A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters confirms that sea level has been rising 60% faster than the projections. Led by Stefan Rahmstorm, a world-renown oceanographer from the Potsdam Institute – Germany, the paper “Comparing Climate Projections to Observations up to ...
December 3rd, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Yesterday the Disinformation site published a new article of mine "Don't Panic, But the Shoreline is Moving Inland." It is getting significant attention, my first piece post – "Sandy". It both summarizes some key points from my book High Tide On Main Street and makes ...
November 30th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Stranger than fiction. Last Monday night, October 22nd, Tropical storm “Sandy” — now Hurricane Sandy — was just slowly forming about six hundred miles south of Jamaica in the Caribbean, not raising any particular concern at the time. Twelve hours EARLIER, I sent my book ...
October 31st, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
"High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis", my new book, is now available for purchase on Amazon.com. After nearly three years of research, writing, editing, and last minute updates to incorporate recent research, it is very exciting to have ...
October 31st, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
The Union of Concerned Scientists today sent a letter to President Obama and Governor Romney focusing on the issue of rising sea level, in anticipation of the last debate in this years Presidential contest. The debate takes place on October 22, 2012 at Lynn University ...
October 11th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Arctic sea ice has an annual cycle. Each year the minimum ice is noted about the third week of September. Today it was announced that melting had reduced the polar ice sheet to 1.3 million sq miles (3.4 million skm). That is truly alarming, but ...
September 26th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
If asked how much of our planet is ocean, most educated people will give a correct approximate of something like the “two thirds.” A more accurate answer would be about 71% of the planet’s surface area. That two dimensional view misses the important perspective, the ...
July 12th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
A Reuters lead story last week out of London, got the key facts about rising sea level dead on: Rising sea level can no longer be stopped, even if we stop all greenhouse gas emissions, though it can be slowed. That is one of the ...
July 8th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
March through May — the Spring months — witnessed the breaking of temperature records all across the US. Weather experts are calling it the "Summer in March." 35 Heat records were broken for every record breaking Cold statistic. The observation about the importance of this ...
June 10th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise