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You're not missing much Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.

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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Here comes the sun...

Category: climatology

The Earth's 23.44 degree axial tilt is the reason for the solstice and the seasons.

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Chris takes on geo-engineering on SeedMagazine.com

Category: climatology

At SEEDMAGAZINE.com, Chris offers up a geologist's perspective on the latest assessment of geo-engineering schemes to use technology to deter on-going climate change.

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Some opinions on geoengineering

Category: environment

including mine.

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Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Category: by Anne

Though the scientific story of anthropogenic global warming is familiar to many of us, Kolbert's book is still an excellent read. And for those unfamiliar with the causes and consequences of on-going climate change, Kolbert's book is an essential read.

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It's official: we really have saved the ozone layer

Category: climatology

In a parallel universe without the Montreal Protocol, mankind is gearing up for some major sunburn.

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Climate variability and climate change: some semantics

Category: climatology

What these terms actually mean - and the distinction between them.

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Volcanoes: our noble allies in the battle against export productivity

Category: volcanoes

Finally, a blogospheric spat that actually matters. Craig McClain over at Deep Sea News has accused volcanoes of being the implacable enemies of marine life, based on new research linking them to some bouts of extreme ocean anoxia (where the...

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Why you can get '500 year floods' two years in a row

Category: geohazards

A timely guest post from hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson.

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Update: Arctic Ice

Category: climatology

When the observed Arctic ice cover hit a record low last summer, I reviewed the last 20 years or so of ice coverage data, which showed a clear long(ish)-term decrease in both winter and summer ice cover, and concluded: At...

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Behold, a new sunspot...

Category: planets

The little fellow circled here (in the solar sense of "little" - it's probably a few thousand miles across) appeared on the 4th January, and probably marks the start of Solar Cycle 24. A slight dent in those bold...

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