The IPCC issued its Sixth Report from Working Group I: AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. You can read the entire report or shorter summaries.
The new issue of Water Resources IMPACT is now out: New Voices: Students and Young Professionals Speak Out on Water. Some of the folks shown on its cover already are making waves when it comes to new approaches to hydroclimatic and related issues we are facing. They provide a source of optimism for me and keep me honest.
Link to e-version: click here.
Enjoy!
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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 9 August 2021 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Loss of stability of AMOC leading to likely shuts down - extreme cold could come to Europe & parts of North America – the next Ice Age? – “a real concept but the impacts are taken to a dramatic extreme” to hype man-made global warming
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-warns-irreversible-transition-ocean-201451215.html
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-atlantic-ocean-gulf-stream-system-amoc-weakest-1600-years/
Heavy rains triggered mudslides in western Colorado – old burn scar – closed Highway 70 near tunnel
Energy imbalance on Earth – but study uses only 20 years of satellite data & manipulating climate model simulations as basis for claiming “man-made global warming”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/earth-s-energy-imbalance-removes-almost-all-doubt-from-human-made-climate-change/ar-AAMOdt2
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24544-4
Chemistry of erupted basalt along oceanic ridges provides estimate of roughly 1,350 degrees Celsius for magma temperature
Book review: A Brief History of Earth – 4B years in 8 chapters
Decoding the secrets of a 310 myo horseshoe crab brain
- https://phys.org/news/2021-07-decoding-secrets-million-year-old-brain.html
- https://www.livescience.com/310-million-year-old-fossil-brain.html
A new approach to attempting to prevent human-induced earthquakes
New thoughts on the origin of the Moon
Special events scheduled for August at Chimney Rock National Monument
Current conditions may lead to Fujiwhara Effect of weather phenomena in the Pacific
Much of Iran continues to subside due to excessive groundwater withdrawal – numerous illegal wells
What if the Earth stopped rotating? – a thought experiment
Rotation rate slowed down – longer hours of daylight – more oxygen from algal mats
Life in the deep ocean
- https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/life-at-rock-bottom/
- Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imFJ21BerTw
Thermo-chronology data & thermal history modeling of Great Unconformity in Canadian Shield – younger than Great Unconformity exposed in the Grand Canyon
Tremor source processes and volcanic activity & caldera collapse re-inflation of Kilauea
Soil saturation best explains timing of most severe floods in Africa
Sedimentary tepees record carbonate saturation chemistry in evaporative coastal environments
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/sedimentary-tepees-record-ocean-chemistry
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021AV000386
Dispelling myths and legends of Yellowstone
Adding spatially variable velocity field & anisotropy may increase CoSMoS weather simulations
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/improving-weather-simulations-through-increased-generality
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020WR029466
Book Review: 'Earth Observation Using Python: A Practical Programming Guide'
Understanding the death of eddies in the ocean
- https://eos.org/articles/eddy-killing-in-the-ocean
- Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/28/eabf4920
Planetary geology – visualizing the gravitational pull of the planets
3D-printed replicas reveal swimming capabilities of ancient orthoconic cephalopods
- https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/3-d-cephalopods/
- Paper: https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/3-d-cephalopods/
Minor volcanic eruptions could create domino cascade effects – bigger is not always more dangerous
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210806104342.htm
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25021-8
Marking 10 years since M5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia
Physical evidence of 8th century earthquake described in the Old Testament
Volcanic activity of Santorini is related to changes in sea level
Geomythology – dinosaur bones became griffins & volcanic eruptions were the gods fighting
IBERLID - Database of lead isotope analyses of minerals, rocks & metallic archeological objects in Iberian Peninsula
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924694
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016913682100305X
- IBERLID: http://www.ehu.eus/ibercron/iberlid
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 9 August 2021 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Unofficial “Burning Man” festival being held in the Black Rock Desert – “Renegade Man”
Tesla “Megapack” battery burst into flames & burned for 4 days
- https://news.cfa.vic.gov.au/firefighters-bring-large-battery-fire-near-geelong-under-control
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-tesla-battery-pack-burst-112539421.html
Environmental concerns increase as California increases desalination – conditional permit
Hydropower not drawing interest like wind & solar
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/forgotten-giant-hydropower-speed-switch-181457912.html
- Report: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4d2d4365-08c6-4171-9ea2-8549fabd1c8d/HydropowerSpecialMarketReport_corr.pdf
Dubai using drones to shoot laser beams into clouds to produce rain
Companies fighting against plant-based fake meats & fake seafood
PG&E to face criminal charges for starting 2020 Zogg Fire
Homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake results in E. coli levels 7X state mandated health level
Emergency power order in California to counteract prior government decisions
Study recommends 40-year license renewal for aging Columbia nuclear plant in South Carolina
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-study-supports-40-license-093103131.html
- Draft EIS Report: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2120/ML21209A213.pdf
Americans are generally "aggressive washers" and have "culturally overdone it" when it comes to bathing – not to mention the amount of water consumed
Energy imbalance on Earth – but study uses only 20 years of satellite data & manipulating climate model simulations as basis for claiming “man-made global warming”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/earth-s-energy-imbalance-removes-almost-all-doubt-from-human-made-climate-change/ar-AAMOdt2
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24544-4
Western (especially California) power grid lacks resilience
USEPA once again considering WOTUS – wants to revert back to pre-Obama rule
Kissimmee River restoration completed after 22 years
US Forest Service putting our national forests in peril – clearcutting is not sustainable
More federal action needed to protect people from pesticide risks to human health
Synergistic agro-pesticide interaction threat to bees is likely underestimated
Sierra Nevada red fox to be listed as endangered – fewer than 40 remain in the wild
A few areas on south shore of Lake Tahoe to close temporarily to allow eradication treatments of chipmunks carrying endemic plague
Iowa tops list of states using renewable energy
- https://www.thegazette.com/energy/iowa-ranks-first-in-renewable-energy-use-according-to-new-report/
- https://cleanpower.org/news/first-clean-power-annual-report-shows-record-u-s-renewables-growth-and-investment/
People and their “take what you want” attitude are driving the water crisis in the West
As population grows, so does number of people who put themselves at risk of flooding
VOCs in personal care products cause more significant urban ozone air pollution than vehicle exhaust
Winner of python hunt in the Everglades removed 41 Burmese pythons & nest of eggs
Vulnerabilities identified in electronic vehicle home chargers
Transition to electronic vehicles will complicate managing surface water runoff
Hyatt hydropower plant on Lake Oroville forced to shut down due to drought in California
Lake Gonzales along the Guadalupe River drained due to dam failure - video
Fresno Dam has sunk about 10 feet – repairs will cost estimated $71M
- https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/71m-in-repairs-proposed-for-fresno-dam-by-bureau-of-reclamation/article_bd132644-83d8-5d1c-ad46-0135e297c5b2.html
- Draft EA: https://www.usbr.gov/gp/mtao/fresno/fresno_sod_draft_ea.pdf
Criticism of animal testing – animals deliberately infected then killed for research
The cost of invasive species in US National Parks
Health & environmental impacts of bottled water is up to 3,500X higher than tap water
- https://phys.org/news/2021-08-environmental-impact-bottled-higher.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721039565?via%3Dihub
Nighttime heat waves in China intensified as urbanization expands
Paris Accord goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius is “mission impossible”
Asian spotted lanternfly – invasive species found in Rhode Island for the first time
Loss of stability of AMOC leading to likely shuts down - extreme cold could come to Europe & parts of North America – the next Ice Age? – “a real concept but the impacts are taken to a dramatic extreme” to hype man-made global warming
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-warns-irreversible-transition-ocean-201451215.html
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-atlantic-ocean-gulf-stream-system-amoc-weakest-1600-years/
Heavy rains triggered mudslides in western Colorado – old burn scar – closed Highway 70 near tunnel
Energy imbalance on Earth – but study uses only 20 years of satellite data & manipulating climate model simulations as basis for claiming “man-made global warming”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/earth-s-energy-imbalance-removes-almost-all-doubt-from-human-made-climate-change/ar-AAMOdt2
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24544-4
Chemistry of erupted basalt along oceanic ridges provides estimate of roughly 1,350 degrees Celsius for magma temperature
Book review: 'A Brief History of Earth' – 4B years in 8 chapters
Decoding the secrets of a 310 myo horseshoe crab brain
- https://phys.org/news/2021-07-decoding-secrets-million-year-old-brain.html
- https://www.livescience.com/310-million-year-old-fossil-brain.html
A new approach to attempting to prevent human-induced earthquakes
New thoughts on the origin of the Moon
Special events scheduled for August at Chimney Rock National Monument
Current conditions may lead to Fujiwhara Effect of weather phenomena in the Pacific
Much of Iran continues to subside due to excessive groundwater withdrawal – numerous illegal wells
What if the Earth stopped rotating? – a thought experiment
Rotation rate slowed down – longer hours of daylight – more oxygen from algal mats
Life in the deep ocean
- https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/life-at-rock-bottom/
- Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imFJ21BerTw
Thermo-chronology data & thermal history modeling of Great Unconformity in Canadian Shield – younger than Great Unconformity exposed in the Grand Canyon
Tremor source processes and volcanic activity & caldera collapse re-inflation of Kilauea
Soil saturation best explains timing of most severe floods in Africa
Sedimentary tepees record carbonate saturation chemistry in evaporative coastal environments
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/sedimentary-tepees-record-ocean-chemistry
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021AV000386
Dispelling myths and legends of Yellowstone
Adding spatially variable velocity field & anisotropy may increase CoSMoS weather simulations
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/improving-weather-simulations-through-increased-generality
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020WR029466
Book Review: 'Earth Observation Using Python: A Practical Programming Guide'
Understanding the death of eddies in the ocean
- https://eos.org/articles/eddy-killing-in-the-ocean
- Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/28/eabf4920
Planetary geology – visualizing the gravitational pull of the planets
3D-printed replicas reveal swimming capabilities of ancient orthoconic cephalopods
- https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/3-d-cephalopods/
- Paper: https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/3-d-cephalopods/
Minor volcanic eruptions could create domino cascade effects – bigger is not always more dangerous
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210806104342.htm
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25021-8
Marking 10 years since M5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia
Physical evidence of 8th century earthquake described in the Old Testament
Volcanic activity of Santorini is related to changes in sea level
Geomythology – dinosaur bones became griffins & volcanic eruptions were the gods fighting
IBERLID - Database of lead isotope analyses of minerals, rocks & metallic archeological objects in Iberian Peninsula
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924694
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016913682100305X
- IBERLID: http://www.ehu.eus/ibercron/iberlid
Book Review: “Once There Were Wolves” – can rewilding help civilize humans?
You are what you eat – average American eats micro-plastics everyday having significant health effects
Demographics of US population growth
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus COVID-19 statistics by country (click on USA to get State statistics) & CDC tracker
- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
- https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/
- interactive map s: https://geodacenter.github.io/covid/map.html
- CDC Weekly Tracker: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/
Scientists reversed position on origin of virus following phone call with Fauci
NIH funded gain of function at Wuhan Lab – contrary to Fauci testimony to Congress
Does CDC really “follow the science” or are decisions politicized?
- https://nypost.com/2021/07/30/delta-covid-variant-spreads-like-chickenpox-cdc-docs-reveal/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-cdc-has-no-idea-what-it-s-talking-about/ar-AAMYKYrl
The virus continues to mutate and is like to win the war – e.g.: 84% of SFMC staff testing positive were ‘fully vaccinated’
Detrimental consequences of urbanites fleeing to Idaho & other rural areas
More than one year later missing virus sequence data posted to new database overseen by China NCB
California spent nearly $100M for alternate cares sites that ultimately provided little help – spent $2.2M for health corps that “didn’t pan out as was hoped”
Wuhan Lab hazardous waste stream & air conditioning systems defective – repairs in September 2019
Vaccine seeds throughout the body impacting all tissues – impacts ovaries – spiked protein can be toxic and invoke antibody response
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doctor-who-was-part-of-the-team-developing-a-novel-covid-vaccine-platform-tells-laura-a-mistake-was-made/vi-AAMUDqo
- https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-377989296609
Perspective: Censorship of medical & scientific information
HR4884 Employee Rights & Freedoms Act would prohibit employers forcing vaccine mandates
Orange County Board of Education sues California governor over “serious harm’ of child mask mandates
What is wrong with this logic spouted by Fauci? Vaccines do not stop all variants and break-through cases occur - so how does vaccination prevent new vaccine-resistant strain from emerging?
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-vaccine-resistant-strain-of-covid-could-emerge-if-people-don-t-get-vaccinated-fauci/ar-AAMZxYL
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/jhu-covid-researcher-predicts-lambda-variant-will-run-into-a-problem-in-the-u-s/ar-AAMZ5w1
“Professor Lockdown” Neil Ferguson blaming others for his outrageously inflated predictions
Emergency food and nutrition benefits (SNAP) will end in September
Reasoned rules for children attending school in Texas – though “mandaters” do not agree
Wearing a “scarlet letter” at work
Europe about to jettison the AZ vaccine - putdowns, broken promises, rancor and vaccine nationalism
Lambda variant may be more resistant to antibodies produced by vaccines
“People around the world should learn to live with the virus” – new variants will continue to emerge
Student education failed during plandemic – funds not used appropriately
Perspective: Vaccine passports one step closer to dictatorship
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 9 August 2021 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Orcas of Puget Sound receive new habitat protections – additional 15,910 square miles of foraging areas, river mouths and migratory pathways
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/endangered-orcas-protection-us-government-224240171.html
West Grand Terre Island is rebuilt using dredged material using $100M of spill restoration funds
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/heavy-equipment-dredge-rebuild-louisiana-124834559.html
• Video: https://www.fox8live.com/video/2021/07/28/w-grand-terre-barrier-island-restoration/
Climate evolution impacts coastal systems
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-94942-7
Study of potential alterations to Hilo Bay breakwater to be released by U Army COE
Wildfires still raging along the southern coast of Turkey
• https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/wildfires-burn-for-8th-day-in-coastal-areas-of-turkey/
• Images: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/aug/03/turkey-battles-coastalwildfires-in-pictures
Huge mats of sargassum are piling up on beaches in Florida & the Caribbean
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/whats-driving-huge-blooms-brown-123830059.html
“Dead Zone” in Gulf of Mexico is now larger in extent than State of Connecticut
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gulf-of-mexico-s-dead-zone-is-now-larger-thanconneticut/ar-AAMWCCF
Subsidence (eustatic) will result in future flooding along Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket
• https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/08/04/coastal-flooding-erosion-storm-surge-marthasvineyard-nantucket
• Link to report: https://thetrustees.org/content/state-of-the-coast-report/
• Coastal erosion:
https://www.mvcommission.org/sites/default/files/docs/Erosion%20on%20MV.pdf
Proposed new hotel must be approved by Coastal Commission
• https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/proposed-cayucos-hotel-faces-coastal-commissionappeal
Proposal to establish critical habitat for rufa red knot on beaches in Carteret County
• https://coastalreview.org/2021/08/carteret-proposed-as-critical-habitat-for-rufa-red-knot/
Kelp is critical component to ecosystem off California coast – “sequoias of the sea”
• https://news.virginia.edu/content/study-finds-kelp-key-californias-coastal-ecosystems
• Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13849
Emperor penguins recommended as threatened species under ESA
With expansion of Panama Canal, US Gulf ports anticipate $5.4B expansion of facilities & profits
• https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gulf-ports-expanding-their-way-to-big-profits
Record number of manatees dying
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-florida-manatee-deaths-climb-160920524.html
US Coast Guard offloads $1.4B worth of confiscated drugs at Port Everglades
Golden Ray cargo ship capsized in 2019 near Port of Savannah – now leaking oil during salvage – “worst case scenario”
Florida will file suit against Piney Point for millions of gallons of phospo-gypsum wastewater leaked into Port Manatee
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-sues-owner-piney-point-023259140.html
Who owns the beach? It depends…
• https://theconversation.com/who-owns-the-beach-it-depends-on-state-law-and-tide-lines-163405
Red Tides causing dead fish to cover Florida beaches
"Once you start telling yourself the 'We’re doomed!' story, its sequel is, without fail, the 'Why bother?' story." - Jack Rumery
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