Sea Monster

Author: John Bruno

  • Blue carbon with Jim Toomey

    A nice video about Blue Carbon from Sherman’s Lagoon cartoonist Jim Toomey: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fNW8spFS_o&[/youtube]   And another from non-cartoonist John Bruno: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25581949[/vimeo]

  • Arctic sea ice still loosing ground

    Iv’e be following trends in arctic sea ice more than is probably healthy (or normal) since I worked on Hudson Bay with Polar Bears International last November. The graphics say it all. Read more about this here, here, and here.  

  • The NC sea level rise saga: reply to Dave Burton

    Dave Burton of NC 20 published a reply here to recent post I did about natural and human-caused sea level rise, “Sea Level Rise 101“. This is a reply to his post and a clarification of some of his many misconceptions about sea level rise science. I want to start by saying that my interests in the NC…

  • Top ten lionfish facts

    From Death to lionfish 10 What’s with the name, lionfish?  Nobody knows for sure how they got their name, but when they spread out their pectoral fins it sort of looks like a lion’s mane.  And they are ferocious predators. The scientific name for the species is Pterois volitans (pronounced, Tare-oh-ease vol-eh-tawns). Pterois = wing or fin, from…

  • The NC sea level rise saga: mid-week update

    This story is moving rapidly – sadly mostly in the wrong direction. • The NC senate passed a slightly modified version of the houses bill Tuesday. The senates version states “rates shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of sea-level rise may be…

  • Marine reserves gather steam

    This is a nice piece in the WaPost by the wonderful Juliet Eilperin about two new Marine Protected Area networks. One inaccuracy is that the piece conflates marine reserves and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Marine reserves are a sub-category of MPA in which no extraction or other harmful activities are allowed. I also remain very concerned about…

  • Sea level rise 101

    Based on the NC legislature’s decree about the science of sea level rise projections and some of the related propaganda we have seen from climate change deniers, I get the sense there is a lot of confusion about sea level rise. So here is a primer on what we know about sea level and climate…

  • Coral microbes – the movie!

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJPva6ZLuDc[/youtube]

  • The state’s sea level retreat

    This op-ed piece about the politics and reality of sea level rise in North Carolina was published on February 23, 2012 in the News&Observer. The author, Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey, is James B. Duke professor emeritus of earth sciences at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He is one of the regions most respected coastal…

  • The human fingerprint on ocean warming

    New research published in Nature Climate Change (Gleckler  et al. 2012) increases our certainty about the patterns and causes of ocean warming. Abstract: Large-scale increases in upper-ocean temperatures are evident in observational records1. Several studies have used well-established detection and attribution methods to demonstrate that the observed basin-scale temperature changes are consistent with model responses to anthropogenic…