Archive for June 26th, 2008
Fire Under the Arctic Ice
Posted by Paul, June 26th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 42
An international team of researchers was able to provide evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time. Researchers from an expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, led by the American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), report in the current issue of the journal Nature that they discovered, with [...]
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The Times: New Ice Age is On The Way
Posted by Paul, June 26th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 2
‘Climate: New ice age is on the way.’ That was a headline from The Times newspaper on 21st October 1972.
On 23rd March 1970 the headline read: ‘Antarctic may be key to ice ages.’ According to Dr A T Wilson of Wellington University, New Zealand, the Antarctic may once again be approaching the point of instability [...]
UK’s Looming Energy Gap Suffers ‘Wind Chill’
Posted by Paul, June 26th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 88
I’ve often thought that maybe the Kyoto Protocol could have been more aptly named the ‘Don Quixote Protocol.’ Why? Because ‘Kyoto’ sounds like ‘Quixote’ and, in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, Quixote fought an imaginary enemy of giants that turned out to be windmills. Today, our imaginary enemy is ‘big warming’ driven by [...]

