Author Archives: EarthImage

Greenland Ice Study The treat of rising sea levels is link to land supported ice only, since floating fresh water ice has already displaced the sea water it floats on. All of Greenland ice has the capacity to raise ocean … Continue reading →

Flood Insurance is at a critical point in its legal life, having reached the expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program.  It bears many policy similarities to the complexity of “Repeal and Replace” for Obamacare. Obamacare spread the “mandate” for … Continue reading →

NJ Transit head James Weinstein said at a US Senate commerce sub-committee hearing on the storm’s impact: “Based on the information that we had … there was a likelihood in the 80 to 90 percent range that no flooding would … Continue reading →

One of Largo, Florida’s most beguiling batchelors, Romeo the Alligator, died in a gunfight the other night.  While attempting to cross the highway between the Taylor Park and Pine Crest Gold Course, a lady driver with an infant in the … Continue reading →

Site conversion of the coal-fired railroad power plant to a Town of Greenwich CT Park with playfields and shoreline walk amenities was back before Planning and Zoning on Tuesday March 21, 2012 for review. The Commission asked the Town’s Engineer … Continue reading →

From Sound Beacher:

Please remove hands from metal parts until the space flare passes Earth safely.

What I saw on my evening walk – sadly without my camera: Moon 50% full high and in line with three planets: M When the planets align And why mathematicians will never be practical people:   In old Roman legends, Mercury was … Continue reading →

365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds – one trip around the sun.  But the calendar has an 365 even days.  So after 100 years, the calendar falls behind 24 days.  How to make up the difference? Add … Continue reading →

Thanks to Sound Beacher – more beauty at the beach. Life lesson – looking down is necessary at times, up looking up is always up-lifting.   In-coming geese – always a thrilling and noisy spectacle.

How to you get sewage to go under a river? Option 1 – dig it deep, with a wide berth for the floodway. Option 2 – keep it shallow but bury it in a big load of stone placed in … Continue reading →

Fecal contamination of the rivers and brooks in Greenwich CT must be addressed and minimized.  2012 will go down as the year we had to clean up our mess.  Federal EPA and the Courts have imposed a deadline of Jan … Continue reading →

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