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Monday, 27 June 2016

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Carbon Pricing—A No-Brainer for Climate Change? 

State of the Planet [2016-06-27 20:33:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
Most economists and policy experts agree that the most effective and cheapest way to curb the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming the planet is to “put a price on carbon.” How effective are carbon taxes and cap and trade

5 Reflections Beyond World Oceans Day 

AGU Meetings [2016-06-15 16:28:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
June 8 was World Oceans Day, but onboard every day is ocean’s day: non-stop work to better our understanding of 70 percent of our planet. We asked some of our crew and scientists to share thoughts we could consider beyond one calendar

Subglacial Lake Discovered In Antarctica 

Lake Scientist [2016-06-07 16:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info

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Scientists from around the world have been working to research conditions in Antarctica for years, but still much remains unknown about the planet’s fifth-largest continent. Just in January, a team[...] The post Subglacial Lake Discovered In Antarctica appeared first on Lake

Scientists getting organized to foster more accuracy in media’s coverage of climate change 

Real Climate [2016-05-24 20:13:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (182 visits) info

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Guest post by Emmanuel Vincent While 2016 is on track to easily surpass 2015 as the warmest year on record, some headlines, in otherwise prestigious news outlets, are still claiming that “2015 Was Not Even Close To Hottest Year On Record” (Forbes, Jan 2016) or that the “Planet is not overheating…” (The Times of London,

The Plate Tectonics Revolution: It Was All About the Data 

State of the Planet [2016-05-24 15:28:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (210 visits) info
The young scientists who led the plate tectonics revolution 50 years ago showed how asking the right questions and having access to a wide range of shared data could open doors to an entirely new understanding of our

Mapalomalia: First web geological modeling platform 

Digital Geography [2016-05-12 12:21:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (895 visits) info
Mapalomalia lets geologists create and visualize 3D geological models from their browsers. It’s a free to use geological modeling platform. I hope people will use it to convey information about our planet that helps humankind to tackle big problems and at the same times makes geological modeling easier. I have developed it with input from many geologists, and by releasing it early I hope to receive more input from many more geologists. Just sign up here to start creating models. [...]

Visualizing the Heating of the Planet 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-05-10 01:12:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (241 visits) info

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An ingenious animated graphic by Ed Hawkins (Climate scientist at the Uni. of Reading in the UK) is going viral online today, and it is well worth sharing. Finding a new way to show raw data in a way that allows you to visualize what is happening, is always worth pursuing. Ed has another graph that shows how 2016 so far compares to last year. Last year was the warmest

April Data Digest 

AGU Meetings [2016-04-29 20:00:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
Three stories published during April describe the ways remotely sensed data and machine learning are changing how Earth is studied and understood; while a fourth shows the beauty of our planet through images captured by one of the satellites imaging the

You Can Thank These Three People for Earth Day 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-04-22 23:51:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (652 visits) info
I remember very well watching the CBS Evening News (46 years ago today) on the first Earth Day. It was a major story, and I believe Walter Cronkite led the broadcast with it. We know a lot more about our planet now than we did then, and there have been some amazing successes in protecting our environment. We now know something that was not well understood then, and that is the

This is One of the Rarest Forests on our Planet, and Yet One of the Most Widespread 

Geotripper [2016-03-28 19:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info

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This is one of the rarest forests on our planet. I know of a number of different species that are represented by extremely limited habitats; there are the Dawn Redwoods of China (a grove of maybe 5,000 individuals), the Wollemia "Pine" of Australia (only a 100 or so in the wild), and the Ginkgo biloba (a few scattered possibly wild groves). But I also have a rare native tree in my own

El Niño Insights From Galapagos Lakes 

Lake Scientist [2016-03-22 20:14:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
The tropical Pacific Ocean is vast and covers a large portion of the planet. Because of this, its changes have a lot of impacts on Earth’s climate. After all, this[...] The post El Niño Insights From Galapagos Lakes appeared first on Lake

NOAA: 10th Record Month in A Row. Temperature Off the Charts 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-03-17 22:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (185 visits) info

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February 2016 was the hottest month ever measured on Earth. The planet broke a heat record for the 10th month in a row in February and we broke it by a record amount as well. The heat was nothing short of amazing with Alaska averaging out at over 12 degrees above normal. That is nothing less than stunning. The odds that this warmth is part of a natural cycle have

The Solar Eclipse as Seen from the Himawari Satellite 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-03-09 23:15:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info

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The Japanese weather satellite-Himawari is the only weather satellite that can send back true colour images of the planet, and yesterday it gave us an amazing view of the total solar eclipse. Pretty amazing

MESSENGER Data Reveal Evidence of Ancient Carbon-Rich Crust on Mercury 

State of the Planet [2016-03-07 17:05:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
Mercury’s dark surface is revealing intriguing new clues about the formation of the solar system, including evidence announced today that the planet closest to the Sun may have formed in part from carbon, a key component of

Beyond the Data on The Planet’s Temperature 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-03-06 07:13:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
Deke Arndt at NOAA is one of the smartest climatologists around, and I always look forward to hearing him talk, because he takes data and makes you see it in a way you did not immediately think about. By the way, for those of you who are still in school, some sage advice: always hang around with people smarter than you. You’ll never learn anything by being the smartest person in

Following the footsteps of Shackleton 

polar soils blog [2016-03-06 00:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info

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Antarctica is the most remote continent on the planet, but people have been coming here for over 200 years. The earliest visitors were whalers who set up stations at some of the sub-Antarctic islands and sailed their ships through the Antarctic waters to hunt whales. Then, explorers started visiting the continent in various attempts to discover new lands, make scientific discoveries, and earn the glory of being the first to reach the South Pole. There are some amazing stories about the [...]

Save Our Soil 

Geological Society of London blog [2016-02-11 15:47:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info

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  Despite Sheldon Cooper’s references to geologists as ‘the dirt people’*, geologists are not usually associated in the public mind with soil. Most of the planet’s soil is no older than the Pleistocene (2.58 million – 11,700 years ago) – … Continue reading

Understanding the 2015–16 El Niño and its impact on phytoplankton 

AGU Meetings [2016-02-02 00:27:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
This is part of a new series of posts that highlight the importance of Earth and space science data and its contributions to society. Posts in this series showcase data facilities and data scientists; explain how Earth and space science data is collected, managed and used; explore what this data tells us about the planet; and delve into the challenges and issues involved in managing and using data. This series

On Twitter, Oceanographers Show Deep Appreciation for Data-Collection Device 

AGU Meetings [2016-01-25 19:53:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info

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This is part of a new series of posts that highlight the importance of Earth and space science data and its contributions to society. Posts in this series showcase data facilities and data scientists; explain how Earth and space science data is collected, managed and used; explore what this data tells us about the planet; and delve into the challenges and issues involved in managing and using data. This series is intended to demystify Earth and space science data, and share how this data shapes [...]

Hippos in Britain - 130,000 years ago 

Geology in the West Country [2016-01-21 16:11:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (225 visits) info

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It’s official: 2015 was the warmest year on record. But those global temperature records only date back to 1850 and become increasingly uncertain the further back you go. Beyond then, we’re reliant on signs left behind in tree rings, ice cores or rocks. So when was the Earth last warmer than the present?The Medieval Warm Period is often cited as the answer. This spell, beginning in roughly 950AD and lasting for three centuries, saw major changes to population centres across the globe. This [...]
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