Press release today from the House Science Committee’s Republicans: Today, in the first congressional hearing with authors of the Working Group II section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fourth assessment report, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, the Science and Technology Committee was told that many different factors will determine the impacts …
Southern Africa’s been having a dry time of it in recent months. This is vegetation anomalies from NASA for March 2007. Big drop in maize production expected as a result. (Hat tip NASA Earth Observatory.)
Jon Carroll on the Galileo problem: My correspondents seem to be taken with the image of the lone scientist battling for truth against the bigwigs and their lackeys. “They laughed at Edison,” one told me. Maybe so. They also laughed at a lot of people who turned out to be laughable. Being laughed at is …
Kit Stolz has a great look at drought in Southern California, with a particularly nice bit of business from Bill Patzert, the region’s most quotable climatologist: Patzert had a more personal reason to doubt the forecast. In his backyard he has an old oak tree, and for years he has noticed that the tree seemed …
I knew my talk Friday worked when, during the Q and A at the end, one of the grad students asked for a show of hands. “How many of you believe humans are the primary cause of global warming?” Probably 90 percent or more of the hands in the room went up. “How many of …
news of the warm: Climate change and national security in the Times of New York paper of the day: Schenk and Lensink discuss the difficulties associated with public discussion of greenhouse gas emission scenarios word of the day: fruiterer – one who sells fruit (this would be a subset, apparently, of greengrocer, sans veggies) reading: …
Not really. It takes more than one storm. But I had 0.7 inch in my rain gauge this morning, and check out the snow down in Silver City. Using my new Pagano scale (the daily regression model run by Tom Pagano at the NRCS), the last week’s cool, wet weather has been worth 90,000 acre …
Science has done a cool thing: resources for high school biology teachers, accompanying today’s monkey gene publication. Pass the word.
I cried this morning over my granola. Best explained with something I wrote a few few years back: On Christmas round about 1973 or so, my sister, Lisa, gave me Breakfast of Champions, which changed my life in unaccountable ways. I holed up with the book all afternoon Christmas and into the next day, and …
Along the lines of the land use change issues Roger Pielke Sr. has been discussing, an interesting paper today in GRL looking at the differences between turning the Amazon rain forest into pasture, versus turning it into soybeans: Results show that the decrease in precipitation after a soybean extension is significantly higher when compared to …