Red River flooding shows broken US flood policy.
Freezing temperatures are locking up water for now and the Red River’s level is dropping at Fargo, but may climb yet again next week. Here’s an interesting piece from the NY Times contrasting Grand Forks, which suffered $1.5 billion in damages in 1997 and...
Ridiculous US climate debate hinders real action.
Today the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) published a piece entitled “Does the Post Fact-Check George Will? Columnist’s climate change denial distorts reality” in response to a recent Washington Post column (here) by George Will,...
Climate change and weather extremes.
Here I’ll just refer to a couple of typically excellent posts from Jeff Master’s Wunderblog. The first is on temperature records and extremes, and is an especially good response to the bobbleheads on TV who propose that “it’s really cold out...