“Sea level rise already hurting coastal real estate prices” was a story on NPR this weekend by Marie Cusick. It adds to several other recent studies about coastal real estate prices dropping, along with the awareness of increasing flood risk in coastal areas worldwide. This ...
September 3rd, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
“New World” is a phrase that was originated in 1503, by Italian explorer Amerigo Vaspucci, in the era of ships discovering North America. (Vaspucci was one of the first to realize that it was an entirely new continent, not just a new approach to the far ...
August 27th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Confucius, the famous Chinese philosopher said, “A man who does not plan long ahead, will find trouble right at his door.” Many Chinese can see the sweep of history in centuries, not surprising as their history traces back to the first dynasty, some four thousand ...
August 20th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Congressional elections are in a couple of months; the Florida primary election is in two weeks. The good news is that candidates and voters seem a little more concerned about climate change. The bad news is that some candidates and voters are confused among diverse ...
August 13th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
The opus article in last weekend’s New York Times Magazine by Nathaniel Rich (@nathanielrich) has caused quite a stir and for good reason. “Losing Earth: The decade we almost stopped climate change. A tragedy in two acts” could be read as a requiem for our species. It ...
August 6th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Plastics are made from petroleum, so there is a connection with the issue of climate change. Yet there is fundamental confusion that needs to be cleaned up. At the simplest level, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other so-called “greenhouse gases” corresponds to the ...
July 30th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
“It just seems like adapting to sea level rise is hopeless” the architect said to me in a quiet voice. I had just presented to a few hundred of his Florida colleagues at their annual conference, Saturday in Jacksonville. He had lingered in his front-row ...
July 23rd, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Sustainability is so popular these days. There are conferences about sustainability. Major corporations have departments of sustainability. Programs encourage sustainability. That’s terrific. Except for one problem. It means soooo many different things. Some efforts may even work in opposition to others. When a term means very ...
July 16th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
In the last few days, rainfall records were broken in Japan. That was even before the record-breaking typhoon, “Maria”, spun up and is now headed for the region. The deadly flooding in Japan is a reminder that record-setting rainfalls are being surpassed all over the world, almost ...
July 9th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise