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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 – 29 May 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Transporting fossils of ginormous long-necked dinosaur destabilized the vehicle and caused accident but bones were not damaged when they hit and broke the asphalt
Perspective: Ice-core data of temperatures over last 8,000 years – from which IPCC cherry picked the interval to justify their “man-made global warming” alarmism
Deadliest ever climbing season on Mount Everest
Popocatépetl volcano erupting in Mexico
Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia
USGS data releases on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa
Eruption of Mount Etna in Italy
Still learning about Mount St. Helens
Navigating the ancient oceans
How will the global warming alarmists interpret the cooling of the upper atmosphere?
- https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-upper-atmosphere-cooling
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300758120
Turnagain Arm mudflats can be deadly – stuck in the mud & then the tide quickly rose
NOAA predicts average number of storms for 2023 North Atlantic Hurricane season
Giant Sevier gravity slide in Utah had exceedingly low basal friction due to trapped thermally pressurized fluids
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/a-giant-rockslide-on-a-bed-of-steam
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GC010783
Need for curating scientific data
Southern Ocean may derive nutrients from penguin guano washing off the land – declining penguin populations
Visualizing the uranium mining industry
5,000+ previously unknown species found in future deep-sea mining hotspot in Pacific Ocean CCZ
- https://www.treehugger.com/5000-new-deep-sea-species-found-future-mining-hotspot-7504578
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00534-1
Short-term changes in lake area in permafrost regions of Arctic & Tibetan Plateau (1987-2017)
Recent volcanic activity ended about 8,300 years ago in Garrotxa region of Iberian Peninsula
Deep circulation impacts oxygen levels in Southern Ocean
- https://phys.org/news/2023-05-earth-deep-ocean-oxygen-declining.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01667-8
Whales very rarely have cancer – Peto’s paradox
- https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-paradox-of-how-whales-avoid-cancer-has-a-new-solution
- Paper preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.07.539748v1.full.pdf
Iron-rich meteoritic and volcanic particles may have helped generate life on Earth 4.4 byo
- https://www.sci.news/space/iron-rich-meteoritic-volcanic-particles-origin-life-reactions-early-earth-11951.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33741-8
Saber-toothed predator may have migrated 11,300 km across Pangea
Painting of Benjamin Franklin’s 1752 kite experiment is likely riddled with errors
Impacts of gold mining in Venezuela in the Mining Arc of the Orinoco
NASA launches final pair of satellite quartet designed to track tropical cyclones hour by hour
AI in Geology? Perhaps to suggest explanations that geologists could then review and either accept or reject
Modeling quantitative composition of ultrahigh-pressure fluid in deep subduction zones – cycling of C & S
- https://phys.org/news/2023-05-quantitative-composition-ultrahigh-pressure-fluid-deep.html
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219083120
Book Review: “Deep Oakland: How geology shaped a city” – see segments of Hayward fault
Once again assessing heavy metals contamination in groundwater in Punjab & Haryana, India
Perspective: The risks of burying carbon dioxide deep underground
In Memoriam: Arthur Gibbs Sylvester (1938-2023) – UCBS Professor Emeritus and valued colleague
Mourne Gullion Strangford in Northern Ireland formally designated as UNESCO Global Geopark
River erosion in Appalachia creates habitats that support biodiversity of freshwater fish species
Geological compass marketing analysis reflects the on-going need for this basic tool
The resurgent dome of Long Valley Caldera in California
- https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/calvo/news/what-makes-long-valleys-resurgent-dome-reach-skies
- SIR 2017-5022-L: https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2017/5022/l/sir20175022l.pdf
Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado
Mantle core samples obtained by JOIDES Resolution in Expedition 399
- https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle
- https://joidesresolution.org/record-hole-in-mantle-rock/
Optimism for nickel mining bordering Lake Superior – proposed copper-nickel PolyMet Mine
University of Kansas graduate student fell from off-trail rocky overhand & drowned in Glacier National Park
Eruption of Tonga volcano in 2022 disrupted satellite signals
Significant amounts of fallout radionuclides from nuclear accidents & weapons testing contained in glacial ice
This makes “perfect” sense: store “green” hydrogen gas in coal
- https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/the-surprising-plan-to-store-hydrogen-in-coal
- https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2023/05/27/coal-as-a-geological-hydrogen-battery-a-promising-breakthrough-i.html
Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 29 May 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Chalice Brands Ltd cannabis company in Canada files for credit protection (i.e., bankruptcy)
Hop-latent viroid (HLVd) infectious pathogen spreading across 90% of California marijuana farms over past decade & destroying crop production – infected product has been sold – raises the question of risks if you smoked it: “can cause painful sickness in very small amounts, regardless of whether it is inhaled or ingested”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/infectious-pathogen-silently-spreads-to-over-90-of-california-s-cannabis-farms-destroying-thc-production/ar-AA1bHrop
- Health impact: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8223652/
Battling cannabis consumption on board Carnival Cruise Lines ships – using drug detection dogs
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/high-seas-showdown-cruise-line-s-solution-to-combat-weed-consumption-on-board/ar-AA1bEFua
- https://www.thestreet.com/travel/carnival-cruise-line-has-a-cannabis-solution-drug-dogs
Chuckwalla Valley, California, has been transformed from oasis to a dead sea – blue shimmer attests to sprawling & myriad number of solar panels covering 150,000 acres – as California suffers blackouts, critical habitat destruction & “lethal death traps” for birds
“Sanctuary cities” are significantly declining as illegal immigrants continue to cross Southern Border
Investigating the disappearance of 30-ton shipment of explosive ammonium nitrate in California – load left Wyoming but rail cars were empty when train reached Mojave Desert
Nevada Dept of Agriculture confirms first case of rabies for 2023 in bat from Clark County
Monitoring use of freshwater resources for fracking in Colorado during drought
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052023/colorado-fracking-wastewater-drought/
- Report: https://www.fractracker.org/2023/05/evaluation-of-the-capacity-for-water-recycling-for-colorado-oil-and-gas-extraction-operations/#top
Stupid human behaviors get quick response from Bison in Yellowstone – Bison do not like cell phones
CRS InFocus – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Status of O&G Program
Huge clothing dump in the Atacama Desert is visible on satellite image – 39,000 metric tons of waste created by “fashion” industry every year is dumped
IPCC cherry-picked ice core temperature data to justify their “anthropogenic global warming” hype
Study claims 20% of world population could live with “dangerous heat” by 2100 – but 600M in India, 300M in Nigeria and 100M in Indonesia are in human-created urban heat islands
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052023/todays-climate-heat-2100/
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6
Romancing the River: Glen Canyon Dam and Another America
Report cites nearly 2,000 children abused by more than 450 Catholic leaders in six dioceses in Illinois
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/report-nearly-2-000-children-161016887.html
- Report: https://clergyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/
Newborn abandoned Bison calf euthanized after Yellowstone Park visitor touched it & lifted it out of the river
Only took 1 month for the new plastic manufacturing plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to exceed yearly pollution limits for VOCs – agrees to pay $10M in permit violations – also cited for excess emissions of nitrogen oxide and hazardous air pollutants (including carcinogens)
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25052023/shell-agrees-to-pay-10-million-after-permit-violations-at-its-giant-new-plastics-plant-in-pennsylvania/
- https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/shapiro-administration-secures-10-million-payment-from-shell-including-6-2-million-for-local-community-to-resolve-air-quality-violations/
How not to build a nuclear power plant – over budget and delayed schedules in Georgia & South Carolina
US Supreme Court unanimous ruling puts new limits on Clean Water Act and WOTUS
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-delivers-blow-to-key-biden-environmental-policy-in-unanimous-ruling/ar-AA1bGPIM
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-rules-for-landowners-limits-clean-water-act/ar-AA1bGraI
- Supreme Court Ruling: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf
Book Review: Science Communications in a Crisis: An Insider’s Guide – effective communication needs to be heard and properly acted upon – not like the Plandemic kneejerk
Our devolving social culture
Using LEDs for street lights may save energy cost but causes more light pollution
How will the global warming alarmists interpret the cooling of the upper atmosphere? – “the sky is falling”
- https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-upper-atmosphere-cooling
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300758120
Northern Nevada Correctional Center will hold saddle-started wild horse and burro adoption event
Many animal populations and whole species “sliding toward extinction” due to human impacts on the world – only 3% of species increasing
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-sixth-extinction-is-underway-study-finds-but-here-s-why-all-hope-is-not-lost/ar-AA1bBCVj
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/brv.12974
Shipping infrastructure (locks and dams) on Mississippi River is aging well beyond 50-year lifespan
Construction begun on $14.26B Zaodu Reservoir Project in Chongquing Municipality of China
Plan to “fix” transmission problems in California expected to cost $7.3B
Carbon capture & removal projects are mostly still in early-stage project development
Using LEDs for street lights may save energy cost but causes more light pollution
3,400 buildings in San Francisco at severe risk from seismic shaking
More cities consider throwing money away on high-speed rail systems – have not learned any lessons from LA-San Francisco and Southern California-Las Vegas fiascos
Carbon credits for nitrous oxide emission reductions are a “reward for bad behavior”
What you might need to know about produced water
Armed illegal immigrants also a problem at the Northern Border in Montana – smuggling drugs
Biden administration released 2,300 illegal alien convicts & 2,850 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges into the country over the past five months
Visualizing the cities with the most skyscrapers – helps explain why some cities are sinking
“Fossil Future – Why global human flourishing requires more oil, coal and natural gas – not less – educators & students can request free copy
Against climate hypocrisy of the IPCC - The technological and physical plausibility of achieving net zero, as well as its definition (and consequences), are subjects of extensive scientific debate.
Visualizing all of the roads by continent – US has the largest road network – Palau has the smallest network
US Circuit Court of Appeals found US F&W Service violated Endangered Species Act in 2019 when authorized killing up to 72 Grizzlies in parts of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Detailed micro-scale mapping of urban heat islands using interdisciplinary approach
- https://phys.org/news/2023-05-interdisciplinary-urban-islands.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095523001086
Here’s a twist: failed antibiotic being used as week killer – what does that say about antibiotic resistance?
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230524182017.htm
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04895-y
This is not science: up to 30% of published neuroscience papers may be “faked” according to AI
US Court of Appeals temporarily halts construction of Oak Flat copper mine on sacred Indigenous land in Arizona – timeframe for final EIS not yet determined
Plant-based cashew brie cheese caused multi-state outbreaks of Salmonella – moral: eat real cheese
Dysentery was widespread in Old Testament Jerusalem
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/soil-samples-from-iron-age-toilets-show-dysentery-was-widespread-in-jerusalem/
- Paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/giardia-duodenalis-and-dysentery-in-iron-age-jerusalem-7th6th-century-bce/FD98E6D61F8D264616547EA4EBED69E4
Tainted surgeries in Mexico resulted in at least 2 deaths – more may have brain fungal meningitis infections
- https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/two-dead-in-us-from-tainted-surgeries-in-mexico-206-more-may-have-brain-infections/
- CDC Alert: https://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/meningitis-epidural-anesthesia.html
Federal Appeals Court blocked EPA from turning down Arkansas plan for “good neighbor” air pollution rules
Sediment spills and flooding along Coastal GasLink pipeline project across northwest British Columbia, Canada
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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 29 May 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Alcatraz Island once again a haven for birds – peregrine falcons now nesting there
Trying to understand why orcas are attacking boats off the Iberian coast and in Strait of Gibraltar – behavior spreading through social learning sort of like wokeness spreading by social media
- https://www.necn.com/news/national-international/scientists-are-puzzled-by-orcas-sinking-boats-in-a-string-of-abnormal-attacks/2985363/
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/23/killer-whale-gladis-gang-orcas-sinking-yachts-gibraltar/
Super Typhoon Mawar hit Guam with strong winds, storm surge and heavy rainfall
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/triple-threat-super-typhoon-mawar-144754580.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/weather/guam-typhoon-mawar-damage-thursday/index.html
Almost 20,000 invasive Lionfish removed by fishermen from Gulf of Mexico in two days during Emerald Coast Open Lionfish Tournament – largest measured almost 18 inches
Can skyscraper-sized floating wind turbines be prevented from drifting away?
Finally doing the right thing: Buyout of Rodanthe homeowners less costly than beach re-nourishment at Cape Hatteras National Seashore - $43M buyout cheaper than adding sand every year ($120M over 15 years)
- https://islandfreepress.org/outer-banks-news/solutions-are-few-for-imperiled-oceanfront-homes-per-virtual-workshop-meeting/
- https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/05/report-buyout-rodanthe-homeowners-less-costly-beach-nourishment-cape-hatteras
- https://www.coastalnewstoday.com/post/nc-report-buyout-of-rodanthe-homeowners-less-costly-than-beach-nourishment-at-cape-hatteras
- https://coastalreview.org/2023/05/buying-out-threatened-oceanfront-homes-is-not-a-crazy-idea/
- Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10dznS3rfcBvbnij4BYCqRwlwFBSsm34a/view
Louisiana approved updated coastal master plan for $50B wetland restoration & storm protection projects for next 50 years & approved $1.6B annual coastal plan for 2024
Action urged to address risks from spewing oceanfront septic systems of homes that have collapsed or are at risk of falling into ocean along North Carolina Coast
Ivory Coast imposes ban on EEZ fishing for tuna & other species to conserve stocks
Bulk carrier M/V Xin Hai Tong 23 was grounded in the Suez Canal – tug boats successfully refloated it
Globally coastal ecosystems are vital sink for GHGs
New maps show areas with potential for extreme coastal flooding in New Zealand
- https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/05/25/new-maps-released-showing-where-coastal-flooding-could-occur/
- Maps: https://niwa.co.nz/natural-hazards/our-services/extreme-coastal-flood-maps-for-aotearoa-new-zealand
- Report: https://niwa.co.nz/sites/niwa.co.nz/files/Coastal%20flood%20mapping%20methodology%20report%20FINAL_0.pdf
Paper: framework for evaluation of coastal protection schemes – Sand Engine App
Pilot program for mooring changes in Newport Beach submitted to California Coastal Commission
Nominating “Area of Environmental Concern” (AEC) may promote “responsible development”
"Fiction is where I go to tell the truth." - Pat Conroy
Matthew,
I post a wide variety of topics on each weekly Bulletin Board that I compile. The format (i.e., a leader line) is designed to promote a quick scan of what is in the news followed by the URL link to allow those who wish to delve further into the topic.
I post a wide variety of perspectives, aiming to promote critical thinking. Those perspectives include many "sides" of the topics, not just the ones that are politically correct.
The scientific method includes systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses as one considers all possibilities, including the null hypothesis.
There is nothing in the Bulletin Board posting that compels anyone to read the Bulletin Board or any given topic that is listed. That is your choice. But the feedback that I receive confirms that many people appreciate all the work that goes into compiling each list and gain value from reading not only the lists, but many of the referenced articles.
I extend my appreciation to all my colleagues for recommending articles to include on the Bulletin Boards.
Posted by: EJ Hanford | Monday, 19 June 2023 at 09:13 PM
I've truly enjoyed this blog over the years, but I barely pay attention to these "bulletin board" posts with their dozens of links. It's too much info, too many links, too devoid of context. But a couple of items in this latest one caught my eye.
I see accusations of the IPCC "cherry-picking" data and two mentions of those who believe that climate change is real and a grave cause for concern are "alarmists."
I know you have a disclaimer that you do "not necessarily agree" with what you publish, but are these really the kind of views you wish to amplify?
Posted by: Matthew Heberger | Thursday, 01 June 2023 at 12:23 AM