Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Green Science Saves Christmas - Continued Sneak Preview!
Enjoy the next couple of pages in this inspiring Christmas Children's Book:
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Changing our ways on a changing planet
We all are looking forward to the climate talks in Paris. I and most are saddened at the city's recent loss. Our hearts go out to those taken and to their families and to all in the world that share the same type of loss and sorrow.
As the climate talks draw closer, we all wonder if the governments of the world will react in a proactive way to our changing climate. I sense that we will hear many promises from the politicians in slowing our carbon foot print on the planet, but corporate profits will end up winning out over the warming of our planet. The promises will be the attempt to pacify the masses. It does not mean that corporate powers will win.
It is we as individuals that have to begin to change. We must lead by example. All corporations look for a customer base and profit as their motivation. As we bathe ourselves in oil daily with each product we use, I would say try and do without items touched by oil. This does not just mean gasoline and diesel. Although that's where much of the oil goes daily and creates 20 to 40 lbs. of carbon per gallon of gas to the atmosphere. We all need to slow down. Our monoculture looks to constantly grow our national and global economies at the environment's expense. We can continue on the same path, but our oceans will rise. They will probably rise much quicker than models predict. To be sure we will continue to get warmer.
We as the people of the planet can continue to promote change. Stop buying from China and India unless you live in China and India. Buy locally from green companies in your area. Change your stock portfolio to green companies only. Start local greenhouses and grow your own food. I've even started making some of my own clothes. We need to be less dependent on an economies that harm the environment. We all can make a change. Let's make that change be a positive one.
Thanks D.B.Clay
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Green Science Saves Christmas Sneak Peak!
The first two pages of Green Science Saves Christmas. Enjoy!
Monday, November 9, 2015
Books Now Available for Sale, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble
Green Science Saves Christmas & Santo's Search for Glaciers are both now available for sale on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Stay tuned for sneak previews of both books, coming soon!
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| Santo's Search for Glaciers, updated and revised edition! |
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Green Science Saves Christmas & Santo's Search for Glaciers
D.B. Clay has been busy at work with a new publisher, creating updated and revised versions of Green Science Saves Christmas & Santo's Search for Glaciers. Beautiful children's books which gently provoke thought and imagination regarding the issues surrounding our planet and our climate. Check them out!
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| Green Science Saves Christmas -- now for sale! |
Friday, June 26, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Our Changing World
The oceans of the world have risen and fallen in the past. Droughts have existed over areas that have devastated habitats and destroyed civilizations. As we look at the history of our planet we see that planet Earth has changed and now we can see that she currently is changing yet again.
The causes of Earth's changes have been many over the millions and billions of years that she has been around. Our current concern is over the existing changes that many believe are happening now and to those changes that will occur in the next several hundred years. History most likely will call this the anthropogenic era. A dominant species which has terra formed a place called home into a different world. An era that will also be known for an extinction level event. The shape of things to come ? We can only hope for the best, but we should expect the worst. We all have an opportunity to change our ways now. We have an opportunity to use our existing technologies to change things today and we must use future technologies to continue positive changes for a better world.
The existing oligarchies and plutocracies of our world governments reign of control must end. Their decision making only holds profit and power for themselves. They have little care for the poor and helpless of the world no matter what their species. Selfishness and greed were all dealt with well within small tribal communities. Let us look back to those days of our forefathers wisdom. We all can make changes in appositive way for the planet.
1. Divest of any holdings in those companies that continue to pollute the planet. 2. Stop using plastics that pollute the oceans with a toxic soup killing all creatures in its path. 3. Energize your home with solar and wind turbines. 4. Grow your own garden and can your own food. 5. Walk and use bike when you can. I'll continue the list soon, you know ways tou and we can all change. Please add them with comments. Time will soon be against us and we must show and lead by example.
Thank You
D.B.Clay
The oceans of the world have risen and fallen in the past. Droughts have existed over areas that have devastated habitats and destroyed civilizations. As we look at the history of our planet we see that planet Earth has changed and now we can see that she currently is changing yet again.
The causes of Earth's changes have been many over the millions and billions of years that she has been around. Our current concern is over the existing changes that many believe are happening now and to those changes that will occur in the next several hundred years. History most likely will call this the anthropogenic era. A dominant species which has terra formed a place called home into a different world. An era that will also be known for an extinction level event. The shape of things to come ? We can only hope for the best, but we should expect the worst. We all have an opportunity to change our ways now. We have an opportunity to use our existing technologies to change things today and we must use future technologies to continue positive changes for a better world.
The existing oligarchies and plutocracies of our world governments reign of control must end. Their decision making only holds profit and power for themselves. They have little care for the poor and helpless of the world no matter what their species. Selfishness and greed were all dealt with well within small tribal communities. Let us look back to those days of our forefathers wisdom. We all can make changes in appositive way for the planet.
1. Divest of any holdings in those companies that continue to pollute the planet. 2. Stop using plastics that pollute the oceans with a toxic soup killing all creatures in its path. 3. Energize your home with solar and wind turbines. 4. Grow your own garden and can your own food. 5. Walk and use bike when you can. I'll continue the list soon, you know ways tou and we can all change. Please add them with comments. Time will soon be against us and we must show and lead by example.
Thank You
D.B.Clay
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Pope Francis and the Four Cardinal Virtues
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| Pope Francis and the Four Cardinal Virtues |
PRUDENCE- May we have the prudence to listen to the facts and act on climate change. JUSTICE- May we show justice by realizing our debt to our children's future and slow our changing climate. FORTITUDE- May we have the fortitude to face those against us in our fight against climate change. TEMPERANCE- May we show all people around us temperance in slowing our consumption of fossil fuels.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Saddle Light
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| Senator Inhofe & Senator Cruz can't handle data from NASA Satellites on climate change but have a firm grip on their own saddle light data! |
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
Polar Vortex
The winter still has some punches left to give the northern hemisphere. I can imagine that many people have had enough. Perhaps they are even saying is this the "climate change everyone is talking about. It certainly doesn't feel like global warming to me." Bostonians are probably thinking this more than the rest of us as they continue to shovel themselves out of snowstorm after snowstorm.
Let's peek at some cause and effect towards this cold scenario happening before us. Actually, it most likely will be a cause and affect. We might have to get use to this as "northerners." As we watch our morning weather people give us the bad news, how many of us have noticed how the northern jet stream has taken a horrific dip deep down into the United States and Europe? As I am in my fifties I recall a much more stable jet stream which kept the cold up north and in check from creeping down to slam us with our snow and ice storms. The cyclone at the North Pole was held in check to a more or less circular pattern.
Here's what happened, the waters in the northern part of the Pacific and Atlantic have heated up. When the waters warm up the surface air above the waters begins to warm. We all know that warm air rises. The warm air continues to rise from the troposphere to the stratosphere, As this happens the cold air that use to be trapped up north begins to drop into the lower troposphere. As the cold air is forced into dropping by the warm air it has only one place to go and that is south. In the United States it is forced to the west side of the Rockies and then it is able to move east again. The Midwest and the northeast get slammed by cold air. As moisture creeps up from equatorial waters in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico it meets up with the cold and you can have blizzard after blizzard. This may become the new normal for us all.
I'd like everybody to understand that due to the Earths axis at 23.5 degrees and Earth's rotation around the sun the North Pole does not get any sun several months a year. When there is no solar radiation to warm the North Pole just like at night time it gets cooler. Sometimes it gets down right cold and frigid. The warmer waters in the Alaskan Bay will continue to force cold air to visit us in the winter time. Let's get use to it folks this is "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
I do not believe that we as a society, culture or civilization will change voluntarily. It would we nice if we would, but we have become conditioned to our creature comforts that our addiction to oil, gas and coal have given us. We are constantly being bombarded with commercials and denialists saying that it's OK the way it is. The corporate giants are doing the thinking for us and we have been letting them. We are the cause behind warming the waters. The constant burning of fossil fuels day in and day out, decade after decade is the root cause for the changes you will be witnessing. Unless we put a pair of sunglasses big enough to cover our planets poles we must change or get use to what will become the status quo.
Mahatma Ghandi was once asked by a western reporter, "Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of western civilization?" Mr. Ghandi smiled at first and looked at the reporter and said, "I think it is a good idea." If we are so civilized let's start our changing together, voluntarily or mandated by law. Corporations buy lobbyists who buy congressman and senators on all party lines. Place your bets folks and lets get rid of these individuals, for the time is at hand.
Let's peek at some cause and effect towards this cold scenario happening before us. Actually, it most likely will be a cause and affect. We might have to get use to this as "northerners." As we watch our morning weather people give us the bad news, how many of us have noticed how the northern jet stream has taken a horrific dip deep down into the United States and Europe? As I am in my fifties I recall a much more stable jet stream which kept the cold up north and in check from creeping down to slam us with our snow and ice storms. The cyclone at the North Pole was held in check to a more or less circular pattern.
Here's what happened, the waters in the northern part of the Pacific and Atlantic have heated up. When the waters warm up the surface air above the waters begins to warm. We all know that warm air rises. The warm air continues to rise from the troposphere to the stratosphere, As this happens the cold air that use to be trapped up north begins to drop into the lower troposphere. As the cold air is forced into dropping by the warm air it has only one place to go and that is south. In the United States it is forced to the west side of the Rockies and then it is able to move east again. The Midwest and the northeast get slammed by cold air. As moisture creeps up from equatorial waters in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico it meets up with the cold and you can have blizzard after blizzard. This may become the new normal for us all.
I'd like everybody to understand that due to the Earths axis at 23.5 degrees and Earth's rotation around the sun the North Pole does not get any sun several months a year. When there is no solar radiation to warm the North Pole just like at night time it gets cooler. Sometimes it gets down right cold and frigid. The warmer waters in the Alaskan Bay will continue to force cold air to visit us in the winter time. Let's get use to it folks this is "CLIMATE CHANGE!"
I do not believe that we as a society, culture or civilization will change voluntarily. It would we nice if we would, but we have become conditioned to our creature comforts that our addiction to oil, gas and coal have given us. We are constantly being bombarded with commercials and denialists saying that it's OK the way it is. The corporate giants are doing the thinking for us and we have been letting them. We are the cause behind warming the waters. The constant burning of fossil fuels day in and day out, decade after decade is the root cause for the changes you will be witnessing. Unless we put a pair of sunglasses big enough to cover our planets poles we must change or get use to what will become the status quo.
Mahatma Ghandi was once asked by a western reporter, "Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of western civilization?" Mr. Ghandi smiled at first and looked at the reporter and said, "I think it is a good idea." If we are so civilized let's start our changing together, voluntarily or mandated by law. Corporations buy lobbyists who buy congressman and senators on all party lines. Place your bets folks and lets get rid of these individuals, for the time is at hand.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Global Oil Use
Report: World short on time to fix climate change------ The latest report by the U.N. group responsible for assessing climate change says the world is running out of time to keep global warming from exceeding the 2 degrees Celsius limit (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) agreed to in 2010. If greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed sharply, and soon, climate experts say that by 2100, temperatures will rise between 3.7 and 4.8 Celsius (6.6 and 8.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times. China, the United States and Europe are the top emitters. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cautions in the new report that there must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy to avert more massive heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels. The IPCC has said there is a 95 % probability that climate change since 1950 is mainly due to human activities rather than natural variations.
It does not appear that the leading greenhouse gas emitters will be slowing down in our near future. It seems apparent that their emissions will actually accelerate. The concern of a growing economy and a higher GNP out trumps what the future will hold. These governments must realize that the economic costs that higher temperatures (9 degrees) will bring will far outweigh the costs of changing over to renewable energies right now, "They have eyes but cannot see."
Producers of electricity expect an increase in demand as the years continue to fly by. The United States has switched over coal burning electrical producing plants to natural gas, but this is due to the cost and supply of natural gas and court cases brought about by the Sierra Club in the companies violation of the clean air act. The U.S. government has made no new meaningful mandates since that time in 1973. China and India are accelerating coal burning plants. Germany can be credited to having 25% renewable energy, but as they wean themselves off of nuclear energy they have increased their coal burning plants to produce electricity.
The U.S. government did enact laws for lower emissions on vehicles in the 1990's. Yet as we do this industry analysts predict the same amount of oil and gasoline use through 2050. The reason is due to more cars being on the roads. Globally, there are some 750 million cars on the road. China and India's desire for the corporate mono-culture means more cars will be on the road, using more oil. Our desire to walk and ride bikes or use public transportation has diminished greatly in the last 50 and 60 years. We need to return to these alternative means to transportation and embrace a new lifestyle. Perhaps fuel cell technology and hydrogen technology will assist us in the decade to come. People will have little desire for change as gasoline has so conveniently dropped to $ 2.20 a gallon from $ 4.00 per gallon. It seems certain corporations want us to continue in petroleum use. Our infrastructure is heavily if not totally invested to continue in this folly.
We can change. We must change.
Steve Newman / Earthweek
The Plain Dealer April 18th, 2014
It does not appear that the leading greenhouse gas emitters will be slowing down in our near future. It seems apparent that their emissions will actually accelerate. The concern of a growing economy and a higher GNP out trumps what the future will hold. These governments must realize that the economic costs that higher temperatures (9 degrees) will bring will far outweigh the costs of changing over to renewable energies right now, "They have eyes but cannot see."
Producers of electricity expect an increase in demand as the years continue to fly by. The United States has switched over coal burning electrical producing plants to natural gas, but this is due to the cost and supply of natural gas and court cases brought about by the Sierra Club in the companies violation of the clean air act. The U.S. government has made no new meaningful mandates since that time in 1973. China and India are accelerating coal burning plants. Germany can be credited to having 25% renewable energy, but as they wean themselves off of nuclear energy they have increased their coal burning plants to produce electricity.
The U.S. government did enact laws for lower emissions on vehicles in the 1990's. Yet as we do this industry analysts predict the same amount of oil and gasoline use through 2050. The reason is due to more cars being on the roads. Globally, there are some 750 million cars on the road. China and India's desire for the corporate mono-culture means more cars will be on the road, using more oil. Our desire to walk and ride bikes or use public transportation has diminished greatly in the last 50 and 60 years. We need to return to these alternative means to transportation and embrace a new lifestyle. Perhaps fuel cell technology and hydrogen technology will assist us in the decade to come. People will have little desire for change as gasoline has so conveniently dropped to $ 2.20 a gallon from $ 4.00 per gallon. It seems certain corporations want us to continue in petroleum use. Our infrastructure is heavily if not totally invested to continue in this folly.
We can change. We must change.
D.B. Clay & Ghost Writer Productions
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
A Chance at Life
We are veiled and intertwined in life with death. That which encloses and wraps our bodies is no longer living tissue. The outer layer of our skin is dead. We prize the look of our hair to attract others and bring them near. Yet it is not living tissue. We consume plants and animals after we take their lives. It is easy to see we are surrounded by death. Perhaps this is the reason why we accept it so readily.
The tiny planet which has given us life is but an oasis in space. We as a species desire to search the rest of the heavens for other life. Why search for what is already here. The biosphere is so diverse it boggles the mind. Life can exist in the coldest of cold. It exists in heat that would burn our own skin away. The lands and oceans of our planet are all we have. It is all that life has for millions of miles in any direction except where we call home.
Our greed for profit and more of more for we know not what, but feel we must have is consuming the planet. Other beings have lost their habitats as we continue to encroach upon their world on land and sea. We have become like locusts consuming anything in our path. We must find balance back in our lives. We must learn to respect other beings that share this planet with us.
Extinction has visited Earth many times in it's past. I've read that 99% of all species on this planet have become extinct. Scientists have numbered many as extinction level periods. We are currently in an extinction level event. We all must save what we can in our protection of life around us. Give back the lands and waters. Give back the habitat they use to call home. Death will come to us all, but why rush into what we know will come. Enjoy life's journey. Let other beings enjoy life's journey. Give them the same chance we all desire. The chance at life.
The tiny planet which has given us life is but an oasis in space. We as a species desire to search the rest of the heavens for other life. Why search for what is already here. The biosphere is so diverse it boggles the mind. Life can exist in the coldest of cold. It exists in heat that would burn our own skin away. The lands and oceans of our planet are all we have. It is all that life has for millions of miles in any direction except where we call home.
Our greed for profit and more of more for we know not what, but feel we must have is consuming the planet. Other beings have lost their habitats as we continue to encroach upon their world on land and sea. We have become like locusts consuming anything in our path. We must find balance back in our lives. We must learn to respect other beings that share this planet with us.
Extinction has visited Earth many times in it's past. I've read that 99% of all species on this planet have become extinct. Scientists have numbered many as extinction level periods. We are currently in an extinction level event. We all must save what we can in our protection of life around us. Give back the lands and waters. Give back the habitat they use to call home. Death will come to us all, but why rush into what we know will come. Enjoy life's journey. Let other beings enjoy life's journey. Give them the same chance we all desire. The chance at life.
Searching
Sand floating flakes falling from the sky
Each like a person waving goodbye.
They search for some answers and go their way
thinking of tomorrow but forgetting today
The choices they've made might not have been best
Our pain still exists not yet finding rest
But we too must make choices and we too must pay
For there is no forever
There is only what's now
If we search for tomorrow
Then we haven't learned how
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Polar Bears Moving Higher into Arctic as Ice Declines
Recent generations of polar bears have been observed moving higher into the Canadian Arctic in response to climate change and the melting of Arctic sea ice. Using DNA samples, U.S. Geological Survey researchers found that some clusters of polar bear populations have migrated over the past 15 to 45 years to islands off the Canadian Archipelago, where sea ice is more stable. Lead researcher Elizabeth Peacock says the bears have chosen those areas because they are " where the sea is more resilient to summer melt due to circulation patterns, complex geography and cooler northern latitudes." She and colleagues conclude that the regions closest to the North Pole could serve as a last refuge for the bears, which need the ice to travel, forage and mate. Arctic sea ice has declined in autumn by more than 9 PERCENT PER DECADE since 1979. Climate models predict that even the northernmost parts of the Arctic will BE ICE FREE BEFORE 2050.
" Arctic Time is Melting Away by 2050. That's only 35 more years." -D.B. Clay
Earthweek / Steve Newman
January 17, 2015 The Plain Dealer A2
" Arctic Time is Melting Away by 2050. That's only 35 more years." -D.B. Clay
Man Has 'Slapped Nature in the Face'
"I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face," he said. " We have in a sense taken over nature. I think we have exploited nature too much," Francis said, citing deforestation and mono-culture. "Thanks be to God that today there are voices, so many people who are speaking out about it."
Nicole Winfield / Huff Post 2-1-15
The Four Cardinal Virtues:
Prudence
Justice
Temperance
Fortitude
Use these virtues in your everyday being towards the planet and all our fellow beings that we share the planet with. Be one of the voices Francis talks about. I am not Catholic but I respect and admire this man.
Nicole Winfield / Huff Post 2-1-15
The Four Cardinal Virtues:
Prudence
Justice
Temperance
Fortitude
Use these virtues in your everyday being towards the planet and all our fellow beings that we share the planet with. Be one of the voices Francis talks about. I am not Catholic but I respect and admire this man.
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| Pope Francis on Climate Change: "Man has 'Slapped Nature' in the Face" |
Caption Contest Winner(s)!
Thanks to Jocelyn Lee & G Diddy for the great comments. Both are winners and will be receiving their prints shortly.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Arctic Time Melting Away
A newly finished piece, one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy. - D.B. Clay
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| Arctic Time Melting Away |
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Caption Contest!!!
We will be sending a free 11" x 17" signed print to the best caption for this piece, titled 'Crudecifixion.' Please leave your caption as a comment, contest will close Wednesday 2/4 at 9:00 PM EST. Best of luck to all!
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| Crudecifixion - May the best caption win! |
El Niño - The Child Is Near
Expectations of a strong El Niño this year are prevalent. The Pacific waters off South America's west coast around the equator are warming up. We will soon see how warmer waters will affect our atmosphere this year. An El Niño this year will be compounded with a positive Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The PDO warms waters in the Pacific off North America's west coast. We are at the beginning of a warmer period that may last up to thirty years and possibly centuries to come. The last warm phase attributed to PDO was in the years 1975 through 1998. The period before that was 1920 through 1945. Don't worry you'll still have winters on the planet. The sun will still not shine at the poles during the winter. Cold air will come down from the poles and the polar vortex storms may even get worse This years double whammy of PDO and El Niño will undoubtedly create the perfect storms for Earth's atmosphere to explode.
Mankind has set the stage for what's coming. We can never see a rainbow when we're in the storm. I have always believed that we as a species will never change our ways until things are FUBAR ( #@%X messed up beyond all repair). The time is near and we can only hope that it's not too late. Some models predict 2015 to be the warmest year on record. We just came off 2014 as the record busting warmest year on record. Some climate models are expecting back to back El Niño's. The 9 degree warming has begun and as the overall atmospheric temperature rises so will the havoc that Mother Nature will bring to the planet. Time for us to cool down and keep cooler heads. Da Nile is in Egypt and those who are in this state should be like the Ostrich and bury their heads in the sand while visiting it in Africa.
Please attempt to lessen your carbon footprint. Individually-Commercially-Industrially. There are times when change is needed and this is one of those times. Thanks for your help- all species and beings will appreciate the change.
Mankind has set the stage for what's coming. We can never see a rainbow when we're in the storm. I have always believed that we as a species will never change our ways until things are FUBAR ( #@%X messed up beyond all repair). The time is near and we can only hope that it's not too late. Some models predict 2015 to be the warmest year on record. We just came off 2014 as the record busting warmest year on record. Some climate models are expecting back to back El Niño's. The 9 degree warming has begun and as the overall atmospheric temperature rises so will the havoc that Mother Nature will bring to the planet. Time for us to cool down and keep cooler heads. Da Nile is in Egypt and those who are in this state should be like the Ostrich and bury their heads in the sand while visiting it in Africa.
Please attempt to lessen your carbon footprint. Individually-Commercially-Industrially. There are times when change is needed and this is one of those times. Thanks for your help- all species and beings will appreciate the change.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Polar Bears
About 5,000 polar bear cubs were born in the Arctic around New Year's Day, according to the World Wildlife Fun (WWF). The end of December is typically when the bears give birth. A time when the northern polar region is blanketed by some of the coldest and darkest conditions of the year. WWF celebrates the polar bears birthday on December 29th and estimates the global population of the iconic animals is between 20,000 and 25,000. The bears which can typically live to be about 25 years old, are threatened by poachers, global warming, and pollution. They have become the poster animal for climate change and the resulting melt of their Arctic ice cap homes.
Please stop taking my todays and then you won't steal my tomorrow. Today is tomorrow from yesterday's perspective. - D.B. Clay
Please stop taking my todays and then you won't steal my tomorrow. Today is tomorrow from yesterday's perspective. - D.B. Clay
Ice Cover In Polar Regions Seeing Dramatic Changes
Arctic: The ice cap around the North Pole shrank to its sixth-lowest size on record on Sept.17. reaching a minimum coverage of 1.94 million square miles. That’s down slightly from last September, but nearly as low as the record-setting minimum of 1.32 million square miles in 2012. While the famed North-West passage in Arctic Canada failed to become ice free this summer, the Northern Sea route opened with little ice along the shipping route off Siberia
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer February 22, 2014
New Jet Stream Path May Lead To Weather Extremes
Residents from North America to Britain, weary of ice, blizzards and catastrophics flooding this winter, may have to get used to weeks or even months of such miserable conditions on a regular basis. That’s the conclusion of a Rutgers-NOAA study that found the jet stream is now taking a longer more erratic path due to global warming. The jet stream is a powerful, high altitude river of air that transports weather systems around the planet. It’s fueled by differences in temperature by the Arctic and the middle latitudes. And because temperatures across the Arctic have been rising two to three times more rapidly than in the rest of the world, those differences are now less and causing the jet stream to slow. This is resulting in weather that remains the same for prolonged periods, like the barrage of blizzards that buried parts of Canada and the United States and the onslaught of oceanic storms that has swamped and battered Britain.
The polar vortex can drop the jet stream way south of where it used to be. The warming of the Alaskan Gulf may help this dip.
D.B. Clay
The polar vortex can drop the jet stream way south of where it used to be. The warming of the Alaskan Gulf may help this dip.
D.B. Clay
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Dolphins
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| Dolphins - Original artwork by D.B. Clay |
Long live the dolphins. Who knows how long they, and the rest of our planet, will be around.
Ocean Churning Hides Solar Radiation Heat Gain
A new and detailed study into the recent 13 year pause in global surfacing warming points to stronger trade winds in the Pacific as the primary cause. Scientists recently explained that the deep oceans have been absorbing the brunt of excess solar radiation due to higher greenhouse gas levels, but they didn’t know exactly how that was happening. Research just published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the strengthening of the trade winds has churned the Pacific so much that heat is being drawn from the air down to the waters between about 300 and 1,000 feet in depth. The same churning brings up cooler waters, cooling the air above the ocean surface. Further accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere is expected to eventually overpower the factors behind the pause in global warming.
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer February 22, 2014
As the world churns.
D.B. Clay
Continued Global Warming May Lead To More El Ninos
The world’s most influential global weather phenomenon is likely to more than double in frequency if efforts to limit global warming fail, according to a new report. An international team writing in the journal Nature Climate Change says that the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions will bring twice as many as extreme outbreaks of El Nino ocean warming to the tropical Pacific over the next century as has ever occurred over the previous 100 years. “Our research shows this will double to one event every 10 years,” said study author Agus Santuso. El Nino events can trigger large scale weather shifts that brings storms or drought to various parts of he world. The last extreme El Nino wreaked havoc on global weather patterns in 1997-1998, causing billions of dollars in damage and killing approxiamately 23,000 people.
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer January 25, 2014
Get a load of what the next one will be blamed for.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Arctic Lifeboat
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| Arctic Lifeboat |
Leading Experts Anticipate Accelerated Global Warming
Earth’s atmosphere reacts far more to greenhouse emissions than previously thought, leading experts predict the planet’s surface temperature will rise by an average of 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. Writing in the journal Nature, a team of Australia based researchers says it has found how cloud formation plays a role in climate, which has been one of the greatest uncertainties in the prediction of global warming. The group says that while climate models show a relatively low global temperature reaction to carbon dioxide emissions, those models currently do not factor in all the water vapor released into the atmosphere. The report concludes that “real world observations” show that accepted models are wrong. They point to fewer clouds forming than the clouds project , which means more sunlight will enter the atmosphere, making the atmosphere far more sensitive to the warming effects of heat trapping greenhouse gases. “Climate skeptics like to criticize climate models for getting things wrong, and we are the first to admit that they are not perfect,” said lead author Steven Sherwood. “But what we are finding is that mistakes are being made by those models (that) predict less warming, not those that predict more.”
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer January 4, 2014
Last of Stable Greenland Ice Sheet Shrinks Dramatically
Greenland’s last remaining stable portion of ice sheet has now lost it’s grip due to climate change and is stable no longer, according to researchers. Once thought to be immune to the effects of global warming, the Zachariae glacier began shrinking rapidly in 2003 and has since lost 10 billion tons of ice per year, retreating by more than 12 miles. Three years of exceptionally warm weather just after the turn of the 21st century broke the blockage that had kept the river of ice in place, according to a report published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Grenland’s ice cap has been a yardstick for global ocean rise because if it melted entirely. Global sea levels would rise by about 23 feet.
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer March 22, 201
Wow ! One glacier alone is losing 10 billion tons of ice per year. If I am correct that equates to 2 to 2.5 trillion of gallons of water per year. Where does all that water go to ? Oh yes, eventually if not immediately it goes right into our oceans. Thereby the ocean and sea levels are raised.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Weather Agency Predicts Centuries of Warming
The head of the U.N. weather agency says that global warming has not stopped and will continue for at least centuries due to the burning of fossil fuels by humans. Michel Jarraud made the pronouncement as he presented the World Meteorological Organization’s annual review of the world’s climate. The report concludes that last year tied with 2007 as the sixth hottest since reliable records began over 150 years ago. It also says that 13 of the 14 warmest years on record have occurred in this century. “Greenhouse gases are at record levels, meaning that our atmosphere and oceans will continue to warm for centuries to come. The laws of physics are non-negotiable,” Jarraud told a news conference.
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer March 29,2014 A2
“The laws of physics are non-negotiable” Michel Jarraud
Look out, here it comes.
2014 was hottest recorded since reliable records kept
Last year was the world’s hottest since reliable records began in the late 1800’s, and was also likely the hottest in the history of human civilization, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The Tokyo-based agency is one of four worldwide that calculate global trends in somewhat different ways. A day after the JMA announcement, the University of Alabama in Huntsville said 2014 was the third warmest in the 36-year global satellite temperature record. But researchers there cautioned that the difference from previous hot years as measured by satellites was so narrow as to be “not statistically different than zero.” Data from other agencies pointed to unprecedented ocean warmth as the main driver of the new record atmospheric heat.
Earthweek | Steve Newman
Week ending Jan. 9.
The Plain Dealer January 10 A2
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