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An old evolution/ID/politics/craziness story of mine pops up on Panda’s Thumb.
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Elephant Butte After the Rains
Summer rains usually don’t do much good at Elephant Butte, New Mexico’s major storage reservoir. (I touched on this a bit last week in my on line Journal chat.) But this summer’s been extraordinary. So how’s the Butte doing? One of my water geek contacts sent me this link, to daily numbers from the Bureau …
Ileana
So I’m now fully prepared to look stupid. This morning’s front page of the newspaper included a short story by me about the rains finally shutting down. Umm. Hold that thought. Hurricane Ileana is changing the picture in a hurry, with the possibility of a big slug of moisture come the weekend: AT LEAST SOME …
The “Left” Does It Too
One of my arguments against Chris Mooney’s thesis (“The Republican War on Science“) is that all disputants in scientized political debates cherrypick. Chris has argued from the specific – Well-documented examples in which conservatives have done this. – to the general – The problem is that conservatives do this. My view is that we have …
Cricket Brawl
Dave and I have been pondering the possibility of brawls breaking out at cricket matches, and knowing that some Inkstain readers come from cricket-enabled nations, I thought I’d throw the question out here. (Plus, I thought it’d be pretty cool to come in the top 10 Google searches for “cricket brawl.”) Do they head butt …
Water in the Desert
jones_arroyo Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Another sight from Saturday’s bike ride: This is the Jones arroyo (and by “arroyo,” I mean “concrete channel”) that Coco wrote about last week. If you click through to the big version of the picture, you can see where they whacked out the bridge’s concrete sidewalls to let the water …
Mariachis
mariachis Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I have ridden my bicycle in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico, for many years, and I can confidently say that yesterday was the first time I have ever been serenaded by mariachis as I rode. (Miguel and I were riding past the Alameda Open Space Saturday, where a bunch of …
More Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On our summer monsoon Winter droughts apparently bring summer rains in New Mexico. That, dumb luck and a bit of mystery are scientists’ best explanations for this year’s prodigious monsoon, which looks like one for the record books. “We’re on track for our wettest summer ever,” said Charlie Liles, head of the National Weather Service’s …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
The New Mexico Office of State Engineer (the water people) issued a report last week looking at climate change impacts and vulnerabilities. From the story by Tania Soussan and myself: Global warming is likely to increase the risk of drought in New Mexico over the next century, and mountain snowpacks anywhere south of Santa Fe …
More from Dessler
Andrew Dessler adds a helpful coda to his comments in my newspaper story of a couple of weeks back: I agree with Pielke Sr. that assessments have to include the range of opinions held by the majority of the scientific community. If half of the community says one thing and the other half says something …