The Climate Prediction Center’s latest ENSO outlook, issued yesterday, ups the odds for a weak El Niño by the end of the year. Last month, they put the odds at 50-50. Yesterday, they said a weak El Niño is “likely” by the end of the year. Here in New Mexico, that tips the odds wet. …
A new paper from Jungclaus et al. at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology says model runs show the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is not likely to shut down the thermohaline circulation any time soon: Our results suggest that abrupt climate change initiated by GIS melting is not a realistic scenario for the …
A team led by Peter Gerstoft at UCSD just published a fun paper about seismic signals from Katrina picked up by a network of receivers in California. That’s a storm!
A friend sends along a link to Squishy’s road markings gallery. I wanna know the stories.
From today’s Drought Monitor: Yuma, Arizona, has recorded only 0.23 inches of rain this year, which is 12 percent of normal. (That’s 0.6 cm for my metric friends.) I’m not sure who would notice this amid the electronic buzzing and whirring and air conditioning and fountains, but Las Vegas, Nevada, has only had half an …
This story got me thinking about what I think has become an increasingly interesting interplay between blogging scholars and journalists. It quotes Jeffrey Lewis, proprietor of the excellent Arms Control Wonk blog and manager of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center. Reporters depend on smart people willing and able to explain things. …
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I had to put on the leg and arm warmers for this morning’s bike ride. The cottonwood across the street is starting to show yellow. And it’s still dark when the alarm goes off these days. That can mean only one thing: it’s State Fair time! I love the fair for many reasons, not the …
Just so there’s no confusion, this is not me: At least, I think it’s not me. I’d remember that. Wouldn’t I?
Jeffrey Lewis with some amusing backstory on my story last week about Iran’s nuclear program.
reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don …