N.M. Science
A science & weather blog by John Fleck
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Tonight could be a pipe-freezer in Albuquerque
Tomorrow morning is likely to be very cold in Albuquerque, according to the National Weather Service, with temperatures of 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit around the metro area. Which makes... Read more »
Congress pushes for Los Alamos plutonium project’s completion
A House-Senate conference committee is pushing back against the Obama administration’s decision to indefinitely delay work on a Los Alamos plutonium laboratory. The Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Authorization bill attempts... Read more »
New Mexico’s chances of hosting a high-level rad waste site look like they just went up
With the departure of Jeff Bingaman from the US Senate, the chances that the nation will solve its nuclear waste problems for the foreseeable future with a large, “temporary” waste... Read more »
White Christmas storm still on track
As I wrote in this morning’s newspaper, the early forecast models show a chance of a New Mexico Christmas snowstorm. I confess I was afraid to look at the forecast... Read more »
White Christmas?
I don’t want to jinx things, but when I logged into my office computer this morning to begin working on a column for Tuesday’s newspaper, I saw this: This is... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links I thought worth sharing: Risk guy David Ropeik: The Gun Control Battle. It’s Not About Guns As Weapons, but Guns as Symbols. Another risk guy, Dan Kahan at... Read more »
NM Interstates wet, but open
New Mexico’s major interstates are wet, but open, according to the New Mexico Department of Transportation. But many of the smaller one-lane highways in remoter parts of the state are... Read more »
New Mexico’s back in the storm track – “for now”
Rory McClannahan at the Mountain View Telegraph sent this proof that the winter storm track has finally found New Mexico. An inch of snow had fallen by noon today in... Read more »
Reclamation: conservation cheapest, quickest solution to West’s water woes
Never mind towing icebergs or building a giant pipeline to the Missouri River. For the foreseeable future, municipal and agricultural water conservation will be the fastest, cheapest way to deal... Read more »
Touching US Technology History
Touring Sandia Labs’ clean room area a few weeks back in a sort of memoriam for Willis Whitfield, the inventor of the clean room, Gil Herrera, the facility’s manager, opened... Read more »
Weekend snow storm in review: a nice start, but still far behind
Two maps for your consideration show our current snowpack, before and after Sunday’s fast-moving New Mexico storm. Here’s what things looked like Sunday morning, before the storm: And here’s Monday... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links from the weekend: Peter Spotts at the Christian Science Monitor explains drought’s mechanisms and economics Todd Moss on the moral implications of global climate policy, specifically the importance... Read more »
