Blogging the End of the World™
Our 2009 area change survey of 34 of the widest Greenland marine-terminating glacier outlets from the inland ice sheet is complete. We find a net marine-terminating ice area loss of 109 sq km. The total net cumulative area change from year 2000 (when our survey begins) to 2009 is -990.2 sq. km, a loss equivalent […]
By Debbie WilliamsPublished: Mon, June 07, 2010 – 7:20 pm CST GULF SHORES, Alabama – Pilot David Walter flew us west over Wolf Bay, Bay La Launch to Bear Point Marina. From the air we could see a thin film of sheen in Perdido Bay. What we didn’t see was a whole lot of protection […]
Sydney (AFP) June 6, 2010 – Weather-related catastrophes brought about by climate change are increasing, the top UN humanitarian official said Sunday as he warned of the possibility of “mega-disasters”. John Holmes, the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, said one of the biggest challenges facing the aid community was the problems stemming from changing […]
By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune June 07, 2010, 12:30PM The wives of two workers who died in the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion testified this morning before a special meeting of the House Energy subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in Chalmette. Both told committee members that their husbands, Shane Roshto and Wyatt Kemp, […]
A month after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform burned and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, Grand Isle, Louisiana was deluged with an orangish brown toxic mix of crude oil and dispersal agents sprayed into the spill in unprecedented volumes. The ‘hot zone’ is the designation for the area of the beach or wetlands that […]
This image, acquired on May 24, 2010 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft, shows oil from the former Deepwater Horizon rig encroaching upon several of Louisiana’s wildlife habitats. The source of the spill is located off the southeastern (bottom right) edge of the image. In Figure 1, the left-hand image […]
By BRIAN ROSS, MATTHEW MOSK, and AVNI PATELJune 3, 2010 New videos show more clearly than ever how BP, with little resistance from the Coast Guard or other federal agencies, kept the public in the dark about just how bad things were beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. On May 1, 11 days […]
MIAMI — June 4, 2010 — Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately 1502 m. (4928 ft.), but not all of it reaches the sea surface. The stratified seawater of the Gulf of Mexico captures or slows the ascent […]
An oilfield workboat plows through the floating oil just off the coast of Grand Isle, La. as the crude makes landfall on Louisiana’s barrier island beaches and inundates Barataria Bay, even as oil continues to spew from the Deepwater Horizon spill into the Gulf of Mexico, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. PHOTO BY TED JACKSON / […]
By Chris Kirkham, The Times-PicayuneJune 05, 2010, 5:19PM The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed more than 500 additional square miles of fishing grounds off the panhandle of Florida beginning this evening, as the oil slick moves farther east. Yesterday NOAA closed more than 2,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing […]
