No scientist is better identified with climate change than the widely respected NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen. In 1988 he was prominently featured in the public media for his warnings at a televised Congressional hearing. For three decades, he has applied his background in astrophysics ...
December 14th, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
A new report by the World Bank and United Nations recommends economical ways to minimize global losses from natural disasters that could triple to $185 billion by the end of century, but notes that EXCLUDES CLIMATE CHANGE. It then adds a sentence that climate change ...
November 15th, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
Dr. Mark Sereze, is a leading expert about the Arctic, and Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, based in Boulder, Colorado. (NSIDC http://nsidc.org/) In a story this week by Stephen Levy of IPS, Sereze states, I stand by my previous statements that ...
September 23rd, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
“MYSTERY ON OUR BEACHES” is the lead front page story in today’s SUN SENTINEL newspaper (Fort Lauderdale) describing a significant rise in bacteria levels on public beaches with concern for public health. The article can be read at http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-09-18/health/fl-beach-closures-20100917_1_bacteria-levels-high-bacteria-enterococcus While this article focuses on a ...
September 19th, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
A couple of degrees warmer sounds like nothing. Temperature sensitivity turns out to be one of the astounding insights from the current study of warming trends. Like so many things, when looked at with the right perspective, it actually makes sense, even if it was ...
September 11th, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
The North Pole has been surrounded by the polar ice cap for more than a million years. It is now closely monitored as an indicator of climate change, or global warming. The size of the Ice sheets and glaciers are excellent LONG-TERM indicators of atmospheric ...
September 3rd, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
Bjorn Lomborg has been one of the most articulate contrarians about the need to combat carbon emissions. The Danish economist uses rigorous objective methods to evaluate world crises and solutions. Although he has acknowledged the climate change problem in recent years, he remained steadfast that ...
August 31st, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
Time Magazine has just published an excellent succinct summary of the threats to coral reefs that include the often cited pollution and development. The greatest threats, however, are the warming and acidification, which are now both documented to be functions of the global warming phenomenon. ...
August 30th, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise
Climate Change is no longer a theory, as it was when Dr. James Hansen testified to Congress in 1988. The polar ice sheets and glaciers are melting to a degree not seen in millions of years. Our relatively stable weather climate patterns of the last ...
August 29th, 2010 Category: Sea Level Rise