Thursday, August 26, 2010

Petroleum-eating microbes

Even though the referenced link is only indirectly connected to climate change though a common element, petroleum, I thought it was sufficiently unique to post. It certainly indicates the earth can, at times, be more adaptable and responsive to sudden change than we expect.

GREENLAND - Will probably be the focus of near term sea level rise

Greenland is almost all covered by a very thick glacial ice cap. If all of Greenland's ice either melted or slid into the oceans, sea le...