With all the attention to Pope Benedict's surprise announcement about retiring at the end of this month, one important part of his legacy is being ignored. During his term as leader of the Catholic Church, the Vatican produced one of the boldest papers yet about ...
February 11th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
How does global warming cause or accompany record snow? — a frequent question, particularly after an event like the "Nemo" blizzard that just hit the northeastern US. Keeping it simple, there are three reasons that may help you explain the connection. One of the other ...
February 10th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
Neworld Review has just published a wonderful review of High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis, the new book by John Englander. Read it here The reviewer was Steven Paul Leiva, an author, playwright, and producer. He concludes: High ...
February 5th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
Humor is one of the best vehicles to make people receptive to harsh truths. Sarcasm, can be an effective method, but only when done well. No one does it better than Stephen Colbert as shown in this recent segment THE WORD on The Colbert Report, ...
February 3rd, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
In his second inaugural speech President Barack Obama hit a wonderful and prominent message about climate change. Rather than positioning it as an issue for future generations, he put the urgency in the context of climate that is already changing. To quote: We will respond ...
January 21st, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
Today's cover story in the New York Times is excellent in terms of depicting just how bizarre the weather has become worldwide. Sarah Lyall, the lead author, describes a world gone amuck. Snowstorms in Jerusalem, record heat in the US, record cold in China and ...
January 11th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
The Explorers Journal, the prestigious quarterly publication of The Explorers Club has published a new article of mine, In Sandy’s Wake, in the Winter 2013 issue.It is available here as a free download, with their kind permission. It describes the genesis of Sandy, which by remarkable ...
January 10th, 2013 Category: Sea Level Rise
As 2012 ends a new study provides evidence that Western Antarctica is warming ahead of forecasts. This has serious implications for the rate of sea level rise, particularly what is termed catastrophic sea level rise. The area in question is Western Antarctica. The recent study ...
December 30th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
All over the world extreme high tide’s, so called “King Tides” have been setting new records. Tides are more extreme each month reflecting the lunar cycle and the alignment of the planets. Such extreme tides add to the gradually rising sea level, and occasionally to ...
December 21st, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise