Category Archives: thermodynamics

the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy; for this blog, also includes heating, ventilation and air conditioning

Northeast India Flood

“Twenty-six of the 27 districts in the tea-and-oil-rich state have been hit by flash floods since June 24 as a result of the torrential rains while the Brahmaputra river has breached its banks in at least nine places.”

Arctic warming linked to combination of reduced sea ice and global atmospheric warming

Nothing to which you should pay attention, just Destruction of Life on the Planet as We know It, move along

Corporations look to plunder Earth’s polar resources

Re-post from Greenpeace International The World’s multinational corporations face an unrelenting problem. Resource extraction has met Earth’s limits. The great fortunes of history were made by plundering resources, but we have taken the best of everything. With few virgin resources left, modern profit-making schemes turn to stock manipulations, debt swaps, and bets on derivative markets. [...]

Ocean Heat Flux

From the Arctic Sea Ice Blog… There are many factors involved in the current long-term decline of Arctic sea ice. From relatively small ones like river discharge, precipitation and soot, to bigger factors like atmospheric patterns and air temperatures. The possibly biggest factor of all is also the factor that is the most unknown and [...]

How We Know We Are Causing Global Heating

And the CO2 meter tells us so

Brown’s Ferry Nuclear Power Plant Has to Shut Down Again

How so very French

Iberdrola

Mitigation, Adaption and Suffering, eh?

Heat Waves Destroy Crop Harvests

“Ironically, the two countries that are planning to build most of the new coal-fired power plants, China and India, are precisely the ones whose food security is most massively threatened by the carbon emitted from burning coal.”

Mexican ISCC

Places where solar thermal are most indicated also may be more susceptible to water shortages, which is a disadvantage of this form of Concentrated Solar Power compared with photo voltaic systems.

Sitting On Top Of The World

So, do you think that Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brought these concerns to add the Arctic Council agenda on behalf of President Obama?

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