In seeking to understand climate risks, modeling of worst-case “business as usual” paths put the world on a path to 5C (five degrees celsius) / 9F (nine degrees fahrenheit), or more, warming within the lifetimes of people on earth today. Well, their lifetimes if they survived the enormity of climate catastrophes and disruptions that warming […]
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In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise
January 7th, 2023 · Comments Off on In covering climate risks despite less extreme warming path, Washington Post washes over the most significant: The Seas Will Rise
Tags: climate change · climate crisis · climate disruption · Sea Level Rise · Washington Post
In Norfolk, Fish is Roadkill
December 4th, 2018 · Comments Off on In Norfolk, Fish is Roadkill
You don’t have to be that old to remember when fishing in Virginia meant searching for a body of water rod and reel in hand. This is changing as, with sea level rise, streets are increasingly flooded with ‘moon tides’ or in storm events where it didn’t occur (or less frequently) in the past. A […]
Tags: climate change · science · Sea Level Rise · virginia
#VA #Climate Forum: #Science-Denier @CoreyStewartVA Showed Up, Looked People in the Eye, and Lied
September 20th, 2018 · 3 Comments
Erev Yom Kippur’s Virginia Climate Crisis Forum (full event video) featured Senate candidates Senator Tim Kaine (D) and his climate-science-denying opponent, Corey Stewart (R). The several hundred (perhaps 400) attendees heard Kaine give a reasoned set of comments about climate science and policy issues. They also, unfortunately, suffered through deceitful commentary from fossil-foolish Stewart, who basked in […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · politics · science · Science Communication · science denial · Sea Level Rise
Team Trump directly censors climate science statement
May 22nd, 2017 · Comments Off on Team Trump directly censors climate science statement
The US Geological Service issued a press release last Friday on an article/study about the threats sea-level rise create for US coasts, In Next Decades, Frequency of Coastal Flooding Will Double Globally. Global climate change drives sea-level rise, increasing the frequency of coastal flooding Those words did not appear in the above-linked USGS press release — though they were […]
Tags: Sea Level Rise · Trump Administration
Energy BOOKSHELF: Powerful CliFi from a leading American national security expert
May 18th, 2017 · 1 Comment
Richard Clarke served the United States in multiple roles, gaining his greatest fame due to his harsh criticism of the Bush White House for ignoring/down-playing his urgent calls for attention to Al Qaeda in the months leading to the 9/11 attacks. Clarke has served the nation in other ways, including a series of thoughtful, illuminating […]
Tags: energy bookshelf · Fiction · Sea Level Rise
Hands from the sea …
May 16th, 2017 · 4 Comments
A watched pot never boils is a truism that speaks to a reality: Humans have a difficult mentally registering slow change (how do you register your child’s growth day to day) even as the change impacts our lives in tangible manner (buying clothing to replace that they grew out of). Sea-level rise is one of […]
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