Tracy Puts in an Appearance
Nora offers this helpful contribution to the discussion, a sort of visual aid: I told her I thought it bore a striking resemblance to Tracy Spenser. Though there are other possibilities.
Archive of entries posted on November 2005
I Am Urinestain!
The ever-thoughtful Michael Fumento is back at it, this time calling me a “a human sock puppet”. Thanks, Michael! I’d been at somewhat of a loss for an idea for next year’s Halloween costume. I was thinking of dressing up as Tracy Spenser, but this is much better.
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
I’m not sure I quite understand what the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is, but here’s a new paper suggesting it’s sort of nothing at all. Or, more precisely, that it’s really a combination of other things, not a thing in and of itself. (climate and drought wonks go ahead and click through – the rest of …
Drought’s Back
From the CLIMAS folks at the University of Arizona: Drought – Moderate drought to abnormally dry conditions persist in southeastern and northeastern Arizona, and have expanded eastward to include most of New Mexico. * Pasture and range land conditions continue to degrade in Arizona and improve slightly in New Mexico. * Drought conditions are much …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
In which I get to dabble in the great issues of the day (sub. req.), involving aluminum tubes and the like: Wilson said in an interview that analysts from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory were part of a team of Department of Energy nuclear experts who concluded that a key piece of evidence— high-strength …
More Google Fun
Favorite current searches: largest pineapple and man dinosaur coexist. As I’ve mentioned before, if one writes about a topic sufficiently obscure, Google stardom awaits.
Snow Ride
We got our first dusting of the season overnight. Just rain at my house – 0.03 inch (0.76mm). But up in the foothills, there was enough snow to stick on the dirt bits at least through midday. Windy and cold, not the ideal day for a bike ride. Fortunately the wind was at our backs …
The Blues
I tried to write a blues song once. It went something like this: Well it’s floodin’ down in Texas. All the telephone lines are down. Yeah it’s floodin’ down in Texas. All the telephone lines are down. I’ve been tryin’ to reach my baby To tell her to bring the patio furniture in.
On Drought
I finally got around to reading the Pielke Sr. et al. paper on drought in Colorado in 2002 (paper here and Roger blogged it here). The data’s Colorado-specific, but the New Mexico data doesn’t look that much different, and the message here is pretty much the same. What we viewed as an “exceptionally severe drought,” …
Winners and Losers
More on global warming winners and losers: For regions producing high-quality grapes at the margins of their climatic limits, these results suggest that future climate change will exceed a climatic threshold such that the ripening of balanced fruit required for existing varieties and wine styles will become progressively more difficult. In other regions, historical and …