More evidence that the British own this language and we’re just borrowing it for a bit. From New Scientist, the story of a chap “who confused his guests at a dinner party by apologising for an astringent apple-based dessert, saying:” This pie is a trifle tart.
From GRL: Even though the arctic zone of continuous permafrost has relatively cold mean annual air temperatures, we found an abrupt, large increase in the extent of permafrost degradation in northern Alaska since 1982, associated with record warm temperatures during 1989–1998. Our field studies revealed that the recent degradation has mainly occurred to massive wedges …
The temperature at my house this morning was 19 degrees F (-7 C) when I rolled out the door for the bike ride at 8 a.m. We met up with the posse half an hour later at the Kwik-E-Mart up on Indian School and Tramway in the foothills, and I pulled out a little chunk …
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.
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.
Steve Lawrence Misses the Point.
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 …
Avelino Maestas blogs live from Silver City. Some peak oil there, plus, more importantly, “peak water.”
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 …
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 …