My blog post last week pointed out a grossly misleading headline, “Global Warming Could Stop Quickly After Emissions Go To Zero.” As I explained, we do not even have a plan for how to get close to zero emissions. The vague plans being discussed aim ...
January 26th, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise
A January 3, 2021 article in INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS suggests that global warming could stop QUICKLY after the planet reaches zero emissions. But it misses the BIG PROBLEM… we are not making ANY significant progress toward Zero Emissions…
January 15th, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Twenty-twenty” used to communicate having good vision, referring to visual acuity on an eye chart. For decades to come, the phrase will more likely recall the year just ending: 2020, with the globe-changing impact of Covid-19, disease and death. At present, the related economic problems ...
December 28th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
How high could sea level rise in the coming decades? In coastal cities worldwide, that question is being asked quite seriously, due to peak water levels at high tide that keep breaking records. About three feet or approximately one meter is the most commonly cited ...
December 22nd, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Retreating from the coastline as sea level rises is one of the most sensitive topics. Homeowners, business leaders, bankers, and elected officials all want to put off the day of reckoning as long as possible. However the ocean cares not about our preferences. As ...
December 14th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
November was the warmest month since global temperature records began in 1880. Weather records keep being broken. It’s become so routine, that perhaps it’s starting to seem normal. These maps using data from the European and American satellite data compare worldwide temperatures last month, to ...
December 7th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
The U.S. government’s new National Risk Index was released on November 20. The good news is that it ‘s very user friendly. Clearly a lot of time and effort was put into this project. FEMA – the Federal Emergency Management Agency– has come up with ...
November 30th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Last Saturday NASA launched Sentinel- 6 Michael Freilich, a new satellite to measure sea level. (The name pays homage to a leading program advocate for Earth science at NASA who died this year.) Media reports suggested that a satellite focused on sea level was a ...
November 23rd, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Hurricane Iota is about to hit Central America, expected to be an extreme category 5 centering on Nicaragua and Honduras. It breaks records as the 13th hurricane in the Atlantic this year and the 30th named storm. Two weeks earlier, Hurricane Eta hit the same ...
November 16th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise