Martin Hovland

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Is the UN's climate panel, IPCC to be considered a political entity (organization)?

In today's newspaper, VG, the director of Our envrionmental protection agency, 'Miljødirektoratet', Mr. Audun Rosland, states: "The climate panel does not perform its own research, but reviews...

01 January 2017 8,256 5 View

During COP20, Lima, 2014, the "Arctic Methane Emergency Group", AMEG, was formed. What are the scientific aims and preliminary results of this group?

It seems that a new climate alarmist group was constituted during the COP20 climate conference in Lima, December 2014. During the inaugural press conference for the AMEG (Arctic Methane Emergency...

02 February 2016 1,024 4 View

'Deep-Water Corals' vs. 'Cold-Water Corals' - what is the best denomination? Is it obvious that Deep-Water Corals should be preferred?

In the year 2008 two books addressing Deep-Water Coral reefs were published: - Deep-Water Coral reefs, Unique biodiversity hot-spots, by M. Hovland, and - Cold-Water Corals, The biology and...

10 October 2015 8,004 1 View

What are the inplications of NASA's finding of higher hydrocarbons in the lower atmosphere of Pluto for our understanding of oil and gas on Earth?

Recently, NASA has released the surprising findings of Pluto's lower atmosphere as being partly composed of, if not even dominated by, higher hydrocarbons. See Link below. This finding from the...

08 August 2015 2,485 1 View

Is some of the seeping gas you observe west of Svalbard of abiotic origin? If so, is this gas considered to be of 'fossil' or 'renewable' origin?

In three different and very interesting papers, CAGE, has now documented both prolific seepage and accumulation of hydrocarbon gases partly produced by serpentinization of ultramafic rocks, west...

03 March 2015 7,161 13 View

Are our ROV-based observations of giant pycnogonids at the Nyegga complex pockmarks of relevance to this study?

At a water depth of 750 m water depth, inside the complex pockmark, G11, at Nyegga, off Mid-Norway, we observed relatively high densities of the giant pycnogonid Collossendeis sp. This pockmark is...

01 January 2015 8,359 0 View

Are there cost-effective ways of capturing and harvesting 'biogenic' combustible gases from seeps in the seafloor?

In the current 'climate change' syndrome, we are constantly looking for ways of ridding the atmosphere of accumulating radiative gases (so-called 'greenhouse gases, GHGs': H2O, CO2, and CH4). Over...

12 December 2014 7,623 13 View

Is it viable to classify marine biogenic gas (methane, ethane, propane) as a renewable combustible energy source?

The ultimate renewable (sustainable) 'geo-energy' source is, obviously, geothermal heat, which is continuously produced radiogenically within the Earth. In marine environments this potential...

12 December 2014 6,216 15 View

What is the boundary for life on Planet Earth?

New evidence shows that oil reservoirs are indeed colonized by hydrocarbon - eating bacteria, more or less from day one of the reservoir. This means that the sub-sruface is not sterile and devoid...

12 December 2014 8,530 22 View