Bosque Beavers
Johnny_Mango is on the beaver trail.
Archive of entries posted on February 2006
A New Hockey Stick
Timothy Osborn and Keith Briffa have a new paleoclimate reconstruction coming out in tomorrow’s Science with a familiar shape but an interesting new twist:
Global Cooling
The usual caveats apply: just a single number, more to understanding climate change than surface temp., etc. NASA’s GISS team has posted its global January number, with fodder for everyone to misinterpret. On one side, you could argue it’s cooling. (You’ve got to be careful in picking your starting year to make that case, but …
More Deutsch
George Deutsch, the 24-year-old J-school political appointee working in NASA public affairs whose 15 minutes of fame included trying to explain the Big Bang “theory” to the space agency, never graduated from Texas A&M, as his resume had claimed, according to Andrew Revkin.
Surprises
Here’s a result that runs counter to the conventional wisdom: The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect. Big study, therefore strong result. I love surprises.
Daybook
health 1: So the whole reason for all this blogation today is that I’m home sick. I’m not in terrible shape, but took a clue when a friend at work yesterday covered up his mouth and backed away uncomforably as I hacked. health 2: I hurt my knee Saturday. My bad knee on which I’ve …
A Little Help from One’s Friends
If you can’t help a friend now and then set up a trail of Google crumbs to pediatric care in North Carolina, then there’s really no point in having a blog, is there?
Answering Roger’s Question
Roger Pielke Sr., in a post about the climate models’ difficulties in getting clouds right, poses this question: How can international climate protocols, such as Kyoto, be established when the climate response to human climate forcings (and even natural forcings) is not adequately understood? The short answer is that we make decisions all the time, …
More Floods, More Droughts
Gao et al. in a study this week in GRL modelling precipitation in Europe under increased greenhouse gases: Changes in extreme precipitation events and dry spells suggest not only shifts, but also a broadening, of the precipitation distribution, with an increased probability of occurrence of events conducive to both floods and droughts.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Lest readers of this blog think my only journalistic avocation is climate: LANL May Begin Building Nuke Pits By John Fleck And Michael Coleman Journal Staff Writers WASHINGTON— Federal officials on Monday proposed expanding nuclear weapons manufacturing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, part of a sweeping plan to develop new nuclear weapons for the first …