The April cover story of Scientific American is the catastrophe unfolding above the Arctic circle. ARCTIC MELTDOWN, the headline is upside down, presumably to reinforce how the world is turning upside down, metaphorically. The subhead tells the story: Vanishing Ice. The Thawing Arctic is already ...
April 29th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
April 22 was first designated Earth Day in 1970. With growing concerns from polluted rivers to oil spills damaging beaches, the point was to put the environment ‘front and center.’ It seems like a good time to clarify some environmental truths as well as some ...
April 22nd, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Having just returned from Greenland, it is very much on my mind. It is a wondrous and mysterious land. As I reflect on my week there, I can’t shake a popular phrase about Las Vegas, with a reverse twist. What happens in Greenland does not stay ...
April 15th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
I am back in Greenland this week educating and escorting a group across the ice sheet. This group was organized by Active Philanthropy, based in Germany. The purpose is to show decision makers, first hand, how the world is changing in ways that few grasp. ...
April 8th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Begin with the End in Mind” is the second principle in the famous list of “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by the late Stephen Covey. Recently it occurred to me that the second habit, to begin with the end in mind, has tremendous application to the ...
March 31st, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
The most common question about sea level rise is ‘how high will it rise by when?’ It surprises many to learn that there is no way to predict that answer with any certainty. Also many mistakenly believe that projections for three or six feet are ...
March 25th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
Riley, Quinn, and Skylar – the terrible trio of recent Nor’easter storms. Poor Boston and the larger region from the mid-Atlantic to New England. They have had record amounts of snow in the last few weeks. And as shown in the headline story on the Weather ...
March 18th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
With the new year, I have decided it is time to change the focus of my public talks. It is time to shift from just explaining the science behind rising sea level and worse flooding to putting the focus on a broad new attitude. It is ...
March 11th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Riley” was another deadly “100 year storm” that hit New England Friday (March 2nd). The previous “100 year storm” with even more fatalities hit the same area exactly 2 months earlier. That was “Grayson” but was better known as the “Bomb-cyclone” to describe its explosive ...
March 4th, 2018 Category: Sea Level Rise