A few days ago WPBT, one of the Miami Public Television Stations broadcast a special "South Florida's Rising Seas." The half hour program was done by Kate MacMillin and Juliet Pinto, two professors at Florida International University's (FIU) School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Perhaps ...
January 23rd, 2014 Category: Sea Level Rise
No photograph has ever stunned the world like this image 45 years ago today. It was the first photo of Earth from deep space. On December 24th, 1968. The Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James ...
December 25th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
We are asking the wrong question about rising sea level, usually stated as: ‘How high will sea level get by 2100?’, or some other year. While it seems reasonable, it is the wrong focus. There is a better way to frame the question. First, let’s ...
December 9th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
The most common question I have had in the last couple of days: “Was climate change responsible for Typhoon Haiyan that devastated the Philippines.” Variations come in e-mails and were put to me this evening on the Fusion TV network by popular news anchor Jorge ...
November 13th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
In more than a year of public speaking and consulting about rising sea level, the most frequent question I get is, "How high will it get by 2050?" — or some variation focusing on the year 2100, the person's lifetime, etc. It is asked by ...
November 10th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
Most people explaining climate change keep adding more and more information to their list of explanations. I seem to be going in the other direction. My opportunities to speak about rising sea level continue to grow. The more I give talks to diverse and large ...
October 31st, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
October 29, 2012 the world stood stunned as Hurricane Sandy devastated New Jersey and New York. Looking back on this anniversary, have we learned anything? The answer is mixed. I have had a particular vantage point to this story as my book about sea level ...
October 28th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
Ten to thirty inches of sea level rise this century. That is what the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says. We should be so lucky. Those summary ‘headline’ numbers are misleading to the point of being irresponsible. I don’t mean ...
October 27th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
South Dakota and Wyoming are buried under almost four feet of fresh snow from an early season blizzard. Surprisingly we can expect more of this as the planet continues to warm. The oceans have been getting warmer in the last few decades and that will ...
October 6th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise