Ocean warming speeds up ice sheet melting Greenland and Antarctica

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

In March we learned ice sheet formation is two-sided. On Sunday, sipping coffee whilst reading the latest Nature Geoscience, we learned the same might go for ice sheet melting. If so, melting would likely accelerate over this century and sea … Continue reading →

Current CO2 rise 10 times as fast as PETM climate disaster

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

For the layman paleoclimatology is ‘proof’ that any climate change is natural. For educated thinkers the lessons from the long ago contain the biggest warnings for the current artificially created state of our planet.

Methane breakdown in Gulf suddenly 3,000 times slower

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Despite a bloom in methane-consuming bacteria – and despite us saying last month all BP methane had been eaten – in fact the spilled gas is still present in large quantities, underwater.

Climate trend: weaker Atlantic trade winds?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Over the past 60 years the easterly trade winds over the tropical Atlantic Ocean have decreased in strength, say Hiroki Tokinaga and Shang-Ping Xie of the University of Hawai. The pattern suggests a permanent ‘Atlantic El Niño’, changed precipitation over … Continue reading →

Recession saved us 4 days of CO2

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

In total, over the last year. That’s not a joke, but a quote of Pierre Friedlingstein, of Exeter University. Due to the global economic downturn, the world’s CO2 emissions were 1.3 percent lower. That is just half the expected decline, … Continue reading →

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Ocean warming speeds up ice sheet melting Greenland and Antarctica

Current CO2 rise 10 times as fast as PETM climate disaster

Methane breakdown in Gulf suddenly 3,000 times slower

Climate trend: weaker Atlantic trade winds?

Recession saved us 4 days of CO2