By definition, the word glacial means extremely slow, as in things moved at a glacial pace. With more than 200,000 glaciers in the world, it is important to get a sense of what is taking place in the current era of great change. Typically glaciers moved on ...
January 7th, 2019 Category: Sea Level Rise
A very Happy New Year to all of my readers. As we begin 2019 I am excited to tell you about a new program I am working on through the non-profit International Sea Level Institute. We will be launching a new video series called the Sea ...
December 31st, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Most everyone can recall the joy of the Santa Claus story, either as children, or even as parents. For generations in countries all over the world, it has been such fun to find the presents under the tree as a special ritual. Even though we ...
December 25th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Place Attachment is a well-recognized concept in psychology. Basically it says that besides getting attached to people, we humans can become attached to places, with substantial emotional effect. Normally place attachment is not a problem. It is a problem with rising sea level. Part of ...
December 17th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
COP24 – the latest big climate meeting – ends Thursday in Katowice Poland. This 24th “Conference of the Parties” (COP) is the now-annual world summit to deal with the crisis of climate change. Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Russia, and Kuwait played ...
December 10th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Dauphin Island is a truly idyllic community south of Mobile Alabama. With about 1,200 full-time residents, it is a coveted summer retreat, with civil war history (“Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead”) and a premiere “birder’s paradise.” I visited last week and met with ...
December 2nd, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
There was considerable news last Friday about the latest US Government report on the Impacts of Climate Change, a legally required document every 4 years. The “Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume 2, The Impacts” (sometimes referred to as NCA4) is well grounded in science, yet ...
November 26th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Fires and floods are the most severe environmental threats to property and life. Usually I deal with floods, but this week a closer look at fire is warranted, particularly since there is a causal connection with climate change. All eyes are on California’s tragic wildfires ...
November 19th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
In my blog I often write about the north and south polar regions because the melting ice sheets and glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica contain about 98% of potential sea level rise. The snow covered mountains of Central Asia, the Hindu Kush Himalayas, including Mt. Everest, ...
November 12th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise