Climate Change

US Sea Levels Could rise 10-12 inches

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 Maureen Gaffney

The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050, as much rise over a 30-year period as the previous 100-year period of 1920-2020, because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study said Tuesday.

See where flooding is expected…https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/0/-8272882.729902666/5072536.016884262/14/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion

Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than It Stores

August 8, 2021February 7, 2022 Maureen Gaffney

The study, which found greater depletion of carbon storage in the heavily deforested eastern Amazon, confirmed previous research that used satellites or hands-on measuring techniques.

Planes Sampling Air Above the Amazon Find the Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than it Stores

Getting More Solar On Rooftops

July 26, 2021February 7, 2022 Maureen Gaffney

“In the United States, solar permitting is spread across more than 23,000 separate jurisdictions and 3,000 utilities. This makes for a fragmented and unstandardized process, leading to long waits for permits. In some places homeowners wait for months to get their systems on line…..A new online permitting application, SolarAPP+, developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, RMI, solar industry leaders, and local governments, is setting out to change that.“