Time and the Tides Wait for Godot

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been listening to lots of stuff lately about tidal cycles. These exist, to be sure. However, they are fairly complex, and they only repeat…

Note to KXL protestors and Lord Deben, just substitute a couple of K's and 'your journey towards the dark side will be complete'

Paging Lord Deben I had debated with myself a couple of days as to whether or not to cover this particular bit of ugliness, after it first being brought to…

Detroit not only buried under debt, but record snow too!

Paging David Viner: NWS reports snow so far in 2014 has far exceeded the worst winter in 1978. In Detroit, 6 of the last 14 years are in the top…

Black Swans? Dispatches from the front line of climate change.

Guest essay by Tony Brown The sun was warm and the wind a friendly zephyr as we enjoyed coffee and a cake on Dawlish sea front. A place known to…