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...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 newspape...
Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 19:41 MST
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...New Mexico's two senators today introduced legislation intended to smooth the way for a new generation of small nuclear power reactors.
New Mexico's Democratic senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom...
Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 15:16 MST
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...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 Internati...
Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 08:41 MST
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...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 remarkab...
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009, 16:39 MST
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...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.
Jeffrey Lewis a...
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009, 12:54 MST
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...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 e...
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009, 13:50 MST
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Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009, 11:09 MST
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...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.
From ...
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009, 12:05 MST
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Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Nuclear S... |
Monday, Nov 16, 2009, 21:21 MST
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...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 (whi...
Saturday, Nov 14, 2009, 15:32 MST
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...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.
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Saturday, Nov 14, 2009, 10:07 MST
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Friday, Nov 13, 2009, 09:44 MST
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Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, 09:56 MST
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Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, 09:46 MST
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...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 ...
Friday, Nov 06, 2009, 12:06 MST
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...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 ma...
Thursday, Nov 05, 2009, 20:16 MST
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...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 su...
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009, 12:42 MST
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...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 r...
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009, 12:09 MST
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...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 mo...
Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 18:06 MST
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...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 ...
Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 17:20 MST
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