Addendum: As I was about to post this to my blog, the first authoritative press release concerning the 2017 bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef was hitting the media. I don’t discuss it here, but the fact that the GBR… Read More »Lament the Decline of Ethical Standards; It Hampers Our Ability to Deal with Environmental Issues
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… Read More »Finding Climate Stars to Steer By.
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… Read More »Sea and Sky – Complexity abounds, which is why climate change is so difficult to understand and project into the future.