I’ve installed a new widget on this page that will allow visitors to sign up for e-mail notification when I put up a new post. I plan to continue about two posts a month. Enjoy, and tell your friends. Some… Read More »Anthropocene Anxieties – Maybe We Should Strive for Only 1 Degree Global Temperature Increase?
Last Sunday our temperature cracked 0oC for the first time in ages. On Tuesday the snow was melting rapidly and the temperature was a balmy 6oC. Yesterday I was out for a walk and came upon a gaggle of about… Read More »Reflecting on the Extent of Human Impacts on this Planet, and on the Need to Act on Climate
Recent articles in the technical journals and in the media convince me we should be getting a lot more concerned about the state of the ocean than we are. Sure there has been progress. IPCC devotes whole chapters to discussion… Read More »The ocean – large, complex, not well understood, and changing rapidly: a big problem as we seek to understand global environmental change.