Stevenson Screen at the NWS office in Monterey – good paint but right next to asphalt parking lot and concrete walk – a definite no-no! After reading an excellent paper…
Month: May 2007
Something is up at the ER
Its Sunday Morning, 8:04 AM… No newspaper delivery and even more amazing, no online edition of the Enterprise Record is available. The only thing that is available is the image…
Light flows at the speed of molasses
Tonight I was watching a Science Channel TV show on the New Horizons spacecraft mission to Pluto, which just completed its Jupiter flyby in February of this year. Its a…
Galactic Perspective
Often we lose sight of our place in the universe, some never knew at all just how miniscule we humans are compared to everything else. There’s a tendency to view…
Free Carbon Offsets now available for the monetarily challenged
It’s nice to see social equality kick in from time to time. For example, not everyone can afford to buy carbon offsets like Al Gore to assuage our guilt for…
My New Toy: Global Climate Modeling on my PC
I have a new toy. Its one of the Global Climate Models that is being used to predict the future of Earth’s climate and the effects of global warming. Originally…
Earth's Climate is see-sawing
Lund University in Sweden has just released a very interesting research summary titled: “The Earth’s climate is seesawing”. Here is the short opening summary: “During the last 10,000 years climate…
Major Daily Newspapers in Circulation Decline
I’m very distressed to read this. Newspapers are the life blood of a community. Television news has also been in decline, but television doesn’t become the record for the community,…
Light Bulbs and Mercury Part 2
In my last entry I raised three questions about Compact Flourescent Light bulbs aka CFL’s 1) What about regular fluorescent tubes? They have mercury too, and sometimes in greater quantity.…
Steel and Concrete -vs- Fire
This Thursday, the Chico News and Review will be doing a story covering the pro and cons of the people that have been lobbying editor Evan Tuchinsky for more coverage…
Light Bulbs and Mercury
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labor — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy…
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