What Tree Is This?
tree on San Mateo2 12-06 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Anyone have a clue what kind of tree this is? Photo by L. Heineman, fall 2006, on San Mateo NE in Albuquerque.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
That Badass Paleo Record
More evidence of the naivety of assuming that the 20th century climate record is sufficient to capture the range of variability with which we’ve got to be able to cope. Tian et al in GRL looked at calcite layers in Minnesota lake sediments: [D]roughts of greater severity and duration than during the 20th century occurred …
Snow
We had a tad of snow when I awoke yesterday morning. Jimbo up in Los Alamos did a bit better.
The Horror
As if drought, famine, rising sea level inundating coastal cities and the cancellation of international ski competitions were not enough, my colleague Dan McKay in this morning’s paper catalogues a previously unmentioned and potentially devastating consequence of global warming: It could harm Albuquerque’s famed balloon fiesta, “the world’s most photographed annual event.” Worrying about the …
Radioactive Laundry Lint
There’s a phrase that’s never appeared in the Googleverse. Until now.
Accepting the science
From Saturday’s Washington Post: “We have to deal with greenhouse gases,” John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., said in a recent speech at the National Press Club. “From Shell’s point of view, the debate is over. When 98 percent of scientists agree, who is Shell to say, ‘Let’s debate the science’?” The interesting bit …
Where the Nukes Are
If you’ve ever wondered where those “secret” underground bunkers are where they keep all our nukes, the Nuclear Notebook guys, Hans Kristensen and Stan Norris, have poked virtual pushpins into a Google Earth map. (Hint to Albuquerque readers: some are right under your nose, and I don’t mean at the Ghost Mall.) More on Hans’s …
Climate Catastrophe
Never mind drought, famine, rising sea level inundating coastal cities, etc. This is serious: High temperatures in Europe have disrupted the Alpine skiing World Cup, throwing the calendar of the sport’s premier circuit into disarray and raising questions about the future of a sport so vulnerable to climate change. “It will very quickly be a …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
In which I get references to The Graduate, Richard Feynman and Rumpelstiltskin into the same story. Nanotechnology enthusiasts love to cite a classic exchange from the 1967 film “The Graduate.” Mr. McGuire, an older businessman, is trying to explain the future to a young Benjamin Braddock. “I want to say one word to you. Just …
Waiting For Santa
waiting-for-Santa Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I love a parade, so Lissa and I went downtown last night to watch the Twinkle Light Parade. It was fabulous – lowriders decked out in Christmas lights with those wacky hydraulic bouncy thingies, marching cheerleaders cheering for Christmas cheer (Go Christmas!), a motorcycle cop with his bike decked out. …