More methane
Recently my notice has been captured by a couple of interesting reports about methane. First, it seems that there is twice as much carbon in the form of methane in permafrost than we previously thought. In fact about 1.5 trillion [...]
How good is the good news on methane?
A few weeks ago news came though that “the climate threat posed by methane trapped at the bottom of the world’s oceans is not as bad as first thought.” We all breathed a little easier. The CSIRO and other scientists [...]
Arctic update II
Since we last looked at the Arctic ice coverage the equinox has been passed, the sun has set and the sea is icing up again quite nicely considering the ice loss fell just short of the 2007 record.
Throw another roo steak on the barbie
One of the new elements in the Garnaut Review’s final report is an analysis of “Transforming rural land use” in chapter 22. It’s a tour of some of the ways in which agricultural and forestry practices might change to increase [...]
The worst news you've heard all week
If this is true, we’re in even deeper climate trouble than we thought: The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the [...]
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