Amid the politics and disappointment from the climate talks this week in Durban South Africa, there has been a little trickle of insight into the real story about sea level rise; one that even good journalists missed. The last major IPCC report on climate change ...
December 9th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Japan is still struggling to cope with the aftermath of the major tsunami that hit March 11 this year. The destruction ranges from people, homes and entire communities, to wider damage from the nuclear power plant catastrophe, damage to their electric power system, and their ...
October 27th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
The Day After Tomorrow was a good sci-fi film about the shutdown of the gulf stream causing Manhattan to go into a deep freeze, within days. It pretended to be a glimpse into what could happen with climate change. Absolute Nonsense! It was believable only ...
October 23rd, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
This chart shows the relative changes in global average temperature, CO2 (carbon dioxide), and sea level over the last 420,000 years. The data is derived from different sources that corroborate and confirm the findings. Data sources include air bubbles trapped in layers of the ice ...
September 15th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Rising Sea level is one of the main concerns about a warming planet. You would think it would be simple: the ice melts; the sea rises. Like most things in our complex world, it’s not that simple. Surprisingly sea level went down in 2010, by ...
August 25th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Just a few months ago, the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences published a paper in which it assessed climate change and what mankind should do about it. It may not have received enough attention due to an innocuous title, “Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the ...
August 20th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
One would think that sea level would be the same height everywhere, if we eliminated the waves and the high/low tide variation. We would be wrong; very wrong. I must admit that as I have researched my book about rising sea level, that was one ...
July 29th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
A story today in THE AUSTRALIAN is a good candidate for my Stupid-Story-of-the Week-Award. Their headline is: “Sea-level rises are slowing, tidal gauge records show” This is bad journalism in terms of not putting things in perspective, fueling misunderstanding. The article describes an Australian ...
July 23rd, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Just 4 illustrations show why sea level will almost certainly rise for centuries, the STUNNING levels of historical change; and even why society generally doubts that it will ever happen. Articles about sea level rise (SLR) somewhere on the planet are appearing almost daily. (I ...
July 21st, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise