Many of you who have been with me from the start will recall fondly the day I was annointed to “holy” status by our local alternate weekly, The Chico Beat.…
Category: Local_issues
Global Warming Destroying Dublin's Infrastructure
More Signs of the Apocalypse (Posted by John Goetz) From the Belfast Telegraph, Sunday, 31 August 2008: Expert called in amid fears for O’ Connell Bridge Concerns are being expressed…
Life in California: not fun at the moment
This has been one of the roughest years I can remember living here. We’ve had two massive wind storms (one of which damaged my Stevenson Screens used for the paint…
Today's storm is a 9.0
A meteorologist friend of mine, Jan Null, has been keeping tabs on Winter Storms for some time. He’s developed something called the Bay Area Storm Index (BASI) which he uses…
Mother Nature Whacks West Coast
Click image for latest animation UPDATE: For a high resolution still image of this “beautiful” storm click this link: pacific_nhemi_01-04-08_1430utc.jpg The Friday storm moving into California is one of the strongest…
The Best Christmas Present Anybody Could Ever Have
My coffee buddy, Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff helps Alexis Dominguez exit the helicopter (Photo: Bill Husa, Chico Enterprise Record) Today was a good day. No, strike that, today was…
Local newspaper editor replaced with impostor!
Real Impostor This must be some evil plot by media giant “Media News Group” out of Denver. I opened up the print edition of the ER this morning and…
The "Sustainable" Enterprise Record
This morning while I was poking around on the ER website, I finally found something publisher Wolf Rosenburg had told me was coming a few weeks ago ( I have…
License Bidwell Ranch
I’m going to make a departure from my usual climate and science fare to make a comment on the local front. In today’s Chico Enterprise Record, there was an editorial…
A Cool and Wet October for California
The month of October has been significantly cooler than normal. This was seen with average daily maximum and average daily mean temperatures that were below normal for all 9 key cities…
Helio, La Niña, and bad winters, awww nuts!!
While doom and gloom predictions continue about CO2 induced global warming, saying that it now is the largest driver of climate, overwhelming any influences of the suns variation, there appear…
My 20th Anniversary in Chico
Today, October 5th marks my 20th year here in Chico California. What I’ve learned so far: 1- It’s a better place to live than many parts of California 2- People…
My summer project – a national weather station audit
You may remember a couple of weeks ago I got sideswiped by Ms, Sherri Quammen, who in a letter to the editor called me a “weapon of mass destruction” because…
Restaurant Inspections tell a different story
Tuesday on page 7A of the Enterprise Record there was a full page ad for the Oriental Buffet at the corner of East Avenue and Esplande that touted a copy…
Memorial Day
This morning, I took my children out front, and we placed three flags in our front yard. Each child got one little flag on a wooden stick to plant in…
The Meriam Park Cell Pickle – SOLVED
There’s an interesting thorn in the side of the recent planning commission approval of Meriam Park that nobody seems to have brought up or discussed. Maybe there are plans I’m…
Fine Me
My friends at coffee this morning got a huge laugh out of Chico Peace and Justice Center member Sherri Quammen’s claim in a vitriol filled letter to the editor that…
Gravel Mine proponents take different approach
I found the full page color advertisement on page 5E of the Sunday Enterprise Record quite interesting. It lists a number of environmental reasons why the M&T Baldwin Gravel mine…
Chico's soon to be Pine Tree Cell Tower ?
As I drove through Grass Valley today, the cell phone tower disguised as a pine tree reminded me that Tuesday night, the City Council will consider once again the cell…
911 Truth
You can use your mouse to interact with the flash graphic above. The Chico News and Review has gotten quite a number of letters on their 911 Truth article which…
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