Stalking Venus

Here’s a scary little story from The Independent.
Apparently scientists have recently discovered huge Arctic regions that are releasing millions of tons of methane - a gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Basically what’s happened is that because of global warming, the sub-sea layer of permafrost that used to form a lid on these deposits [...]

A bunch of scientist types were hanging about in their aeroplane on September 2nd doing sciency things and studying the ice shelf at Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic region.
The weather came down around them, and they were surrounded with cloud for a bit. When the cloud cleared, suddenly - hey presto! - a 19 [...]

Oh yes it is! That’s what the Sydney Morning Herald reported this morning. Apparently the stuff they use in the CRT new LCD flat screens contribute way more to global warming than coal fire emissions.
“As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, yet no one knows how [...]