Comments on: El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures still soaring. Hottest decade poised to get even hotter

By: Donald B

Donald B — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:44:03 +0000

I have read that at least some of the shale fracturing has lead to contamination of underground water sources, leading to homeowners (maybe towns) losing their well water. I guess the question is how widespread this is and if it can be avoided by improved techniques.

By: Lamont

Lamont — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:56:16 +0000

This does look set to be the strongest El Nino since the 1998 one.

It should be peaking in strength soon now, the Dec-Jan-Feb ENSO number is typically the strongest 3-month period in the El Nino cycle.

By: Richard Levangie

Richard Levangie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:53:40 +0000

I think it’s Total Solar Irradiance.

By: From Peru

From Peru — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:12:54 +0000

What is TSI?

By: George Darroch

George Darroch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:25:51 +0000

The scary thing is that TSI is still low. Put TSI back up again, throw in the next proper El Niño and a few more PPM of CO2 forcing, and you’re starting to get some pretty warm years up ahead.

By: MarkB

MarkB — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:35:44 +0000

“El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures still soaring. Hottest decade poised to get even hotter”

Not that there’e anything inaccurate here, but be prepared for deniers to say “Romm admits that el Nino, not manmade greenhouse gases, causes global warming!”

[JR: The deniers do like to take what I say out of context and then attack that. But frankly I'd be delighted if they would admit that this is the hottest decade in the temperature record.]

By: paulm

paulm — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:23:32 +0000

Price of natural gas may be going up soon…radioactive NG.

Is New York’s Marcellus Shale Too Hot to Handle?
http://www.propublica.org/ feature/ is-the-marcellus-shale-too-hot-to-handle-1109

[JR: Nah, lots of places to get NG from.]