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PSDS authors sea-level rise piece featured on Yale University’s environmental website
How High Will Seas Rise? Get Ready for Seven Feet
By Rob Young and Orrin H. Pilkey
Published: January 14, 2010
As governments, businesses, and homeowners plan for the future, they should assume that the world’s oceans will rise by at least two meters — roughly seven feet — this century. But far too few agencies or individuals are preparing for the inevitable increase in sea level that will take place as polar ice sheets melt.
PSDS authors opinion article in USA Today on global warming
Doubt global warming? The planet won’t tell a lie
By Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young
Published January 7, 2010
A recent Rasmussen poll suggests that an alarming number of Americans believe scientists have falsified their data to sell global warming to the public. Add this to some embarrassing comments made in the e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in England, and it has been a long, hot autumn for climate scientists.
Rob Young cited in San Francisco Times article
Bayou islanders resist call to abandon home
By Cain Burbeau
Published: December 13, 2009
A day in the life of Edison Dardar starts with a caterwaul of a shout. A yawlp. His chest puffs up: "Yay-hoooo!" Morning cries down the road greet him. "Wa-hoooo!" ... "Yaaaah!" ... "Aaaahh-eee." The Indian fisherman smiles. His cousins and nephews are doing well. Soon enough, roosters and dogs join the morning chorus, and the island is awake. |
