Coastal
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Cities borrow money by selling municipal bonds. A story this week in the Post and Courier in Charleston SC notes that finance companies are now starting to ask coastal cities are planning for climate change. The interest rates at which they can borrow money are starting to be affected these plans. The same thing is…
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This week I ran across a story about Antarctic ice sheets and how a collapse of one of the sheets in the Western Antarctic could result in rapidly rising sea levels. While this story is about a year old, it was new to me and provided more context about how the ice sheets are melting…
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Sea surface temperatures are rising due to the trapping of heat in the atmosphere caused by burning of fossil fuels and the increase in greenhouse gases. I’ve seen several articles recently which describe how the warmer oceans is hurting commercial fishing around the world. It is to be expected that as the oceans warm more,…
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If you’ve followed the news lately, you know that parts of the Florida Keys have been underwater for weeks due to very high sea levels enhanced by king tides. The tides are occurring naturally but are occurring more often due to rising sea levels caused by warming ocean water and melting ice sheets. Recent studies…
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I love to eat seafood, and shrimp is my favorite. Georgia shrimp are an important part of the food, culture and economy of the coast, but in recent years the catch has been threatened by a variety of things including black gill, a disease which does not affect the taste of the shrimp for us…
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Last week there were several stories based on a new calculation of the impacts of rising sea levels on cities around the world published in Nature Communications. The new calculation shows that cities are more likely to be inundated by higher sea levels in the future than originally thought because of an improvement in how…
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When we look at sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, we are commonly looking for signs of El Niño or La Niña, which can greatly affect the climate of the Southeast, especially in winter. But recently the most interesting part of the Pacific has not been near the equator where we usually see ENSO…