Article about how unmanned gliders are changing oceanography in THE ECONOMIST today. Their usual standard of keen insight and superb writing. See http://www.economist.com/node/21556551 Similar to the unmanned aerial drones that are changing everything from warfare to aerial surveillance, these underwater torpedo like devices are extremely ...
June 9th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Last night I got to my hotel — the quaint Emerson Inn by the Sea — in Rockport, Mass, after a dinner meeting in nearby Gloucester. I was tired but clicked the TV on. Jon Stewart’s Daily Show turned into the Colbert Report. I don’t ...
June 5th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Carbon capture and storage — known as sequestration — is the key issue affecting climate change. Forests are usually thought of as the best example of how nature stores carbon, removing it from the atmosphere. A new study, in the scientific journal NATURE shows that ...
May 23rd, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Reposted from Joe Romm’s Climate Progress Blog Study Shows ‘Clear Indications’ That Climate Change is Impacting European Fish Stocks By Stephen Lacey on May 11, 2012 at 2:10 pm Rising ocean temperatures are driving major changes in fisheries throughout western Europe, bringing warm water species ...
May 13th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
From the news and political beat, you could easily think that a lot of Americans doubt the premise, facts, and urgency of dealing with the climate change crisis. Apparently that’s simply not true. An authoritative new study last week gave some very encouraging news — ...
May 8th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Sea Level suddenly rose more than 65 feet (20 m) in about four centuries — more than a foot a decade. That astonishing event happened over 14,000 years ago. A new study this week in the scientific journal Nature points the finger at Antarctica as ...
March 31st, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
Today I had the privilege to dive in the ultra-sophisticated submarine "Super Aviator" named because it operates more like an airplane than a typical research sub. I was looking for ancient shorelines, hundreds of feet down, as evidence of sea levels being far below the ...
March 14th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
A news report yesterday in NATURE that the Himalayan glaciers are not disappearing as anticipated has caused a flurry of discussion in the scientific community — and also fueled those that want to assert global warming is not happening. My take is that while interesting, ...
February 9th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise
The chart below is adapted from a similar graph in Dr. Peter Ward’s book, “Under a Green Sky.” It plots all the mass extinction events of the last 500 million years against the best estimate of carbon dioxide levels (CO2) at the time. According to ...
January 17th, 2012 Category: Sea Level Rise