As humanity continues to heat the planet, there are winners and losers. Let me rephrase that. Ultimately nobody wins; in the long term if global warming isn’t halted it will bring down global civilization and we will all lose. But in the shorter term there are net winners. Alberta for
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The Disaffected Lib: Wall Street Gets Climate Savvy
It’s the money, Honey. It has finally dawned on Wall Street that climate change comes with a price tag. From IBM and AccuWeather Inc. to outfits like Riskpulse, Jupiter and DTN, companies that track weather have created an intensely competitive new industry in just the last five years. Their client
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Dammit, Do Something. America’s Sea Level Rise Whinge.
It’s hard to feel too much sympathy for people whose main concern is their multi-million dollar beachfront home. Yet, all along the American coastline, you can hear them grumble and grouse. News reports tend to focus on America’s southeast, especially Florida, mainly from Miami and points south. This one is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "There Was No Rain"
Climate change refugees are on the march and they’re coming not just from Africa or the Middle East or some low-lying atoll in the South Pacific, they’re migrating poleward in the Americas too. Todd Miller went to southern Mexico to interview climate migrants. Where are they from? Where are they
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Farewell to Nova Scotia?
Nova Scotia could become Canada’s second island province thanks to climate change and sea level rise. Mayor David Kogon of Amherst, N.S., said sea levels are projected to rise in the Bay of Fundy over 15 to 20 years to the point where the Isthmus of Chignecto will flood, even
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Meanwhile, In the Delusional States of America
I suppose if you locked your doors, disconnected the power and drew your shutters you might manage to get through a day without being exposed to some head-shaking example of lunacy from the Delusional States of America. How about this one. FEMA, America’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, charged with keeping
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Wading into the science on sea level rise – BC lags behind
Thursday, May 18, 2017 If you’ve been following BC’s sea-level woes extra closely, you’ll know that planning for a sea-level increase of “1 metre by 2100” has become a kind of mantra for local governments and others responsible for planning and readying our communities. While a one metre increase in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: IPCC – "Criminally Complacent"
Arctic expert, professor Peter Wadhams, doesn’t think much of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the Cambridge professor of ocean physics and head of the university’s Polar Oceans Physics Group, denounces the IPCC as a dangerous sellout. He highlighted that the IPCC has failed to quantify and properly
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Deadly Delusion of 2C
It sounded like a plan back when they came up with it. World governments would do whatever necessary, mainly slashing carbon emissions, so that we might limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2100. That, we were told, would give us a reasonable chance of avoiding
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Face of Sea Level Rise
We read a lot about how sea level rise is ravaging small island nations in the South Pacific but it’s all very abstract, out of sight/out of mind. That’s why you should check out this interactive photo-essay from The Guardian. As you scroll through the before and after photos, bear
Continue readingreeves report: Melting Glaciers to Release Billions of Kilograms of CO₂ by 2050
A new study finds sea-level rise isn’t the only thing to fear about melting glaciers. Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss Comes From Underneath by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center \ CC BY 2.0 via Flickr WE KNOW SEA levels are rising as climate change causes glaciers to melt. But it turns out
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sea Levels Rising Faster Than We Had Imagined
If there’s one aspect of climate change that even diehard denialists are having trouble writing off, it’s sea level rise. That’s especially noticeable in states along America’s eastern seaboard and Gulf coast. There’s some grand real estate along America’s waterfront up to an including gorgeous ante-bellum mansions that dominate the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: We Just Keep Getting it Wrong
It’s a guessing game and we’re not very good at it. The “game” is trying to work out how quickly the planet’s ice fields are melting. In essence, we’re guessing how much time we have before the meltwater hits our shores. The latest guesstimate to fall is the Greenland ice
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Madness Looks Like
It’s said to be a done deal, just the matter of a few centuries at the outside. That’s how long it’s expected to take to melt all the great ice fields of the Earth. The Arctic sea ice will disappear first, followed by the world’s glaciers and then the Greenland
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: RISING to the challenge and protecting our communities and our coastlines
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 RISE, a recent competition organized by Simon Fraser University, asked entrants to come up with a visionary solution to make the greater Vancouver area more resilient to sea level rise. West Coast Environmental Law teamed up with DG Blair from the BC Stewardship Centre and Cathy
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Science Goofs – Again
The climate scientists got it wrong, badly wrong. You could say they were out by a country mile (if anyone still remembers what that is). This time it’s ocean temperatures or, to be more accurate, ocean warming. And, as usual, the scientists underestimated the amount of heat absorbed in the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: October 9. Miami’s Day of Reckoning.
On October 9, the Earth, sun and moon will align just so to create a King Tide, the highest tides of the year. In Miami, all eyes will be on the rising seas. On high tides or in the event of storm surge, Miami streets are awash in sea
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: This Is Going to Trash Real Estate Prices
Starting this year, buyers shopping for a nice coastal dream home in the U.S. will be able to consult ‘storm surge maps’ produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That is, unless Congress kills this idea before it came come to pass. Starting this 2014 hurricane season, NOAA’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Always Wanted to Visit "The Big Easy"?
Many of us have at one time or another wanted to visit New Orleans, The Big Easy. If you still want to go, you might want to go sooner rather than later. Louisiana, you see, is experiencing a major problem with sea-level rise, far more than state officials expected. Stunning
Continue reading350 or bust: If You Wait Until You’re Dead Certain About Grave Danger, You’re Already Dead
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and here’s a great presentation by Rear Admiral David Titley from the U.S. Navy on why he changed from being a climate skeptic to being very very concerned about climate change, and what America can do to respond to this crisis. *
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