Happening now on our local coastline: Tuna crabs roiling in the surf and washing up in huge numbers on the local beaches. Pleuroncodes planipes lives in the warmer waters in shallow water off the coastlines of Mexico to Chile. But… Read More »invasion of the crabs
It all seems a little surreal. Less than three weeks ago I was on a plane landing in a very snowy Denver. Waiting for transit to downtown required a 50-minute wait in 8 degree weather. Before that the coldest temperature… Read More »out of the beer cooler, into the fire
Some people think that conversation has run dry when you start talking about the weather. They’re obviously not gardeners–or even golfers or joggers or construction workers. Weather matters. And I can’t think of many things nearly as fascinating. Here in… Read More »talk about it
Thanks to She Who Would Not Want To Be Named for sending me a link to a really interesting story in yesterday’s New York Times: Plants have been engineered through the dark arts of gene splicing to detect TNT at… Read More »bomb-sniffing petunias?
I had the chance to fast-forward through a documentary that I hope to sit down and view all the way through within the next few days. Owning the Weather, a 2009 film by Robert Greene, looks at the queasy science… Read More »owning the weather
I looked west this morning while I was having breakfast and saw the first rainbow I’ve seen in months, maybe years. Although it was cool outside I had to go up to the deck to check it out. The rainbow… Read More »no rain, no rainbows
I find weather and climate to be amazingly fascinating things. The media must not believe that the rest of the public thinks the same way, judging by how they always seem to need to sex up the topic. “Flooding! Mudslides!”… Read More »still no rain