Archive for the tag 'Eustasy'

May 01 2010

Rising Sea

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Wow. Just wow. This site rocks my world, and it should rock yours too. Risingsea.net is absolutely amazing. In the last few years, Americans have come to recognize that humanity is changing the earth’s atmosphere in ways that we will not be able to reverse over the next century. Some say we should immediately reduce [...]

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Feb 22 2010

What Does Two Meters Really Mean?

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I found this this morning. Talk about gorgeous! And I love the little sailboat at the top. Be sure to read the whole article, it’s really nicely done. And um… I guess it’s time to put Venice on the top of our “to visit before it’s submerged” list.

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Feb 20 2010

Inching Upwards

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I wish I’d been able to use this strategy in high school math classes How High Will Seas Rise? Get Ready for Seven Feet The reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are balanced and comprehensive documents summarizing the impact of global warming on the planet. But they are not without imperfections, and [...]

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Oct 29 2009

Eustasy in North Carolina (A failure of specificity)

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Sometimes, the scientific method’s reductionist thinking makes my head ache. Check this out: North Carolina sea levels rising 3 times faster than in previous 500 years, Penn study says An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century [...]

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Oct 13 2009

The Most Important Thing You’ll Do Today

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This just in, from 350.org: Dear World— This is an invitation to build a movement—to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis. We are a group of people from around the planet—young and old, scientists and writers and activists—who have one thing in common. We know the most important number on [...]

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Oct 10 2009

Excellent Readings in Eustasy

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From the BBC: ‘Scary’ climate message from past A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be “playing with fire”, scientists say. Researchers used ocean sediments to plot CO2 levels back 20 million years. Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were [...]

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Jul 15 2009

Art and Eustasy

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This is so cool. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) hosted an open international design competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond. The winners are here. The last one, Evolutionary Recovery, is my fave. But you probably could have guessed that. The problem with fabulous [...]

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Mar 16 2009

Drowning Islands

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Lately, when people ask us where we’re heading, on our family’s adventure, I tell them that I can’t decide whether I want my kids to see glaciers before they melt, or islands before they’re drowned. Drowning islands warn of future perils for ‘environmental refugees’ Apparently I have less time to decide than I thought. It [...]

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May 19 2008

Big Sea Level Rise

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http://www.deeperblue.net/newsfull.php/1848 Amongst the non-mainstream news sources I adore is Deeper Blue, a site that focuses on news relevant to divers. This headline, “Big Sea Level Rise Forecasted” wasn’t a surprise, but it was depressing. Here in the US, we’re still debating stuff like this… is it us, is it global, blah blah blah. It’s pathetic [...]

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