The New York Times just published a comprehensive article on climate change in Friday’s online version, in which I am prominently featured. The author of this excellent article on climate change and Greenland’s melting glaciers is the pre-eminent NY Times columnist Bret Stephens. The genesis ...
October 29th, 2022 Category: Sea Level Rise
Twenty five years ago, a legendary explorer, scientist, and communicator passed forever into the great abyss. Just the mention of the first name “Jacques” in a context of scuba diving, coral reefs, oceans, or environmental issues would have led many to assume they were talking ...
June 24th, 2022 Category: Sea Level Rise
Greenland – the largest island on our planet – seems unimportant or irrelevant to most people, but we ignore it at our peril. Most experts agree that the meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet has passed “a tipping point” that cannot be stopped for centuries, ...
May 6th, 2022 Category: Sea Level Rise
Since 1970, Earth Day has become a global event to recognize and reflect on all manner of environmental issues. I believe Earth Day is a good opportunity to assess, recommit, and adjust our awareness and efforts to live in a “symbiotic” relationship with our host ...
April 22nd, 2022 Category: Sea Level Rise
Some 25,000 people worked for the last two weeks in Glasgow Scotland on the annual climate “Conference of the Parties” better known as COP26. Unfortunately, the outcome bring us closer to an irreversible, disastrous tipping point. To be fair, getting the 196 nations to sign ...
November 17th, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise
After a brief break from blogging, I have breaking news to share. I recently, first hand, became acquainted with William Shatner’s deep interest in sea level rise in a very unusual way… He asked me to be his guest for Episode 1 of his new ...
October 28th, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise
The New IPCC Climate Report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is making headlines this week. At almost four thousand pages it is clearly intended for scientists. Fortunately, the 42-page Summary for Policy Makers is quite readable and understandable, but also warrants explanation. Think of its ...
August 13th, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise
Uggianaqtuq. Pronounced “OOG-e-ah-nak-tuk”, it is the Inuit word meaning weather behaving strangely. I think of the word often in these times of record-setting high temperatures, and think back fondly to when I first met the Inuit some 35 years ago. They are the historically nomadic ...
July 13th, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise
It’s good to get back to regular blogging, having taken last month off to do interviews and promote my new book, MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND. I have received hundreds of comments about the social media ads placed by my publishing team. I read each comment, ...
June 22nd, 2021 Category: Sea Level Rise