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February 2, 2012

We don’t trust no stinking Pennsylvania groundhogs! Wisconsin’s own Jimmy proclaims Early Spring. I suspect Jimmy knows a thing or two about climate science. Tweet

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Back In The Land Of Hurricane Season

June 1, 2011

Me: “Hey, it’s the first day of hurricane season.” D: “Oh, boy.” Jeffrey may not evacuate New Orleans, but I will Houston. It’s never the hurricane itself that I worry about, but the aftermath, which involves the human inability to plan ahead. We’re not staying here for two weeks of no power (experienced by many [...]

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Tomas Hits Haiti

November 5, 2010

Remember back when I told you we conducted a study that showed that approximately 80% of Haiti is susceptible to landslides because the ground beneath them is weathered volcanic rock and heavily deforested for charcoal? Enter Hurricane Tomas. It’s a Category 1, measly by southern Louisiana standards, but torrential rain is the last thing earthquake-broken, [...]

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Pakistan Flooding Imagery

August 19, 2010

Before and After images of Pakistan flooding (via NASA Earth Observatory and The Map Room) Please donate what you can. I prefer the World Food Programme because they do get the job done. Please please help. It’s to get a lot worse. Tweet

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Day 95 The Bonnie Situation

July 23, 2010

LiveScience | What Will Happen to Gulf Oil if Bonnie Strikes? What happens will depend in part on which way the wind blows. Hurricanes move in a counter-clockwise direction and so tend to move water from east to west — the opposite direction from the way the oil has generally been spreading so far. That [...]

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Day 43 Links

June 1, 2010

Six weeks. Day 41 43 of Oil Spill. And the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. America, if you’re not shocked and scared enough, read this scathing AP editorial in its entirety: After ‘top kill’ fails, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger is ahead for Louisiana. It summarizes the whole situation to date rather nicely, [...]

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“Everywhere You Go, Take The Weather With You”

November 2, 2009

Randall at VizWorld noticed that Weather Underground has a new 3D weather radar feature.  “They overlay the existing 2D terrain & radar map with a 3d isosurface extracted from the data.”  It requires a quick install of the Unity Web Player.  (By the way, the Unity game/environment development tool is now available for FREE. Go [...]

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The New Orleans Anti-Hurricane Project?

June 4, 2009

I’ve read GOOD magazine online and in print on and off since its inception.  Its aim to merge technology with social good appeals to the geek who cares in me.  And, yeah, the writers often pose some hair-brained, far-out and grapenuts-crunchy ideas that may never fly but a) all of what you pay in terms [...]

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Back Country Rainbow

April 22, 2009

Love how you can cross what seems like five climactic zones in the span of 30 miles here, especially in the month of April. In fifteen minutes today, I drove from a warm, sunny afternoon to black clouds to torrential downpour to freezing rain to hail to a drizzle to … this. When the sun [...]

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Wishlist Item #1: Globe4D

April 12, 2009

Globe4D from Leiden University in the Netherlands … an interactive, four-dimensional globe. It’s a projection of the Earth’s surface on a physical sphere. It shows the historical movement of the continents as its main feature, but it is also capable of displaying all kinds of other geographical data such as climate changes, plant growth, radiation, [...]

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