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  • The NC sea level rise saga: the lowdown

    Below is a list of links and resources regarding the infamous North Carolina sea level rise saga. I will continue to update and will give this resource a permanent home in our sidebar. Please feel free to email me suggestions (jb@theseamonster.net) or leave them as comments below. Start here by reading Scott Huler’s piece “NC…

  • Cape Hatteras, NC marks the southern edge of a just revealed sea level rise hot spot

    A new paper published today in Nature Climate Change (Sallenger et al 2012) describes the discovery of a global hot spot of sea level rise. The team used a tide gauge database to examine how sea level has changed in the US over the last 70 years. Although globally, average sea level is widely known…

  • NC sea level rise saga: update 2

    Last week, the NC house of representatives voted 144 to 0 against the already watered down bill (in a good way) the Senate came up with “outlawing” accelerated sea level rise. This is a radical change of heart by a house that only the week before had voted in favor an even more anti-science bill.…

  • Impacts of climate change on the oceans: the feature film!

    For the NC Climate Change Fellows: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg NCSE talk from John Bruno on Vimeo.

  • Kristen Bell talking about shark tagging with the Hammerschlagies on Leno

    [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22565878[/vimeo] Go here for more info about shark expert Dr. Neil Hammerschlag’s shark tagging program. 

  • North Carolina sea level rise assessment report

    The North Carolina Sea-Level Rise Assessment Report prepared by the  N.C. Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel on Coastal Hazards was published in March 2010. The report immediately attracted the attention of real estate investors and coastal development lobbying groups like “NC 20” that responded with anti-science propaganda like this (PDF). These groups successfully lobbied the state legislature to declare that coastal communities should…

  • 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…