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Hints of life in the deepest scientific marine samples ever collected
- By Jeffrey MarlowEmail Author
- November 16, 2012 |
- 9:12 am
Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert recently returned from the Research Vessel Chikyu off the coast of Japan’s Shimokita Peninsula, where she served as a member of the microbiology team aboard a (literally) groundbreaking leg of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The expedition resulted in a new world record for deepest scientific marine drilling to 2,440 meters beneath the seafloor. But were there signs of life so far down? Here, Trembath-Reichert offers some answers … or at least what pass for answers for a suitably cautious scientist….
Enough Wind to Power Global Energy Demand: New Research Examines Limits, Climate Consequences
ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2012) — There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world’s demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole.
Their work is published September 9 by Nature Climate Change.
Led by Kate Marvel of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who began this research at Carnegie, the team used models to quantify the amount of power that could be generated from both surface and atmospheric winds. Surface winds were defined as those that can be accessed by turbines supported by towers on land or rising out of the sea. High-altitude winds were defined as those that can be accessed by technology merging turbines and kites. The study looked only at the geophysical limitations of these techniques, not technical or economic factors.
Read more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120909150446.htm
Arctic Biologist Shares Astonishing Sea Creatures With the World
- By Pete Brook July 11, 2012 |
There is no road to the White Sea Biological Station, which sits at latitude 66° N on the cusp of the Arctic Circle. Located on the shores of its namesake, the White Sea, the only way to get there is by boat in summer and snowmobile in winter since the waters of Kandalaksha Bay are frozen six months out of the year.
Inside the station is an unlikely photo studio where Alexander Semenov, 25, is sharing his stunning photographs of arctic sea creatures with the global online community.
“I’m trying to act like the Discovery channel, but as a single unit,” says Semenov.
Read more: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/07/arctic-sea-creatures/?pid=2706
The Pacific Ocean Is Dying
Thursday, 17 May 2012
A Special Report On the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
‘Just prior to the Supermoon of March 18th, 2011, the world witnessed a natural and manmade disaster of epic proportions. What transpired off the coast of Honshu Island, Japan on March 11 has forever altered the planet and irremediably affected the global environment. Whereas the earthquake and tsunami proved to be truly apocalyptic events for the people of Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima is proving to be cataclysmic for the entire world.
Most of the world community is still unaware of the extremely profound and far-reaching effects that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had. If the nations of the world really understood the implications of the actual ‘fallout’ – past, current and future – the current nuclear energy paradigm would be systematically shut down. For those of us who are in the know, it is incumbent upon each of us to disseminate the relevant information/data necessary to forever close down the nuclear power industry around the globe.’
Gigantic “sea blob” caught on camera
Some say it`s a whale stomach, others that it`s a weird creature…
1200 Pelicans, 900 dolphins Dead on beach In Peru
The bodies of hundreds of pelicans have been found in Peru on the same beaches where almost 900 dead dolphins have washed up over the last month.
The government said they will investigate the deaths of almost 600 birds found along a 70km stretch of northern coastline – the majority of which are pelicans, but also include gannets.
The fisherman’s association in Puerto Eten, north Peru , said it found around 1,200 dead pelicans last week along a 170km string of beaches.
Peru’s Institute of the Sea’s regional chief, Edward Barriga, described a similar event in the area from 1997 when a lack of anchovies resulted in the deaths of pelicans and cormorants.
At the time, the El Nino meteorological phenomenon was blamed for the lack of food. It occurs in the Pacific Ocean around every five years and results in variations in the temperature and pressure of the sea.
Over the last month the bodies of as many as 877 dolphins have also washed up in the region, which is approximately 700km northwest of the capital, Lima.
Officials are looking into whether a virus or seismic tests that have been carried out nearby could be the cause of the deaths.
But the government’s fisheries minister said that based on the evidence available they had not found a relationship between the animal bodies and tests related to the exploration of oil.
Penguins, Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Ice All Thriving
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 09:58
‘Even as climate alarmists amplify their call for a worldwide tax on carbon dioxide emissions in the name of preventing global warming – penguins, polar bears, Himalayan glaciers and Arctic sea ice are all thriving.
With dire proclamations of ice free Arctic summers vehemently debunked, the latest data indicates that both wildlife and the environment in earth’s coldest regions has not experienced the catastrophic devastation predicted as a result of man-made climate change.’
Read more: Penguins, Polar Bears, Glaciers, Arctic Ice All Thriving
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120413145303.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/11/bering_sea_ice_cover/
Lost city found under the sea bed
Under The SeaResearchers scouring the ocean floor of the North Atlantic near Scotland have discovered what they are calling an “Atlantis-like” landscape underwater. One of the scientists said: “It looks for all the world like a map of a bit of a country onshore,” said Nicky White, the senior researcher. “It is like an ancient fossil landscape preserved 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the seabed.”
Such topography and evidence of a previously above-water seabed has been found in multiple locations in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as in parts of the Mediterranean Sea and under the Baltic Sea. Much of this area was once a thriving and civilized zone where people lived and worked.
A few years ago, a science vessel spotted a location near the North American continental shelf that was reported to look kike a bunch of skyscrapers, deep under the water. Of course, it was dismissed as an odd rock formation, much as the Face on Mars has been dismissed by science. When something does not fit in to standard history or geology, “accredited” scientists call it either a hoax or a rock formation. They never allow anything to upset their lock and key version of history and science.
Unfortunately for them, sometimes an artifact appears that cannot be explained. These mysteriously disappear from the news. However, an entire undersea city has been found off the coast of India which cannot be explained away. Geologists and seismologists say that it submerged with rising sea levels over time. Really? How? There was an Ice Age when this city flourished and sea levels were low. It didn’t just sink underwater one day.
There have been many cataclysms on the Earth in pre-historic times that were not documented since no one survived to write about it. The Bible mentions one flood. Evidence shows that there have been many such floods, tsunamis and landmasses sinking in many parts of the world. The Earth is a living mass that changes, just like people do.
If it happened before, it can happen again. Each time is different. We need to be watchful to the changes we see around us. Something is happening now. Does not matter if it is “natural” or “man-made”. The results are the same. Keep your ears and eyes open.
Mysterious Disc Found on Baltic Seabed
The object is located at a depth of 87 meters and is circular in shape with an estimated diameter of 60 metres.
Curiously, there is a 300m long sliding track behind the object, suggesting that the object slid along the seabed into it’s current position.
Peter Lindburg, a member of the “Ocean Explorers” said
“You see a lot of strange things in this profession, but in my 17 – 18 years working as a professional wreckage hunter, I have never seen anything like this. The shape, the totally unique and completely round circle makes this find totally unique.”
The objects location and photographs have been passed to the Swedish State Marine Museums to investigate – who have commented that it is too early to determine what the object is, however, the most believable explanation at this time is that it is a natural formation of some sort.
This does not however explain the trail in the sea bed.
Reference: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article13263359.ab
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