Seeing into the past with ice cores

The ice core above contained bubbles talking about a time 175,000 years back. Quite amazing feeling to hear from such a very distant past.

In any case, "Antarctic ice cores reveal the clearest link between levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the Earth's temperature. They show that the temperature of the climate and the levels of greenhouse gases are intimately linked. In 2004, ice core scientists at BAS working together with colleagues from other European nations successfully extracted a three-kilometre ice core from the Antarctic. This core contains a record of the Earth's climate stretching back 800,000 years - giving us by far the oldest continuous climate record yet obtained from ice cores."

British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 2012.

UFO over Berlin

...and two huge eyes were watching me.

As seen on 29 December 2009.

Burps lead to global warming

For more details on the following please read the full story in the Christian Science Monitor (16 August 2007):

When a cow digests its normal diet (up to almost 70 kilogram of grass, hay and silage per day) it produces methane and releases such gas with a belch into the atmosphere. Two things are important regarding the burped methane. First, methane is considered to be about 21 times more effective at warming Earth's atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Second, a cow burps every 40 seconds.

If we add up all these burps by also including goats, and buffaloes it is estimated that about 80 million metric tons of methane are produced every year, accounting for about 28 percent of ‘man-made’ methane emissions annually.

Let’s face it: Less steaks, less burps.

Photo of 'holy' cows in front of Agra Fort, India (October 2006).