And to end you day on a uber-depressing note, sure to give you at least some nightmares Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may be the worst year ever for coral death there. Abnormally warm water since June appears to have dealt a blow to shallow and deep-sea corals that is likely to . . . → Read More: Caribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever
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By Dr. M, on  October 18th, 2010  One comment  Conservation & Environment, Coral, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather  climate change, Coral, coral bleaching, global warming, reef, Temperature, warm water By Dr. M, on October 11th, 2010 One comment Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather I guess I need to start planning my trip Houston Many of us take for granted the notion that all of our beloved cities will be around for centuries to come. However, cities around the world seem to be vying for the title of “The Next Atlantis.” Shaky foundations and encroaching seas are posing significant . . . → Read More: 7 Cities About to Sink
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 8th, 2010 Leave a comment Weather atmosphere, satellite imagery, undular bore This gorgeous atmospheric wave pattern, caught by satellite, was visible off Baja California Sur on Sunday. Scripps graduate student James Means wrote: [Dr.] Larry Armi identifies this as an undular bore trapped by today’s very strong temperature inversion, and probably associated with an interaction between southeasterly flow at upper levels and the lower level . . . → Read More: Undular bores – not just for dinner parties
By Dr. M, on September 2nd, 2010 2 comments Natural Disaster, Weather Earl, Hurricane, North Carolina In Durham, I am nearly 2-3 hours from the North Carolina coast. With relation to Earl, the local forecast is that this far inland we are unlikely to see any rain and a just a moderate breeze. As of 7:45 am this morning the eye was 475 miles from Durham, yet the outer fingers of . . . → Read More: You Sure Are a Big Fella Earl
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 2nd, 2010 5 comments Natural Disaster, Weather Hurricane, Hurricane Earl, StormPulse Photo copyright Anna Linda Photography 2010: http://annalindaphoto.zenfolio.com/. My wife snapped this pic of the finger of Hurricane Earl over our home in Wilmington, NC. These preceding clouds look innocent and quite beautiful and serene, but belie a more destructive force around the corner. Long time residents of the coastal south see these and know it . . . → Read More: Calm Before the Storm
By Dr. M, on September 1st, 2010 One comment Natural Disaster, Weather Earl, Hurricane, North Carolina By Dr. M, on August 30th, 2010 6 comments Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather Earl, Hurricane, North Carolina Looks like KZ and I might be getting a visit from Earl later this week. By Dr. M, on July 21st, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Weather climat change, el nino, global warming, La Nina, NASA, solar iridescence, Temperature …in 2010 despite recent minimum of solar iridescence. “We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade” and “there has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C/decade that began in the late 1970s.” Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature. Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, . . . → Read More: 12-month running mean global temperature reached new high…
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 23rd, 2010 9 comments Industry & Government, Oil Spills, Social Sciences, Weather Aristotle, Ben Franklin, Best of Zelnio, Folklore, Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane, Louisiana, oil, Oil Spill, Pliny We love getting interesting emails from our readers. Some are complaints about our (mostly mine) colorful language, many are emails telling us how they appreciate what we do, several even come from our colleagues who would like us to know about some recent research or a new expedition, and we get many readers asking us . . . → Read More: Pouring Oil on ‘Troubled Waters’
By Dr. M, on March 24th, 2009 9 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather Alfred Wegener Institute, algae, copepod, Environmental Issues, global warming, greenhouse gas, iron, iron fertilization, phytoplankton, plankton, Southern Ocean, zooplankton BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved “fertilising” a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water . . . → Read More: Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
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