I encounter so many myths and misunderstandings about rising sea level, in effect lies. They provide an opportunity to explain the facts, or truths. To make this easy to process and retain, I will break this into two parts. For each, I will first put ...
February 12th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Future sea level rise will not be at all like the recent past. While there is an understandable habit or protocol to predict the future largely relying on past trends, we must overcome that tendency in this particular situation. To use a metaphor, looking in the ...
February 6th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “NOAA” issued a new 44-page report, “Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States.” They have created a new projection line for as much as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) by 2100, the red colored line ...
January 30th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise ,Uncategorized
“Implications for US National Security of Anticipated Climate Change”, a recent report by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) identifies two big risks to US national security: extreme weather events and ‘systemic’ changes like sea level rise. Over the next five years, the report identified extreme ...
January 19th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise ,Uncategorized
The current extreme cold temperatures across most of North America and Europe can be traced directly to the extreme warmth in the Arctic just as climate models predict. Note the red and orange areas of above normal temperature on this global graphic for today. Though ...
January 8th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
As we enter the New Year we are on thin ice, figuratively and literally. 2016 was a record breaking year as I will describe in a moment. However, let’s start with the big news this week from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. The ...
January 6th, 2017 Category: Sea Level Rise
Greenland’s military dog sled teams should have started their patrols on November 1, but a full month later, the snow and ice conditions kept them at their base camp. It has not been cold enough, yet another sign of global warming, or climate change. Greenland ...
December 1st, 2016 Category: Sea Level Rise
Yesterday — Thanksgiving Day — the New York Times ran a big feature, “Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate“, by Ian Urbina about the inevitable decline of coastal real estate values in the face of unstoppable sea level rise. As I read this ...
November 24th, 2016 Category: Sea Level Rise
Flooding from Hurricane Matthew exceeded all expectations. Part of the problem is that flooding is described as if it were a single phenomenon when in actuality there are several types that can act as multipliers. In my work to help companies and communities prepare for future ...
October 26th, 2016 Category: Sea Level Rise