A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about sea-level rise. Well, here’s a quick update to start the week (albeit a day or so late) on that same subject, but a little closer to home – for me at least. From ScienceDaily, one of my favorite online new sources, comes good and bad news [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
17 Dec
Coming soon to a beach near you – the jellyfish blob
The meek shall inherit the Earth – at least the wet parts of it. The lowly jiggly jellyfish, those simple critters that are mostly water and stomach, may be the big winners in the high-stakes gamble we’re playing in the oceans on a global scale. Beautiful and bizarre, jellyfish are on the rise in many [...]
3 Dec
An ocean of ups, downs, and much uncertainty: sea-level rise in the 21st century
One of the oft-cited results of global warming is sea-level rise. But how does it work? Human-induced climate change contributes to sea-level rise in two ways. Almost two-thirds of the predicted rise will be caused by thermal expansion. The ocean is warming, causing the water in it to expand. There’s only one way for this [...]
3 Sep
Brave Blue Worlds: An Update
Brave Blue Words has been offline for a few months, due to technical difficulties. All that has been resolved and I am happy to report that your favorite ocean and climate science blog will be back later this month with a brand-new post! I will update you on what I learned from speaking with some [...]
23 Jun
The sea is the lifeblood of the planet
I’m heading off to India on Sunday and currently in the midst of last-minute work and packing. I’ll blog about my trip, so stay tuned! For now, I’ll leave you with a revision of a speech I gave a number of years ago to the Independent World Commissions on the Oceans (IWCO) in 1997. The [...]
7 May
“Nothing Happend in Copenhagen. Why?”
The e-course I am taking, “Global Warming in a Still Unequal World,” taught by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in India, opens with this assignment: Write an essay of approximately 500 words on: “Nothing happened at Copenhagen: Why?”Alternatively, you could submit cartoon strip made by you. As I am not much of a [...]
4 May
Personal Lessons in Climate Change from India
Over the past 9 months or so, I have written a number of posts on climate change in South Asia, particularly at the ‘Third Pole,’ the ice-covered region that includes the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. I have endeavored to learn as much as possible about the science and policy of this issue from the [...]
26 Mar
Winds of Change: How Black Carbon Affects the South Asian Monsoon
In the previous post, I wrote about how the glaciers of the ‘Third Pole’ – the greater Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region – are melting at a dramatic rate (just not as fast as mistakenly stated in the IPCC report). The key determinant of whether glaciers are retreating or advancing appears to be the South Asian summer [...]
2 Feb
So, What is Happening with the Himalayan Glaciers?
There’s been a lot of news recently about the the IPCC’s erroneous statement about the Himalayan glaciers. Here’s the exact quote from the 4th IPCC Assessment Report, Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability, Section 10.6.2 The Himalayan glaciers: “Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part [...]
1 Feb
Update and More About the Melting Himalayas
Whew! It’s been a busy couple of months in the climate science world, and even crazier for those of us following the IPCC-Himalayan glacier debate! I’ve been so busy working on it in my professional life that I haven’t had a chance to blog about it – but that will change tomorrow! Check in for [...]
