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El Niño Could Grow Into a Monster, New Data Show

by Myrna Posted on April 7, 2014

A powerful El Niño could worsen droughts, intensify heat waves, and contribute to dangerous flooding. alika1712/Thinkstock The odds are increasing that an El Niño is in the works for 2014—and recent forecasts show it might be a big one. As we learned from Chris Farley, El Niños can boost the odds of extreme weather (droughts, typhoons, heat waves) across much of the planet. But the most important thing about El Niño is that it is predictable, sometimes six months to a year in advance. That’s an incredibly powerful tool, especially if you are one of the billions who live where El Niño tends to hit hardest—Asia and the Americas. If current forecasts stay on track, El Niño might end up being the biggest global weather story of 2014. Read the rest at Slate. Taken from:  El Niño Could Grow Into a Monster, New Data Show ; ;Related ArticlesFrame Climate Change as a Food Issue, Experts SayWATCH: Is This Man the Greenest Governor in America?To Fight Climate Change, the Entire World Will Have to Eat Less Meat ;

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New Endurance Records Set as Snow Vanishes From Iditarod Trail

by Myrna Posted on April 1, 2014

Temperatures topped 60 degrees this year during the Iditarod Trail Invitational, leaving trails bare and prompting speculation that climate change was responsible. Read original article:  New Endurance Records Set as Snow Vanishes From Iditarod Trail ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: U.N. Climate Report Authors Answer 11 Basic QuestionsU.N. Climate Report Authors Answer 11 Basic QuestionsDot Earth Blog: A Whale of an International Court Ruling Against Japan ;

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White House Unveils Plans to Cut Methane Emissions

by Myrna Posted on March 28, 2014

The move is the latest in a series of administration actions aimed at addressing climate change without waiting for congressional action. See original:  White House Unveils Plans to Cut Methane Emissions ; ;Related ArticlesWhite House Unveils Plans to to Cut Methane EmissionsDot Earth Blog: Rising Seas + Dams + Aquifer Pumping = Delta BluesFacing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate Change ;

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White House Unveils Plans to to Cut Methane Emissions

by Myrna Posted on March 28, 2014

The move is the latest in a series of administration actions aimed at addressing climate change without waiting for congressional action. Continue at source: White House Unveils Plans to to Cut Methane Emissions ; ;Related ArticlesFacing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate ChangeNew Mexico Is Reaping a Bounty in Pecans as Other States StruggleNew Mexico Reaps Pecan Bounty as Other States Struggle ;

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Facing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate Change

by Myrna Posted on March 27, 2014

Though countries like Bangladesh have contributed little to the industrial pollution driving climate change, they will suffer the most from the devastating consequences. See the original post:  Facing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate Change ; ;Related ArticlesDot Earth Blog: Climate Change Art: That Sinking FeelingMost Chinese Cities Fail Pollution Standard, China SaysNew Mexico Reaps Pecan Bounty as Other States Struggle ;

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A Bigger Nod to Uncertainty in the Next Climate Panel Report on Global Warming Impacts

by 0ge7rota Posted on March 25, 2014

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Inside of a Dog – Alexandra Horowitz

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think, now in paperback. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draw […]

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Dataslate: Helbrutes (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Helbrutes are the vicious Daemon bound war machines of the Chaos Space Marines. Driven insane by the sorcerous wards and chains that bind them to their armoured shells, Helbrutes are barely controlled berserkers that endlessly thirst for battle. The servants of the Dark Gods use Helbrutes as shock troops, unleashing them into enemy lines where they can vent […]

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White Dwarf Issue 8: 22 March 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 8 of White Dwarf sports new releases for both Warhammer 40,000 and The Hobbit: An unexpected Journey. and features battle reports, how to fight Imperial Knights, drybrushing tutorials and more bears than you might reasonably expect. About this series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from the l […]

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Marijuana Horticulture – Jorge Cervantes

Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible is the most complete, thorough, and comprehensive cultivation book available on the market today. This book has been dubbed the “bible” by its readers because it explains every aspect of cultivating marijuana and yielding high quality and abundant crops. It explains […]

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Dataslate: Helbrutes (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Helbrutes are the vicious Daemon bound war machines of the Chaos Space Marines. Driven insane by the sorcerous wards and chains that bind them to their armoured shells, Helbrutes are barely controlled berserkers that endlessly thirst for battle. The servants of the Dark Gods use Helbrutes as shock troops, unleashing them into enemy lines where they can vent […]

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All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition – Mel Bartholomew

Rapidly increasing in popularity, square foot gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden. That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million books describing how to become a successful DIY square foot gardener. Now, with the publication of All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition , t […]

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Dataslate: Tyranid Onslaught – Rising Leviathan III – Games Workshop

The Satys System has been all but overrun by the tendrils of Hive Fleet Leviathan. From beneath the impenetrable Shadow in the Warp, scattered pockets of Imperial resistance still fight on, even as their doom becomes ever clearer. Now the third and final stage of the Tyranids consumption of the system begins, and the largest most terrifying bio-horrors walk […]

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Dickens of a Cat – Callie Smith Grant

Pets are such a big part of so many of our lives. As any pet lover knows, a wagging tail or a tender purr can soothe the soul after a hard day. And sometimes, the presence of dogs and cats in our lives can do even more. In these delightful books, Callie Smith Grant collects stories that celebrate the dogs and cats in our lives–stories that touch our hearts, […]

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes, […]

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Dataslate: Tyranid Onslaught – Rising Leviathan III (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

The Satys System has been all but overrun by the tendrils of Hive Fleet Leviathan. From beneath the impenetrable Shadow in the Warp, scattered pockets of Imperial resistance still fight on, even as their doom becomes ever clearer. Now the third and final stage of the Tyranids consumption of the system begins, and the largest most terrifying bio-horrors walk […]

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A Bigger Nod to Uncertainty in the Next Climate Panel Report on Global Warming Impacts

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Dot Earth Blog: A Bigger Nod to Uncertainty in the Next Climate Panel Report on Global Warming Impacts

by Myrna Posted on March 25, 2014

A longtime climate reporter sees a shift in tone in the next I.P.C.C. report on climate change impacts. Credit:  Dot Earth Blog: A Bigger Nod to Uncertainty in the Next Climate Panel Report on Global Warming Impacts ; ;Related ArticlesObservatory: These Vultures Get First Dibs on the Good PartsAfter the Fact: Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of HumansNational Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Cleanup of Oil Spill in Galveston Bay Expands, With Booms Set Up to Guard Shore and Bird Habitats ;

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A World of Water, Seen From Space

by f45 Posted on March 4, 2014

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Space agencies across the planet launch the most ambitious plan yet to understand how the world’s water works. The GPM Core satellite launches from Japan on Thursday, February 27. Bill Ingalls/NASA. Late last week, from a launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, a rocket shot toward space. Nestled inside it was an amalgam of solar arrays and communications equipment and propulsion instruments, all of them cobbled together in the utilitarian-chic manner favored by aerospace engineers—one more satellite for the growing constellation of man-made objects sent to orbit, and observe, the Earth. NASA calls this latest satellite the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory. I propose we call it, to make things simpler for ourselves, “Core.” Core is, technically, a weather satellite, built to observe the workings of the Earth from beyond its bounds. But it’s more complex than a traditional satellite: Core gets its name from the fact that it is the central unit in a network of nine satellites studded across the exterior perimeter of the Earth, contributed to the cause by various countries and space agencies. Their job? To analyze the planet’s water, from beyond the planet. The Global Precipitation Measurement project, with Core as its central piece of orbiting infrastructure, will provide observations of the world’s snowfall and rainfall and cloud patterns, across a network, at three-hour intervals. Read the rest at The Atlantic.

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Organic winemaker faces jail for refusing to apply pesticide

by OdetteCordeaux Posted on February 24, 2014

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How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: Imperial Knights – Games Workshop

The Knightly Houses of the Imperium march to war, resplendent in their mighty war machines. Heraldry and iconography are of upmost importance to the Knights, each colour and symbol part of the oath to their lord and Emperor. In battle, it is by a Knight’s heraldry that he is known, whether it is the deep green of House Cadmus or the bloody red of House Raven […]

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White Dwarf Issue 4: 22 Feb 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 4 of White Dwarf is dominated by the arrival of the Imperial Knight; we support it with painting guides, full rules and more. About this series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from the latest new releases to modelling and painting guides, gaming features, interviews with designers and writers […]

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Codex: Legion of the Damned (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Appearing from the shifting tides of the Warp, the Legion of the Damned are mysterious bone-adorned Space Marines who arrive unlooked for to aid the servants of the Imperium. No one knows for sure where they come from, but none can doubt the fury with which they fight, or the trail of dead foes they leave in their wake. Tormented by a ghostly past and afflic […]

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Warhammer: Dwarfs – Games Workshop

From their mountain strongholds the Dwarfs march forth to war. Amongst the oldest of the races of the world, the Dwarfs have endured through long centuries of conflict and turmoil. Sturdy and stoic as the mountains they mine, in battle they are implacable foes, standing their ground behind solid shield walls and glittering gromril armour. Dwarf invention mak […]

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My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag . . . and Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha – Jolie Kerr

Jolie Kerr is the author of the popular column “Ask a Clean Person,” which is featured weekly on Deadspin and Jezebel . Her work has also appeared in Fortune , BlackBook , the Urban Outfitters blog, Gothamist , The Hairpin , and The Awl . She has been featured as a cleaning expert in the New York Observer, O Magazine, InStyle, New York Magazine, Time Out New […]

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How to Raise the Perfect Dog – Cesar Millan & Melissa Jo Peltier

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel’s Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, “Yes, […]

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Dataslate: Tyranid Invasion – Rising Leviathan II (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

The invasion of Satys enters a new and deadly phase as the Hive Mind drowns the planet in a deluge of biohorrors. Though tens of thousands lie dead already, the Catachans, led by Colonel Krelm, desperately try to hold key fortifications within the irradiated jungles, hoping to keep the swarm at bay. The surviving members of the Aurora Space Marine Chapter fi […]

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The Art of Raising a Puppy (Revised Edition) – Monks of New Skete

For more than thirty years the Monks of New Skete have been among America’s most trusted authorities on dog training, canine behavior, and the animal/human bond. In their two now-classic bestsellers, How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend and The Art of Raising a Puppy, the Monks draw on their experience as long-time breeders of German shepherds and as t […]

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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Not all battles in the 41st Millennium are massed engagements between lumbering armies and towering war machines. In the shadows of these epic conflicts, squads of elite soldiers clash – their missions no less vital, their foes no less deadly. Designated as Kill Teams by the Imperium, or by a myriad of different names for their alien and daemonic counterpart […]

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White Dwarf Issue 3: 15 Feb 2014 – White Dwarf

Issue 3 puts the new Dwarfs to the test with a battle report against the dastardly Skaven. We also interview the army painters who put together the themed Studio Zhufbar army. About this series: White Dwarf is Games Workshop’s weekly magazine, and boasts a wealth of great content, from the latest new releases to modelling and painting guides, gaming fea […]

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There’s no “warming pause” — trade winds are burying heat in the Pacific

by Natalia3007 Posted on February 11, 2014

There’s no “warming pause” — trade winds are burying heat in the Pacific

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Global average land temperatures have not increased as quickly as many scientists had expected over the past 10 or 15 years, leading some climate skeptics to latch onto the bogus idea of a “global warming pause.” Last year researchers reported that much of the “missing heat” was not in fact missing but rather was being sucked up by the oceans.

Now new research helps explain why excess heat is being absorbed into the sea: big-ass winds.

A paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that the slowdown in surface warming and the acceleration in ocean warming has been largely driven by a phase in a natural ocean cycle called the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO). That’s a frightfully cumbersome name, but it’s easy to break down: It’s a swing (“oscillation”) in Pacific Ocean weather that takes decades (“interdecadal”) to shift from one phase to another. Instead of switching every few years, like El Niño and La Niña, an IPO can last 20 to 30 years before flipping from one extreme to the other.

“Global warming hasn’t stalled at all,” Matthew England, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia and lead author of the paper, told Grist. “There’s just more heat going into the oceans at the moment.”

Since the turn of the century, the IPO has been in a negative phase, which is marked by strong trade winds in the Pacific. Researchers used models to simulate the effects of these winds on ocean currents and discovered that the strong winds increase the amount of warm water that sinks below the surface, while increasing the amount of cold water that burbles up from ocean depths near the equator.

And that has helped bury extra heat at sea — for now.

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Here we show that a pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades … is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake. …

The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1–0.2◦C, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001. This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the trade wind trends continue, however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate.

This isn’t the first time in recent history that the oceans have absorbed more than their normal share of extra heat. The paper describes a similar surface-warming hiatus that occurred from the 1940s to the 1970s — the last time the IPO was in this pronounced negative phase.

When the cycle inevitably reverses, the scientists warn that some of the extra heat that’s currently swimming with the fishes will rise up out of the ocean and come back to haunt us landlubbers.

“The IPO oscillates roughly every 20 to 25 years, but the timing is quite unpredictable. What we do know is that when we switch back to a positive IPO phase, the trade winds will be much weaker,” England said. “Longer term, regardless of when the winds relax, this temporary slowdown in surface warming will be overwhelmed by greenhouse gas increases.”


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Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus, Nature Climate Change

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