Dr. Ricky Rood's Climate Change Blog

Ricky this novel idea can also prevent pine beetle infestations from occuring in the more Northern Latitudes as they can regulate climate.

15. Vortex2 5:23 AM GMT on June 12, 2009
Cyclone, I really don't know what to tell you about your tube system for regulating the gulf stream. It's well beyond the scope of what we're trying to do with the VORTEX2 project. Its a novel idea to be sure, but i suggest you try the climate blog by Dr. Ricky Rood, also a featured blog on wunderground. Sorry we can't be of more help, and good luck!

This is a climate change blog correct? Why isn't there anyone talking about climate change and how we can change it? If we have changed it with "Greenhouse Gasses" then how are going to change it back ? Another thingy! Scientist should be all over this blog site coming up with ideas to change it back. Arguments lead to discovery so lets argue it out!!You can argue and keep it clean at the same time. So lets fight!Who is going to throw the first punch?

Damn...I'm good...knocked cb right out...

next?

Round one is not over yet.

what ya gonna do? Sick Al Gore on me?

OHHHHHHH....I'm so scared.....

;)

Quoting NRAamy:
what ya gonna do? Sick Al Gore on me?

OHHHHHHH....I'm so scared.....

;)

Als wife may get jealous!! She may give you a few Tips!

Where are all the brainiacs on this subject? Come on out wherever you are.

Fascinating!

Are Changes In Earth's Main Magnetic Field Induced By Oceans' Circulation?
ScienceDaily (June 15, 2009) — Some 400 years of discussion and we’re still not sure what creates the Earth’s magnetic field, and thus the magnetosphere, despite the importance of the latter as the only buffer between us and deadly solar wind of charged particles (made up of electrons and protons). New research raises question marks about the forces behind the magnetic field and the structure of Earth itself.
The controversial new paper, published in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society), will deflect geophysicists’ attention from postulated motion of conducting fluids in the Earth’s core, the twentieth century’s answer to the mysteries of geomagnetism and magnetosphere.

Professor Gregory Ryskin from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in Illinois, US, has defied the long-standing convention by applying equations from magnetohydrodynamics to our oceans’ salt water (which conducts electricity) and found that the long-term changes (the secular variation) in the Earth’s main magnetic field are possibly induced by our oceans’ circulation.


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People will be forced to do what the beetle is doing unless we change the climate back to what it was pre-industrial revolution.


Global warming causing mass migration

Experts have in the past warned that climate change will strain natural resources available and increase the likelihood of resource wars. Water will become scarcer in many regions across the globe, and nations are expected to seize and ration national resources. In drought regions, civil unrest or even wars could be the result. Observers are especially concerned over regions in India and China.
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Berlin (UPI) Jun 15, 2009
Global warming will submerge island states, destroy farmland and force millions of people into migration by 2050, according to a report unveiled at climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany.
Worsening tropical storms, desert droughts and rising sea levels will displace 200 million people by 2050, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration included in a report authored by the U.N. University, CARE International and Columbia University.

On the sidelines of climate negotiations in Bonn, the study's authors warned that mass migration could become a dangerous new mega-trend. They called on nations to prepare strategies to deal with the migration and maybe even prevent it by making people less dependent on weather fluctuations, for example by dispensing irrigation technologies in drought regions. "We need new thought models and practical ideas to reduce the threats climate change poses to human health and security," the Berliner Zeitung newspaper quoted the study's main author Koko Warner as saying.

There is no time to lose, as forced migration is already happening: In 2008 an estimated 20 million people lost and fled their homes, aid agencies reported this past week in Bonn.

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So getting back to this beetle, do we know that they can't survive in sustained cold or is this just an assumption?

12. Sh0cK 7:13 AM PDT on June 16, 2009
So getting back to this beetle, do we know that they can't survive in sustained cold or is this just an assumption?

has anyone consulted the beetle?

why not try throwing some in a meat locker, see what happens?

CB, I read That report on comment #10 That science report seems a little to stretched a pseudo science. I go with the rotating iron core. Mars lost its atmosphere when a huge meteor cracked open it's mantle and stopped its core from spinning. Did you read about those bacteria that got re-awakened after 120k years within the Greenland ice? Global warming will release/awake among us more than just a few new parasites, causing who knows how many new pandemics. Who knows maybe 2/3rds of mankind could be wiped out. Here is a new scare headline "Due to warming, New Viruses and germs released from the ice and permafrost may cause havoc"

I read that story too.

Could be Zeeker but not if they build the tunnels to keep them locked in the ice where they belong.

New research:

"Sediment yields climate record for past half-million years

COLUMBUS, Ohio %u2013 Researchers here have used sediment from the deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate that dates back more than the last half-million years.

The record, trapped within the top 20 meters (65.6 feet) of a 400-meter (1,312-foot) sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, gives new information about the four glacial cycles that occurred during that period.

The new research was presented today at the Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. The meeting is jointly sponsored by the American Geophysical Union and the National Science Foundation.

Harunur Rashid, a post-doctoral fellow at the Byrd Center, explained that experts have been trying to capture a longer climate record for this part of the ocean for nearly a half-century. "We've now generated a climate record from this core that has a very high temporal resolution, one that is decipherable at increments of 100 to 300 years," he said.

While climate records from ice cores can show resolutions with individual annual layers, ocean sediment cores are greatly compressed with resolutions sometimes no finer than millennia.
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/osu-syc061509.php

Huh. I wonder how recent the record goes to. I'd like to reliably know what was going on 1200 to 600 years ago.

Quoting Zeeker:
CB, I read That report on comment #10 That science report seems a little too streched a seudo science. I go with the rotating iron core. Mars lost it's atmosphere when a huge meteor cracked open it's mantle and stopped its core from spinning. Did you read about those bacteria that got re-awakened after 120k years within the Greenland ice? Global warming will release/awake among us more than just a few new parasites, causing who knows how many new pandemics. Who knows maybe 2/3rds of manking could be wiped out. Here is a new scare headline "Due to warming, New Viruses and germs released from the ice and permafrost may cause havoc"

However, the germs that could be released from the ice due to warming are just part of nature trying to get rid of whats helping or causing the warming, humans. Nature always has a way of reseting things, and that is death. With so many people using CO2 emmiting machines, nature will adventually release something that gets rid of the people using the machines. Thats is just the way things go.

The beetle is slowed down with cold weather, as the winters warm up they can continue their devastation over the winter. I have noticed that our native pinon pines are dying out at an alarming rate, starting at the lower elevations and traveling on up. These beetles can and will devastate our western forests. Since they live inside the tree a contact insecticide will do nothing against them, it has to be systemic I doubt very much that we can win this battle. Our environment is changing whether you believe it is man made or just a natural climatic change and sadly the way our world looks and the animals in it will change also.

I assume that we are talking about Dendroctonus ponderosae here. It is worth noting that its relative D. rufipennis just happens to be running wild in the spruce forests, causing similar damage, especially on the Wasatch Plateau in Utah; meanwhile, D. frontalis and D. terebrans have been causing big kills of pines in the East recently. That leaves the firs--if the balsam woolly adelgids don't get them. This is a mess, and millions of recently killed trees will be likely to fuel superfires when ignited.

"... zomtimes.. zee beetle... iz just a beetle..."


"Imagine"... that.....

Tunnels will move the pine beetle elsewhere! Any questions?

Climate Change Already Having Impact On U.S., Expected To Worsen
ScienceDaily (June 17, 2009) — Extreme weather, drought, heavy rainfall and increasing temperatures are a fact of life in many parts of the US as a result of human-induced climate change, researchers report. These and other changes will continue and likely increase in intensity into the future, the scientists found. For the southwest region of the United States, which includes California, the report forecasts a hotter, drier climate with significant effects on the environment, agriculture and health.

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CB, On Comment #22. I read that article and followed some links and clues. Something that was said on the news last week, about how the ocean rise being worse near the equator because of the Earth spin. So this morning it occurred to me, 'since some of Panama is at near sea level, what are the chances of the Pacific current breaking thru and mixing with the Atlantic current? Will a 1 meter rise in the ocean level do it?' Weather wise, what will be the consequences as all that warm water reaches the the convergence point that far north? Anybody capable of running a simulation? will you live to see this happen CB?

Hey...Where all the cricketts go!!! Or did I ask the wrong question?

Quoting Zeeker:
CB, On Comment #22. I read that article and followed some links and clues. Something that was said on the news last week, about how the ocean rise being worse near the equator because of the Earth spin. So this morning it occurred to me, 'since some of Panama is at near sea level, what are the chances of the Pacific current breaking thru and mixing with the Atlantic current? Will a 1 meter rise in the ocean level do it?' Weather wise, what will be the consequences as all that warm water reaches the the convergence point that far north? Anybody capable of running a simulation? will you live to see this happen CB?

Well we know added sea level can cause more pressure on fault lines this would not surprise me. I don't know about in my lifetime though.Perhaps,our kids or grand kids.

Re 23:
The Panama Canal contains fresh water and crests at Gatun Lake, 85 feet above sea level. Interoceanic mixing would not appear to be an issue any time soon.

Snowfire. I agree 85ft seems like a lot. But not when it comes down to loose sand and rocks. Are there not 40ft waves? It's not like if the land called Panama is sitting on Granite. It's most at or close to sealevel. We need a comp-simul. One that takes into account centrifugal bulge and the Currents that push directly from the Pacific into the coast of Panama. Besides considering the inertia society has to overcome to do anything about GW I expect a 1 meter rise within 40 to 60 yrs.

Case in point as far as societies inertia to do anything even easy changes to delay GW. For instance consider the amount of of oil burned by a single small city here. The incredible amount of heat released as a by product each night. Look at this small city in Florence Alabama.
Florence: Spends $590,000 There are 3,438 street lights in Florence with Residential areas are restricted to 100-watt bulbs. Only in high-traffic areas, do lights have a higher wattage, between 250 and 400.
For residential streets, 175-watt mercury or 100-watt, high-pressure sodium lights are used. 400-watt, high-pressure sodium lights along major boulevards,20% light the rest is heat. You'd think that by now they've would have thought..."Gee why don't we put motion sensors on those lights that way they turn off when no one is under them?" I say into you even if Miami and New Orleans was to go underwater today, society will not enact even that simple sugestion. Go to the link below to see some truly amazing pics of our world at night time.
environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/20-amazing-images-of-earth-as-seen-from-space

I have lived in the Northern Inter-mountain forest between the Cascades and the Rockies for 40 years and during this time have seen the pine bark beetle come and go. We have had years in which we were worried they were increasing and then followed by years when they are only noticeable in small areas.They are always here but not often in large numbers. I own forest land so I notice the health of my trees and I have not seen any particular trend as regards supposed increase. During my travels through these areas one often sees relatively small areas that are severely effected but it seems to me there have always been the same phenomenon occurring over the years with no particular trend. I certainly do not see the beetles moving into new territory as they seem to have been all through the region for many years. I don't see any secular increase in numbers over the years.
Just what I am seeing on the ground.

CO2 Levels are Highest in 2.1 Million Years

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More sad sad news about the corals.


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Very interesting. Still learning...

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Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo.

The paper, published on June 21 in Nature Geoscience, describes fieldwork demonstrating that a prehistoric glacier in the Canadian Arctic rapidly retreated in just a few hundred years.

The proof of such rapid retreat of ice sheets provides one of the few explicit confirmations that this phenomenon occurs.

Should the same conditions recur today, which the UB scientists say is very possible, they would result in sharply rising global sea levels, which would threaten coastal populations.

"A lot of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland are characteristic of the one we studied in the Canadian Arctic," said Jason Briner, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and lead author on the paper. "Based on our findings, they, too, could retreat in a geologic instant."
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From: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uab-isc061909.php

There is similar tree damage down the road from me, pine trees filled with holes, and all dead. I'll get a pic to post here later. Red Pine trees were the ones attacked.

I am a resident in Kent City, MI by the way.

Ricky, why not do a blog that discusses all the benefits of global warming....Because I tend to ONLY hear the bad side....You CANNOT possibly explain every conceivable bad thing that happens on this earth to warm temperatures. And then tell us we are responsible for malaria, storm surge, and any other thinkable natural disaster...

Beetles are a symptom of climate change--and since insect populations can be quickly mobile, while trees are not, beetles moving into new areas can cause great damage to trees not adapted to them!

Too simplistic of a statement with no meteorological facts. How many people die of the cold each yr btw? I dont believe Ive ONCE heard an AGW supporter tell me the whole story about temperature(ie: warm AND cold statistics) to advocate the AGW agenda....

There are NUMEROUS factors that affect bug populations, diseases, and mortality rates....You cant just shove "global warming" as the sole reason for every disaster. This is why much of the public does not believe in global warming. Sounds too much like a tall tale and exaggeration. In fact sebastianjer posted quotes from AGW supporters who ADMIT they intentionally exaggerate the threat so people will believe in AGW....

Feral beasts threaten lemurs in Madagascar:
An interview with lemur expert Dr. Michelle Sauther
Rhett A. Butler, wildmadagascar.org
The lemurs of Madagascar are among the world's most threatened primates. Extensive habitat destruction, hunting, and the introduction of alien species have doomed dozens of species to extinction since humans first arrived on the island within the past 2000 years. Most of the casualties were Madagascar's largest lemurs -- today the biggest lemur is but a fraction of the gorilla-sized giants that once ruled the island. Despite this relative impoverishment of megafauna, Madagascar still boasts nearly 90 kinds of lemurs, all of which are unique to the island (save one species that was probably introduced to some nearby islands).



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Looking at today's GSST. Wow now that's what I call one big El Nino. It covers almost 3/4 of Indian Ocean and most of the Pacific. However most of that temp rise is due to increased underwater volcanic activity, From Vanatau to Aleuatian trench. Huge amounts of 3.5 tremors all over the Ring of Fire.