Just in from Ethiopia: A team led by a Los Alamos scientist has emerged from the deserts of Ethiopia with new evidence for the evolution of our first upright-walking ancestor 4 million years ago. The bones of Australopithecus anamensis capture a moment in pre-history when our ancestors were emerging from the woods on two legs, …
I’d been meaning to look at this a while ago, because all climate change is ultimately local, but just got around to it today. The last time we had a freeze in Albuquerque was March 23, and it’s reasonable to think that’ll stand as the last freeze of spring. We won’t know for sure for …
Back in the day, we used to haunt the cutout bin in the record store at the mall in Walla Walla. One of us, I don’t remember who, picked up an album by Funkadelic because someone said they had some wicked guitar music. (I don’t think they actually said “wicked,” but you get the idea.) …
Looks like spring in Silver City.
My new favorite web site: The asparagus plant is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks and garlic.
A comment worth pulling out and highlighting (even if it is somewhat critical of me). Mickey Glantz, whose ideas about climate science and policy and politics I greatly respect, takes me to task for airing Jim Hansen’s draft ENSO paper: You know that Hansen’s paper was just a draft…. Anyone could (and some did) jump …
Via Roger Pielke Jr., reference to a new draft from Jim Hansen that usefully clarifies the El Nino discussion of last week: Present version should make clear that what we are saying is: Global warming has increased the east-west equatorial temperature gradient and that should increase the probability of a super El Nino. It is …
Steve McIntyre approvingly cites a piece in the Daily Telegraph by Bob Carter arguing that the planet has not warmed in the last eight years. And if you pick the El Nino year of 1998 as your starting point, that’s true, making this a rhetorically powerful argument. But there’s a problem. Given the variability in …
On Hansen on El Niño (sub. req.)
I blogged earlier today at work about the latest ENSO assessment from the Climate Prediction Center, and said this: We’re at the point in the year where forecasting is hard, so the computer models used to try to get a handle on where this is headed are all over the map. It’s the conventional wisdom …