The Fort McMurray fire The Canadian news this past week has been filled with harrowing tales of the plight of people caught up in the Fort McMurray wildfire, and reports have spilled over into the international press. It began the… Read More »Wildfire – Just One More Gift from Climate Change.
The scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who manage one of the two sets of instruments atop Mauna Loa (NOAA manages the other set) announced on April 20th that concentrations of CO2 exceeded 409 ppm for the first time… Read More »Have We Already Tipped? My growing concern about the challenges we face.
On March 30th, I briefly commented on the bleaching now taking place on the northern Great Barrier Reef. Today I want to talk about what this really means. XL Catlin Seaview Survey divers over bleached coral at Lizard Island, March… Read More »What Does the Bleaching of Vast Areas of the Northern Great Barrier Reef Really Mean?