The Arctic may not be a chessboard, but China and the United States are maneuvering as if it were. Both nations are working hard to improve their strategic positions. Just in the last few weeks things have heated up, with each looking to build airfields ...
May 13th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Bold Experiment to Plant Trees Could Cool Riyadh by 2 degrees Celsius (Illustration:Riyadh Development Authority)Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, has an amazing plan to green the city. Last week was my first visit there. Even though there are no issues of rising sea level ...
May 6th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Climate Change” is now widely recognized as an extremely serious problem. Yet there is a lot of confusion even when experts discuss “solutions.” One reason for the confusion is that there are three distinct aspects or legs of the climate change problem. Each of the ...
April 29th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
(Source: Wikicommons)Climate activism has a new face, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year old Swedish girl. Amid all the Earth Day activities, it is timely to recognize this new voice for the next generation. For forty nine years, Earth Day has been a great day to celebrate, ...
April 22nd, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
One of the world’s iconic cities, New Orleans, is famous for jazz, Mardi Gras, – and flooding. Rated the most hurricane vulnerable city in America, “Katrina” in 2005 was its most deadly and catastrophic. As a result, the U.S. government committed to fully upgrade the ...
April 15th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Houses are flooding more frequently even during “sunny day flooding” events [@Krashefski]Flooded streets, homes and businesses are becoming more and more common in coastal communities all over the world. In my travels to explain rising sea level I am often asked, “So, how long do ...
April 8th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
When I teach about the unprecedented threat of rising sea level, I put it in the context of “The 5 Flood Factors”: Storms Rain Runoff Extreme Tides Sea Level Rise The last two are of course limited to coastal areas and tidal rivers. Most people ...
April 1st, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
A month ago in a blog post, I posed a challenge question of how long would it take to fill a soccer stadium with water, starting with a single drop and doubling every minute. The answer–47 minutes–is quite incredible. It’s essentially due to the power ...
March 25th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Recently I was on a panel at a defense industry conference, www.defensecommunities.org There were lots of good topics such as how military bases of the future might be better designed. However, the takeaway that stayed with me was the diversity of two threats that kept commanders ...
March 18th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise