Flooding may be the greatest cause of property damage throughout human history. Heavier rainfall and rising sea level have made flooding much worse in recent years. More and more people and communities are noticing that something is different than just decades ago. It is clear ...
April 16th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
I offer this graphic as one of the simplest ways to communicate two things. 1) that current “global warming” was triggered by humans, and 2) that sea level is going to rise for a LONG time. Even though some people may avoid looking at any graph, ...
April 9th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
While it’s tempting to toss all environmental issues into the same “green bucket”, that can add to the confusion. Recycling, saving sea turtles, and combating climate change may all be compelling, but have little in common. If we are going to find solutions to big ...
April 2nd, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Usually sea level rise is categorized as an “environmental issue.” More often than not, I dispute that saying it is more of an economic or real estate issue. To some degree it is a question of framing or positioning and even semantics, but it actually ...
March 26th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Doubling” or exponential growth is deceptive. It can mean wealth with an investment, or disaster with something like rising sea level. As an illustration of doubling, perhaps you fell victim to this math puzzler in high school — or in a bar. Would you prefer ...
March 21st, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency made news during an interview on CNBC Squawk Box a few days ago when he disputed the connection between carbon dioxide and current global warming. He is wrong. Carbon dioxide has been clearly linked to ...
March 12th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
In 1917– exactly 100 years ago — the man best remembered for inventing the telephone used the term “greenhouse effect” to describe the phenomenon that burning fossil fuels would warm Earth’s atmosphere. Alexander Graham Bell stands as one of the greatest scientists and inventors of all ...
March 5th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Antarctica is more than mysterious. It’s almost invisible to us. Last week I was back there with a group of senior corporate executives when the irony hit me. While the world is largely ignorant of and ignores that foreboding land mass as if it were irrelevant, Antarctica ...
February 27th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Last week I listed five “lies”, myths, or untruths about rising sea level. That was Part 1. Now for the second half, Lies # 6-10 I’ll be using the same format for each, first stating the truth, then the relevant myth or lie, and a ...
February 20th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise