Most of us today strive to be more “green” and sustainable. Efforts range from reducing our energy use and our “carbon footprint”, to advancing the use of renewable energy and recycled materials. Good as these efforts are, they often distract us from recognizing the brutal ...
June 18th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
My first TEDx talk is now online. I have been nervous to watch it, ever since the event May 9th, but am now relieved and proud. In just 11 minutes I was able to tell the main story, with very few graphics, in a relatively ...
June 12th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
You may have seen reference in the mainstream media to several scientific papers last month that concluded that massive ice melting and sea level rise is now unstoppable — though there is still great uncertainty as to just how quickly it will happen. Peter Sinclair ...
June 3rd, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
Pope Francis deserves real credit. He understands the clarity, the moral imperative, and the profound risk of climate change. In a speech on May 21 before a large crowd in Rome, he urged: Safeguard Creation, because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never ...
May 26th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
The chorus of alarm about climate change is growing. This week it was in the headline news due to the just released National Climate Assessment. In today’s Los Angeles Times, Doyle McManus has a very good piece describing the Republican response. “The GOP does the ...
May 10th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
Today the US Government issued the National Climate Assessment. It has been covered extensively in the media today from the Wall Street Journal to the environmental press. It is a well done, sobering report, that describes how things are getting worse and what is at ...
May 7th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
“Back to the Jersey Shore” is an excellent article in New York Times yesterday by Ronda Kaysen. A year and a half after the disaster of Hurricane Sandy that devastated thousands of homes, communities are rapidly rebuilding, looking ahead to a good summer at the ...
April 5th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
One of the challenges raised about transitioning off of fossil fuels is the cost of giving up the relatively cheap energy of coal and similar sources. Of all the fossil fuels, coal is arguably the least expensive, most plentiful, and highest in the amount of ...
March 1st, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
Climate Central is a nonprofit that develops clear explanations about climate change for mainstream media channels and for the public. They do an excellent job in my opinion. One of their areas of focus is rising sea level. A recent article “Adapting to Sea Level ...
February 19th, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise