Climate change and weather extremes.

Feb 17, 2009

Here I’ll just refer to a couple of typically excellent posts from Jeff Master’s Wunderblog. The 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 there in...

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Cara off to RRNW, more media work.

Feb 2, 2009

We worked on modeling media issues this week, this time on methods to wash it to remove dust and other debris. Here Cara and Jesse agitate a batch. The street value of the exotic color-coded-by-size media in the buckets you see here beside an Em4 box is about $6,000....

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Flooding, mass failures in Washington State.

Jan 8, 2009

Looks very serious, with the AP reporting evacuation of 30,000 as of this morning. AP photo by Gene...

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Museums, grant writing, record rainfall in St. Louis.

Dec 28, 2008

We’re super busy these days–Cara and I are mostly working on resubmitting an NSF grant due in early January. We have collaborators at SIUC and a few other universities. This photo is typical–it’s such hard work, and has consumed many of my...

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Call for change on climate change.

Nov 3, 2008

I guess I missed the point where the right wing radio bloviators and such started accepting climate change as reality–it seems not long ago this was still debated, at least by politicians and the ill (Fox News) informed. We still have the debate as to cause, of...

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