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07:00 pm - April 09 temp anolomy

06:56 pm - The ice is currently bang on to hit 07s records again.

12:22 am - excellent graphic on the comparative melts.

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

07:29 pm - Stunning new fossil discovered

An eocene primate!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8057465.stm

11:34 pm - More on the thinning ice....

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514083753.htm

12:37 pm - Afghan school girls poisoned

http://www.afghanistannews.net/story/500706

Strange story seems to suggest Afghans are attacking school girls with poison gas.

12:07 am - Hadcrut3 march anolomy.

12:01 am - First time in 16 months that the US anualised fall in housing prices

Aint a record.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8023293.stm

Cool. $3 trillion to slow the descent.

10:12 pm - February anolomy

07:53 pm

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2009/jan/global.html

Globally the the warmest Junuary on record.

But we are in slight la Nina conditions projected to get worse

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1192

And offcourse one of the quietest years for sunspots in decades (watts up with that then..... aren't we supposed to be freezing  8) )

02:14 pm - Wattsup with that do a fantastic job of slaying strawmen!

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/21/co2-does-not-drive-glacial-cycles/

Love it, arguments no one has made being demolished with expert skills. Cant stop lauging at that place.

05:41 pm - We have lived as kings and Emprors

What life we have led. Few among us has felt pain more than briefly, tooth ache is easily fixed with a couple of pills then a trip to the dentist. We never fear for water borne diseases as ours is piped to our houses cleaned and made safe and when it takes our fancy it is heated for our convenience. We have few fears of airborne diseases as we have all but conquered them. Our foods are brought to our table from fields thousands of miles away in the space of days or hours. Spices that once took sailors two years journey round the world and cost more than gold now sit at the back of the cupboard unloved as we have found ever more exotic foods.

The great plays and works of literature are at our finger tips. Even VHS is no longer convenient enough for us, we can often youtube and google to get the works of Mozart or Shakespeare. The greatest actors of our age are at our beck and call in a way that Popes and dukes could not dream off.

All but the meekest amount us can go and travel to warm beaches and sunshine to get away from our winters. Winters that are kept out with double glazing and central heating.

Our emissaries have sifted the sands of mars, tasted the electric crackle of Jupiter’s storms and gazed deep to the dawn of time though Hubble’s eyes.

As the medieval Europeans built great cathedrals, the Egyptians there pyramids and the Greeks there philosophies so we have gone into the depths of physics and mathematics and left monuments to our greatness to shine among the rotten heaps of our disgrace we will leave.

We may have squandered the riches of oil and gas on vanity and conceit but by god have we lived lives too envy.

11:06 am - The economist on the collapse of manufacturing.

Link

It is a well and truly brutal story of where the global economy is right now. 'Chainreaction decompressions' up and down the system feeding of off each other. If not a Minsky moment, then certainly a deeply worrying recession at least on a par with the 70s. Over supply leads to deflation leads to economic ructions.

Put old Hubbert is peaking around the corner, this is all just starting to kick off now.

09:49 pm - New Arctic expidition

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=a3q1UXPWvNnA&refer=home

09:46 pm - The break up of the Wilkins ice sheet continues apace....

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMWZS5DHNF_index_0.html



The latest images from the ESA, an image of the beak up of the giant ice sheet.

09:24 pm - "Economic Stalingrad"

$1.7 trillion of oustanding debt in the East and 1/4 of it needs rolled over this year. EU banks set to go boom. Its like subprime Eurostyle.

Link

You gotta admit this clusterfuck just gets worse.....

07:06 pm - Denialist in chief goes out to bat for ID.......

Link to Booker bonkersness

Now I am not a big fan of the term denialist. I reserve it for the loonies out there and Chris Booker is one effing huge looney.

06:22 pm - Apparently the head of the Chinese Banking regulators "hates us"

www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/02/12/we_hate_you_guys/

They can clearly see the inflation coming down the road that these stimulus plans will bring. They hitched there horses too the myth of eternal american growth and now are stuck with dollars that will lose value. Same old same old. People have been saying the same thing for over ten years now about US deficit spending. Everyone knows its a bit of a con but everyone wants to be at the party.....

11:42 pm - Der Spiegel on the coming world food crisis.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,606937,00.html#ref=nlint

Falling water tables are also adversely affecting harvests in many other countries. In China, a groundwater survey revealed that the water table under the North China Plain, an area that produces over half of the country's wheat and a third of its corn, is falling fast. Overpumping has largely depleted the shallow aquifer, forcing well drillers to turn to the region's deep aquifer, which is not replenishable. The aquifer is dropping at a rate of nearly three meters per year. A 2001 World Bank report predicted "catastrophic consequences for future generations" unless water use and supply can quickly be brought back into balance.

As water tables fall and irrigation wells go dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, is shrinking. After peaking at 111 million metric tons in 1997, the harvest fell to 103 million metric tons this year, a drop of seven percent within a decade. During the same period, production of rice, a water-guzzling crop, dropped six percent from 127 million to 119 million tons. Already dependent on imports for nearly 70 percent of its soybeans, China may soon be importing massive quantities of grain as well.
 

In India the margin between food consumption and survival is even more precarious. The country's farmers have drilled 21 million irrigation wells, with the result that water tables are falling in almost every state. In a survey of India's water situation, British author and journalist Fred Pearce reported in August 2004 in New Scientist magazine that "half of India's traditional hand-dug wells and millions of shallower tube wells have already dried up, bringing a spate of suicides among those who rely on them. Electricity blackouts are reaching epidemic proportions in states where half of the electricity is used to pump water from depths of up to a kilometer."

The progressive worldwide depletion of aquifers is making further expansion of food production more difficult. After nearly tripling from 94 million hectares in 1950 to 276 million hectares in 2000, the world's irrigated area abruptly stopped growing. For the world's farmers, peak water apparently has arrived.

Oh and there is more where that came from. Not much we did not already know. Nice to see it spelt out in a major news service.

11:26 pm - Monboit in a nail head moment

Link


That is one right in her balls.