January 23, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Between a third and two-thirds of Southern California beaches will succumb to sea-level rise by the end of this century unless global fossil fuel emissions are dramatically reined in, according to a 2017 U.S. Geological Survey report. As the beaches recede, California will lose a ...
Read More...January 22, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – An international team of researchers has found evidence of how sea-level rise is already affecting high and low tides in both the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. The analysis showed that one meter of sea-level rise increased the tidal range by up to ...
Read More...January 20, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Anyone who doubts rising sea level should come to Kutubdia, an island off Bangladesh, home to about 100,000 people and quickly disappearing. Thousands of climate refugees have already fled Kutubdia for the mainland. The island is sinking or subsiding, adding to the global sea ...
Read More...January 19, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – NASA’s IceBridge mission has been using a suite of sophisticated scientific instruments to study and monitor the state of the Antarctic peninsula. In March 2017, the sea ice around both poles reached a record low for that time of year. In July, ...
Read More...January 18, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – For coastal residents in Delaware, flooding is already a way of life. Delaware is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to its low elevation and flat topography. In Sussex County, up to 56 percent of state park lands and 99 percent of tidal ...
Read More...January 17, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Over the long term, how can low-lying coastal cities adapt successfully to rising seas? Some possibilities include mandatory flood insurance, limiting new building, constructing dikes and seawalls, raising infrastructure, relocating communities, and finally, abandonment. To read the actual article click here.
Read More...January 16, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A bipartisan group of more than 100 members of Congress has urged the Trump Administration to recognize climate change as a national security risk since it was omitted from the National Security Strategy issued on 18 December 2017. The letter states, “As global temperatures become more ...
Read More...January 15, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – The past four years have been the hottest in the 138 years we have been recording temperatures, and yet the Trump Administration is dismantling efforts to fight climate change. The administration is attempting to open new areas for oil drilling and roll back regulations ...
Read More...January 13, 2018 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A glaciology postdoc at Princeton is exploring whether building underwater walls at the mouth of the world’s most unstable glaciers—huge piles of sand and stone, stretching for miles across the seafloor—would change how those glaciers respond to the warming ocean and atmosphere, ...
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