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The Earth and Three Blinkered Scientists

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, the identity of the beast must be determined by touch and conjecture. The first person…

Mar 6

The Earth and Three Blinkered Scientists

Mar 6

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Adaptive Management: the Sea Serpent, Organized Growth and Natural Harmony

In August 1817, the learned men of the Linnaean Society of New England had studied their Bestiaries, ancient, illustrated volumes of all…

Jun 14

Adaptive Management: the Sea Serpent, Organized Growth and Natural Harmony

Jun 14

Rob Moir

Right Whales Thrive When We Finally See Climate Change as a Symptom of Place-based Problems

My first experience with a right whale was as a college student alone on the deck of a twenty-seven-foot sailboat. Suddenly, beside me was…

Sep 10

Right Whales Thrive When We Finally See Climate Change as a Symptom of Place-based Problems

Sep 10

Rob Moir

Bravo for igniting a global conversation.

It's worth noting that the practice of a 'global mobilization of intellect' was prevalent during the Renaissance. Back then, the world's…

Aug 27

Aug 27

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Why the Gulf of Maine Surface Ocean Waters are Warming Faster than Elsewhere

None of us are strangers to the reports of the Gulf of Maine heating 97% faster than the world’s oceans. However, the actual reasons for…

Jul 23

Why the Gulf of Maine Surface Ocean Waters are Warming Faster than Elsewhere

Jul 23

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Easter Island, Hard Work and Good Cheer for a Changing Climate-Challenged World

The anchor chain clinked and clanked through the hawsehole on the Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde until the large anchor set into white coral…

Jul 15

Easter Island, Hard Work and Good Cheer for a Changing Climate-Challenged World

Jul 15

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Unraveling the Mystery: Warmer Sea with Cooler Summer

Why did sea surface temperatures go up when summer air temperatures did not? This perplexing question arose after last summer’s unusual…

Jun 26

Unraveling the Mystery: Warmer Sea with Cooler Summer

Jun 26

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Eclipse: We went in three different directions and saw differently.

Tahnee and Jesse drove North from Syracuse, NY, beneath cloudy skies. They parked at Salmon River Falls by a steep cliff of shale and…

Apr 9

Eclipse: We went in three different directions and saw differently.

Apr 9

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Land and Sea Change for Earth Day, Expanding the Climate Change Narrative

Have you ever considered how our perspective of climate change might shift if we focused not just on the sky above us but also on the earth…

Apr 2

Land and Sea Change for Earth Day, Expanding the Climate Change Narrative

Apr 2

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The Kraken and the Erie Canal

With climate change, a 1% increase in watts per square meter of heat energy is warming the ocean, causing seawater to swell, currents to…

Feb 3

The Kraken and the Erie Canal

Feb 3

Rob Moir

Rob Moir

Rob Moir is writing environmental nonfiction and writes for the Ocean River Institute and the Global Warming Solutions IE-PAC newsletter.

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