Na Draki Pacific

19/09/2025

The story of the massive Hunga Tonga / Hunga Haapai eruption of 15 January 2022.

19/09/2025

The role of ocean currents on global climate are profound, but difficult for us to see and appreciate, as they occur completely out of sight and across massive horizontal distances and vertical depths.

Subtle variations in temperature and salinity (amount of salt in the water) affect the way the ocean waters move. Oceans are massive reservoirs of heat, storing large amounts of the warmth generated by global climate change.

This in turn directly affects sea life. Ocean currents determine where fish aggregate, how molluscs grow protective shells' and and if coral reefs and sea grasses can survive and thrive.

The Pacific Ocean where we live is the largest, and it's very existence is the basis of life in Oceania, both marine and terrestrial.

19/09/2025

Climate change could mean that we're all going to be toast...

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19/09/2025

As they passed over North America, NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System satellites captured the brilliance of the northern lights on Sept. 14-15.

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19/08/2025

Heads up for a bit more rain across Fiji around Tuesday or Wednesday next week. It's a long way off, but the models are currently in good agreement, and the forecasts have been consistently coming up with the same solutions.

There are some planetary scale readjustments occurring now in the tropical Pacific Ocean region. Some climate monitoring agencies have moved the dial to La Nina Watch for the coming southern spring and early summer.

19/08/2025

10/06/2025

The North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Hurricane season began on 1st June 2025.

03/05/2025

This is not about the atmospheric sciences, but the principles underlying the allegations of biases in the medical science literature that have been fabricated by the present US administration are of great concern to all scientists studying and documenting the natural world.

It is a strategy applied in the past, from ancient times, to the Spanish Inquisition, and the infamy of Kristalnacht.

The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.

12/04/2025

Interesting....

Did you know?

The true size of Hawaii compared to the continental United States.

The state of Hawaii is made up of 137 islands, but only 8 main islands are commonly recognized and inhabited. The remaining islands are mostly small islets, atolls, reefs, and shoals.

Fun fact: Kure Atoll (shown on this map near San Francisco) is the northernmost atoll in the world and is closer to Alaska than to the opposite end of the Hawaiian chain at Cape Kumukahi.

That’s right, the northernmost island of Hawaii is closer to Alaska than to another part of Hawaii.

12/04/2025

The estimated cost of travel in total is about $C700,000. Doesn't seem like much given the gravity of the climate change problems that the shared human population needs to address.

In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assessment.

12/04/2025

Before the UNFCCC, the global community worked together to alleviate at massive man-made environmental problem. This was the rapid depletion of ozone over the polar regions of our planet - initially the south pole but later extending to planetary regions of high population. The Montreal Protocol ultimately brought together engineers, diplomats, government leaders, and environmental experts, who collectively found a solution to address the cause of the problem. By making the necessary changes to the use of certain gases used for refrigeration the ozone depletion slowed, then stopped.

This was such a successful endeavour, it is rarely talked about anymore. But the effort continues to manage the return of ozone depleting gases. Most importantly, the successful efforts demonstrated that similar collective international agreements to prevent emissions of greenhouse gases can solve, in part at least, the existential threat posed by "greenhouse gases", and the warming of our atmosphere and oceans.

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06/04/2025

Not much happening weather wise, so here's some interesting news about our uniquely human need to chronicle the passage of time.

But just how, exactly, did it track time?