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- Friday Focal Mechanism: M 7.4, Oaxaca, Mexico
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- Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week
- Scenic Saturday: from desert to verdant grassland in 10 miles (and 1000 m)
- The humbling legacy of the Tohoku earthquake
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- On Hope Jahren, isotope detective :
- Lab Lemming: Translating the inside baseball isotope talk above: http://lablemminglounge.blo... (8 days 19 hours ago)
- Hope Jahren: Picarro, but if I had to do it over again I’d go Los Gatos. Long story. (9 days 7 hours ago)
- Lab Lemming: Los Gatos or Picarro? (9 days 7 hours ago)
- Matt Herod: The map of Hawaii looks like a mineral grain in thin section. Very cool. (20 days 11 hours ago)
- The Bobs: The colors on Io’s surface are primarily caused by allotropes of sulfur. Do geologists know... (55 days 10 hours ago)
- Peter Council: I won’t stand for disruptive behaviour, but I’m not that good at dealing with it, simply... (44 days 0 hours ago)
- Pam: As a non-geologist, I am hoping you have something posted about the Wisconsin booms which are being... (53 days 16 hours ago)
- terry: This didn’t fill in the Guerrero Gap. (54 days 9 hours ago)
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7 glaciers melting
On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me…
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Chris takes on geo-engineering on SeedMagazine.com
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
including mine.
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Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
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
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
What these terms actually mean – and the distinction between them.
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Volcanoes: our noble allies in the battle against export productivity
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 … Continue reading
Why you can get ’500 year floods’ two years in a row
A timely guest post from hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson.
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Update: Arctic Ice
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 … Continue reading
Behold, a new sunspot…
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 predictions … Continue reading
