by kapow | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Climate Change
Climate Change Attribution It is not unusual to hear of attempts to ascribe a certain extreme climate event to global warming. Much commentary has occurred in recent weeks on the unusual behaviour of the hurricane that devasted the Bahamas and how that behaviour was...
by kapow | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Contributor
Vale Jack Davies at age 97 – leader, teacher and mentor Beach ridge plain at Seven Mile Beach, Tasmania (Source Dr Tom Oliver) In 2016, Tom Oliver, Colin Woodroffe and I visited Jack at his home in Beecroft (Sydney) to present to him our just published paper in...
by kapow | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog, Sediments
Coastal erosion and accretion beyond the historical timescale in NSW A paper has recently been published in Geophysical Research Letters on the use of beach morphostratigraphic records to decipher past extreme coast erosion (Timura, T. et al., GRL, 7 May 2019). The...
by kapow | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog, International
Rethinking Landscape in Aotearoa I recently had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) of New Zealand in Auckland (14-15 August 2019). This is the major conference in NZ on environmental policy and management. Each...
by kapow | Aug 2, 2019 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog, Climate Change
Collaborative Science and Coastal Adaptation In July an important paper of international relevance was published in Frontiers and Marine Science titled “Collaborative science to enhance coastal resilience and adaptation”. The lead authors were C. Reid Nichols and Don...
by kapow | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog, Climate Change
CLIMATE CHANGE AND RELATIVITY – SOME PARALLELS Albert Einstein 1920 (Source: Pixabay) Science can be incomprehensible to many, yet it requires others to help communicate and apply great works such as those of Albert Einstein. Climate change science is also quite...