I finally got around to reading the Pielke Sr. et al. paper on drought in Colorado in 2002 (paper here and Roger blogged it here). The data’s Colorado-specific, but the New Mexico data doesn’t look that much different, and the message here is pretty much the same. What we viewed as an “exceptionally severe drought,” …
More on global warming winners and losers: For regions producing high-quality grapes at the margins of their climatic limits, these results suggest that future climate change will exceed a climatic threshold such that the ripening of balanced fruit required for existing varieties and wine styles will become progressively more difficult. In other regions, historical and …
In which Dave helps out some folks in need.
My amusement is unbound by the delightful discovery that Inkstain is the top Google result when searching on Stephen Dowling Botts. Really, though, the more useful site for Botts aficionados is the Wikipedia entry on Julia Moore, wherein we learn that Mark Twain based his Emmeline Grangerford character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on …
This whole blog-to-blog comment conversation thing can get a bit maddening. What we really need is to all sit down in a room together. I think a lot of the misunderstandings that turn into arguments would instead play out as useful conversations. Plus we could drink beer*. Today’s disjointed conversation has Mark Hadfield raising good …
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Scribblista was right: “I love the vantage point from a bike… one always gets to see the city and the day from such a different perspective…” When you move through your world on a bicycle, it unfolds before you at a perfect pace, full of surprises. The act of cycling demands awareness as a practical …
Bill McLain’s latest bike-racing pics. This is cyclocross, which is a hoot to watch. If you’re looking for a fun couple hours in the park, you can do worse than the Dec. 4 state championships.
Some nuke news in this morning’s paper (sub. req.). The state of New Mexico’s proposed WIPP permit modification is out. It goes along with a Department of Energy request to reduce waste testing requirements, and allows shipment of remote-handled waste (this is the stuff that is much more radioactive) to go forward.
A nice little bit of business this morning (sub. might be req.) by my colleague Toby Smith about Bill Richardson’s baseball career: Over time, draft status became part of Richardson’s political persona. His official campaign biography in 1982, when he first ran for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd District, concludes: “In 1966, he was drafted …
Just after sunup on Thanksgiving morning, still in sweatpants and slippers and tousled hair. Lissa opens the curtain on the big east-facing picture window in our living room so Sadie can see out (Sadie loves to sit on her stool and observe). In the leafless cottonwood across the street, backlit in silhouette, a murder of …