Greetings! I have some rather sobering news for you concerning the serious issue of human-caused climate change. According to a new landmark report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “Glaciers and ice sheets from the Himalayas to Antarctica are rapidly melting. And the fisheries that feed millions of people are shrinking.” There were more than 100 scientists from…
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Greetings! I have some more sobering news for you on the subject of climate change. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers has been a skeptic of climate change for years. Myers was convinced that the “earth would reach a greenhouse gas equilibrium where the ocean and plant life would absorb the excess CO2 that humans produced.” Than in 2013 – reports that Myers…
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This chart shows the rapidly warming temperatures on our earth. Unfortunately, carbon dioxide levels have also reached a new high during May 2019, according to measurements recorded at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Photo Courtesy: jpl nasa.gov Greetings! Here’s more breaking news for you on climate change. And in this first week of June 2019,…
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The tiny and fragile Pacific country of Tuvalu is falling victim to climate change with the rising sea. Photo courtesy/Sean Gallagher Greetings! Once again I blog about climate change and this time the tiny Pacific island country of Tuvalu is falling victim to the rising sea. Tuvalu is located between Australia and Hawaii. This small country is made…
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This map details moderate, high, and very high risk of flooding along southeastern Atlantic coast. Map courtesy of University of Central Florida/National Science Foundation. Greetings! Unfortunately, I have some sobering news on climate change. According to National Science Foundation researcher Dr. Betsy Von Holle, who recently published in the Journal of Wildlife Management… … “Sea level…
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Changing Human behavior towards Climate Change Equates to Removing Millions of Cars from the Road. Greetings! Here’s some sobering news for you on the major issue of Climate Change. According to the United Nations report from October 2018, the planet is racing toward 1.5 degrees of global warming as soon as 2030 unless we enact…
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An incredibly large cavity is now growing at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic, according to a new NASA report. NASA/OIB/Jeremy Harbeck Greetings! I have some sobering news for you concerning climate change. According to the analysis of data collected from both Italian and German satellites, along with a NASA program called Operation…
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Fabien Cousteau (L) and Richard Branson (R) undertake a historic dive mission in Belize’s Great Blue Hole on December 2, 2018 Greetings! I have some awesome news to share with you! Fabien Cousteau, aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker who helped children’s author, Robert Scott Thayer on my third title, Kobee Manatee®:Shipwreck Sea Friends, will be…
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Greetings! This blog is a continuation on the unique Florida manatee (yours truly). This is the fifth installment in a series of quizzes to test your awesome manatee knowledge! Just select your answer from each of the choices under the question. You’ll find the answer key located at the bottom of this blog. OK – are…
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A huge wave barrels into a seawall in Winthrop, Massachusetts on March 3, 2018, one day after an intense nor’easter hit the Atlantic coast. Photo AP/Michael Dwyer Greetings! Here’s another sobering blog about climate change and its effect on rising sea levels. There was a recent study done by researchers at the University of Oregon and the…
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