charger Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The artist L. Heineman made the decorations for our Thanksgiving table today in the manner of the season. We’ve a big feast planned, which is both cultural ritual obligation and genuine fun. This is an interesting time of year in a desert culture both removed from environmental but also steeped …
It’s not that Andy Dessler’s been gone, actually, but in his move over to Grist, there wasn’t any way to get an RSS feed of just his stuff. Being an RSS junkie, I would forget to go directly, and missed some good stuff. Apparently I’m not alone, so Andy’s going to do some sort of …
From the Environment News Service: Expect Warmer Than Average Weather This Winter Meanwhile, in other news, Sun Expected to Rise Tomorrow.
Via NEI Nuclear Notes comes word that John Warner is going to challenge James Inhofe for the top R spot on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Perhaps Kevin can ‘splain this to us.
The new winter forecast is out. El Niño’s still being a bit shy (“the coupling of the unusually warm SSTs near the date line with the atmosphere in the tropical Pacific has not yet become fully established” is the more technical description) but he’s definitely there.
John Quiggin threw down the gauntlet last week: Although both global warming denialists and moon landing denialists routinely accuse NASA scientists of fraud, the two groups appear not to have made common cause as yet (Please correct me if I’m wrong). Were that it were so, John. From someone called “gren” over at something called …
There’s been a great discussion over at Prometheus about a story last week in the New York Times by Bill Broad about atmospheric CO2 and paleoclimate. Given that it’s unlikely that very many people actually get 42 comments into a thread, I’ve pulled out my comment here so all three of Inkstain’s readers (hi Mom!) …
Albuquerque had its first “official” freeze of the year this morning, with a low of somewhere around 29 at the airport this morning. At my house in town, we’ve dropped below freezing a bunch of times already (apparently I live in an urban cold island), but the airport is the place with a long and …
The latest ENSO forecast is out. More of the same, expect El Niño to keep ramping up at least into early spring, odds favor season ski passes here where I live, but some bad shit elsewhere” Global effects that can be expected during November-March include drier-than-average conditions over most of Malaysia, Indonesia, some of the …
Now folks in Australia are talking (sort of) about a once-in-thousand-year drought: AUSTRALIA may be experiencing a one-in-a-1000-years drought, Prime Minister John Howard and the premiers were warned at the national water summit. The half-day meeting accelerated water trading plans and ordered emergency work to protect town and city supplies. The dire assessment of the …