Climate Change & Global Warming

[ArabiaTerra]

Or maybe having to be fair, as all pay the licence.

Just a thought

That doesn't count when it comes to scientific subjects. Halfway between right and wrong is still wrong.

[ArabiaTerra]

Arctic Ocean freshwater will cause 'unpredictable changes on climate'

 

This will directly affect Shetland.

[Njugle]

Yes, but similarly, vessels and scientists from the Aberdeen Marine Laboratory were monitoring the decline in a cold current flowing from the Arctic southward that would create similar change and reduction in the Gulf Stream from over 20 years ago. The projected outcome of this earlier monitoring was the introduction of subarctic winters at these latitudes, with related ice formation and snow.

 

It would be difficult to estimate whether this would benefit or damage marine ecosystems in this area, as a net effect. It may benefit fish stocks, for one.

 

It could also bring calmer colder drier winters.

But that's all speculation , of course.

[stilldellin]

Also interesting read here :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12950246

Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research.

 

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb479/beenister/SanRafaelGlacier.jpg

[stilldellin]

More Grim reading :-

http://www.csiro.au/greenhouse-gases/

[ArabiaTerra]

Check out this one:

 

"We have to bring down CO2 emissions to zero within about 20 years," Professor Hoegh-Guldberg told BBC News.

 

Nice find, BTW, Stilldellin

[crofter]

Check out this one:

 

"We have to bring down CO2 emissions to zero within about 20 years," Professor Hoegh-Guldberg told BBC News.

 

I read that earlier, and thought of you! It won't happen.

[ArabiaTerra]

^^^^ I agree, it probably won't.

 

So the oceans are f*cked. Are we going to f*ck the land too before we wake up?

 

[stilldellin]

^That's the trouble, too many dreamers out there and they never will wake up !

[Pleepsie]

Polar bear climate scientist investigated over 'misconduct'

 

A biologist who claimed polar bears were drowning because of melting ice caps has been placed on administrative leave as officials investigate scientific misconduct allegations.

Although it wasn't clear what the exact allegations were, a government watchdog group representing Anchorage-based scientist Charles Monnett said investigators have focused on his 2006 journal article about the bears that garnered worldwide attention.

 

The group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed a complaint on Mr Monnett's behalf with the agency, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.

 

 

BOEMRE told Mr Monnett on July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending an investigation into "integrity issues."

 

A BOEMRE spokesman acknowledged there was an "ongoing internal investigation" but declined to get into specifics about it.

 

Mr Monnett, who has coordinated much of BOEMRE's research on Arctic wildlife and ecology, has duties that include managing about $50 million worth of studies, according to the complaint. According to documents provided by Ruch's group, which sat in on investigators interviews with Mr Monnett, the questioning focused on observations that he and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8669678/Polar-bear-climate-scientist-investigated-over-misconduct.html

 

 

I can think of 50 million reasons why his integrity might be questioned.

[stilldellin]

More on the melting Arctic :-

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-arctic-ice-historic-scientists.html

[I.S]

Is everyone ignoring Pleepsie's post then?

 

I try to stay objective. But i have to ask, what happened to the scientists not being in it for the money? This sort of multi-million dollar funding for of climate change research is actually mentioned by a poster In that same article. It's pretty much dismissed by others. But here it is, in big round figures.

[Carlos]

I'm not sure there's a lot of information to comment on yet?

What they are alleged to have done, whether they did it and what effect it might have had on the integrity of their work is still all uncertain?

 

I think though we have 80 pages worth of comments here covering most possible types of bias/prejudice/human frailty from all sides, and folk are mostly "posted-out" on the topic in general?

 

$50M is potentially not so big though - I'm not too senior at my work and still manage near $50M worth of assets.... it soon mounts up.

[mate64]

Today’s comments on global warming are the first on this forum for 8 months. If people really believed sea level was going to rise metres within a generation a few more folks on these islands would have a peerie bit mair tae say aboot it.

[Pleepsie]

More on the melting Arctic :-

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-arctic-ice-historic-scientists.html

 

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Just about says it all.