The July 17 German Spiegel Online has a really good article about the challenge and very diverse spread of forecasts for sea level rise this century. “UN Climate Body Struggling to Pinpoint Rising Sea Level.” As the author Axel Bojanowski accurately surveys, there are diverse ...
July 17th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
If you have not yet heard the phrase “Ocean Acidification” it is likely that you will soon. It is a relatively new phenomenon that now has marine scientists VERY concerned. Over the next century many climate and ocean scientists believe it could be the single ...
July 16th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Frankly Australia is way ahead of the US on the issue of climate change and what needs to be done. In fact it is probably higher on the political agenda in no other country. The reason is that they have already 'seen the future' and ...
July 11th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
The latest issue of TIME Magazine features a cover story about Aquaculture. The lead says: Fish are the last wild food, but our oceans are being picked clean. Can farming fish take the place of catching them? It provides a good overview and some surprising ...
July 11th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Sea Level will rise this century and almost surely by a greater amount during the next century. Many figures are cited for how many people might be displaced by the change. How big a variation? How about somewhere between 41,000 and 187 million people. Now ...
July 8th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
A headline in Britain's Daily Mail proclaims "Attack of the jellyfish: Sea creatures shut down ANOTHER power station amid claims population surge is due to climate change" See http://tinyurl.com/6h86agz. It should be noted that this newspaper is not even known for concern about climate change. ...
July 6th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
Cape May, New Jersey is a popular seaside destination, particularly in the summer. This week they announced plans to raise a two mile stretch of main road by 5 feet so that it is useable during flooding — which happens increasingly, and is expected to ...
July 3rd, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
There are at least hundreds of facts, images, and perspectives that help people to believe that climate change is happening, and that humans are impacting it, and that the trend is ominous. Or, NOT. A recent poll showed that a little more than 50% of ...
June 26th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise
A story saying that the data about Sea Level Rise had been adjusted “in an attempt to exagegerate the effects of global warming” was featured on the FOX NEWS website on Saturday, June 18 http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/06/18/changing-tides-research-center-under-fire-adjusted-sea-level-data This caused me to rethink my “stupid climate story of ...
June 20th, 2011 Category: Sea Level Rise