Traveling Babo at Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Traveling Babo at Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Originally uploaded by travelbabo. Big Toe’s cousin sent this postcard from a recent visit to Easter Island
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Sporting Figure Attends State Dinner
As we here in Albuquerque prepare to lament the loss of our beloved Albuquerque Tribune, let us raise a glass in toast to one of the Trib’s most accomplished graduates, Hank Stuever, who last night had the distinct privilege and high honor of covering the visit by some French guy to the White House for …
La Niña
La Niña is strengthening, according to the monthly diagnostic discussion out today. The pool of cool water continues to creep westward: The anticipated results: Expected La Niña impacts during November – January include a continuation of above-average precipitation over Indonesia and below-average precipitation over the central equatorial Pacific. For the contiguous United States, potential impacts …
benthic bacteria
I was all excited at the prospect that humans aren’t causing global warming after all, that it’s really benthic bacteria. Then Roger Pielke Jr., suspicious bastard that he is, had to go and pour cold water over the whole deal. Turns out that the University of Arizona doesn’t really have a “Department of Climatology,” as …
Fire Scars
NASA has posted a remarkable MODIS satellite image showing the areas that burned in Southern California.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought….
A couple of years ago, one of my favorite science teachers was extolling the virtues of those cheap hand held infrared thermometers. He said you just need to hand one to a kid and turn ’em loose and they’ll start asking all kinds of interesting questions and testing out the answers. So I was surprised …
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Seeing Drought in Real Time
My friend Malcolm, who lives in Sydney, has some fascinating observations today on how hard it is to see drought as it is happening, something he (interestingly) noticed after returning to Sydney following a visit to a wetter place: When you live in an area that changes by degrees month to month and year to …
Some Good News Out of Georgia
Drought conditions have been good for Georgia’s pecan crop: The record drought gripping the Southeast isn’t all bad news: It’s meant nearly perfect weather for growing pecans in Georgia. The state is on pace to be the nation’s top pecan producer this year, with shellers predicting more than 125 million pounds harvested, said pecan horticulturist …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On the value of seasonal forecasts: Gensler knows full well about the seasonal forecast. Odds are, the snowpack that provides the district’s water supply will be on the light side this winter. But he also knows there’s no point in worrying about that now. His job in planning for next year’s irrigation season is made …
Me on the Radio
A bit late notice, entirely because I’m lame (I’ve known about this for a week), but I’ll be on the radio this afternoon at 2 p.m. in Albuquerque: 1350 a.m., NMSR Science Watch, talking about climate variability, the Atlanta drought and its implications for New Mexico.