More Evidence Steve Lawrence Is Wrong
More evidence that Steve Lawrence is wrong: dinner at Los Equipales, on Jefferson a block south of Central. Yum. Thanks for the tip, J_M.
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California Greenhouse Reduction Costs
Center for Clean Air Policy: “(W)e conclude that Governor Schwarzenegger’s goal of reducing GHG emissions to 2000 levels by 2010 can be met at no net cost to California consumers.” I’ve made no effort to judge the validity of this work. I merely pass this along as a data point in the discussion.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Steve Lawrence Misses the Point.
Trusting the Models
There’s a good good post on Prometheus about a new paper by anthropologist Myanna Lahsen on the culture of climate modelers. The bottom line is the way modelers tend to believe their own models – to substitute them in their own mind for reality. It reminded me of a paper published last year in which …
Down South
Avelino Maestas blogs live from Silver City. Some peak oil there, plus, more importantly, “peak water.”
On Peer Review
Reading Jennifer Couzin’s article in Science magazine on the Woo Suk Hwang stem cell debacle at the gym this morning, I felt some sympathy for the journalist stuck in the difficult spot Couzin is in. In writing about the peer review process of the fraudulent stem cell paper at her own magazine, Couzin had no …
Being Afraid of the Right Things
Kevin Vranes at his new scienceblogs home (note to self – update many links in various places to all the people what just moved there) has a couple of posts that circle around a favorite topic of mine: being afraid of the things that will really kill a lot of people, and not about the …
Leslie Fourth
Congratulations to Albuquerque distance runner Brandon Leslie, who scored a fourth place finish Sunday at the U.S. half marathon championship.
Daybook
drought watch: You have to squint to see it, but my favorite Snotel station, at Chamita up near the Colorado border, got 3 inches of snow in the last 24 hours. That’s about a third of an inch of snow water equivalent, which is not a whole lot, but is better than having a lit …
Golden Dining
Nora’s golden menu.