NEWS: Fish and climate change streaming talks
30/06/08 20:11
To quote a recent email: Increases in river and stream temperatures caused by water use, landscape alteration, and climate change were discussed in a May 6 symposium at the Western Division American Fisheries Society annual meeting in Portland, Oregon.
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Dams Be Damned?
26/06/08 19:06
Given that there are more than 45,000 large dams in place worldwide, the central problem of freshwater climate adaptation for the coming century is the best means of managing water infrastructure like dams, irrigation systems, water treatment plants, and hydroelectric power systems. Even conservation issues in most areas of the world are going to involve carefully managing water resources that (somehow) balance development and the integrity of natural systems.
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Meteorology & Climate Change Skepticism
26/06/08 18:29
Your local TV meteorologist seems like she or he should be my natural ally: a person in the local media market you trust, who is educated in climate science, and who can relate climate science and climate change trends to the daily news. These meteorologists should be the local evangelists of climate change. Sadly, they are often not. Read More...
NEWS: IPCC freshwater climate change report
25/06/08 04:28
The IPCC has recently put together a separate report on freshwater and climate change. Read More...
NEWS: streaming freshwater adaptation talk
24/06/08 19:50
A symposium from the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society focused on climate change and bull trout has been posted online for live streaming. Read More...
Skymilestones
16/06/08 13:01
Sometime in the past six weeks or so I passed 100,000 flight miles (160,000 km) since I started this position. Read More...
Great Circles
15/06/08 18:50
On my last big trip outside of the U.S. I hit the England and India. Six weeks later is my first chance to write a little about the many adventures of this trip. Read More...
NEWS: Watery Feet & Conserving Water
14/06/08 10:43
Saving water in daily practice is not a big issue in regions that are not drought stressed. The trendy term du jour about reducing clean water consumption is water footprint — something like the concept of a carbon footprint. Read More...
Adventures in Cabbing
13/06/08 11:36
DC is very hot this week — it was 97 degrees F when I landed on Monday, and yesterday was much hotter. And very humid. On landing, I needed to get to my B & B quickly and decided to opt for a cab. Taxis are a little out of favor in the climate change world, especially in cities with a decent mass transit system like DC. But I didn’t see an alternative. Popping out of the terminal, I took the first cab in line. The small man in the front seat turned to me and said in a thick accent, Hello. Where are you going? Seventeenth and Lanier, near Adams-Morgan, I said. Where’s that? I leaned back, suddenly very hot and very tired.
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The 32-Year DC Zoo Review
11/06/08 04:35
I can remember 1976 vividly. I was eight, it was the country’s bicentennial, and my family took a big driving trip from Texas to Washington, DC, that summer in our new Toyota wagon.
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Another Shot in the Arm
11/06/08 03:37
Well, the travel clinic nurse said as I rolled my sleeve back up. There’s not much else I can give you any more. You’re a walking advertisement for immunizations.
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