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 Topic: Hydrogen Sulfide May Have Caused Largest Extinction |
Cabrone
Replies: 15
Views: 679
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 Forum: Environment Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:49 am Subject: Re: Hydrogen Sulfide May Have Caused Largest Extinction |
| You ought to read '6 Degrees' by Mark Lynas, he speculates that a +6 deg C scenario may well turn into something like the PT extinction event and then uses a variety of scientific sources to go into d ... |
| Topic: Best place to be/emigrate to within Europe |
Cabrone
Replies: 79
Views: 13713
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:47 pm Subject: Re: Best place to be/emigrate to within Europe |
| I'll stay in London, it'll be a [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVquOmFJ0U]riot. |
| Topic: Professor Bob Carter interviewed on climate change. |
Cabrone
Replies: 10
Views: 465
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Forum: Environment Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:45 am Subject: Re: Professor Bob Carter interviewed on climate change. |
To quote the NSIDC (you know, those guys that study arctic ice for a living).
Spring has arrived in the Arctic. After peaking at 15.21 million square kilometers (5.87 million square miles) in the s ... |
| Topic: Arctic Ice may 'melt away' this summer |
Cabrone
Replies: 65
Views: 3303
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Forum: Environment Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:19 pm Subject: Re: Arctic Ice may 'melt away' this summer |
What are the effects of a N.Pole melt down?
If you mess up the current temperature difference between poles and equator (as we are currently doing rather well) then the wind and precipitation patte ... |
| Topic: Europeans now building 50 new coal-fired power plants |
Cabrone
Replies: 17
Views: 1051
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Forum: Environment Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:44 am Subject: Re: Europeans now building 50 new coal-fired power plants |
If you are expecting Europe to lead the way then you may as well go and crawl into the oven now.
Anyway we're pretty well screwed now whatever happens so you may aswell enjoy the party while it la ... |
| Topic: Record ice loss in Arctic |
Cabrone
Replies: 798
Views: 71028
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Forum: Environment Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:50 pm Subject: Re: Record ice loss in Arctic |
Whoa, that is one scary looking drop that just happened.
Popcorn time looks very close now.
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| Topic: The Great Siberian Methane Melt is off and running |
Cabrone
Replies: 70
Views: 4263
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Forum: Environment Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:00 pm Subject: Re: The Great Siberian Methane Melt is off and running |
Fortuanetly the reallity is more reassuring than the hype.
Methane concentration
Quote:
Well, here is the latest twist to the methane story – methane is not increasing in atmospheric concentr ... |
| Topic: Barcelona to import water by ship |
Cabrone
Replies: 7
Views: 616
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Forum: Environment Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:25 am Subject: Re: Barcelona to import water by ship |
Looks like this water situation is causing some scuffles between Spanish regions.
[url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/04/2208244.htm]Severe Spanish drought sparks regional water stoush
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| Topic: Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread' |
Cabrone
Replies: 23
Views: 1590
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Forum: Environment Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:34 pm Subject: Re: Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread' |
Bad news, though not as bad as the state of the N.Pole.
Once that pole goes (my guess is 2010) the phoney war will be over and we will see some real fun and games with climate.
Enjoy what time y ... |
| Topic: Drilling for oil to start in Falkland Islands |
Cabrone
Replies: 20
Views: 1222
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:45 am Subject: Re: Drilling for oil to start in Falkland Islands |
| I think you can forget about any dust up with the Argentinians. I'd be very surprised if they don't get a nice cut of the $$ with refinement, pipelines, logistical help etc. To leave them out would ( ... |
| Topic: Drilling for oil to start in Falkland Islands |
Cabrone
Replies: 20
Views: 1222
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:08 am Subject: Re: Drilling for oil to start in Falkland Islands |
You know we're in the brown stuff when Desire Petroleum actually start to do some drilling.
It's taken them 10 years since the last set of exploratory wells but at >$100 p.bbl even this bunch o ... |
| Topic: Lovelock says Eat Drink and be Merry, for we are all doomed. |
Cabrone
Replies: 59
Views: 4488
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Forum: Environment Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:05 am Subject: Re: Lovelock says Eat Drink and be Merry, for we are all doo |
| He reckons on 20 years - if the N.Pole goes this year that may be somewhat optimistic....... |
| Topic: US ready to accept binding international CO2 reductions |
Cabrone
Replies: 8
Views: 723
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Forum: Environment Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:42 pm Subject: Re: US ready to accept binding international CO2 reductions |
It doesn't really mean much as Bush only has 10 months left.
The damage has already been done. |
| Topic: Record ice loss in Arctic |
Cabrone
Replies: 798
Views: 71028
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Forum: Environment Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:55 am Subject: Re: Record ice loss in Arctic |
I'll be surprised if the Arctic sea ice survives two more summers.
Yes, and how much 24 hr sunshine heat will the collapse of millions of square km of ice put into the system? Scary stuff indeed.
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| Topic: Cantarell Oil Production to "drop precipitously" - |
Cabrone
Replies: 50
Views: 17809
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:28 am Subject: Re: Cantarell Oil Production to "drop precipitously&quo |
How about "tsunami of desperate flesh.
Look on the bright side, with all those Mexicans pouring in looks like there's going to be plenty of jobs at Taco Bell.
http://www.freakingnews.com/pic ... |
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