More bad news from Greenland last week. It was raining. In the winter. In case there is any doubt, rain in the winter time, above the Arctic Circle is not at all normal. Most might even say, “it is not supposed to happen.” This time ...
March 11th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
In January I did a blog post about the latest headline news from Greenland, which was that the glaciers are melting at record rates. Along with my comments on the rapidly changing situation there, I announced a trip to Greenland for this September that the International ...
March 4th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Two years ago I wrote a post “Beware The Doubling Time for Rising Seas.” It’s time for an update to that, which might be called “Behold the doubling time” because doubling the rate of ice melting and sea level rise has arrived sooner than I ...
February 26th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Liverpool was the last stop of my U.K. visit last week working with the British Institute of Mechanical Engineers (“IMechE”) to help them better plan for rising sea level. It was my first visit to the Liverpool, but I found it fascinating. Of course, ...
February 18th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
Monday night I had the very real privilege to give a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, the “RI.” Since 1799 this has been a legendary location to explain scientific principles to a wide audience. Famously this is where Michael Faraday demonstrated magnetism, induction, ...
February 11th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise ,Uncategorized
Even back in 2012, in my book High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis, I pointed to a few “mega glaciers” as being the key factor for future sea level rise. Each of them could raise global sea level ...
February 4th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Greenland’s Melting Nears Tipping Point” was a New York Times Headline article last week. On Saturday The Guardian (London) ran an editorial: “Rising Sea Level: a Warning from Greenland” Their lead paragraph was: “Ice sheets are melting faster and in different ways than scientists expected. As well as ...
January 29th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
With the extra-cold weather across much of the U.S. this weekend there is understandably some confusion given the concern about planetary warming. Even President Trump’s tweet above wished for some of the “good old Global Warming” which he has said he does not believe is ...
January 21st, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise ,Uncategorized
Yesterday, the Washington Post headline was: Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s Precise data from satellites and aerial surveys documented that the gigantic southern continent is melting at a rate six and a half times faster than three decades earlier. The newspaper story was ...
January 14th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise