Things I Have Seen
Stopped on my bike at a red light this morning, a scooter pulls up behind me. I glance over my shoulder and smile in greeting at an elderly couple – perhaps 70 – both in shorts. As they speed past me when the light turns green, I notice that the woman, sitting on the back, [...]
Desertification
From this morning’s Times: Enough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an “environmental crisis of global proportions,” large-scale migrations and political instability in parts of Africa and Central Asia unless current trends are quickly stemmed, a new United Nations report concludes.
Watching for the Monsoon
The National Weather Service’s Tucson monsoon tracker. Tucson uses sustained dewpoint to answer the perennial question of when the monsoon starts. You can see we’re currently behind schedule there.
The Bike Trail to Nowhere
From today’s West Side Journal, a discussion of the bike trails (or lack thereof) on the new extension they just completed of Paseo del Norte: “Oh my,” John says. “When you get to the top of the hill, where the road narrows, there is not only no bike lane, but no shoulder. And not only [...]
Water on a Semi-Arid Coastal Plain
It’s almost like I never left. When I abandoned California nearly two decades ago, they were fighting about the environmental effects of water diverted from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta for the growing suburbs of Southern California. Still fighting: Warning that a recent boost in water exports is nudging the delta smelt closer to extinction, environmentalists [...]
Water in the Desert
When I write my “water in the desert” bits here or at work, I have this underlying image that motivates my thinking. It’s a childhood car camping vacation (one of many, the image is broad and generic). It is before the days of ubiquitous auto air conditioning. We’re driving across the beautiful deserts of the [...]
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Metablogging
This is not a blog post.
Australian Drought News Map
In a grand convergence of my two current hobbies (drought and Google maps), Malcolm points to a cool new product by the Australian ABC: a Google map of all of their drought coverage.
Bush on Greenhouse Gases
George Bush today reiterated his concerns about greenhouse gases: And therefore, I remind those who share my concern about greenhouse gases that nuclear energy produces no greenhouse gases. If you are interested in cleaning up the air, then you ought to be an advocate for nuclear power. (Applause.) Without nuclear power here in the United [...]
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