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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Yesterday's cautiously worded National Nuclear Security Administration response to the new JASON report has a nuance to it that I didn't quite capture accurately in my story in this morning's newspaper.
The JASONs, as I reported, conclude that the c
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:41:24 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) New Mexico's two senators today introduced legislation intended to smooth the way for a new generation of small nuclear power reactors.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:16:34 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some reading from around the 'Net:
Drought worsening in Arizona. (Where's that El Nino rain?)
El Nino means something different in Latin America, where drought is rapidly spreading.
The International Energy Agency says decarbonized energy cannot
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:20 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some things I've been reading:
Given recent discussions about the unusually cold October in the United States, a global perspective is perhaps helpful. (MT has the map.)
From Australia, a remarkable fire warning: "This week, parts of South Austra
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:39:18 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) A long-awaited report requested by Congress concludes there is no need for new nuclear warhead designs to maintain confidence in the reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:54:29 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some things I've been reading in the last 24 hours:
Texas's neo-Malthusians have taken note of the fact that their dwindling water supply, nearly inadequate for the state's current population and economy, will be even more inadequate when the stat
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:50:14 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Sandia Labs will get $4.2 million in stimulus act money for its battery research program, Department of Energy officials announced today.
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:09:35 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Jaguar, a computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, edged Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner at the top of the "Top 500" list of the world's fastest supercomputers, out today.
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:05:03 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Jeff Bingaman said Monday he supports an expansion of nuclear power in this country, but that significant problems currently stand in the way.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society, Bingaman cited studies suggesting a doubli |
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:21:25 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some things I've been reading:
From the Oil Drum, a discussion of the need for regulatory stability for the development of renewable energy.
From Bloomberg, an example of the above: Spain (which has regulatory stability) is building gobs of n
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:32:54 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the mountains of northern New Mexico, with as much as a foot of snow in the forecast along the New Mexico-Colorado border.
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:07:18 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Despite the strengthening El Nino in the equatorial Pacific, abnormally dry conditions are expanding in parts of New Mexico, according to the latest federal drought monitor:
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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:44:48 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Pacific Ocean temperatures have been increasing rapidly over the last month, suggesting that a stalled El Niño, harbinger of wetter winters here, has popped the clutch and is back in gear.
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:56:45 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Science writer Keith Kloor has a marvelous piece in the latest Archaeology magazine about the sensitive question of the collision between native cultural stories in the Southwest and what science can tell us about the same history. Kloor's storytelli |
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:46:39 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Geoff Brumfiel at Nature reports that work at the Large Hadron Collider was temporarily stalled as a result of a short circuit caused by a baguette. Left by a bird. Really:
Can we say anything about the contents of the baguette? Did it contain any t
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:06:03 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) CORRECTION: The salary for George Miller of Lawrence Livermore has been corrected in this story.
Sandia National Laboratories Director Tom Hunter makes $1.7 million per year, according to data made public this week.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:16:41 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some things I've been reading (and writing?):
Dan Vergano has a story in today's USA Today on a survey of economsits regarding the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas reduction measures: "[T]he survey of economists finds 94% believe the U.S. shou
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:42:31 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank (political commentator? humorist?) sketches the scene at yesterday's U.S. Senate hearing on climate change as Republicans boycotted and Democrats talked to the resulting empty chairs:
"We're waiting for our Rep
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:09:00 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some intriguing things I've been reading:
Mike Hulme, Roger Pielke Jr. and Suraje Dessai have an interesting piece in Nature Reports Climate Change on the intrinsic limitations of climate change models, and the importance of this fact for climate
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:06:49 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) My offspring pointed me to this wonderful Metafilter post asking readers to related stories from their childhoods about whether their community was on the Soviets' nuclear target list:
I grew up in New Jersey. When I lived there, people would so
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:20:03 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Jeff Bingaman will join a group of congressional colleagues tomorrow afternoon to announce a deal on increased energy efficiency standards for outdoor lighting. Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, will be joined by representatives of i
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:05:15 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Albuquerque nuke writer Page van der Linden published a great interview over the weekend with Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Rhodes' comments on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nuclear waste disposal site near Carlsbad, |
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:11:56 -0700
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Google's flu tracker suggests H1N1 peaked in New Mexico in mid-October, and is declining.
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:12:23 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science )
The United States arriving empty-handed to December's Copenhagen climate talks could be the critical determining factor in their outcome, according to Bloomberg:
"Obama may send empty-handed envoys in December to the table in Copenhagen where 19
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:48:29 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) A major earthquake could cause serious radiation leaks at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to a report today from federal nuclear auditors.
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:01:45 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some recent reading from around the 'Net:
Kent Holsinger notes that it's the second birthday of Dot Earth, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin's excellent blog on issues facing humanity as we creep toward a global population of 9 billion. Happy
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:24:21 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Critics of climate scientists' argument that human greenhouse emissions are warming the planet frequently argue that a global cooling trend over the last decade is evidence that the mainstream consensus on this issues is wrong:
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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:11:17 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for the Albuquerque metro area and the lower Rio Grande Valley for tomorrow morning (Tues. 10/27).
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:38:35 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some intriguing new research being done by a group from New Mexico State University and Sandia National Labs has found that water consumption in traditional acequia irrigation systems is remarkably small. Vince Tidwell, a Sandia scientist who is work
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:32:57 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Residents of the middle Rio Grande have made progress in recent years in using their water more wisely, experts said at a water conference going on today in Albuquerque. But much remains to be done.
Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:48:16 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Tomorrow's International Day of Climate Action looks like it has eight Albuquerque events scheduled. (One on that list has already happened). My favorite is a group of young people gathering at Albuquerque Academy at noon with 350 handprints.
For th
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:53:42 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Those interested in Albuquerque's water future will be gathering at UNM for tomorrow's annual meeting of the Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly.
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:45:44 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | In a speech earlier this week in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted at a robust budget for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex in 2011 as part of the Obama administration's long-range push to reduce a reliance on U.S. nuclear we |
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:15:00 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | In a speech today on energy and climate policy, President Obama praised the work of New Mexico's Jeff Bingaman on energy legislation.
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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:09:39 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some recent reading around the 'net:
Simon Donner shares a letter from 18 U.S. scientific societies, ranging from chemistry to geology to climate, reiterating the broad scientific consensus about humanity's role in climate change.
Former National
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:48:02 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Los Alamos National Laboratory plutonium expert Joe Martz, who headed up the lab's effort to design the new Reliable Replacement Warhead, will spend the next year at Stanford reducing steps toward nuclear disarmament. Martz, whose Los Alamos team los |
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:53:42 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some notes from around the 'Net:
David Appell notes John Christy's comments on the unusually strong tropical warming despite a "nonchalant" El Nino.
Las Vegas (Nev.), ever creative in its search for new water, is going after cloud seeding.
Som
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:40:21 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | Significant expansion of drought conditions in Arizona has spread across the Four Corners area, bringing severe drought conditions to a sliver of northwest New Mexico, according to the latest federal Drought Monitor:
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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:14 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Albuquerque was successful this summer in reducing its water consumption even further, according to Katherine Yuhas at the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. September is the end (sorta) of the summer outdoor watering season, and
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:03:02 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) My column in this morning's newspaper examines "the ecology of national security", a concept being pushed by Howard Passell and other members of a group out at Sandia Labs (and many others):
Environmental problems, from water shortages, pollution an
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:58:01 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | The folks at UNESCO sent 'round an interesting news release this morning that AP picked up about drought, overpumping and the resulting environmental and human problems in Iraq. From the AP:
Not war but drought has forced more than 100,000 peopl |
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:34:17 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some things I've been reading that seemed worth sharing:
Staci Matlock in the New Mexican looks at the science behind the CO2 is Green ads.
The Wall Street Journal on efforts to shift away from thirsty outdoor landscaping in the arid West.
Teofi
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:53:10 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some things I've been reading that seemed worth sharing:
Staci Matlock reports on progress with the Aamodt and Taos Pueblo water rights settlement bills now making their way through Congress.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on pot growers d
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:20:30 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Some interesting things I've been reading that seemed worth sharing:
The Durango Herald reports low flows on the Animas River (which flows out of southern Colorado into New Mexico).
Trinidad and Tobago have signed on to the Comprehensive Test Ban
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:07:50 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Energy Secretary Steven Chu today praised New Mexico utility PNM and others who are leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber's stance on climate change. From Reuters:
"I think it's wonderful," Chu told reporters at a solar
energy ev
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:47:19 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | This year's El Niño, New Mexico's bringer of winter rain and snow, is looking pretty anemic.
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:37:05 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) | If you're interest in, say, the life history of the Pecos sunflower (or any New Mexico flower, for that matter), UNM biologist Tim Lowrey is your man. As curator of plants at UNM's Museum of Southwestern Biology, Lowrey is a walking encyclopedia.
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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:01:41 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) A compendium of some of the interesting things I've run across in the last 24 hours:
MIT's Kurt Zenz House on the puzzling price differential between oil and natural gas, and why one might expect more fuel switching as a result.
Santa Fe's Buckma
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:54:58 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science )
Climate scientist Jonathan Foley has a provocative essay on Yale's Environment 360 about the scope of global agriculture and land use problems, and how they relate to climate change. "In the rush to portray the perils of climate change, many other
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:51:22 -0600
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( Reporter's Notebook / NM-Science ) Just in time to test the new high-efficiency furnace we installed at Casa Fleck for the coming cold season, the Energy Information Administration forecasts today that the price of natural gas, used by many New Mexicans for their heating, will be down
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:00 -0600
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