When we think about the Maldives, we do well to leave conventional wisdom behind. From Reuters: The Maldivian president and ministers held the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday, in a symbolic cry for help over rising sea levels …
Tag: rising sea levels
Sunny Day Flooding Creates Market for New Vehicles
The car/boat shown here isn’t a bad investment for those in one of America’s areas prone to “sunny day flooding,” a term that is being used with increasing frequency as the oceans expand via rising temperatures, and the ice sheets in places …
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Walls, Bridges, and Sustainability
If you copy and paste “Walls vs. Bridges” into Google, you’ll be reading for a very long time about the origins and current meaning of this phrase. Summarizing the discussion in present-day world politics, it comes down to two major opposing …
Melting of the Arctic Sea Ice
As you watch this time-lapse video of the melting of the arctic sea ice, keep in mind that the thickness of the ice is decreasing as well. That, of course, is not obvious from what you’re able to see, which …
Tagged with: Fox News, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, melting of the Arctic sea ice, rising sea levels
In a Court of Law, No Challenge To the Basic Science that Human Activity Is Causing Climate Change
As previously discussed, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in Northern California are starting to incur enormous costs associated with rising sea levels, as well as severe storms and droughts that last many years and result in horrific wildfires …
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Why Rural Alaska Is Integrating Lots of Renewable Energy
According to this article in Scientific American called What Rural Alaska Can Teach the World about Renewable Energy, “Remote communities have integrated renewables into their diesel-based power grids with more success than anywhere else.”
Watch What Happens as the Truth About ExxonMobil and Climate Change Becomes Obvious To Us All
In response to my recent piece “Earth’s Warming Continues to Break Records,” frequent commenter Frank Eggers writes: The deniers may no longer be able to deny the warming, but they can continue to deny that human action is responsible regardless …
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On a Proposed Carbon Tax
From a colleague: In his interview with Vox, Bernie Sanders says, “Are the scientists right or are they wrong? If they are right they’re telling us that the planet Earth will be 5 to 10 degrees warmer by the end …
From Guest Blogger Sara Dawkins: Why Pure Sustainable Energy May Never Be Realized
The Internet is full of reasons why we need to focus more on sustainable energy. Everyone has facts to display about rising sea levels, the waste of resources when fracking, and how we have alternatives to continue our survival as …
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Chaos Theory and Understanding Global Climate Change
Here’s an article from Forbes.com written by my colleague Tom Konrad on Chaos Theory as it applies to the analysis of both the stock market and climate change. This subject has been at the core of Tom’s life’s work, starting …
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