Monthly Archives: March 2017
Finding Climate Stars to Steer By.
Bleaching as a sign we are off course It started last month with scattered reports from Mackay in the south to Port Douglas on the north Queensland coast. The Great Barrier Reef has begun to bleach again. Coral polyps by the million tossing out their minute symbiotic algae under the stress of warm water, and … Continue reading
Sea and Sky – Complexity abounds, which is why climate change is so difficult to understand and project into the future.
Reclining on a tropical beach, it is easy to think of the ocean as deliciously wet, salty and refreshing, while the sky is simply a blue transparency, a near nothingness that sometimes brings a cooling breeze. In fact, both are complex mixtures of substances that are engaged in equally complex dances as they abide by … Continue reading