More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, based on measurements of ice weight by NASA’s GRACE satellite, said NASA geophysicist Scott Luthcke. The water melting from Greenland in...
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Peak Oil coming faster then predicted?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has revised its World Energy Outlook report, and it’s not pretty. They admitted to having finally done some research, and as a result, have moved their peak-oil date a lot. 2020, that’s in 11 years my friends. At Last, A Date by George Monbiot
Tar sands threatens millions of birds, report says
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail December 2, 2008 at 4:27 AM EST The development of the tar sands could lead to the loss of more than 160 million birds over the next 30 to 50 years because of the elimination of habitat and deaths from drowning in tailings ponds, according to a report being released today. The impact of the oil sands on birds has been in the spotlight, especially since a...