El Niño, La Niña and Regional US temperatures

Changes in the temperatures in the Pacific that are described as El Niño and La Niña events.( NOAA ) One of the increasingly obvious drive...

Drought, renewable energy, Texas, London and Florida

The Governor of Texas has asked the denizens of the state to pray for rain . The state has not had serious rain for months, and the drought ...

Can we take a clean page and start over?

I have worked in a branch of science/engineering where we talk almost all the time to each other about what we do, and share information wit...

P62. Pick Points

Well after being told that we had to “Drill, Baby, Drill,” a Federal appeals court has" J ust Said No! ” It ruled that permits for off...

Hydropower in California

Yesterday I began by commenting on the NYT article on the need for coal-fired power plants, which led me to the discovery that California s...

P31 Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Sweden has just lifted its ban on nuclear power growth , with the intent of increasing from their cu...

P27. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Somewhere in Washington they are looking for incentives for us to buy a new car . The Germans have s...