Some opinions on geoengineering
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including mine.
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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.
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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Anthropogenic biomes
Category: environment
"Anthropogenic biomes are in many ways a more accurate description of broad ecological patterns within the current terrestrial biosphere than are conventional biome systems that describe vegetation patterns based on variations in climate and geology."
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 7:18 AM • 3 Comments •
The puddle that was once a sea
Category: geology
This image, just released from NASA's Earth Observatory, is both scary and beautiful This is - or was - the Aral Sea*. 50 years ago, it was a substantial body of water. Then, the rivers that fed it were diverted...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:16 AM • 9 Comments •
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.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:13 PM • 39 Comments •
Peak coal?
Category: environment
Not hundreds of years' worth left, as is claimed?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:47 AM • 7 Comments •
Climate variability and climate change: some semantics
Category: climatology
What these terms actually mean - and the distinction between them.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:45 AM • 1 Comments •
Volcano monitoring good: Republican antiscientism getting tedious
Category: environment
The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Satellite Imagery of the Australian Bush Fires
Category: environment
NASA's Earth observatory has posted a couple of images of the bush fires currently devastating southeast Australia. 7 February 9 February The sheer scale of these fires is scary; presumably, things are not helped by the drought Australia has been...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:58 AM • 4 Comments •
The rightful place of science: putting us in ours
Category: environment
Science doesn't need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:54 AM • 10 Comments •
Web surfing on your coffee break: double climate trouble?
Category: environment
"Web surfing increases global warming" may become your manager's new motto.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:55 AM • 10 Comments •
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