Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Looking forward further into the future Scientist have suggested the upward movement of rising temperatures won’t just stop at the current upper levels suggested by the IPCC but will continue. As suggested by Mother Natures Supersalesman in his closing remarks in the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – excerpt “Now just [...]

Following on from the Foundations article on copper chrome arsenate treated timber ‘Poison sold to the ignorant by the uneducated’ this feature suggests a similar course of action be adopted; the ‘Precautionary Principle’ for a range of toxic chemicals that are in everyday products we are needlessly exposed to without our knowledge that may result [...]

Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the Loop Current May 2010. Scientists monitoring the US oil spill with ESA’s Envisat radar satellite say that it has entered the Loop Current, a powerful conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida.\ “With these images from space, we have visible proof that at [...]

When scientists say the planet is warming, they usually point to rising air temperatures as proof. That’s reasonable enough, especially since the warmth of the air temperature affects us directly so we feel the change the scientists are measuring. But it’s also misleading: while the lower atmosphere has been gradually warming over the past 50 [...]

BP has said the amount of oil recovered from a leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well on Thursday was less than half an earlier estimate. BP said it had siphoned 2,200 barrels in the 24-hour period to midnight on Thursday, down from an estimate of 5,000 barrels earlier in the day. The US government has [...]

Media, public, governments unprepared for the End of the World (As We Know It) Source: Sweetnam, DOE, April 2009 The BP oil disaster reminds us once again of the many large costs of oil use not included in its price.  But because conservatives have blocked or rolled back all serious efforts to move us off [...]

Nature Geoscience Subject Category: Biogeochemistry Soil science: Arctic thaw Hermann F. Jungkunst is at the Institute of Geography, Landscape Ecology, University of Gottingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 5, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany. e-mail: hjungku@gwdg.de Abstract The organic matter stored in frozen Arctic soils could release significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane on thawing. Now, laboratory experiments show that re-wetting of [...]

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Greenland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Canada. It has stunning fjords on its rocky coast formed by moving glaciers, and a dense icecap up to 2 km thick that covers much of the island–pressing down the land beneath and lowering its elevation. Now, scientists at the University of Miami say [...]