From today’s Drought Monitor: Yuma, Arizona, has recorded only 0.23 inches of rain this year, which is 12 percent of normal. (That’s 0.6 cm for my metric friends.) I’m not sure who would notice this amid the electronic buzzing and whirring and air conditioning and fountains, but Las Vegas, Nevada, has only had half an …
This story got me thinking about what I think has become an increasingly interesting interplay between blogging scholars and journalists. It quotes Jeffrey Lewis, proprietor of the excellent Arms Control Wonk blog and manager of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center. Reporters depend on smart people willing and able to explain things. …
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I had to put on the leg and arm warmers for this morning’s bike ride. The cottonwood across the street is starting to show yellow. And it’s still dark when the alarm goes off these days. That can mean only one thing: it’s State Fair time! I love the fair for many reasons, not the …
Just so there’s no confusion, this is not me: At least, I think it’s not me. I’d remember that. Wouldn’t I?
Jeffrey Lewis with some amusing backstory on my story last week about Iran’s nuclear program.
reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don …
I’ve been riding my bike to work lately when I can. I can’t always do it, because some days I need a car to go out on interviews. Herein lies my greenhouse guilt dilemma. According to this analysis, cycling to work will cause a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions over my lifetime. While in …
Expectations are as much a part of drought as is climatological reality. Take this LA Times story: CANTON, Texas — The effects of a long, stubborn drought are everywhere here: in the parched, wasted fields and the bony cows nosing the dirt for nonexistent grass; in the cracks splitting stone-hard earth and the worried faces …
I don’t begin to understand the politics of water. The science of water I can barely see how to get my arms around, but that’s a tame problem. The politics of water is a wicked problem. So I pass this along without any clear idea of whether it’s right, just the thought that it’s interesting: …
Proof I am not a one trick pony. Apparently Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Who knew?