Some old literature I was reading the other night carried shades of Roger Pielke Sr.’s argument that land use changes are important to climate change: Notwithstanding the apparent uncertainty of the seasons, it is found that the mean temperature of particular localities is very constant, provided we compare observations made at different periods for a …
From Andrew Revkin’s story in yesterday’s Times: The Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion,” Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, “It is not NASA’s place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.” It continued: “This is more …
Everybody’s yammering about the warm January in the U.S., with the entire country seeing positive temperature anomalies (hat tip Mike Mann for graphic and discussion of global climate change implications of all this) If you look at the map linked above, you’ll see that Albuquerque, at 3.8 degrees F above average, is in a region …
In which my buddy Steve gets a blog.
I’m taking a class on drought from Dave Gutzler at UNM this semester. Last week’s topic was the strengths and weaknesses of the Palmer Palmer Drought Index, the widely used standardized measure of drought. It’s a graduate seminar, which last week meant me leading the discussion on Palmer. Since I did a bunch of work …
Forgive me, Dano, for again have I sinned.
I say this with the greatest affection. Jeff Bingaman is a wonk. From Cornelia Dean’s story in yesterday’s New York Times on a briefing on Capitol Hill attempting to explain what science is: (T)he briefing’s subject apparently struck a chord. More than 100 committee staff members, Congressional aides and at least one senator, Jeff Bingaman, …
Well down in a tortuous thread, a commenter asks why a new and different explanation for surface warming of our planet is not being considered in our ongoing global discussion of climate change. I won’t begin to try to detail the explanation, but at the risk of being unfairly pejorative in my description of it, …
There’s an op-ed in the 21 January New Scientist from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laying out his case for action on greenhouse gas reductions: In California, we are already seeing potentially severe impacts: shrinking of our snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which reduces our annual water supplies; erosion of our coastline; flooding of …