Last week, Drs. Chris Derksen and Ross Brown of Environment Canada published an article in Geophysical Research Letters reporting their analysis of records of summer melting of Arctic snow pack over the past 40 years. They used data compiled in… Read More »Melting of Canada’s Arctic snowpack and Canada’s need to factor climate change into economic planning
The Venetians did not build the Piazza San Marco so that it would flood on high tides. Relative to the piazza, sea level is higher now than when it was built. At Venice, sea level is higher partly because the… Read More »Shifting Baselines and Lack of Awareness of Environmental Change: A Sea Level Story
Three articles in the 26 October edition of Science caught my attention and prompted these comments. The first, by Chris Costello of Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, and several west coast colleagues concerns our harvest of the world’s ‘unassessed’… Read More »Global overfishing, contaminated fish, the environmental crisis continues.