Tag: Global warming
Closing the Loop on Climate Politics
Anyone tuning in to headlines over the past week has seen the alarms blazing about our ever narrowing window to thwart climate change… https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45859325 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kids-climate-change-lawsuit-can-proceed-judge-rules-n920476 Do we have problems? Absolutely yes. But the sad reality is that the media’s fear mongering is not the approach for environmental advocacy that we need. We should keep…
Read Morenot Earth’s obituary…but ours
A CNN piece posing the question “Will we write Earth’s next chapter or its obituary?” was released just days before the start of the recent Paris Climate Summit and contributed to the recent media frenzy surrounding climate change. It took the Summit to bring the topic front and center as ‘the news of the day’, which…
Read MoreCowspiracy | a Review
Just when you think the root of the climate change problem is finally recognized, you realize that we’ll be screaming til the cows come home. Fossil fuel consumption, yes, certainly a problem. But what about methane? My weekly Netflix mind-melting activities caught the attention of the documentary film ‘Cowspiracy‘ which focusses on the apparently taboo…
Read Moreglobal warming – at least in Antarctica
I never thought I would read this headline…63 degrees in Antarctica. Meanwhile here in Rhode Island I woke up to the twenties…still (ugghh). Despite all the griping and groaning about ‘global warming’ which has been hard to swallow given the winter we’ve had here in New England, it is certainly fair to say that ‘climate…
Read Moresunday; snowy sunday…
Talk about the woes of winter – this one can’t come to an end soon enough. With seemingly every weekend being buried with snow, there hasn’t been much time freed up to stay on top of proficiency dives and new experimental techniques which had been the weekend norm for about the last year. This has…
Read MoreHigher Tides, Typhoons, and Assimilation
This week brought the human race perhaps the worst natural disaster in modern history – Typhoon Haiyan. The news headlines have played every angle imaginable to jockey for readership position – the loss of life, the mass of displaced people, major destruction of critical infrastructure, and yes, global warming. With the latter, one may consider…
Read MoreRising Seas – where should we go?
The September 2013 issue of National Geographic Magazine includes a beautifully developed and presented feature about ‘Rising Seas’ – the imminent threat of sea-level rise due to a variety of factors. The cover page includes a series of questions addressed in the article which read as follows: 1. What will we protect? 2. What will…
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