Near-Term Human Extinction

Global Warming and Feedbacks Is there a mechanism that could make humanity go extinct in the not-too-distant future, i.e. within a handful o...

Abrupt Climate Change - by Paul Beckwith

by Paul Beckwith Humans have benefited greatly from a stable climate for the last 11,000 years - roughly 400 generations. Not anymore. We no...

Arctic Methane Release and Rapid Temperature Rise are interlinked

The image below shows methane readings on November 17, 2013 p.m. [ click on image to enlarge ] Very high methane readings are present over t...

Locating sources of the world's highest methane levels

Above image shows IASI methane readings end October 2013 on the Northern Hemisphere. Clearly, high methane levels are very prominent over th...

Are Alberta’s Tar Sands prepared for a torrential rain event?

by Paul Beckwith In recent months we have endured incredible tropical-equatorial-like torrential rain events occurring at mid-latitudes acro...

Abrupt Climate Change

What is Abrupt Climate Change? Abrupt climate change is defined by the IPCC as a large-scale change in the climate system that takes place o...

Just do NOT tell them the monster exists

The Arctic Methane Monster As discussed in a previous post , the IPCC appears to be acting as if there was a carbon budget to divide among c...

Earthquake hits Laptev Sea

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter scale hit the Laptev Sea on September 28, 2013. [ click on image to enlarge ] This fol...