Unemployment Numbers
New data dump today from the St. Louis Fed includes this striking graph of unemployment in New Mexico (in blue, red is national numbers for comparison): We escaped the carnage for a while, anyway.
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NM Brackish Water Rush Continues
The rush to get in permit applications for brackish water drilling in New Mexico continues, as the state legislature considers a bill that would give the state regulatory authority. Staci Matlock reports in today’s New Mexican on more applications: Private interests are rushing to tap lightly regulated supplies of briny water deep under New Mexico …
Is the Push for Regional Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Breaking Down?
Shaun McKinnon had an item today on the push in the Arizona legislature to back away from the Western Climate Initiative: A group of state legislators has started the process of undoing former Gov. Janet Napolitano’s climate change initiatives and their chances of success are probably good. A bill has been introduced in the Senate …
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Tobis on the Lawnmower Dilemma
Michael Tobis models the lawnmower problem: If you have a typical American house, you have a typical lawn in front of it, a lawn that is in need of occasional trimming. Unless you contract out for lawn services, you almost certainly own a lawnmower too. Most likely it has a cheesy, loud, polluting little engine. You only …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Black Swans in the Arctic
The black swans of climate change, national security, the arctic. (ad gated)
Sasol Tightens Belt
Sasol, my bellweather for the future of non-traditional fossil fuels (they’re the South African company that’s a world leader in coal-to-liquids) is retrenching, according to Bloomberg: A recent deterioration in market conditions means Sasol now expects “a moderate reduction in earnings” for the year ending June 30, compared with a previous forecast of “robust growth”, …
Elephant Diaries: The French Model
The French seem to really love their newspapers. At least, their government does: The French state will help provide free newspaper subscriptions to teenagers for their 18th birthdays, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday. But the bigger gift is for France’s ailing print media. Sarkozy also announced a ninefold rise in the state’s support for newspaper …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Public Climate Attitudes
Some musings on the new Pew poll numbers about public attitudes toward environmental issues etc. (Comments closed here. Comment over there.)
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dead Tree Edition
Western warming killing trees.
Water In the Desert: Surrealism Edition
Around the corner from my house, something truly strange is under construction. It looks kinda like the Alamo, albeit with tilt-up concrete sides and weird tubes coming out the sides. It’s our new “water park,” which has been haltingly under construction for ages. It’s part of a hotel up the street from my house, an …
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