Last week I was at NASA Headquarters to give a technical presentation about sea level projections to the Interagency Forum on Climate Risks, Impacts, and Adaptation. On one of the walls, I saw this striking Earth image with the sun coming into view. We have all ...
November 5th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Next Tuesday–November 6–is Election Day in the United States. Even though about a third of my blog readers are outside the U.S. I want to make a point about Climate Change and voting — which applies regardless of where one lives. Dealing with climate change, ...
October 28th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
My essay below is being featured this week by all three major south Florida newspapers, the Miami Herald, the Sun Sentinel, and the Palm Beach Post. Rising sea level is now seen as such a special threat that the three newspapers–usually competitors–are fully collaborating for ...
October 22nd, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Since the latest UN Climate Report was released last week with it’s dire prediction, there has been a lot of talk. Unfortunately, it does not seem to me like it will change our path to life-threatening climate change or to boldly prepare us for the ...
October 15th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
A new major climate study was released this week, compiled by 90 scientists from 40 nations (part of the continuing UN-IPCC efforts). Headlines in mainstream media ranged from the often sensationalist New York Post above, “Terrifying climate change warning: 12 years until we’re doomed” to ...
October 8th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Accepting, planning, and adapting to sea level rise (SLR) may be the hardest change that humans have ever had to do. While I often describe the science and what is happening in the Arctic and Antarctica, it may be worth looking at it purely from ...
October 1st, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
For more than seventy years, the United Nations has been the best effort to unify the world. Though imperfect, it continues to reinvent itself in a world with ever greater challenges. In recent years, an important program at the U.N. has been the 17 Sustainable ...
September 24th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Are we getting the message yet? Super cyclones simultaneously hit the United States and China over the weekend. Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut respectively ravaged the Southeastern U.S. and China, with strong winds and severe flooding. The double whammy was perfectly aligned on opposite sides ...
September 17th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Beach erosion is reaching disaster levels all over the world. To save those premium property values, beach restoration has exploded into an industry costing hundreds of millions of dollars annually (photo at right). In some locations it is almost a perpetual operation. It brings ...
September 11th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise