facing the fire

There has been quite a lot of press coverage of a new paper in PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.0709472105) by Deutsch et al. about how global warming...

Today I read an article posted on Science Daily ( Aerodynamic Truck Trailer Cuts Fuel And Emissions By Up To 15 Percent ) that made me kind ...

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...

This is off-topic, but I just struck myself with a couple of simple ideas related to the Amazon Kindle. I'm sure you know, but just in c...

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I found the included video from a lecture by Naomi Oreskes on Deltoid . You'll remember Oreskes from her Science article a while back in...

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...

This guy on YouTube has spelled out a very nice approach to how "skeptics" should look at the possibility of a changing climate.

If time permits, which is a big if right now, I will try to participate in blog action day.

I've been sitting on the idea for this post for almost a week, but haven't had a chance to work it up. Since it doesn't look lik...

I spend most of my time thinking about clouds in the tropics and subtropics, but lately there's been a lot of mainstream coverage of the...

It has been far too long since my last post... the casual blogger's constant lament. In my own defense, a lot has happened in the past f...

So apparently people now think they can make money by throwing iron into the ocean... YES, throwing iron into the ocean. Here's the, act...

Here's a quick story that seems like it is important. I will refrain from any interpretation of speculation here. Army funds supercomput...

For lack of time and energy to blog, please go read an update about our friend Phil Cooney: Ex-Bush Aide Challenged on Climate Reports - New...

So you by now know, I hope, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued it's Fourth Assessment Report of working group...

Well, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, 2006 was even warmer than 2005. That means, if you haven't been keeping sco...