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Television and the weather: some good news
Television for decades has been considered a vast wasteland, as public television advocate Newton Minnow famous characterized it in the early l960's, but these days television is, well, cliche defying....
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Congress cuts weather satellite funding in disastrous year
The weather in these United States has been truly frightful in the last couple of years, as this graph — provided to Congress with testimony from NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan last month —...
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What part of that extreme was due to climate change?
Superb — and available! — story in this month's Nature on how researchers are beginning to parse the contribution of global warming to extreme events. Highly recommended. It's called "fractional...
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Poets and the planet — the connection
From a new set of prints by Evan Robertson: They can't help it. ("Maybe I'm too sensitive, or else I'm getting soft" — Dylan) h/t: Jacket Copy
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These are not your grandfather’s thunderstorms: Masters
For over a decade climatologists have been saying, and I have been reporting, that we will be seeing more extremes in weather. This goes unnoticed in the here and now of daily reporting, but it's true....
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And now here’s Cassandra with the weather report
A passage from Christopher Durang's funny funny play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the best play of last year, according to the Tony Awards. In this scene, the character from Greek mythology,...
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A look at precipitation anomalies from this month’s data
PRISM, which graphically displays climate data as part of a new "risk management' effort from the USDA, has introduced a new site that allows us amateurs to see what is going on, including (if so...
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CA water bureaucrat disses federal weather scientists
How often does one see an outright confrontation between state bureaucrats and federal scientists? In my experience, well — never. But that's what I saw last week at the Chapman Conference on...
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Cloudy Skies (and sunsets) from artist Leanne Shapton
For the Times' style magazine, T, a series of paintings by Leanne Shapton of the weather: The paintings look a little untutored, as if it took the artist but a moment, but who knows and regardless,...
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