Flood disasters are becoming rather routine. Sill, this week one of the stories in my Sea Level Rise Now News Digest caught my attention – an article in The Guardian (U.K.) covering a study by World Resources Institute. It makes a shocking prediction that by ...
April 27th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Back in 1970 the concerns were clean air, clean water, chemical pollution, litter, and general environmental concerns. By the end of the seventies however, Dennis Hayes, the organizer, came to recognize the issue of global warming ...
April 20th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
If there’s any good fallout from the disaster of the Corona virus, it may be the resurrection of sound science. From Washington D.C. to London, political leaders are quickly realizing the limits of spin and hype when disaster strikes. We are now facing the real ...
March 16th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Last week San Francisco published a new report, “Sea Level Rise: Vulnerability and Consequences Assessment.” This updated 2020 document report is well done. It’s very readable and well illustrated, so recommended for anyone interested. With all such reports, I immediately look to see what height of ...
March 9th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Flood risk seems to be on people’s minds everywhere. All over the world there is record flooding from: hurricanes and coastal storm surge heavy rainfall and runoff inland rivers overflowing their banks and levee failures King Tides and rising sea level Information is handled differently in ...
March 2nd, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Coastal areas everywhere are being damaged at an accelerating pace. Causes range from erosion, to worsening storms, increased “blue sky flooding” during king tides, and rising sea level . Our history of building ever closer to the shoreline, with densely packed homes has added to ...
February 24th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
Low-cost Spirit Airlines is often mocked for its “no-frills” character, but apparently is the fastest growing airline in the United States. It is proud to call Florida home, with its corporate HQ west of Fort Lauderdale, in Broward County. Recently Spirit made news with its ...
February 17th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
As depicted above, it was just reported that last month – January 2020 – was the warmest ever, compared to the average of the prior three decades. (For Americans, the thirteen degree Celsius maximum shown equals twenty three degrees Fahrenheit above average.) We are seeing ...
February 10th, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise
You may have seen articles or television coverage recently about “The Doomsday Glacier”, a nickname for Thwaites. Here’s why it is such a huge concern. Think of sea level as being represented by a swimming pool. Slowly walking towards that pool is an elephant getting ...
February 3rd, 2020 Category: Sea Level Rise