From S.J. Holgate, in GRL: The rate of sea level change was found to be larger in the early part of last century (2.03 ± 0.35 mm/yr 1904–1953), in comparison with the latter part (1.45 ± 0.34 mm/yr 1954–2003). On the decadal rates of sea level change during the twentieth century, GRL, Vol. 34, L01602, …
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Charlie Liles at the National Weather Service lays out the factors (sub. or ad req.) that made our winter storm past so special:
Just waitin’ for the bus 1 Originally uploaded by nicholsphotos. Coyote Man? (hat tip DCF photo pool, which has been stormalicious these last few days)
Matthew Nisbett chimes in on the Revkin piece.
In the U.S. western water community, John Wesley Powell is a legend for his insight about the difficulties of building a society in an arid land. But we can be a bit parochial here in the states, so until today I’d never heard of his (sort of) Canadian counterpart, John Palliser. Palliser explored the northern …
It looks yesterday’s premise is holding – despite the extraordinary blanket of white in my backyard, the snowpack in the Rio Grande Basin, source of a big chunk of New Mexico’s water supply, didn’t pick up a whole lot from the Great Storm of ’06. Tom Pagano, who does the runoff forecasts for us out …
Andrew Revkin does a nice job in this morning’s New York Times in characterizing those scientists that Roger Pielke Jr. has described as the “nonskeptical heretics”: A third stance is now emerging, espoused by many experts who challenge both poles of the debate. They agree that accumulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe …