Dr. Wallace Broecker
..."I've written 480 scientific papers and (click title to entry - thank you)... 10 books and if the thing I'm remembered for is coining the term 'global warming', that is sort of sad, because I would have wasted my life."
After first suggesting there could be negative effects from pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 1957, the award-winning American scientist - who was in New Zealand last week to speak at a past climates symposium - has turned his attention to taking carbon out of the air and storing it.
He believes the world has no chance of getting CO2 emissions under control in time to avoid dangerous global warming.
He wants urgent research done to find ways to tuck atmospheric CO2 away until after human production of it has peaked....
May 18, 2009
0900 PM
Surface Wind Image (click here for 24 hour loop). It shows arriving heat transfer that intepreted into high winds at the surface as well.
May 18, 2009
1800
Jet Stream Image. There are impinging heat transfers all over the ice continent. Click here for three day loop of arriving heat transfer system.
May 18, 2009
1930
Antarctica - noted arriving heat transfer system that displaced the frigid air mass over the Blue Ice. Antarctica is warmer than normal.
May 18, 2009
0900 UTM
Antarctica Temperature Image (click here for 24 hour loop. No image for 9AM or 12AM)
The warmest reporting station is:
Palmer Station, Antarctica
Updated: 2 hr 58 min 57 sec ago
Tempature :: 32 °F
Conditions :: Light Haze
Humidity :: 39%
Dew Point :: 16 °F
Wind :: 18 mph from the East
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 28.77 in (Rising)
Visibility :: 7.0 miles
Elevation :: 26 ft
The coldest reporting station in Antarctica (Vostok is down):
Henry, Antarctica
Local Time: 11:50 PM GMT (GMT +00)
Lat/Lon: 89.0° S 0.3° W
Updated: 51 min 22 sec ago
Temperature :: -66 °F
Wind :: 17 mph from the NNE
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: in (Falling)
Elevation :: 9039 ft
