A series of earthquakes measuring up to 5.7 on the Richter scale, across Okalahoma, USA were triggered by injection of waste-water from fracking. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a press release yesterday indicating that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck Prague, Oklahoma in 2011 was unintentionally human-induced. The USGS claims that the magnitude …
Category: Environment
The Polar Vortex and British Rain
Here is a computer generated image of the North Pole's temperature, showing the Polar Vortex - a huge area of Russia and another huge area over America that has frozen over due to air pressure and winds over the north pole are probably a symptom of climate change. The effect of all this cold air …
Gulf stream
Jan 11th 2014 Gulf stream disrupted by polar vortex Freezing winds from the polar vortex that froze America then stormed across the Atlantic, the Gulf Stream kept mid-winter London temperatures at 10 degrees C. but as it pushed and squeezed the warm Gulf Stream it has curved back on itself, away from the UK and …
Profits vs Pollution
Denial of the responsibility of mass genocide by caring more about profits than pollution is one of the worst, slowest and most horrible crimes committed a little bit by each of us, remorselessly and daily. The only path away from the destruction of nature are mired by political crossfire: any bobbing head is likely to …
Trident
The problem with Cameron's argument is that a nuclear weapon is only effective if you do not use it. Can you imagine a non-nuclear state being attacked by a nuclear state? Can Cameron imagine giving the order if he was told that a possibly nuclear missile was headed toward Newcastle? How would he respond? …
Bay of Bengal Delta
Living on a river delta is indeed precarious and the probable results of climate change would progressively add to the effect of wind and current as the sea level start to flood the delta, presently home to 100 million people, a mass migration into central Asia could trigger all sorts of events. How long until …
Doomwatch: North Korea
North Korea is rattling sabres at the US by conducting ballistic missile tests and describing them as partly tests for satellite launches and also now as preparation for attacks on the USA. Recent UN resolutions to tighten sanction in light of the recent rocket tests have included their primary ally China who are suggesting that …
Catastrophic Melt
A world leading ice expert Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University calls for "urgent" consideration of new ideas to reduce global temperatures. Appaently we have about for or five years before the collapse of the ice shelf releasing much methane into our already over heating atmosphere.
Global warming
Watch the video by NASA animating temporature changes from 1880 to 2011