Quark Soup by David Appell

I have an article in Slate tonight: We need a better way to measure hurricanes. Categories just aren’t cutting it: https://t.co/8PsOj0f...

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Here's an interesting graph of this year's ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) for the North Atlantic, compared to the 1981-2010 avera...

Perhaps just a short note about what the science actually says about hurricanes, as oppose to what many people are assuming it says:

It seems like half of Oregon is on fire right now. From the Oregonian : Here it's smoky -- you can see it clearly and smell it too....

From an Q&A with Richard Muller in Physics Today (2/10/17;  paywalled ): PT:  When talking about global warming, you’ve described yo...

On Friday Trump indicated he will nominate Representative James Bridenstine, a Republican from Oklahoma, to be the next administrator of NA...

So awhile back I hypothesized that the probability of extreme temperatures increases exponentially when global temperatures increase linear...

One way climate change is certainly making the Houston flooding is because because sea level is rising. That increases the height of storm s...

Sorry, but there's one more eclipse-related topic I need to get out of my system. As we were watching last Monday's eclipse, from ...

I've seen three things in my life that didn't look real -- the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Oregon, and today's total solar eclips...

This was the best I could do with my unfiltered iPad. Totality was almost dreamlike.... The whole park cheered at the diamond ring.

A painting of a solar eclipse as seen from the moon, from space illustrator Pat Rawlings, was  published at TheAtlantic.com. Rawlings paint...

From the mysterious confines of my refrigerator's freezer:

The eclipse is only two and a half days away, and the weather forecast for Salem, Oregon is looking good for Monday. My biggest stressor i...

GISS's global temperature anomaly for July was the warmest July in their record, albeit only by 0.01°C, so technically it's a stati...

Every year, global sea ice extent -- the simple sum of Arctic SIE and Antarctic SIE -- has two maxima. The first, lower maximum, usually o...

The denier blog No Tricks Zone was sure , almost seven years ago, that global cooling was coming. They even compiled a list of 31 scienti...