Sentences with phrase «peat bog»

At 100 Meters thickness, it's 50,000 Km ^ 2, which is a manageable area, but growing that depth of peat bog might take more sophisticated hydrologic engineering.

Abrupt change comes — «if», from sea sediments, irreversible thaw from the peat bog.

Dr. Curry; In an excellant article on the effects of rain in Pakistan as it relates to the lack of attribution to Global Climate Change, and KPO's use of marchesarosa's literary references to 800 years of Russian peat bog fires and drought, I would like to see a completion of the weather extreme trilogy by a discussion of wind.

Methane bubbles and peat bog belches Swedish researchers have been in Lappland last month drilling holes in peat bogs and at higher points on what are called «peat plateaus» - up to 700 meters above sea level - to test the permafrost's temperature at various depths.

«Climate change commitments» also contradicts the other things I have read and the fact that we have already crossed some thresholds such as Arctic ocean ice melting, tundra peat bog thawing and clathrate melting.

Lake sediment (9, 10), peat bog (11, 12), and ice and snow (13, 14) records have been powerful tools to reconstruct past evolution of atmospheric deposition of Hg2 + species at specific locations, although their interpretation is still debated (15, 16).

It sounds like you are saying that the IPCC is all out of date, most climate scientists are way behind the times, and that you and a few others know that global temperatures in the past rose (and therefore can) 7 degrees in a decade, proven in part with, among other things, 3 - 5 million year old tree rings uncovered from a peat bog in the Canadian Arctic.

Ruddiman and McIntyre (1981); another example: century - scale changes in carbon - dated peat bog pollen, including a clear oscillation 11,000 - 9,000 years ago, Woillard and Mook (1982); in 50 years: Flohn (1979).

Reforestry, peat bog restoration, the education and especially health / reproduction for women (together make number ONE in effective reduction of carbon / methane)!

(That scenario is now defunct since the CO2 trend has risen and additional peat bog is thawing out).

The permafrost of the world's largest peat bog, in West Siberia, 10 contains some 70 billion metric tons of methane — equal to about 16 percent of all the carbon added to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, land - use changes, and cement manufacture over the course of the past 150 years (from 1850 to 2000).7

If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12 % to 30 %, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 80 %.

Ruddiman and McIntyre (1981a); another example: century - scale changes in carbon - dated peat bog pollen, including a clear oscillation 11,000 - 9,000 years ago, Woillard and Mook (1982); in 50 years: Flohn (1979).

Here we present a decadal - resolution record of storminess covering the Late Holocene, based on a 4 - m - long core taken from the peat bog of Cors Fochno in mid-Wales, UK.

Between 2000 and 2008 the scientists experimentally manipulated the amount of sulfate falling on a small peat bog in northern Minnesota and monitored how variations in water levels and sulfate input affected the release of methylmercury.

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

Of these fires 1,104 were peat bog fires, covering a total of about 4,200 acres.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

The reason is that the peat bog dries and shrinks.

So there are bodies squashed flat like peat bog men (Andra Ursuta) or posed like Renaissance figures (Tanyth Berkeley), policewomen draped like sirens on rocks (Jansson Stegner) and politicians carved out of sides of Iberian ham (Kasper Kovtiz).

A dirt path takes us through a natural peat bog reserve and we glimpse tiny lakes surrounded by vineyards and cane fields.

Fergus and his uncle find a girl's body buried in a peat bog at the start of this novel, told in parallel narratives, of two young people who sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

Beginning with the 1984 discovery of the body now known as the Lindow Man in a peat bog in England, this installation in the Time Travelers series examines the anthropological information about ancient Celtic cultures gleaned by bog mummies.

At the center of the film, like a man trying to pull a donkey out of a peat bog, stands Craig: inexpressive, uninflected and obviously tired.

of a prehistoric peat bog adjacent to Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead,.

The fossils were formed in a swampy peat bog of a tropical to subtropical environment where plant tissues were preserved through rapid silicate diagenesis.

This fossil site is a petrified peat bog preserving primitive plants and animals in exquisite detail.

Isolation of a novel acidiphilic methanogen from an acidic peat bog.

One body came from an Irish peat bog.

This is not to say we can bandy hard words about the Amazon rainforest at Brazil while we stand in a glass citadel by a peat bog that's fast becoming fuel for our fires.

Sergei Kirpotin, a botanist at Tomsk State University in Russia, and Oxford University researcher Judith Marquand say that rising temperatures are increasing the size of lakes in the frozen peat bog of western Siberia.

One key question is how far a worked - out peat bog can be rehabilitated.

There are two main types of peat bog in Britain: the blanket bogs of upland moors, and the raised lowland bogs that form large peat mounds in waterlogged river valleys.

The report argues that less than 6 per cent of Britain's former peat bog survives intact, much less than previously supposed.

A peat bog in Romania provides a new insight into our knowledge of when the Sahara began to transform from grassland into the desert we know today, and the impact this had on dust deposition within Eastern Europe.

«To investigate the impact such a large climatic and environmental shift had on Europe, we analysed the elemental makeup of a peat bog in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania.

Peat moss is made of only organic matter — specifically, the decaying remains in a peat bog.

When scientists dated a seed recovered from a peat bog in China, they discovered it was two thousand years old.

There are plains around Hudson Bay, could these ever be arable, or are these just peat bogs?

They may lack the glamour of rainforests, but in the fight against global warming peat bogs could be our best ally... or our complete undoing

Jonathan Nichols, a Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory Research Professor at Columbia University who specializes in climate science, focuses his research on whether warming temperatures will cause Arctic peat bogs to decay or expand due to improved growing conditions, a question that could alter the levels of carbon the bogs have long absorbed.

They used exactly the same laboratory methods as have been developed for peat bogs in Europe.

Uniquely spherical magnetic minerals wafted over the world by coal burning can be found from peat bogs to lake sediments and may furnish a record of this carbon combustion for future geologists.

And some habitats are not properly represented among SSSIs, including peat bogs in northwest England and moorlands and meadows in the northeast.

Like an Iron Age CSI detective, archaeologist Aldhouse - Green investigates the grisly deaths of men, women and children discovered millennia later in the peat bogs of Northern Europe.

Other researchers uncovered clues, such as plant fossils from peat bogs, that suggest mean annual temperatures on Canada's now - frozen Ellesmere Island near Greenland were as much as 18 degrees higher than today (SN: 4/6/13, p. 9).

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

Since they began forming 12,000 years ago in glacial hollows carved out during the last ice age, peat bogs have been squirrelling away carbon that would otherwise leak into the atmosphere.

From this year, under a deal with Fisons, the giant of the peat business, control of this and other peat bogs passes to the government's conservation agency, English Nature.

The future of Britain's raised lowland peat bogs appears to lie in the hands of the nation's gardeners.