N.M. Science
A science & weather blog by John Fleck
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New Water Blog
Leslie Kryder, the UNM grad student who runs the incredibly helpful local water resources mailing list, has started a blog devoted to water resources issues . Not as sexy as... Read more »
Los Alamos’s Martz on Disarmament
Joe Martz, the Los Alamos scientist heading up the lab's Reliable Replacement Warhead design team, offers a frank assessment of current discussions over the future of U.S. nuclear weapons: Joseph... Read more »
Weird Winter
When you've got an El Nino, you expect to see wet weather along the southern tier of states and dry up north. Not so this winter. I've been blogging about... Read more »
Questions about RRW
A friend sends along a link to Jim Dawson's excellent overview in Physics Today of the proposed Reliable Replacement Warhead and its implications for the future of the U.S. nuclear... Read more »
Fun With Science
I had more fun doing this story than just about anything else I've worked on in ages. It's a piece by Journal photographer Marla Brose and myself on Mel Strong,... Read more »
Darwin Day(s)
At the risk of providing further evidence of my perfidy …. Darwin Day celebrations: tomorrow (Friday Feb. 9) in Socorro and Monday, Feb. 12, in Albuquerque .
Nevada: Leave R-Waste Where It Is
The state of Nevada released a report today (Thursday) arguing that it would be cheaper for the federal government to halt its efforts to open Yucca Mountain and just leave... Read more »
Dry Spring?
In the bowels of the federal climate forecasting bureaucracy, a group of scientists have begun testing a new computer forecast system to give us a rough idea of what to... Read more »
Adapting to Climate Change
Science policy wonk Roger Pielke Jr. and his colleagues have a paper in tomorrow's Nature arguing that too much attention is being paid in the climate wars to cutting greenhouse... Read more »
DOE Budget Details
My colleague John Arnold provided an excellent overview in this morning's paper of the Bush Administration's proposed Fiscal Year 2008 budget for the national labs. If you're looking for more... Read more »
How Can There Be Global Warming When It’s So Cold!
I got an email over the weekend from a reader who asked how there could be global warming when it's been so darn cold. January in Albuquerque, for example, was... Read more »
On Politics, Knowledge and Journalism
Roger Pielke Jr., a University of Colorado political scientist who studies the intersections of science and politics, launched a great discussion this week on the various uses of science in... Read more »
