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Can anyone explain to me the cause of this massive cold water region in the north atlantic. Is it winds stirring up cold deep water (ekman wind?) Is it a natural variation in currents bringing colder water to the surface? Is there any relationship to the regions north and south of it...

A lot of the really deep oil is in sedimentry basins where there has been tens and hundreds of millions of years of sedimentry deposits from outflowing rivers. For example a lot of the very deep stuff in the gulf of Mexico basicaly has the Appalachians lying on top of it. Since they rose they...

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/04/16/340727/pictures-finnish-f-18-engine-check-reveals-effects-of-volcanic.html" They also have flown sampling missions in BAe Hawks. Should lay aside one or two of the myths about this lock down.

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Has the younger dryas not been noted as starting about 500 years earlier in the Southern Hemisphere. This largely from ice cores from mid lattitude glaciers?

Does anyone know the VEI of this erruption?

First up apologies if this is a violation of a rule or COC. Anyway new paper was published a couple of days ago concerning first flowering dates of flowers in the UK. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/04/01/rspb.2010.0291.full" A report on it was published in...

By the 1790s James Hutton had introduced the idea that things like mountain errosion and other geological features would take millions of years. By the time Victoria sat on the throne the scales involved were being contemplated if not widely accepted.

I have heard a couple of different explations from the jet stream moving south to the alantic dipole shifting. Others are saying that the gulf stream has temporarily shifted towards greenland. Does anyone have a clear idea of what is going on and more important why there has been this shift...

The discrepence between the nothern and southern hemisphere seems to be unexpected. You would think this would affect the temperatures, currently whenever a difference in hemispheres is mentioned the ozone hole and more water in the southern hemisphere are taken as the main causes.

I think the name 'fossil fuel' stuck because it was a neat alliteration. Technically it is not fossilised, that is a different process. The two major groups of fossil fuels currently extracted, the one roughly being coal and the other gas and oil [although gas can come from coal], in terms of...

One of the arguments against AGW causing problems is that the spectra where CO2 absorbs IR is saturated by water absorbing. This is not a problem with the arctic atmosphere. Its too dry. This is not the only source of Arctic amplificaiton but it is one of them.

What do you mean by 'global desert'. Devoid of life or merely arid? The first thing that springs to mind is that it is much drier during the glaciation phases of the current ice age. Give it IIRC its about 50 000 years till we are ready for the next glaciation, anthropogenic CO2 should have been...

Energy constraints will apply equaly to expanding the internet as travel. More dense cities are quite likely to be on the way back, some geographers note a trend among young couples to move into more dense city center areas due to the bull run on oil prices during the past 8 years...