A new paper by David Lobell and his colleagues at Lawrence Livermore illustrates one of the problems with the whole “average temperature” notion ensconced in our discussions of climate change. The researchers compared outputs from 12 climate models, looking at the differences between daytime highs and overnight lows. The lows went up a little bit …
Rio Grande at Alameda Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. We’ve had a burst of warm weather over the last two weeks, and you can see it in the river. Up at Alameda, it’s running at about 1,700 cubic feet per second (cfs) well above the average of 1,100 for this time of year. I realize for …
Folks in Tucson are gearing up for drought restrictions: A plan that would force homeowners and businesses to conserve water if southern Arizona’s drought worsens is expected to go into effect Tuesday. The City Council approved the plan in November, but the panel is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the code change that puts the …
A bunch of interesting drought news: From Australia, camels mad with thirst: “They helped to build the Australian nation and had a cross-continental railway named after their handlers. But now the camel population here is wreaking havoc in the desert and remote communities because of a desperate lack of water.” Things are so bad in …
I don’t eat much sugar, so dessert is a bit of a problem. But the Village Inn, god bless its strangely anarchic cultural heart, has sugar free apple pie most nights. As a result, pie is a common family outing. Lissa’s not terribly fond of the Village Inn, but Nora, The Boy and I are …
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
From the Times of New York: The Australian drug agency said it had uncovered a variety of unusual activities by consumers using the product, including sleep-driving, sleep-eating, and, in one case, a woman who painted the front door of her home while asleep.
For my earthquake risk friends, word that Cleveland was rocked last night by a major earthquake, which registered 3.6 on the “whatever” scale. It – I swear I am not making this up – “knocked at least one television off its stand”.
I’ve argued in the past that my enthusiasm for the “scientization” meme comes from my experience covering all sorts of controversies, large and small, that play out in the same way: competing data used to support conflicting political positions. This doesn’t just happen on the big stuff, like climate change. It’s an intrinsic problem, found …
Apparently union regulations require all climate bloggers to weigh in on Bill Broad’s story in today’s New York Times about Al Gore etc. In brief, there’s not much more I could add to what Chris Mooney and Andrew Dessler have said: “surprised it didn’t happen sooner” (Mooney) given that Gore was largely solid on the …