Snoopy Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Down in Albuquerque’s South Valley, along the river, is an old piece of vacant land sandwiched between a housing development and one of the last close-in farms. To the south is a lovely grove of cottonwoods that until recently was a horse pasture. To the north is a field of …
Via NEI Nuclear Notes comes word that John Warner is going to challenge James Inhofe for the top R spot on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Perhaps Kevin can ‘splain this to us.
The new winter forecast is out. El Niño’s still being a bit shy (“the coupling of the unusually warm SSTs near the date line with the atmosphere in the tropical Pacific has not yet become fully established” is the more technical description) but he’s definitely there.
Eckleberg: I bet you that most of the world’s most cherished sites are all far more peed upon than most of the world’s most uninteresting, non-descript buildings.
John Quiggin threw down the gauntlet last week: Although both global warming denialists and moon landing denialists routinely accuse NASA scientists of fraud, the two groups appear not to have made common cause as yet (Please correct me if I’m wrong). Were that it were so, John. From someone called “gren” over at something called …
If some of my friends from the UK and its former extened empire could help me a bit, please, I’m befuddled by this, which is apparently a feat of some significance, but which completely baffles me: B Manoj Kumar and Mohammed Shaibaaz Tumbi, opening for St Peter’s School in Hyderabad, rattled off 721 runs in …
There’s been a great discussion over at Prometheus about a story last week in the New York Times by Bill Broad about atmospheric CO2 and paleoclimate. Given that it’s unlikely that very many people actually get 42 comments into a thread, I’ve pulled out my comment here so all three of Inkstain’s readers (hi Mom!) …
Miguel Cooks Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. That hat makes the man. Or possibly the tongs. Or possibly it’s simply the joie de vivre that leads one to invite one’s friends to a stadium parking lot on a blustery Saturday afternoon for a pre-game tailgate party. Never mind that none of us had station wagons or …
Rio Grande at Central Originally uploaded by Miguel Navrot. My friend Miguel’s take on the ever-present Rio Grande.
Albuquerque had its first “official” freeze of the year this morning, with a low of somewhere around 29 at the airport this morning. At my house in town, we’ve dropped below freezing a bunch of times already (apparently I live in an urban cold island), but the airport is the place with a long and …