Cool paper out today in GRL by Edmund Chang and Yanjuan Guo about the hurricane record. To try to estimate the number we might have missed when we had to depend on ship-board observations rather than satellites, Chang and Guo fed storm tracks from the satellite era into a simulation that included old-timey ship tracks …
It’s not exactly Albuquerque’s most scenic bike trail, but I’d have to say this is really my favorite.
Others at my work (I had nothing to do with this) offer their take on the Bingaman climate bill: What does it take to ratchet back an energy-hungry nation’s contributions to global warming? In the Senate, at least 60 votes. Among proposals now on the table, the one with the best chance of clearing that …
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Continuing our down-under theme, word that despite the Aussies’ astonishingly bad day in the Tour de France Sunday, things in the south are looking up: Families could pay less for their Christmas dinner this year as the drought eases throughout NSW, state Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald says. Announcing the best drought figures since May …
Sometimes it’s not the main story but the sidebars that really deliver the goods: Telstra says it may have to install temporary mobile phone towers in Sydney’s west to replace ones which were damaged overnight when a man went on a rampage in a restored army tank. (Via Malcolm)
Belshaw captures well a certain strangeness about our current governance: This isn’t a liberal or conservative thing. It’s not a Democrat or Republican thing. It’s a loon thing. Where did these people come from?
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It’s that time of year: So it was a holiday. Festivities included houses decorated with red, white and yellow paper flowers, balloons and pennants, like many other villages en route. There was even a giant bicycle built by schoolchildren out of beaverboard and flowers displayed outside the town hall on Place François Mitterrand. Best was …
Bingaman’s bill is in the hopper: New Mexico Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman will introduce sweeping legislation today aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The bill, being introduced with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., would impose costs on industries that emit greenhouse gases, including coal, petroleum and natural gas. By reaching across the entire U.S. economy, the …
The dawn of salsa: A Smithsonian archaeologist has found evidence for what could be the seeds of salsa. Native farmers using caves as seasonal shelter as long as 1,400 years ago in the southern Mexican province of Oaxaca were eating a diet that would look very familiar in a modern Mexican kitchen. They ate corn, …