by JoNova (blog), May 2017
Welcome to paleolithic politics: in this version, the witchdoctors are syndicated and with lap tops.
Archives quotidiennes :
Are methane seeps in the Arctic slowing global warming?
by Randall Hayman, May 8, 2017, in Science
Good news about climate change is especially rare in the Arctic. But now comes news that increases in one greenhouse gas—methane—lead to the dramatic decline of another. Research off the coast of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago suggests that where methane gas bubbles up from seafloor seeps, surface waters directly above absorb twice as much carbon dioxide (CO2) as surrounding waters. The findings suggest that methane seeps in isolated spots in the Arctic could lessen the impact of climate change.
A paleo-perspective on ocean heat content: Lessons from the Holocene and Common Era
by Yair Rosenthal et al., January 1, 2017
Here we review proxy records of intermediate water temperatures from sediment cores in the equatorial Pacific and northeastern Atlantic Oceans, spanning 10,000 years beyond the instrumental record.
These records suggests that intermediate waters were 1.5–2 °C warmer during the Holocene Thermal Maximum than in the last century.
Intermediate water masses cooled by 0.9 °C from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the Little Ice Age.