Author: John Bruno
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Virginia legislature also in denial about “left-wing” sea level rise
Back at you Emmett. (You really wanna debate who lives in the state more unfriendly to climate science?) From Climate Progress: Virginia’s legislature commissioned a $50,000 study to determine the impacts of climate change on the state’s shores.To greenlight the project, they omitted words like “climate change” and “sea level rise” from the study’s description itself. According to…
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Giant bull shark surprises team Hammerschlag
Check out the piece by Andrea Mustain for Our Amazing Planet about my colleague, shark expert Dr. Neil Hammerschlag’s encounter with a big bull shark. Funny, but I was SUPing at the Cape Hatteras lighthouse yesterday and a fishing boat pulled up and the captain yelled “look out – we just saw a ten foot bull shark”. I…
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Epic swell hits Cloudbreak
An epic code-red swell hit Cloudbreak, Fiji yesterday right in the middle of the Volcom Fiji Pro surf contest. After two heats, contest organizers called it quits and opened up one of the world’s great reef breaks for the free surfers to shred. Read more about it here and here and here to watch footage of…
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How biodiversity loss is like LeBron James and Miami Heat
This is a repost from Climate Central by Michael D. Lemonick. Ecologists have been saying for decades now that the world is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. Hundreds of species are vanishing every year, thanks to assaults to the environment that include deforestation, overfishing, toxic pollution and, increasingly, climate change — the lethal icing…
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Sea level rise, one more frontier for climate dialogue controversy
Below is a repost of a piece by my UNC colleague Sarah Peach from the Yale Forum. It provides a bit of context about the struggles among scientists, developers, policy makers, and communities over formulating plans for dealing with climate change and sea level rise in a state blessed with so much wonderful shoreline. …
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Colbert’s take on the North Carolina sea level rise (isn’t happening) bill
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Why are lionfish populations exploding across the Caribbean?
Lionfish are an exotic fish now found throughout the Greater Caribbean and eastern Atlantic that have become incredibly abundant on many reefs, especially in the Bahamas and off North Carolina. Lionfish are a piscivore (a fish that eats other fish) and were introduced from the Indo-Pacific by the aquarium trade in the late 1990s off Florida. Mostly likely,…
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How does trophic skewing affect the functioning of marine communities?
My former PhD student Dr Pamela Reynolds and I just published a paper in PLoS One* that attempts to address this question. Trophic skew is an ecological term that describes changes in the relative number of species at different tropic levels, i.e., “species richness“. In most natural food webs, there are more species at the…
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Lying liar Bob Carter is at it again
Here we go again. Our old friend Dr Bob Carter – climate change denier extraordinaire – is back at it; making counter-factual claims about climate change in another newspaper. Bob is reported to be paid nearly $2000 a month by the Heartland Institute to sow confusion about greenhouse gases and global warming. Read more about this…
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Waimea River: How to make waves