Johannes J. Feddema and colleagues have a paper in Science today(Feddema et al. 2005) on the importance of land use in climate change. (And the suddenly ubiquitous Roger Pielke Sr. has an accompanying Perspective piece(Pielke Sr. 2005), and Roger also blogs it here.) What Feddema and company did was run a global climate model with …
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Writing a little squib for the Rio Grande Racing Team newsletter on staying warm cycling in the winter, I ran across a rather odd suggestion from one of my teammates: aluminum foil inside the helmet to block the helmet air holes, thus keeping your head warmer. It occurs to me that this might have additional …
Props to Tim Schoeny, RGRT teammate and 2005 New Mexico Cyclocross 45+ champion. Though why anyone would run with a perfectly good bicycle is beyond me.
Michael Fumento is taking up sock puppet forensics. But wait! Is that a rake I see lying there in the dark? Michael, look out! Thwack! Damn, too late.
In which Nora talks to the Army recruiter: I wonder what happens to those files, anyway. Do they keep them to make sure our stories match up? If I tell the Air Force that I want to go to UNM and major in philosophy, will they know that I’ve already told the Army that I …
On our October trip, Lissa and I visited the Anasazi Heritage Center outside Cortez in southeastern Colorado. It’s a neat museum, built to record, preserve and provide public access to excavations done before the nearby McPhee Reservoir was filled. Adjacent to the museum, there’s a small pueblo room block that’s been excavated and then stabilized …
There’s this strange sort of schoolyard bully pleasure in taunting Michael Fumento. I wonder, though, if we’re the bullies, or if he is. I sorta feel like the skinny guy, taking pleasure in the bully’s comeuppance. But I dunno. Maybe we’re being the bullies. Should I feel bad, picking on poor Michael? The thing is, …
I meant to blog this when it came out a couple of weeks back: Al Zelicoff’s take-down in the Albuquerque Tribune on “bird flu mania” So, are the fears justified for Washington’s preparations against the spread of this new “killer” influenza to humans? The short answer is no. The threat is extremely remote. It’s not …
Kevin Vranes has noticed liberals noticing “peak oil”. I think he’s on to something interesting here.
It’s an odd day when I find myself agreeing with Benny Peiser on a climate change question, but his post Thursday to his CCNet list, in which he blasted media of coverage of the Nature paper on possible changes in the thermohaline circulation, seems on point. In fact, as I’ll point out below, there’s been …