Saving the Minnow
Let’s all pitch in and help Dave achieve his dream of owning the original S.S. Minnow. (And Dave – I’ve already got a goofy hat. Hint hint.)
Archive of entries posted by jfleck
Drought in the Amazon May Not Be Over
Jim Giles has a story in last week’s Nature (sub. req.) pointing to some preliminary work linking warm Atlantic temperatures to last year’s devastating Amazon drought: The drought first caught scientists’ interest because its cause was unusual. Dry spells in the Amazon usually occur in El Niño years, when warm water off the Pacific coast …
Drought’s Over!
The latest drought monitor, out this morning, pretty much wipes out drought conditions completely across much of New Mexico: In New Mexico, D1 and D0 conditions were reduced over much of the state. A large area free of drought designation exists in central New Mexico and a new drought-free area was introduced in northeast New …
Polling Data
An old evolution/ID/politics/craziness story of mine pops up on Panda’s Thumb.
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 …