Quark Soup by David Appell

In the "Nature Always Laughs Last" department, that 165-ton Japanese dock that was taken out to sea in their tsunami, and just was...

The Heartland Institute tells me they will have a statement "shortly." ( Update : there was no response to my question about statu...

The outside firm that did the Peter Gleick investigation for the Pacific Institute is Independent Employment Counsel, LLP, the Pacific Insti...

Peter Gleick has been cleared ( * ) by the Pacific Institute's Board of Directors and reinstated to his position. I asked them for a c...

A 66-foot dock from Japan has washed ashore on Oregon's coast, after being carried out to sea in their March 2011 tsunami. The Oregonia...

My brother-in-law has a 4-meter lens set-up in his driveway and they're watching the transit of Venus. (The lens itself is about the siz...

Yesterday's Paul Krugman's column said that President Obama has, in fact, reduced government spending, when you account for inflat...

"If sunlight is such a great disinfectant, then why can't I eat chicken that's been left out on a park bench?" -- Steven...

Here's an update on Oregon's Josephine County, which last month decided it wouldn't take responsibility for itself, and--inste...

I came across this incredible story in The Eskimo and the Oil Man , which I hadn't heard of before: At the same time, he [Shell executi...

"In twenty years the Arctic coast of Alaska may look like the Coast of Louisiana today, lit by the lights of ships and oil rigs. One po...

Yet one more way in which the U.S. has gone astray: "The tomato, though a fruit to botanists, has been decreed a vegetable by the Uni...

When thinking about something like 3°C warming by 2050 , one thing to keep in mind (as I reminded myself today) is that that's the globa...

My estimate for UAH's May LT global anomaly, based on simple-minded assumptions of linearity, is +0.23°C, which would make it the 4th-w...

So last night I started reading The Eskimo and The Oil Man , and it's excellent -- definitely in the hard-to-put-down category. Bob Reis...

Reuters tells me they issued a correction this afternoon (after I wrote them, but they didn't say that part) to their article where Fati...

I get sent a fair number of books for possible review, and since I can't always place reviews for them all (the market is sadly moribund...

I was working on something today and came up with the following: So, in 2011 the world's humans emitted 31.6 gigatons of carbon dioxi...

Hans von Storch agrees : No way 11°F by 2050. About that Reuters article he writes: "...the 2 degree goal is repeated as a need es...

Note added 5/31/12 : Reuters has issued a correction to the article this post was based on. Click here for details. -- The new Romm Reco...