P.), the period most similar to recent decades, warm and dry climatic conditions resulted in peak biomass burning, but severe fires favored less-flammable deciduous vegetation, such that fire frequency remained relatively stationary. These results suggest that boreal forests can sustain high-severity fire regimes for centuries under warm and dry conditions, with vegetation feedbacks modulating climate–fire linkages. The apparent limit to MCA burning has been surpassed by the regional fire regime of recent decades, which is characterized by exceptionally high fire frequency and biomass burning. This extreme combination suggests a transition to a unique regime of unprecedented fire activity. However, vegetation dynamics similar to feedbacks that occurred during the MCA may stabilize the fire regime, despite additional warming.

seems to be saying we are getting more biomass burning but may well get stabilization of high fire frequency as vegetation responds.

Every occurrence of 'decade' seems to be part of recent decades or several decades or similar. The shortest period referred to seems to be
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The subsequent sharp rise in CHAR to values similar to the MCA peak corresponds to marked warming and increased forest burning in Alaska during the past few decades (32).

Even 'past few decades' seems rather longer than one year.

(Sorry if I am overdoing the rant a little.)

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #409 on: September 28, 2014, 05:58:34 PM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #410 on: September 28, 2014, 06:08:39 PM »
2014 ???? [...] If you are going to post a link, please try to characterise it reasonably. [...] (Sorry if I am overdoing the rant a little.)
No hard feelings, crandles, and thank you for correcting me! :)

I was reading this off of a Sep 27, 2014 Norwegian msm story. According to this story, 2014 had a record amount/extent of wildfires, but the correct source for this was (according to TV2.no) Slate, although they link this source.

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #411 on: September 28, 2014, 07:10:52 PM »
Ahh, thank you. I did wonder if there was another story and the sources got muddled.

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #412 on: September 28, 2014, 08:50:05 PM »
So what do you think is the status based on those two sources? 2014 had most wildfires?
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #413 on: September 30, 2014, 09:04:00 PM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #414 on: September 30, 2014, 09:11:58 PM »
A movie featuring some artists on a trip to Arctic. (Voices in English)
http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/052363-000/even-that-void?autoplay=1

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #415 on: October 01, 2014, 02:19:54 AM »
So what do you think is the status based on those two sources? 2014 had most wildfires?

From Why Greenland’s ‘dark snow’ should worry you article:
I would expect more than any year since 2000 as that article suggested comprehensive satellite measurements began in 2000 and 2014 had most wildfires. Area burned may be a more important measure.

Longer term I expect not:

From PNAS article

Looks like some years near 1990 were worse? (Certainly if the level of 3 is on a log scale meaning ten times more than a level of 2.)



Medieval Climate Anomaly seems to have a peak at about 2 on that CHAR scale and recent decades exceed that, but 2014 probably doesn't exceed most of the period 1983-1995. There may well be quite a lot of noise during Medieval Climate Anomaly which has been smoothed out. Therefore some individual years during that time may well be worse than even the period around 1990.

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #416 on: October 01, 2014, 10:03:08 AM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #417 on: October 02, 2014, 06:25:55 PM »
Top climate news of the day is that Obama is seeking to Orwellize the PIOMAS ice volume data series, that had been running from January 1979 through August 2014, as the ice data made his policies look bad.

There probably will be no October 2014 ice volume data release from PIOMAS.
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #418 on: October 02, 2014, 06:42:24 PM »
Same thing happened right here in Hardanger in July, when the Ulvik met station measured 37.8°C and set the new maximum temperature record for Norway. The central met office in capital Oslo simply deleted the entire week in Ulvik from its records. The Ulvik observation station had been running since 1965 before all of a sudden being dismissed as 'unreliable' and 'badly located' (at an apple plantation).
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #419 on: October 02, 2014, 07:19:01 PM »
In other news, our King Harald opened parliament today, focusing on climate policy. Norway will work towards a global climate agreement in the "important year for the climate, 2015".
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #420 on: October 02, 2014, 10:24:38 PM »
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #421 on: October 03, 2014, 01:51:01 AM »
The United States of America is down. Do the Japanese, Russians or maybe some Europeans release Arctic sea ice volume data?
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #422 on: October 03, 2014, 04:18:07 AM »
Found a tweet exchange on the PIOMAS situation. Everyone just going #wtf and #notmytabledude.
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #423 on: October 03, 2014, 10:04:46 AM »
Satellites detect 'thousands' of new ocean-bottom mountains
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29465446

Largest ever robot fleet will map the UK's oceans
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29466628

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #424 on: October 03, 2014, 04:52:31 PM »
Another tweet exchange on the NCEP meltdown.

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@mattlanza: Again, @NOAA, what is the issue here? Someone needs to get their act together. This is unacceptable IMO.

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@mattlanza: @wxmidwest @NOAA  Extremely frustrating. A simple ETA would satisfy me.

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@wxmidwest: @antmasiello @mattlanza @NOAA The "Most Wonderful time Of The Year!", give it a month, if it's not fixed by November, that's gonna suck..
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #425 on: October 03, 2014, 08:35:03 PM »
Job opening @ Boulder.
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #426 on: October 04, 2014, 01:59:12 AM »
CO2 & climate change topping Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Stories list for 2014.
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #427 on: October 04, 2014, 06:09:15 PM »
Another slightly more negative analysis of the NY climate summit and the UN process: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/09/15/Another-Corporate-Climate-Summit/
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #428 on: October 06, 2014, 10:29:59 AM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #429 on: October 06, 2014, 04:52:48 PM »
Meatless Monday: Love by the Ladleful With "Love Soup" Author Anna Thomas
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-kanner/meatless-monday-love-by-t_b_5906096.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

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« Reply #430 on: October 07, 2014, 07:31:29 PM »
Garlic injection could tackle tree diseases
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29522647

Ash dieback: How to fight diseases in trees
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29523609

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #431 on: October 10, 2014, 06:22:28 PM »
Detection of solar dimming and brightening effects on Northern Hemisphere river flow
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2263.html

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Anthropogenic aerosols in the atmosphere have the potential to affect regional-scale land hydrology through solar dimming1, 2. Increased aerosol loading may have reduced historical surface evaporation over some locations3, but the magnitude and extent of this effect is uncertain. Any reduction in evaporation due to historical solar dimming may have resulted in an increase in river flow. Here we formally detect and quantify the historical effect of changing aerosol concentrations, via solar radiation, on observed river flow over the heavily industrialized, northern extra-tropics

China has got some interest to diminish his pollution...
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #432 on: October 10, 2014, 08:54:49 PM »
Look into the eye of typhoon Vongfong as it nears land
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26367-look-into-the-eye-of-typhoon-vongfong-as-it-nears-land.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|environment#.VDgnUlFJzlc

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #433 on: October 10, 2014, 09:50:22 PM »
Fear of wind turbines -- or not.
http://xkcd.com/556/
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #434 on: October 12, 2014, 03:55:46 PM »
NASA satellite imagery reveals the Arctic at night

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Suomi NPP’s Day/Night Band can clearly detect manmade and natural developments, like shipping, oil and gas development and sea ice break-up at night, with or without lunar illumination. Its resolution is a little bit coarse -- 750 meters (2,460 feet) -- but its sensitivity is impressive, allowing it to detect light from a source as small as a street lamp. You may have seen some images from the satellite already, such as of the Nile Delta aglow or of the Korean Peninsula, where the contrast in artificial lighting between the two countries is as stark as day and night.

More here:
http://www.adn.com/article/20141011/nasa-satellite-imagery-reveals-arctic-night

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #435 on: October 14, 2014, 10:21:29 AM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #436 on: October 14, 2014, 11:23:50 AM »
Very interesting stuff available in French and Spanish concerning a guy in Spain that do try an autonomy with a forest garden. It could be available in English if they had a little help...http://side-ways.net/en

http://side-ways.net/fr/
http://side-ways.net/es/

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #437 on: October 14, 2014, 11:19:17 PM »
Pentagon warns the US military of climate change
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26379-pentagon-warns-the-us-military-of-climate-change.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|environment#.VD2RKlFJzlc

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #438 on: October 17, 2014, 06:41:22 PM »
South Pacific climate activists blockade Australia port

Hundreds of climate change protestors have attempted to disrupt shipments of coal from a port north of Sydney using their canoes, kayaks and surfboards to form a blockade.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29663267

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #440 on: October 19, 2014, 09:45:56 AM »
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes

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« Reply #441 on: October 19, 2014, 07:27:15 PM »

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« Reply #442 on: October 20, 2014, 09:41:11 AM »

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #443 on: October 21, 2014, 01:56:21 PM »
Graffiti Artist Banksy Arrested In London; Identity Revealed In A Reddit AMA - See more at: http://nationalreport.net/banksy-arrested-identity-revealed/#sthash.sNmBMsR2.dpuf
http://nationalreport.net/banksy-arrested-identity-revealed/

Hey, wait...it is me Banksy...
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #445 on: October 21, 2014, 06:22:04 PM »
oups, Sorry !

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« Reply #446 on: October 22, 2014, 10:19:59 AM »
Marie Monique Robin is a French journalist, she is making some documentaries, her next will be available in French and German the 4th of november at 20h50 on http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/20141104
It is called "Holy growth".

An interview (in French) here :



An old one is available on youtube in English:
The World According to Monsanto
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« Reply #447 on: October 22, 2014, 01:19:18 PM »
Today my father has come up with the reason that the Arctic ice cap is disappearing so quickly. He recently joined a cruise that visited Svalbard and noticed the crew hacking large amounts of ice off a berg and taking it back to the ship - apparently the ice put into drinks fizzes as it melts! Now - considering the proliferation of cruise ships visiting the area this accounts for the reduction in the ice cap.

So all you people out there with your fancy ideas graphs and predictions - I'm sorry - the problems been solved. Neven you can close the site down now!!

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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #448 on: October 22, 2014, 05:56:54 PM »
Damn! I thought it was the polar bears themselves and their outrageous drinking habits!
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Re: Arctic Café
« Reply #449 on: October 22, 2014, 09:00:50 PM »
Radio Ecoshock on economic contraction as solution to the Climate Crisis. Oct22 broadcast (mp3).

Wit's End blog (Gail Zawacki) featured in today's Ecoshock!



Download Gail's free 2012 e–book Pillage, Plunder & Pollute (pdf).
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