facing the fire

That is essentially the question we ended the lunchtime meeting with today. What is a big question that needs to be answered definitively ...

Well, I just learned that NCAR has a whole bunch of videos posted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ncarucar . These are videos about the r...

Well, I took the Pew Research Center's science knowledge quiz, and as you can see, I did quite well. Go take the quiz yourself: LINK .

The dearth of posts the last week or so has been because of a ramp-up of activity around here, including giving talks, traveling and buying ...

Without time this week to keep up with the latest climate news, I haven't been able to blog much. Last night a friend of mine sent a mes...

Well, in place of posting some hasty response to a story or new paper, I thought I'd point out that there's way more climate-related...

I just wanted to note a rash of recent deaths of prominent scientists. Arthur C. Clarke, writer and futurist, died at 90 years old on 19 Mar...

Obama has backed out of the debate scheduled for next week, and McCain and Clinton were non-committal. So organizers are trying to schedule ...

I just saw a blurb in Science about the World Science Festival , which is apparently an attempt by Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe) and o...

An e-mail I received today: Environmental Research Letters (ERL) has just released the Best of 2007, a mixture of Perspectives and Letters t...

I think this is an important issue, not just in terms of sex bias, but that the whole peer-review process could probably be improved. This s...