Antarctic Warming
In which climate science’s Wizard of Wikipedia gets his work published in Science, and then gets to blog about it. (The story: balloon data shows it’s getting warm up there down there – “down there” being Antarctica and “up there” being where the balloons fly.)
Tribalism
Kevin Vranes had a great post yesterday about tribalism in the climate wars. He subtitled it “get over your tribalism instincts already”, which the commenters apparently skipped past in their zeal to read what Kevin had to say. Kevin didn’t rise to Chris Mooney’s bait, so I don’t know if he was obliquely criticizing Mooney [...]
Drought Babble
Scot Key with a hilarious look at New Mexico’s drought tourism future (can drought be funny?): Look at the Rio Grande, now a continuous strip of dry bed running the length of the state. Tourism, working with other State and Federal agencies, is clearing the burned bosque as fast as it can and establishing a [...]
What Really Happened on the Lower Colorado in 1905?
I’ve been digging into the relationship between climate and the early history of water development of the Colorado River, and I’ve run into a bit of a conflict between the conventional history and the climate record (or as much of the climate record as I’ve been able to easily sort out). (Click through if you’ve [...]
Mark It On Your Calendar
Mark down April 14 on your calendar, 7 p.m. Chantal’s doing the KNME Friday evening 7 p.m. chat show – The Line, or something. I’m suggesting a game: every time she mentions Sushigig – drink!
More Buffelgrass
As a followup to yesterday’s post on bufflegrass, which is ravaging the Sonoran desert, I checked in with my buffelgrass expert on the question I posed about whether bufflegrass has made its way into New Mexico. The answer is that it is not cold-tolerant, so we haven’t seen it here much. But a group of [...]
McIntyre and McKitrick Help Confirm Greenhouse Hypothesis
One cannot help but be amused by the irony in this paper, in which Diego Rybski and others (one of the others being Hans von Storch) use Steve McIntyre’s paleoclimate reconstruction as one of a suite of six in a detection study, using the Hockey Stick Slayer’s work as evidence for human-caused warming: Accordingly, the [...]
Ask an Adult
I can’t even begin to put words to the complexity of my feelings about Nora turning 18, and even if I could I’m not sure I’d share them here. So I’ll leave you with this. Last night at birthday sushi dinner, we purchased a round of Ramune, a Japanese soda with a strange marble contraption [...]
Buffelgrass
Apropos last week’s discussions of tamarisk comes this Tucson Weekly story about buffelgrass, an African invader that is playing havoc with the Sonoran desert: In spite of the frantic warnings of ecologists and land managers, and despite some valiant and surprisingly effective local efforts, the problem is now so acute that biologists view buffelgrass as [...]
Drought of the ’50s
A few weeks back Steve Bloom asked in the comments about drought in the United States in the 1950s. This is the big drought we talk about in New Mexico – more significant here than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. I ran across these maps today:
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