Last week I came across a short color television “TV” archive from 1958 that blew me over. It’s not quite two minutes long and definitely worth the time to watch. It was broadcast as part of Bell Telephone’s Science Hour and was produced by the ...
July 2nd, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Saturday was the 30th anniversary of Dr. James Hansen’s commanding testimony to the US Congress in 1988 about human-caused climate change; also known as global warming. My admiration for Hansen is already on record in my book, High Tide On Main Street, where I acknowledged ...
June 24th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
The explosion of the amount of CO2 emissions essentially began in England with the industrial revolution and expanded globally. I have been in London for the last week which reminded me of a terrific video that illustrates this history. In just one minute it tracks ...
June 18th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Black smoke, white smoke, and ozone are very different. Yet the three are commonly confused on the key issue of climate change. It is really important to keep these totally different kinds of “pollution” distinct, as only one of them greatly adds to a warming ...
June 11th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. With the growing concern about flooding and rising sea level there is a common meme that we can ‘fix’ the problem. Often the assumption is that renewable energy ...
June 4th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Images of icebergs melting or the disappearing sea ice in the Arctic are generally associated with rising sea level – a widely-held belief that is simply not true. Though many of my regular blog readers know this, over the last several years I have presented ...
May 27th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Moe, Larry, and Curley – the original Three Stooges, are known worldwide for saying the most ridiculous things, which were hilarious. I can’t miss the irony that another “Mo”––this one a U.S. Congressman––shares more than a very similar first name. In this case, the message ...
May 20th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
As noted here last week, the three major South Florida newspapers have just started a truly unprecedented publishing project––a year-long series of simultaneous coverage about the special challenge posed by rising sea level. I was privileged to be the first invited “OpEd” to appear ...
May 13th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Great Headline for a great editorial. For the first time ever, all three major South Florida newspapers published the same piece on their Editorial Pages today. If there ever was an existential issue for South Florida that called upon the competing media to reinforce a ...
May 6th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise