There’s a longstanding debate about whether we should use “climate change” or “global warming” in describe the global climate change-warming thingie. In that regard, this data from Google’s new search terms trends monitoring tool: This is the relative use by people searching on Google of the terms “global warming” (blue line) and “climate change” (red …
Brad Udall at the Western Water Assessment has written an extremely helpful summary of the history of research into the effects of climate change on the Colorado River. It is interesting to note a consistent message in nearly 30 years of work on this question: the sign is nearly always negative. There’s not a whole …
For the more sophisticated in the Inkstain audience (either scientifically or geographically), I usually try to translate units from those we use here in America to their metric equivalents. But I realized I had no idea what the standard metric equivalent was for our quaint river flow metric – cubic feet per second. Malcolm to …
From today’s Washington Post: At 9 a.m. on the very edge of the dusty, desolate collection of adobe homes and Vietnamese restaurants that seem to form this city, David Iglesias begins his run through the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. This is not easy terrain. The footing is terribly uneven. The altitude can be unbearable. …
Roger Pielke Sr. and I have been having a polite disagreement today over at his blog on how to think about Richard Seager’s paper last month in Science on the risk of future drought in the southwest. Roger argues Seager’s work is contradicted by a 1997 paper by Trenberth and Hoar arguing for stronger El …
the “canary in the climate change coal mine” wine (see also Napa Valley) the boreal forests of Quebec Perth Australian ski resorts the Sahel polar bears trout Alaska (see also the Arctic, which has been subject to expert peer review) the Northeast (this would be US) mountains November Tuvalu Flamingo (the former Florida town, not …
Rio Grande, May 19, 2007 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’ve been otherwise occupied over the last week, so I haven’t been paying my usual attention to the river. But when I went out yesterday for a bike ride, it was wonderfully high – 3,700 cubic feet per second through Albuquerque, which I think is the …
That Handsome Devil Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. One of the cultural advantages of all the concrete we use to channelize our storm runoff is the essentially unlimited canvas it offers.
George and Big Toe Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Big Toe joined me Thursday morning at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which has been in Albuquerque all week. He in particular wanted to see George Hotz, who I’d featured in the morning newspaper: George Hotz’s words exploded, as if there were three sentences in …