Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Steve Lawrence Misses the Point.
Archive of entries posted on January 2006
Trusting the Models
There’s a good good post on Prometheus about a new paper by anthropologist Myanna Lahsen on the culture of climate modelers. The bottom line is the way modelers tend to believe their own models – to substitute them in their own mind for reality. It reminded me of a paper published last year in which …
Down South
Avelino Maestas blogs live from Silver City. Some peak oil there, plus, more importantly, “peak water.”
On Peer Review
Reading Jennifer Couzin’s article in Science magazine on the Woo Suk Hwang stem cell debacle at the gym this morning, I felt some sympathy for the journalist stuck in the difficult spot Couzin is in. In writing about the peer review process of the fraudulent stem cell paper at her own magazine, Couzin had no …
Being Afraid of the Right Things
Kevin Vranes at his new scienceblogs home (note to self – update many links in various places to all the people what just moved there) has a couple of posts that circle around a favorite topic of mine: being afraid of the things that will really kill a lot of people, and not about the …
Leslie Fourth
Congratulations to Albuquerque distance runner Brandon Leslie, who scored a fourth place finish Sunday at the U.S. half marathon championship.
Daybook
drought watch: You have to squint to see it, but my favorite Snotel station, at Chamita up near the Colorado border, got 3 inches of snow in the last 24 hours. That’s about a third of an inch of snow water equivalent, which is not a whole lot, but is better than having a lit …
Golden Dining
Nora’s golden menu.
Land Use Changes
My story on Johannes Feddema’s paper on the global effects of land use changes finally ran in this morning’s paper. Forgive the headline. I tried to play the bait and switch game in the story and I guess I didn’t get away with it – at least with the copy editor who wrote the headline. …
Drought in the Amazon
In the comments over at RealClimate, Bradfield Lyon posted links to a couple of excellent global drought monitoring resources: Global Weighted Anomaly Standardized Precipitation indexes, and Global Standardized Precipitation Indexes Rasmus had discussed the potential for global warming to have been implicated in the current drought in the Amazon, and I had asked the underlying …