Last week was my sixth trip to Greenland. The seasons change so suddenly there, that it can be hard to discern what is changing with the years and what is merely a different season of the year. Our Fact-Finding team landed on Tuesday, September 8. ...
September 16th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
The images of tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes on Abaco and Grand Bahama bring the scale of the disaster to home, particularly for me, having lived there for decades. There are some 70,000 people whose lives were upended; the number of dead ...
September 9th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Dorian, the category 5 hurricane with wind speeds over 180 miles an hour (300 km/h) devastated the Northern Bahamas as a major disaster area, with five already reported dead. Damages could be in the hundreds of millions. The whole world watched and listened to reports ...
September 2nd, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Graphic Courtesy Maite Humpert / The Arctic Institute On Saturday, Russia fired a nuclear-capable missile from the North Pole The Arctic was heating up enough, but a new element was added on Saturday, August 24th. According to Forbes.com the Russians launched a missile capable of ...
August 27th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
THE ECONOMIST is widely recognized as one of the finest magazines in the world. I would describe it as global, insightful, well written, sober, yet willing to be provocative; with a wry wit. They have taken up the topic of climate change, the thawing Arctic ...
August 19th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
A recent surge of ‘noise and nonsense’ on the internet is again alleging that global warming is largely affected by solar cycles, such as the 11 year swings associated with “sunspots.” As the NASA graphic above shows in the white overlay chart, there is indeed ...
August 12th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Beavers and Humans are Only Animals That Intentionally Alter Their Environments. (Photo: Steve Hersey) Okay. I made this bogus headline up. Beavers do build dams, but this idea is of course, absurd. What prompted this post is, I was angry at the growing list of ...
August 5th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
My plan this week was to write a blog post about something quite different, but then I came across this one minute segment on the Weather Channel. (July 29). “Heat Wave That Baked Europe Heads North To Greenland” The graphic at the top is quite stark. ...
July 29th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Amid all the great remembrances these last few days about the first moon landing fifty years ago, I came to a new realization: Putting a man on the moon before the end of the 1960’s was relatively easy compared to the challenge we now face ...
July 22nd, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise