Horror movies don’t cut it now that reality has become a nightmare. Spooked by Pennywise the Clown? Try the nuclear arsenal-wielding clown in the White House. Killer dolls? How about killer cops. The living dead? Not as insidious as braindead racists and parasitic corporations. The Apocalypse? Well, I’m afraid to say, the end of the world as we know it may already be around … [Read more...] about Scary Stories To Tell About The State Of Planet Earth
sea level rise
King Tides Are a Vision of What’s to Come
Last week, we sent MauiTime to press with the cover headline “Visualizing Sea Level Rise.” We didn’t realize that king tides, which rolled in on July 2, would be doing the work of predicting sea level rise for us. In our story, writer Susan Halas interviewed Sea Grant scientist Tara Owens, who showed us how to use the web-based Hawaii Sea Level Rise Viewer program … [Read more...] about King Tides Are a Vision of What’s to Come
On This Week’s Cover Story: We can no longer afford to be ‘climate ignorers’
The images in this week's cover story illustrate the likely effects of climate change on Maui by mid- to late-century. In recent days, we have seen melting roads in France, drought in the cities of India where wells have run dry, freak summertime hail storms in Mexico, and raging wildfire devouring the Everglades. The global weirding of climate change seems half a world away… … [Read more...] about On This Week’s Cover Story: We can no longer afford to be ‘climate ignorers’
Visualizing Sea Level Rise on Maui: Sea Grant scientist Tara Owens explains how computer modeling helps prepare for climate change
"I’ve known since I was five I wanted to be a marine scientist,” said Tara Owens. She grew up in Tennessee and spent summers along the South Carolina shore. Fast forward, Owens is now 40 and has been a Hawai‘i resident for more than 10 years. In the meantime she received her master’s of science degree in coastal geology from the University of Hawai‘i and is currently a UH Sea … [Read more...] about Visualizing Sea Level Rise on Maui: Sea Grant scientist Tara Owens explains how computer modeling helps prepare for climate change
University of Hawaii researchers say sea-level rise will harm low-lying islands far earlier than previously thought
People who live on low-lying atolls in the Pacific like Roi-Namur in the Republic of the Marshall Islands may have to evacuate due to rising sea level in as little as 12 years, according to a new study by researchers from the USGS, NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i’s International Pacific Research Center. The paper appears in the new issue of the journal Science Advances, … [Read more...] about University of Hawaii researchers say sea-level rise will harm low-lying islands far earlier than previously thought