Stink bugs are showing up in London, another global warming clue. But the real fun here is the source of the research – Max Barclay, who is described in the stories as curator of beetles at the Natural History Museum in London. How cool a title is that?
There are a couple of news reports out about a new Hadley study on the synergistic effects of greenhouse warming and the urban heat island. The urban heat island effect, often used by skeptics to discount global warming data, is the very real effect in which all that pavement, buildings and other thermal mass that …
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Reading Mickey Glantz’s Climate Affairs, I ran across this odd reference to what appears on first blush to be Thomas Jefferson’s great insight into the effects of humans on climate. It quotes an 1824 letter in which Jefferson writes that climate surveys “should be repeated oce or twice in a century to show the effect …
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I’ve been moaning for a while about the relative paucity of interesting local blogging. Albuquerque’s got a pretty active life of the mind, but I’ve not found very much being written in the blogorealm. So I’ve been happy lately with my encounters with Quirky Burque. Added to my blogroll.
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