Strange Bedfellows
From the BBC: The move has also been opposed by the environmental and coal lobbies. What could be so vile, so heinous that it could bring together these traditional enemies?
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Florida in Albuquerque
Don Pizzolato has a thoughtful post this morning on the Duke City Fix that reaches beyond the traditional “rise of the creative class” economic development palaver that underpins much discussion these days in Albuquerque to examine the underlying premises. In the careful way of my favorite writers, Don’s smart enough not to come to any …
My first cranes of fall
My first cranes of fall Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The whole point of yesterday’s bike ride was sandhill cranes. Nature did not disappoint. update: Looks like Johnny_Mango was there a week ahead of us. It’s like these birds are out there posing for photo ops.
RIP Snoopy
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 …
Warner and Inhofe Do Something
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.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
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.
Quote of the Week
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.
The Moon Landing and Climate Change
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 …
Little Help Please?
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 …
Yulsman on Broad
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!) …