In another life, I wrote about California water policy. So it was with some nostalgia that I saw this LA Times story come across a local water policy email list: The cost of dismantling the dam that created Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and restoring the glacial gorge that John Muir considered one of the national …
The AP’s Douglas Pizac reports this week that Lake Powell is seeing less water than expected: Lake Powell is barely half full and taking a quarter less runoff than expected this year — a sign the Colorado River basin remains in the grip of a multiyear drought, according to a new report from government hydrologists. …
Hahn_Arroyo_Under_Repair Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I did another water ride this morning, up the Hahn Arroyo bike trail to see the bits that washed out in last Saturday’s downpour. Water in a sense defines landscape (or at least contributes strongly to its definition), and the concrete of the Hahn is a great illustration of one …
Poking around the logs, I was happy to see I’m one of the top Google hits for “SpongeBob’s gay agenda“.
In which His Noodliness visits Albuquerque’s west mesa.
phenology: The first couple of years after we moved to the neighborhood in 1993, we grew explosive, fantastic tomato crops. But in later years, they became increasingly disappointing. It was like a slot machine calibrated to pay off early and get you hooked, then suck the quarters out of you. I love fresh tomatoes in …
Yet another report on the hockey stick is out, (see here and here and here) and it says…. OK, can we just stipulate that Mike Mann’s 1998 and 1999 papers were really totally completely wrong and that one time he wore a tie that didn’t really match his shirt and looked really bad on television …
Interesting paper in GRL by Lobell et al. suggesting that temperature under doubled CO2 could be cooler in irrigated regions than the climate models suggest. Because of the relatively small area of the planet under irrigation, the overall effect is small, but the potential effect on food-production seems worthy of better understanding: The reduction of …
Rumors running wild in the cycling press that Jan Ullrich, kicked out of the Tour under the cloud of a doping investigation, has donned a fake beard and is showing up among the screaming throng, trying to hex the remaining riders:
One of my frustrations with the climate blogging world is the relative abundance of climate wars-type discussion and the relative dearth of discussion of climate science. Sean Davis has started a new blog that looks promising in this regard: Head in a Cloud. Great early discussion, including a nice piece by Andrew Dessler on work …