I’ve been digging into the relationship between climate and the early history of water development of the Colorado River, and I’ve run into a bit of a conflict between the conventional history and the climate record (or as much of the climate record as I’ve been able to easily sort out). (Click through if you’ve …
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One cannot help but be amused by the irony in this paper, in which Diego Rybski and others (one of the others being Hans von Storch) use Steve McIntyre’s paleoclimate reconstruction as one of a suite of six in a detection study, using the Hockey Stick Slayer’s work as evidence for human-caused warming: Accordingly, the …
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A few weeks back Steve Bloom asked in the comments about drought in the United States in the 1950s. This is the big drought we talk about in New Mexico – more significant here than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. I ran across these maps today:
Sea level rise.
Via the Journal’s Bruce Daniels comes word of a forecast for a wet spring: Who needs computer models and satellite imagery to tell which way the wind’s blowing? Certainly not Joseph Weldon Crim of Portales. Using what he calls a Plains Indian ritual passed down to him through his father, the 70-year-old Portales resident got …
Emily at New West on what drought looks like up close.
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a post-Deutsch flood of climate change news releases coming out of NASA recently: NASA Finds Stronger Storms Change Heat and Rainfall Worldwide NASA scientists confirm climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth’s largest storehouses of ice and snow. Bering Sea Ecosystem …
Last week I mentioned the new Virmani and Weisberg hurricane paper. Now Kevin Vranes has gone the extra mile (where would we be without the blogosphere?) and actually read it: What controlled the anomalous 2004 and 2005 seasons was a slackening in the easterly winds in the tropical Atlantic (for you non- atmospheric nerds, the …
Inkstain’s staff empiricist forgot the salient detail: 0.13 inch of rain in the Inkstain rain gauge. For a normal March, we’d get one storm that size per week. Also, a correction. This wasn’t the first measurable rain since January. March 1 we got 0.01 at the airport.
No question mark. We awoke to snow this morning. Our camera’s busted, so I refer you to Coco for a look. The staff empricist empiricist here at Inkstain reports 1-3/4 inch on the various flat bits in the backyard. The water equivalent at the airport is a tenth of an inch. Those of you living …