A remarkable story out of Alabama, where Alexander City seems to be quite literally running out of water: “The water is so low the pumps are shutting down on us,” said Eugene Mahan, superintendent of water treatment for the system, which provides drinking water to about 50,000 to 60,000 people in east central Alabama, including …
I swear to god. I am not making this up. That’s Rob Browman on the left, who founded Inkstain with me back in 1998. Winning an Emmy. I swear to god. Rob’s a video producer now at MediaStorm. He and his colleagues won the Emmy for a remarkable piece about a young man’s emigration from …
But the question “Has man inadvertently changed the global climate, or is he about to do so?” is quite legitimate. It has been widely discussed publicly – unfortunately with more zeal than insight. Like so many technical questions fought out in the forum of popular magazines and the daily press, the debate has been characterized …
Been said before, but bears repeating: Tom Swetnam’s Senate testimony Monday: Global warming is making Western wildfires worse, a top fire expert told members of the U.S. Senate on Monday. Combined with a century of firefighting that has left some forests choked and overgrown, along with people building more and more communities at the forests’ …
The highest mountain “tundra” terrains of the Western United States are disappearing because of warming temperatures, according to a new paper by Henry Diaz and Jon Eischeid: In the last 20 years (1987–2006), rising temperatures have caused a significant fraction of these areas to exceed the 10°C threshold for alpine tundra classification. The result has …
Death Valley averages about two inches (50 mm) of rain a year, but it’s been on the dry side there in 2007, making what happened there this week all the more remarkable: Prior to today the yearly rainfall total in Death Valley was 0.10 of an inch. As of 2 p.m. PT, Death Valley had …
Robert Krier has a fascinating piece in this morning’s San Diego Union Tribune suggesting a linkage between arctic melting and drought in the Southwest: Three years ago, computer forecast models predicted that in 2050, the reduced ice mass would cause climate shifts that would result in a drought in the western United States. But the …
I’ve been incredibly busy lately, with a couple of fun but time-consuming outside projects going on, so I secretly harbored a fantasy this year: that the New York Yankees (my chosen baseball organization) would not make the playoffs. That likely labels me as not a true fan. Maybe that’s so. Being a Yankee fan takes …
From AFP: Prime Minister John Howard warned against linking Australia’s worst drought on record to doomsday forecasts about climate change Wednesday, saying “a sense of proportion” was needed.
New NASA data in Eos today shows remarkable melting in Greenland: A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent more than average. In fact, the amount of snow that …