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Category Archives: Climate
100 Years of Drift: Part 2
It’s been 100 years since Alfred Wegener proposed his idea of continental drift. Today’s blog continues the story we began yesterday – the tale of Wegener’s life and the development of his grand idea of mobile continents. This time, we’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geology, History
Tagged Alfred Wegener, climatology, continental drift, fossils, Pangaea, Permian
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Hiding Rising Seas in Sunken Deserts
This weekend, a friend asked me if the rise in the oceans could be drained off into the world’s below-sea-level depressions. Could rising ocean waters be diverted to fill the Dead Sea and Death Valley Depressions, for example? It seems … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Engineering, Environment, Oceans
Tagged climate change, Dead Sea, Death Valley, rising sea level
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200 Years of Volcanic Legacy
I am rather pleased when my favourite non-science journal explains a bit of science – and gets it right! I’ve been reading The Economist ever since I discovered the world, and the magazine has seldom let me down. Here is … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture, Geology
Tagged climate, Frankenstein, Tambora, volcanoes
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Ethical De-extinction
A South Korean biotech firm pulled blood from a frozen female Siberian wooly mammoth. Found on an arctic island in the East Siberian Sea, the creature is the best preserved mammoth ever discovered. When she was dug out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture, Philosophy
Tagged clone, cloning, extinction, mammoth, Tori Herridge, Wollemia nobilis, woolly mammoth
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Ghosts of Christmas Cold
What would a modern Christmas be without Charles Dickens? For a lot of Canadians, Americans, and Brits, Dickens’ Christmas Carol is nearly the apex of Christmas culture: the story of a greedy bitter miserly capitalist whose nightmares awaken the spirit … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture
Tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, climate, Little Ice Age, snow cover
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Catastrophic Floods
An interesting blog posting, Catastrophic History, produced on the website The Not So Solid Earth, makes the point that much of future archeology will be marine archeology. During the last ice age, a lot of sea water was captured in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture, History, Oceans, The Book
Tagged Agassiz, Ballard, Biblical Flood, Black Sea, exploration, history, mountain mystery book, myths, Noah, oceanography
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The Age of Man?
Well, this is not the Age of Aquarius. Last week, geologists met in Berlin to discuss renaming our current geological epoch – the Holocene. They say it began when the ice age ended, 11,700 years ago. The geologists in Berlin … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture, Oceans, Philosophy
Tagged Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Charles Lyell, evolution, extinction, fossils, history, Holocene, oceanography
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Hot Ash
Yesterday’s news out of Japan was the unexpected eruption of a volcano. Hikers – some of them weekend strollers taking pictures of fall colours – were overtaken when the sleeping volcano expelled its nasty breath. Witnesses said that they thought … Continue reading
Mud Flood
Mud at 100 kilometres an hour? It happens. Mount Shasta, in northern California, let loose this afternoon with one heck of a mud flood, apparently caused by a sudden melt of one of its glaciers. Probably not at a hundred … Continue reading