“There is a mysterious line of volcanoes that have formed in certain areas of Antarctica – and could hold the key to the area’s future.
For years, researchers have been trying to look below the ice sheets to find out why, but due to extreme cold their technology has not been able to gather any answers.
Now with the assistance of ruggedized seismometers, geologists have been able to get the first look at the mantle below the ice, revealing areas of ‘hot rock’.”
MASIE for day 343. The list of regions and difference from 2012. 8 regions have less ice in 2015 than 2012. (3 of those are tiny)
Northern Hemisphere (Total) 153742
Beaufort Sea 0
Chukchi Sea -21590
East Siberian Sea -17
Laptev Sea -36
Kara Sea 155836
Barents Sea -119714
Greenland Sea 72707
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 217841
Canadian Archipelago -36
Hudson Bay 14328
Central Arctic -26879
Bering Sea -152832
Baltic Sea -9668
Sea of Okhotsk 31320
Yellow Sea 151
This is just insane.
Burning wood pellets releases as much or even more carbon dioxide per unit of energy as burning coal.
“One of Britain’s dozen remaining coal-fired power plants is to be converted to burn wood pellets shipped in from North America, after the European Commission approved a £1bn subsidy contract for the project.
RWE’s Lynemouth power station in Northumberland is due to close by the end of this year under environmental rules, but will now be resurrected as a biomass plant following EU state aid approval for the consumer-funded subsidies.
The 420 megawatt plant, which produces enough electricity to power 450,000 homes, could be up and running again within 18 months, subject to a final investment decision early next year, RWE said.
The decision also boosted Drax, the Yorkshire coal plant that is awaiting state aid approval of a similar subsidy contract for the conversion of one of its units to burn biomass.”
http://www.thegwpf.com/green-madness-coal-plant-gets-green-light-to-burn-american-wood-pelets
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