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'Tiger stripes' underneath Antarctic glaciers slow the flow http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S38/38/34Q39/index.xml?section=topstories

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/76448-scepticism-of-man-made-climate-change/page-37#entry2828807 http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/alaska.html

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog Super Typhoon Haiyan is one of the most intense tropical cyclones in world history, with sustained winds an incredible 190 mph, gusting to 230 mph, said the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in their 15 UTC (10 am EST) November 7, 2013 advisory. Officially, the strongest tropical cyclone in world history was Super Typhoon Nancy of 1961, with sustained winds of 215 mph. However, it is now recognized (Black 1992) that the maximum sustained winds estimated for typhoons during the 1940s to 1960s were too strong. Since 1969, only three tropical cyclones have equaled Haiyan's 190 mph sustained winds--the Western Pacific's Super Typhoon Tip of 1979, the Atlantic's Hurricane Camille of 1969, and the Atlantic's Hurricane Allen of 1980. All three of these storms had a hurricane hunter aircraft inside of them to measure their top winds, but Haiyan's winds were estimated using only satellite images, making its intensity estimate of lower confidence. Some interpretations of satellite intensity estimates suggest that there may have been two super typhoons stronger than Tip--Super Typhoon Gay of 1992, and Super Typhoon Angela of 1995. We don't have any measurements of Haiyan's central pressure, but it may be close to the all-time record of 870 mb set by Super Typhoon Tip. The Japan Meteorological Agency estimated Haiyan's central pressure at 895 mb at 12 UTC (7 am EST) November 7, 2013. Haiyan has the most spectacular appearance I've ever seen on satellite loops, with a prominent eye surrounded by a huge, impenetrable-looking mass of intense eyewall thunderstorms with tops that reach into the lower stratosphere. With landfall expected to occur by 21 UTC (4 pm EST) on Thursday, Haiyan doesn't have time to weaken much before landfall, and will likely hit the Philippines at Category 5 strength.

If a tree falls in Brazil…? Amazon deforestation could mean droughts for western U.S. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S38/31/66M12/

Not sure where to put this so will stick it here. Population myths. I've just read an article by Danny Doring in this months Geographical Magazine where he argues that the idea of a population bomb is a fallacy and that human population is without any need for a grand plan. He is professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield. If anyone is interested by coincidence I notice that Professor Rostling is giving the This World lecture on BBC2 2100 tonight on the very same subject.

American astronaut Ron Garan may be the single best promoter of space exploration we have today, if only because of his breathtaking photographs of the Earth from space. In July 2011, as he orbited our planet in the International Space Station, he took this gorgeous shot of the crescent Moon, setting over the Earth's silhouetted limb: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2011/11/19/the_twice_reflected_moon_light.html

When I had the problem with a fistula attaching my bowel to my bladder splasback wasn't a problem. More how to avoid dribble down the trouser leg. Splasback is imversely proportional to ageing. Sitting down becomes a necessity. Alls well now though and I can splash again. Cue for a song, let's splash again, like we did last summer. Sorry Chubby.

The whopping climate change footprint of two Australian coalmining projects Two Queensland mines would emit triple the greenhouse gas emissions of the Keystone XL pipeline, or six times the UK's annual footprint http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/nov/07/climate-change-keystone-galilee-queensland-coal-mining

Stunning piece of research. Still it does raise the question do we all have a favourite position in front of the urinal and chosen trajectories? Men should sit down to urinate or, when using aa urinal, stand slightly to one side as close to it as possible and aim downwards, say scientists who have studied the best ways to avoid “splashback†and its unhygienic effects. Todd Truscott and Randy Young Brigham Young University found that the largest amount of splashback is caused by aiming at the urinal wall and at a 90-degree angle or directly into the toilet.

NASA's GRACE satellites show decade of declining water reserves http://climate.nasa.gov/news/995

The ongoing U.S. oil boom has flooded the Gulf Coast with domestic crude to levels not seen in decades, creating a homegrown oil glut in the nation's refining center just as the Obama Administration prepares to rule on a pipeline that would add a torrent of heavy Canadian crude to the same region. http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20131106/need-keystone-xl-erodes-us-oil-floods-gulf-coast-refining-hub?page=show

From mobile solar to low-risk homes, climate action is underway - UN http://www.trust.org/item/20131106135632-2ndbe/?source=hptop

Looks like it Pete. If I remember correctly BFTV posted on the subject as well.

Jason Box tweets. A rebuttal of a shameless mockery of science by Hot Topic http://hot-topic.co.nz/heartlands-big-book-of-lies-about-climate-change-cuts-no-ice-thanks-to-don-easterbrook/

The scale of this is tad mind boggling. No wonder the US can export coal. http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/11/western-energy-transformation

Geoengineering Could Reduce Critical Global Rainfall http://www.climatecentral.org/news/geoengineering-could-cut-global-rainfall-study-finds-16699

Austin Declares A State Of Disaster After Flooding Kills Five

China's pollution so bad it 'causes eight-year-old to develop lung cancer'

The oldest ice core – Finding a 1.5 million-year record of Earth’s climate How far into the past can ice-core records go? Scientists have now identified regions in Antarctica they say could store information about Earth’s climate and greenhouse gases extending as far back as 1.5 million years, almost twice as old as the oldest ice core drilled to date. The results are published today in Climate of the Past, an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). http://www.egu.eu/news/77/the-oldest-ice-core-finding-a-15-million-year-record-of-earths-climate/

The idea of sustainable development was first ;presented by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN 1980) in an interarional forum of the World Conservation Strategy. In essence, the concept of sustainable development invoked present development of available resources withthout compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Many disagreed with this as being an abstract ideal that is impossible to achieve. Essentially that boils down to what you said, less impacts by ourselves on our environment So we had better leave massive deforestation out.

(CNN) -- More than two million people are dying every year from the effects of outdoor air pollution, according to a new study. An estimated 2.1 million deaths are caused by anthropogenic increases of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) while a further 470,000 are killed annually as a result of human-caused increases in ozone pollution. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/16/world/air-pollution-killing-study/index.html?iid=article_sidebar The study http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/3/034005/article

I think you can see where the 17 years came from from here Pete. She's quite funny when when talking about Monkton. http://blog.hotwhopper.com/

What 'pause'? Global temperature evolution 1979–2010 http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/044022/fulltext/

The highest Greenland ice melt rates in 2013 occurred on July 25 when the ice sheet surface lost a total of 12 Gt http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland-ice-shelf/rapporter/072013/

That ties in with the paper I posted the other day regarding volcanic activity.