N.M. Scientists Mimic Global Warming to Study Long-Term Effects (sub. req.): As if Earth isn’t warming fast enough, Jim Elliott wants to speed things up. To do it, Elliott has fashioned what look like 20 oversized bed frames on a remote patch of desert south of Belen to create an extra bit of global warming …
Avelino Maestes has an interesting post about Silver City water issues. It looks like mining is the water use wild card down there.
Scot Key with a hilarious look at New Mexico’s drought tourism future (can drought be funny?): Look at the Rio Grande, now a continuous strip of dry bed running the length of the state. Tourism, working with other State and Federal agencies, is clearing the burned bosque as fast as it can and establishing a …
Mark down April 14 on your calendar, 7 p.m. Chantal’s doing the KNME Friday evening 7 p.m. chat show – The Line, or something. I’m suggesting a game: every time she mentions Sushigig – drink!
It’s a given here in the desert southwest that tamarisk, a tough little red-barked tree that grows along our river banks, is evil. A European immigrant that arrived more than a century ago, it now dominates the banks of our desert streams and rivers, choking out native cottonwoods and sucking up precious water. At least …
In which the ABQJournal’s Bruce Daniels muses wisely (Bruce is one of the wiser guys I know) about yesterday’s Jessica Simpson dustup: But then you take one step off the Web’s continental shelf and you’re suddenly plunged to the depths … you know, those “there be monsters” deeps that the National Geographic used to show …
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.
Lissa and I had planned to go to Santa Fe yesterday to see art, but we didn’t really want to drive in snow, so we stuck around town and went to Explora instead. The museum’s a hoot in a couple of ways. First of all, they’ve got a lot of sciency exhibits that allow you …
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 …
One of my weather geeks called the weather settling in over northern New Mexico and southern Colorado today the “storm of the winter”, which is not saying much given the winter we’ve had, but is still better than saying nothing. There’s currently an avalanche warning for the San Juans in southern Colorado, with two feet …