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The articles displayed herein are selected by Dr. Elaine J. Hanford. I do not necessarily agree with the viewpoints expressed and the article descriptions that precede each link.
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Geoscience Bulletin Board - 16 January 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
No global warming for more than 8 years based on latest satellite data
M7.6 Earthquake in Banda Sea – triggers tsunami warning
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tsunami-warning-after-7-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-indonesia/ar-AA1693UB
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000j36j/executive
Reconstructed loss of molybdenum during Early Jurassic Toarcian ocean anoxic event
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/marine-molybdenum-loss-during-the-toarcian-ocean-anoxic-event
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022AV000671
Using AI to monitor changes in Thwaites Glacier
Monitoring changes in the “Ozone Hole” – “prolonged cold weather and strong winds” are major contributors to the size of the polar ozone holes so the “hole” will never go away but may recover to pre-1980 levels
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ozone-layer-slowly-hole.html
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ozone-layer-hole.html
- Scientific Assessment: https://ozone.unep.org/system/files/documents/Scientific-Assessment-of-Ozone-Depletion-2022-Executive-Summary.pdf
- Ozone hole: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/ozone/ozone-science/antarctic-ozone-hole
Subsidence cracks recognized for years by geologists but no action taken to stabilize slope – evacuation recommended of villages in India – no relocation or rehabilitation so far
- https://indianexpress.com/article/india/2021-land-subsidence-joshimath-found-nearby-village-8370978/
- https://www.livemint.com/news/india/not-only-joshimath-nainital-uttarkashi-champawat-in-uttarakhand-also-at-risk-of-sinking-11673247712750.html
- Photo-essay: https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/how-heavy-unplanned-construction-complex-geology-sinking-joshimath-uttarakhand-2319530-2023-01-10
Kilauea eruptions provide spectacular sights
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to reinforce floor & building addition to house “Dueling Dinosaurs”
California hospitals struggling to meet seismic safety deadline – it’s been more than 50 years since Sylmar EQ damaged Olive View Hospital
- https://www.theunion.com/news/why-hospitals-are-struggling-to-meet-earthquake-safety-deadline/article_7d5ab81e-9081-11ed-91f4-bf1540be56ed.html
- Olive View Hospital: https://laist.com/news/sylmar-eathquake-6-6-50th-anniversary
Zane Grey and ribbons of geologic color near Payson, Arizona
Speculation that skeletal remains found in the desert near Buckeye, Arizona, may be geologist Daniel Robinson who disappeared in the area in 2021
Arizona has many mines reflecting diverse geology & mineralogy
Graphite-bearing areas identified in Ruby Graphite Project in Beaverhead County, Montana
First complete map of the groundwater basins that span the US-Mexico border demarcates 72 shared aquifers
- https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-water-researchers-solve-one-of-the-borderlands-biggest-water-puzzles
- Paper: https://transboundariness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Transboundary-Aquifers-Challenges-and-the-way-forward-UNESCO-Rosario-Sa%CC%81nchez.pdf
Remote cameras provide real-time views of eruptions on Mauna Loa & Kilauea
- https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcano-watch-remote-cameras-provide-new-views-new-eruptions
- Kilauea caldera webcams: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/summit-webcams
USGS continuing to measure record-high streamflows in California
Geology of the Klamath Mountains
Not gold but “fool’s gold” discovered on property at Chester Castle, Hanover, in Jamaica
“Iffyosaur” - specimen in Reutlingen Natural History Museum in southern Germany is not really an ichthyosaur
Complex ridges and valleys of the Zagros Mountains in southern Iran
Racing sand dunes in Namibia – time lapse imagery
A false Christmas Story on Yellowstone
Movement of massive “Arizona Slide” crumbles Highway 101 in Oregon – road surface dropped up to 12 feet
Major rockslide closes State Route 208 in Yerington, Nevada
Contemplating ocean alkalinity enhancement as a scheme for potential CO2 removal – forgetting that the ocean is already part of the global Carbon Cycle – a “climate solution” is not needed as there is no climate crisis
Congressional delegation from Maine put language in federal budget to delay regulations for 6 years to protect critically endangered whales – Government has ruled that whales continue to be protected under ESA
Behavior of minerals deep in the Eart under temperature & pressure conditions in the mantle
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-results-reveal-behavior-minerals-deep.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05410-9
Claiming 2022 as warmest year on record – just remember that record only extends to 1880 so it is just a “blip” in geological history when the Earth was both much warmer and/or much colder
- NASA: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-nasa-warmest-year-trend.html
- Copernicus Report: https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2022
Seasonal temperature variations in West Antarctica during the Holocene based on ice cores – validates Milankovitch cycles
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230111131458.htm
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05411-8
What “aftershock faults” mean for seismic hazard assessment
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/aftershock-faults-and-what-they-could-mean-seismic-hazard-assessment
- Paper: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/3/1/1/619677/Aftershock-Faults-and-What-They-Could-Mean-for
Overview of the source, fate & transport of arsenic in Yellowstone hydrothermal system
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/source-fate-and-transport-arsenic-yellowstone-hydrothermal-system-overview
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377027322002402?via%3Dihub
Possible explanation for increased storm activity in the Southern Hemisphere
- https://beta.nsf.gov/news/southern-hemisphere-stormier-northern-we-finally
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123512119
Environmental Science Bulletin Board - 16 January 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Cows in West Virginia prompted awareness of health dangers of PFAS forever chemicals – waste from Dupont Teflon factory contaminated nearby stream & poisoned cows that drank from it
Modern claims about gender identity conflict with biological science
Temporary white-washing of illegal immigrant crisis in El Paso, Texas
Perspective: Our society & culture has been undermined – The coup we never knew
No global warming for more than 8 years based on latest satellite data
Potentially curbing EVs to save the power grid – an example from Switzerland
Terrorist attack disables solar power plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada
US DOE rejects first batch of bids to replenish Strategic Petroleum Reserve – SPR lowest since 1984
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) include syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea – with steep rise in cases worldwide – WHO estimates 1M new cases of sexually transmitted disease every day – Mycoplasma genitalium (Mgen) is newest concern & is not part of typical STI testing – Mgen may facilitate other STIs – multi-antibiotic resistance increasing in almost all STIs
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/meet-mgen-a-new-sti-going-around-that-no-one-is-talking-about/ar-AA1683p2
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732889322002188
Elk 1 versus dumb humans 0
Cheyenne & Arapaho leaders seek to have massacre site in Oklahoma renamed – currently Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Continuing to conflate contagious with virulence – XBB.1.5 is likely more resistant to vaxx
- https://abcnews.go.com/Health/siounds-alarm-new-covid-variant-transmissible/story?id=96236451
- https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/yet-another-omicron-subvariant-gains-steam-in-the-us/
Study suggests inland port could be successful in Bristol-Wytheville region in western Virginia
RSV – just a scary name for one of a number of viruses that cause croup in young children – fearmongering
- https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230109/What-was-the-prevalence-of-respiratory-syncytial-virus-between-August-and-December-2022.aspx
- https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/tridemic-uptick-s-ga-faces-covid-flu-rsv/article_8d59c2d2-8f19-11ed-9a95-3b1524436133.html
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to offer turkey hunting webinars
New strategies to attempt to control insects – apply volatile repellents to surfaces & blocking humidity sensors
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-strategies-insect.html
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)02050-8
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20488-x
Smallpox has plagued humans since ancient times more than 3,800 years ago
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-smallpox-plagued-humans-ancient-egyptian.html
- Paper: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.000932
Book Review: “Speciesism in Biology & Culture – How human exceptionalism is pushing planetary boundaries”
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-speciesism-racism-imperils-humanity-planet.html
- Link to download: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99031-2
Monitoring changes in the “Ozone Hole” – “prolonged cold weather and strong winds” are major contributors to the size of the polar ozone holes so the “hole” will never go away but may recover to pre-1980 levels
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ozone-layer-slowly-hole.html
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-ozone-layer-hole.html
- Scientific Assessment: https://ozone.unep.org/system/files/documents/Scientific-Assessment-of-Ozone-Depletion-2022-Executive-Summary.pdf
- Ozone hole: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/ozone/ozone-science/antarctic-ozone-hole
EU considering revising environmental emissions of pharmaceutical in global manufacturing supply chains
- https://phys.org/news/2023-01-environmental-emissions-pharmaceuticals-global-chains.html
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/reel.12488
US EPA has proposed new standards for PM2.5 air pollution
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10012023/pm-2-5-air-pollution-epa-standards/
- https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-strengthen-air-quality-standards-protect-public-harmful-effects-soot
- Proposed Rule: https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/proposed-decision-reconsideration-national-ambient-air-quality-standards-particulate
Romancing the River – Quo Vadimus 2
Subsidies will encourage production of “green hydrogen” in Texas will consume vast amounts of energy produced from wind & solar power generation & electrolyzer capacity to break down water – and they call that a “green” process but sure sounds like greenwashing
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012023/texas-hydrogen-wind/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/air-products-and-aes-announce-plans-to-invest-approximately-4-billion-to-build-first-mega-scale-green-hydrogen-production-facility-in-texas-301697873.html
- https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-electrolysis
Jet engine lubrication oils are major source of ultrafine (nanometer-sized) particulates
Moderna & Pfizer proposed $400 price hikes on vaxx are “pure and deadly greed” after taking in $billions
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/covid-vaccines-will-still-be-free-despite-400-price-hike-pfizer-ceo-says/
Lots of precipitation in the Sierras but snowpack is only about 76% of average annual total
NOAA tabulates 18 major storms with more than $165B damages – still blaming “human-caused global warming” rather than acknowledging that humans building more in areas prone to natural disasters
- https://apnews.com/article/weather-climate-and-environment-natural-disasters-99e53454edecb6d286e979f46ceb8dcb
- NOAA Listing: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/
London, England, is most traffic congested city in the world for 2nd year in a row
Interactive GEM mapping too; to identify potential sites for “clean energy” projects
- https://www.anl.gov/article/a-new-tool-helps-map-out-where-to-develop-clean-energy-infrastructure
- GEM: https://gem.anl.gov/
Humans divert 74% of water from Great Salt Lake – GSL on verge of collapse – arsenic-laced dust poses health risks
- https://www.livescience.com/utah-great-salt-lake-verge-of-collapse
- https://www.sciencealert.com/the-great-salt-lake-could-vanish-within-just-5-years-scientists-warn
- Report Exec Summary: https://pws.byu.edu/great-salt-lake
- Report: https://pws.byu.edu/GSL%20report%202023
Diverting $billions of covid-relief funds – potential for more misuse and abuse (fraud)
Increased weight and "unintended consequences" pose safety concerns from EVs
Instituting a "nanny state" - government dictating what we can and cannot do in the name of "climate friendly" incentives to "protect" us
Results of 2013 Pilot Program revealed pesticide residues up to 90 times permitted maximum levels on Australian fruits & vegetables has finally been released
Book Review: The Blessings of Disaster: Lessons that Catastrophes Teach Us & Why our Future Depends on it - do humans really learn lessons? - "human nature...cannot be changed at all"
UN warns that large dams could lose quarter of capacity by 2050 due to sediment accumulation
- https://inweh.unu.edu/trapped-sediment-robbing-worlds-large-dams-of-vital-water-storage-capacity-26-loss-by-2050-foreseen/
- Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/219
Paxlovid rebound “doesn’t mean person was resistant…nor does it mean they were reinfected” – virus is much less virulent even though it is more contagious”
Ecotourism touted as a good thin for Kakum National Park and Bobiri Forest and Butterfly Sanctuary in Ghana
Taxpayers paying the costs for the current open-border policies – add $$ to personal risks
US EPA steps back from proposal to designate Permian Basin as ozone nonattainment – EPA “to focus on non-discretionary actions”
MOU signed to design & construct south Tulsa-Jenks low-water dam on Arkansas River
New York State Parks begins construction on $1.7M project to restore portion of the original Erie Canal at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
“Electrifying everything” cannot happen without a significant increase in the number of qualified electricians
The art of agriculture
Six worst floods in the history of Sacramento, California
CCD & FDA flag possible link between vaxx and elevated risk of strokes in elderly but still recommending shots – other risks still exist
Lawsuit filed against BLM for violating environmental laws with planned drilling in Black Rock National Conservation Area
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 16 January 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Gas export terminals pose health & environmental risks to US Gulf Coast residents
Draft coastal master plan for Louisiana promises $11B in hurricane-damage savings – will structural solutions work this time?
Threatened coastal habitats face management challenges – will innovative governance & more $$ help?
Elected officials & 3 water agencies file lawsuit against California Coastal Commission over permitting of desalination project that is “sprawling, expensive and unnecessary”
British Columbia, Canada, seeking public comment on development of coastal marine strategy
- https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c-seeks-feedback-on-first-coastal-marine-strategy-1.6223191
- CMS: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/coastalmarinestrategy
US Coast Guard seeking to determine source of large oil slick in waters off Santa Barbara County
Parasites – a critical link in the marine food web – have significantly declined in Puget Sound
Boknafjord Tunnel contractors selected – 8.6 km tunnel with two tubes & 125 m roadway - $900M cost
EAC 4th Report calls for more focus on tidal power & onshore wind in “net-zero” strategy
Why you should not play golf along the coast at Pebble Beach during atmospheric river storm
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/watch-california-golfers-flee-45-150250033.html
- https://www.golfdigest.com/story/monterey-bay-pebble-beach-lone-cypress-storms-waves-photo-golf
Geology and other features of the Dorset coastline
City of Folly Beach, South Carolina, using new marsh-front data to update 2023 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plan
St Augustine, Florida, searching for coastal storm flooding "solutions"
Planning future projects at Port St. Pete, Florida
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