But let's do a real rough check, based on the HadCRUT surface temperature record, the Mauna Loa measurement of atmospheric CO2 (after 1958) and the IPCC estimated CO2 level based
on the Vostok ice cores (prior to 1958):
Heres a compiled temperature graph: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/vostok/graphics/tempplot5.gif Based
on the Vostok Ice Core.
The peak of the last glacial — Wisconsin in NA and Wurm in Europe — was probably about 8 degrees C colder than the present based
on the Vostok ice core.
Based
on the Vostok record, Earth should about now be stabilizing (briefly in geological terms) at an anomaly of about 3ºC ± 1ºC, the temperature of the preceding four peaks.
I did find your comment
on the Vostok temperatures interesting when l looked at the chart.
If we look to roughly 325,000 years ago, based
on the Vostok data above, we see that Earth was at the peak of a warm interglacial period.
al conducted an extensive study
on the Vostok ice core data examining centennial events.
If the wind speed were lower and a similar vortex centred
on Vostok, Turner reckons that the temperature could drop by a further 6 °C or so.
Not exact matches
VOSTOK Station in Antarctica currently holds the crown for the coldest place
on the planet.
Although a British team was unsuccessful in its quest to penetrate Lake Ellsworth, a group of Russian scientists successfully retrieved samples from Lake
Vostok, thousands of kilometers away
on the Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The water must freeze over the Antarctic winter before researchers can lay hands
on it, to see what organisms might be living in Lake
Vostok.
If the Russians have indeed reached Lake
Vostok this week, it could be a close contest to see who will be first to test whether life can go
on in the cold darkness beneath Antarctica's ice.
The same news report went
on to discuss an old theory that Nazis built a secret base at Lake
Vostok in the 1930s, and that German submarines brought Hitler and Eva Braun's remains to Antarctica for cloning purposes following the German surrender in World War II.
On the heels of a Russian drilling effort that reached Lake
Vostok, British and American teams also aim to penetrate ancient subglacial lakes
Life forms in Whillans and
Vostok could help researchers understand what kind of life might survive
on other worlds.
A drill finally penetrated through the ice to
Vostok's waters in February 2012, and samples were obtained from water that froze
on the drill.
The discovery builds
on research done by Russian researchers at Lake
Vostok, another Antarctic subglacial lake.
In contrast, Sergey Bulat, a molecular biologist at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia, and his French colleague Jean - Robert Petit, a glaciologist at the University of Grenoble (and lead author of the classic paper
on the 420,000 - year
Vostok climate record), detected only a few cells per milliliter; in some specimens they found none at all.
Valery Lukin of Russia, sporting a gray, Lenin - style goatee, brought everybody up to date
on the drilling that had resumed at
Vostok.
In 1958, a Russian airplane navigator named Robinson was making his landing approach at the newly opened
Vostok research station when he noticed a large, flat, oval depression «with gentle shores»
on the glacier surface.
Other scientists are interested in the frigid surface above
Vostok, which should serve as an ideal test site for autonomous robots designed to drill
on Europa and search for hidden life.
Like the inferred lakes
on Europa,
Vostok lies some two miles under a shell of surface ice and remains liquid due to the crushing pressure of that overlying mass.
He heard that the Soviets had an ambitious drilling program at
Vostok Station, the most isolated research site
on the continent.
Researchers speculate that primitive life could eke out an existence there, subsisting
on a bare minimum of dissolved organic carbon — a notion bolstered by the recent discovery of bacteria within refrozen ice in a core drilled to 100 meters above the lake under
Vostok Station (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1999).
Vostok is the third deepest lake
on the planet, not the third largest.
These modern - day explorers hope to discover whether
Vostok, which at 5000 km3 is the third deepest lake
on the planet, is teeming with hidden, cold - loving life that could have evolved separately from the rest of the world for hundreds of thousands of years.
And other labs working with
Vostok ice haven't found any evidence of thermophiles, says microbial ecologist John Priscu, whose group published the first papers
on bacteria in
Vostok ice.
The largest subglacial lake, Lake
Vostok, lies beneath the coldest place
on the planet, where the temperature at the surface often falls below minus 60 degrees Celsius.
Rogers also looked at DNA sequences that other scientists had found
on the drilling equipment and drilling fluid used at Lake
Vostok.
This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard
Vostok 1
on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1
on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.
The unique premise of
Vostok Inc. breathes new life into the tired genre, making this moneymaking game much more than something to just play
on the toilet to pass the time.
Having launched last December
on the Nintendo Switch,
Vostok Inc. was met with some favourable reviews, but even now many... View Article
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on Nintendo Switch, over 1 million units sold for Flyhigh Works
on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, footage for Pic - a-Pix Deluxe, and launch trailers for
Vostok Inc., Tiny Troopers Joint Ops XL, and Mom Hid My Game!
Vostok Inc, a twin - stick clicker game which takes players
on a rampant capitalistic joyride across the galaxy, is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year.
Yuri Gagarin entered the history books
on April 12, 1961 when his
Vostok I capsule reached space, orbited the Earth and returned safely.
They will do this through the creation of two climate graphs - one for Prudhoe Bay in Northern Alaska, and one for
Vostok Station, Antarctica - the coldest place
on Earth.
Special graphics
on the body include lat / long coordinates that correspond to the location of
Vostok in Antarctica, where the absolute severest temperature in the world was recorded at minus 128.56 degrees F.
Vostok Nafta Investment (VNIL: SS):
Vostok's a Swedish listed closed - end fund, focused solely
on Russia.
In
Vostok Inc., you play as a corrupt, narcissistic yuppie, hell - bent
on raking in as much money as possible in a greed - driven, twin - stick shooter without a conscience.
The only idle game you'll never want to put down -
Vostok Inc. for Nintendo Switch features exclusive new content
on a planetary scale, with the inclusion of Pluto
on its new planetary debut.
I came across
Vostok Inc. which
on the surface looks like an open - universe Space Invaders.
While
Vostok Inc's visuals are simple, with most units built from basic geometric shapes, the technique helps keep the framerate high and the
on - screen chaos controllable.
Today's Nintendo eShop news (Round 3): Lode Runner: Legacy announced for Europe and North America, The Bunker announced for the Nintendo Switch, 6180 the moon teased for the Nintendo Switch, dev video for Fear Effect Reinvented, success story for Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King and Danmaku Unlimited 3, latest pictures for Planet Alpha and Smoke & Sacrifice, latest character profile for The Mystery of Woolley Mountain, latest video clips for Feudal Alloy, Hyper Sentinel, Kid Tripp, trailer for the
Vostok Inc. demo, and Fe soundtrack now available
on digitail music platforms!
Nosebleed Interactive in collaboration with Wired Production have announced that
Vostok Inc. will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop
on December 7th.
Vostok Inc., is available to buy now from the Nintendo eShop
on Nintendo Switch ™ for # 12.99 / $ 14.99 / $ 14.99, click here to find your local eShop
Developer
Vostok Games wants to make it easier
on you: It's given us a boatload of keys for Survarium Bandit Sets, worth $ 9.99, to hand out to our readers just in time for the holidays.
Today's review we take
on the company kn0wn as
Vostok Inc, Intergalactic money makers with attitude and weaponry to boot.
You start your conquest in
Vostok Inc with little funds and even less weaponry, within minutes war
on your company has been declared and it's crafty combat skills and money management which will see you at the top of the financial food chain.
Indeed it was Law Dome, not the Taylor Dome... I had written that from memory, but as my memory is not anymore what it was 40 years ago... What I meant was a graph
on the Internet, showing the Law Dome ice core CO2 variations, lagging the temperature variations with some 50 years (with ~ 10 ppmv / K, similar to the factor found over the
Vostok ice core trends).
From Peru: You've complimented me by sharing my project (the
vostok viewer)
on this blog, but I should add that that project began here a couple years ago when I asked Tamino to define climatic precession.