Showing posts with label rising sea levels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rising sea levels. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Nuisance flooding to increase as sea-levels rise

It's 1424 EDT as I write and thunder is omnipresent as another round of afternoon thunderstorms gets wound up. I did a 5-mile cycle an hour ago. Here's the latest from NOAA on what we can expect from climate-change-driven sea-level rise.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

President of Marshall Islands republic calls for climate action

No other nation on Earth faces greater danger and adaptation challenges than does the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. Sea-level rise caused by the melting of polar ice and glaciers is causing world sea-levels to rise. It's not just a problem for America's East Coast metroplexes (Miami, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Tampa, Houston, etc.), but far, far more of our planet. Solid op-ed here.